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ruethewhirled··on Selecting a platform: JavaScript vs Elm vs PureScript vs GHCjs
Can anyone explain what is meant by "managing IO" in the statement "I’m not even going to consider a system valid without managing IO in some way. So yes, all flavors of Lisp are off the table as well."? Is that like monads?
ruethewhirled··on Nodemailer: Easy e-mail sending from your Node.js applications
Thanks, was wondering if it was on github!
ruethewhirled··on The Hacker News Generation (Afraid of Hard Work)
I find this article a terrible sweeping generalization and opinionated based on the authors perception of success and what it takes to be successful.How about working smarter and not harder
ruethewhirled··on First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature
I found it amusing that to view the 1 second video at the end I had to watch a 30 second advert first
ruethewhirled··on Famed Trader Joe Lewis Backs Bitcoin
Not to be a wet blanket, but isn't posting that copyright infringement?
ruethewhirled··on Facebook to debut auto-play video ads in 2013
Ah this is going to kill my mobile usage of the site, which is the main way I use the Facebook, website version not the app. Theres no way I'm going to incur bandwidth and annoyance of the sound of ad's playing on my phone. Bandwidth would be the key factor since I have a limited mobile trafic cap. But any sites that make noise without me interacting with them annoys the hell outa me.

Other than mobile usage I check the site about 1-2 times a week on my laptop which doesn't have flash installed (I use Chrome for Youtube/flash content sites) so hopefully the ad's aren't html5.

ruethewhirled··on I didn't learn programming when I was 12
Like most things in life, It doesn't matter when you start, more that you start at some point and spend time and effort in getting better.
ruethewhirled··on One Thing Outlook.com Mail Needs To Fix Immediately
There's actually alot of things they could fix to improve the user experience. Just signed up for an account and it wasn't overly pleasant. List of a few gripes:

  * No ajax on name availabilty

  * very limited secret question options ( min of 5 chars for answers)

  * Wasn't overly obvious which fields were required until you hit submit ( in the end I think they were all required)

  * Initially there was a smug looking guy on the login page(pretty nitty picky) he seems to be gone now but if goto www.outlook.com you get a broken image
ruethewhirled··on On Apple's new ads
I find that American style ad's have an underlining fakeness to them, its hard to put my finger on it. I'm assuming its just a cultural difference being from New Zealand but some ad's from the States just grate me the wrong way. These Apple ad's are particularly bad in this respect.
ruethewhirled··on Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out
Anyone noticed increased CPU usage?
ruethewhirled··on Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems
I'm not making a comment on the morality of the images only that some automatic content filters might consider it pornography which is usually not allowed in corporate environments
ruethewhirled··on Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems
Quick note: There's a not quite safe for work image near the bottom of the article (Topless tribal woman)
ruethewhirled··on Goodbye Yahoo, Hello Bootstrap and Backbone.
Don't bother clicking on the above site, is some kinda spam link
ruethewhirled··on 60 minutes: Is sugar toxic?
High doses of salt is toxic
ruethewhirled··on Donda Media's First Project - "The Facebook of Websites"
Looks like theres also fake whois info ?

http://whodat.biz/#google.com

Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.LOVE.AND.TOLERANCE.THE-WONDERBOLTS.COM

Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENIS.COM

Server Name: GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM

etc.. Or is that normal?

ruethewhirled··on Are Web Development Search Results Being Manipulated?
Plus you need to be logged into google account
ruethewhirled··on Live ships map
Yeah after reading the FAQ I came to the same conclusion. But also realized that pirates wouldn't actually need this site and could just get their own AIS receiver's
ruethewhirled··on Learning to code? Tired of feeling stupid? Try Bloc (use code 'LNCH')
I agree. Would defiantly benefit from some kinda about/info page.

But at least it doesn't only have a facebook/twitter login

ruethewhirled··on Live ships map
This is very cool. Great tool for Somalian pirates too?

edit. Ahh never mind they don't seem to have any data on the east coast of Africa

ruethewhirled··on Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')
Given that vein of thought you can't really trust any software
ruethewhirled··on Who contributes more to open source? Facebook, Twitter or Github?
Very misleading title. Don't think google hosts any of their code on github so apparently they don't contribute to open source?
ruethewhirled··on The Instant Shutdown
dont have an eject button on my macbook air!
ruethewhirled··on What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
The release notes format is quite "pretty" but very simplified and I can't seem to find a more detailed version?
ruethewhirled··on JSDev: Executable comments (by Douglas Crockford)
Yeah I noticed that but in what context can I run this other than command line? I assume its C code but how do I get it to work in the browser? or is it something you'd use in node.js? Guess it's just over my head
ruethewhirled··on JSDev: Executable comments (by Douglas Crockford)
Not to knock the work that's been done or disparage the author of this code or similar work that's hosted on github.

But these link's to a github repo with minimal documentation and no instructions on how to use the code are frustrating.

ruethewhirled··on PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
It's reasons like this I'll never have a paypal account or offer it as a means of payment on my site
ruethewhirled··on 90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size
Do you mind sharing what are you using/doing to benchmark that? cheers
ruethewhirled··on Dandelion Labs
The distinct lack of information on the site doesn't instill much confidence
ruethewhirled··on Loyal Opposition to Const, Private, Freeze, Non-Configurable, Non-Writable...
From your example below: think of one of those ad network scripts (or any other 3rd party script you include on your page) you have no control over what that code is doing. It could override any of your global objects
ruethewhirled··on Loyal Opposition to Const, Private, Freeze, Non-Configurable, Non-Writable...
Having thought about what you meant... Even with namespacing you still have a global object that can be maliciously overridden or modified
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