mikedougherty

dotSyntax, LLC was acquired by Tagged, Inc in April last year (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/19/tagged-buys-popular-sociali...).

Anyone that's surprised has not been paying attention.

Negatively named bools bother me. e.g.:

  while notDone: { if condition() notDone = false; };

depending on your chosen minecraft server, his first game was an MMO too!

Additionally, while the author is correct that a bad developer is a bad developer regardless of toolset, it's much easier to completely fuck everything up in certain languages. It's quite easy to write code that allows for buffer overflows or XSS vulnerabilities in some languages, and not quite so easy in others.

The important thing, to me, is that the language's path of least resistance leads you to The Right Thing. This generally improves quality of life for good devs and reduces the amount of harm bad devs can cause.

I'm only done with the first page so far, but I wouldn't call most of these "hidden". Many of them are oft-touted selling points of the language or appear in basic tutorials.

That being said, today I learned about the two-argument form of iter, `iter(f, until)`. So I guess I can't complain too much :D

As others have said previously: too little, too late.

"Scandal"? Really?

Apparently it's a heat map of courier paths, not endpoints. So the dots on the bridges just signify that deliveries are going out of the city.

Yea, this just seems like rearranging the tokens to achieve the same result. Though, the same sort of thing could be said about path.py, which I absolutely love using.

I wouldn't have ever seen this submission if it weren't for RSS. Along with almost everything else I'm going to read online today.

This article is just false comparisons and strawman arguments.

Why is Facebook's IPO anything like GroupOn's? Completely different business models.

G+'s existence is used as an excuse to compare Google with Facebook, but G+ wasn't even a thought when Google IPO'd. Again, completely different business models.

The author then makes up the particular case of an "Ivy League Northeast pet lovers" demographic and says that things like Tide, Mission Impossible, car companies don't want to market to them. This is not how targeted advertisement would ever work.

* You market Tide to demographics that are in charge of the buying decision for laundry detergent in the household (this knowledge has been around for literally decades: soap operas) - how about people who talk about doing laundry in their status messages? Or how about people who list their children on their facebook profile and don't list an employer?

* You market Mission Impossible to people who say they like Mission Impossible (and similar movies/series) in their "Stuff I like" section or by using their "likes" from sources like IMDb, etc. Maybe they also check in to movie theaters regularly - especially if they often check in with a certain group of friends. Show those friends the same ad.

* You market cars to people who seem to have the income to afford a car (using job descriptions, maybe seeing how often and where they eat out using checkin information to get some sort of estimate on disposable income) and maybe you even filter that to people who complain about their car. On top of that you could even filter by the last time the user got a vehicle - this is now an event you can add to your timeline.

I prefer to think that if an HTML parser can't parse an HTML page, then I either don't have an HTML parser or I don't have an HTML page. ;D

I'm not expecting Amazon to hand out money to developers. But, as a developer* , I don't want to put myself in a situation where my work (that I would have otherwise charged for) is being given away for free.

Conversely, as a user, if there aren't quality free apps in the amazon store, why would I use it in the first place? I can get the same content from the built-in Market.

So, from both a developer and user standpoint I see no reason why Amazon should "take over Android app distribution".

* Hypothetical, I don't develop for mobile at this time.

Even with the pre-paids, they'd stil be able to see where a person with one of those is going and their shopping patterns, therefore giving them exactly what they're looking for. They're tracking the movement of dots to analyze shopping patterns. If a dot is prepaid it doesn't make it a "fake" dot. What would really confuse them (maybe?) is getting as many phones on your person as possible then running around in circles.

Why they would choose to attempt to discover patterns on black friday though is beyond me - consumer behavior on that day is completely wacky and inconsistent with any other day of the year.

You'll have to get developers on board, I think. http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store...

Hopefully they're all too busy making stuff to bother blogging about it.

Any chance of getting it to apply the filter on page load as well? It appears that it's not possible to link to a result set. i.e., if I send someone a link to http://instacss.com/#background in order for results to be shown they must perform a keypress of some sort in the search field.

edit: Apparently if you've searched something before it does display it on page load (after a brief delay)? So it seems this link might not be a good example URL. But hopefully you can just edit the URL and submit it directly to see what I'm talking about.