jcsalterego

"Is X The New Y?", TechCrunch style.

It appears heavily influenced by pbwiki and stackoverflow.

Guess they should have called it a warrant-free canary, huh.

Here's a semi-related post from about a month ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658805

http://hackerol.ds :(

Not ground-breaking, but this is one of the more detailed instructions I've seen.

Amusing -- but not HN, IMHO.

line-height: 0.1em ftl

(gross exaggeration)

Meta-discussion: I feel like we should avoid single images if we want to avoid becoming yet another news aggregation site.

What's next, {"Top N [Nouns] to [Verb]" | N > 1}? :(

Practically speaking, if you want to leverage a lot of those libraries/frameworks you mentioned, 2.x is the way to go. However, the major syntactical and core differences that break backwards compatibility in Python 3000 (http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html, http://docs.python.org/3.1/whatsnew/3.1.html) should be in the back of the your mind.

After working in a bit of py3k, I've found that "small things" such as using print() as a function rather than a statement comes more naturally than in Python 2.x, mostly because the latter doesn't complain about it.

Other things like xrange()'s departure in py3k as range() becomes a true iterator -- that's something you'll have to be cognizant of.

My advice is if you want to get a large project done, with support from popular and existing frameworks, go with the 2.x branch. If you're whipping up some disposable scripts, practice with py3k. And even if you're not, fire up py3k anyway.

One of the great Google Summer of Code projects this year is the inverse to the 2to3 tool -- 3to2 -- with the forward-thinking intention of making it easier to maintain one branch of code in py3k. It isn't a magic bullet by any means, but should definitely encourage the transition from Python 2.x to 3000.

Hat tip to John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2009/07/super_cool_video_stabil...

Perhaps Google deployed StreetView state-side first, and then they refined their technology for Europe. Just pure speculation, though.

(http://hackerne.ws/item?id=676000)

Here's another take on SQL injection detection, which delves into the query language a bit more, including a formal analysis:

http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~madhu/tissec09.pdf

27 year olds constitute as kids now?

"GET OFF MY LAWN!"

Not ground-breaking by any means, but a nice, concrete application of Markov chains.

I'm curious how this is done in non-CPython land.

I can't imagine the logistical nightmare of having to replicate their staging environment, with the caching and message queue systems. It probably isn't `cp -r staging/ sandbox/` :-/

I'm guessing it'd be far easier to have developers just a) check their database schemas and code, and/or b) to multiply all incoming IDs by 10, than for Twitter to setup a separate mock environment.

The comments in here are competent, and it's semi-interesting news (especially if you're at all involved with the Twitter ecosystem) but it's just so hard to upmod yet another sensationalist/Twitter article from TechCrunch.

Just wanted to say I love GitX.

While loops are restricted gotos with syntactic sugar.

I was hoping it would pipe screenshots (e.g. snap.com's snapshots) through aalib and/or an OCR engine (e.g. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/).

Neat idea -- and here I thought it was just going to redirect to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ D:

Ah whoops - thanks for pointing that out. It should work now.

To get the ball rolling: http://drop.io/arclogo/asset/arc-1-png

The drop is open for uploads.

[Cross posted at arclanguage.org as well]

Leave it up to MIT to combine Cellular Automata, CFGs and Gödel, but then also:

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: .rm.

:(

Reading this article I realized I always put `find .`, i.e. explicitly specifying the current directory. I guess this is like saying `ls .` all the time, but oh well.

Sometimes I find that I need to chain a few actions for my search results that aren't possible with multiple -execs, so I employ the shell script loop:

  for js in `find . -name '*.js'`; do
    dir=`dirname $js`;
    cd $dir && make;
    java -jar jsmin.jar "$i";
  done;

Unfortunately if you've got spaces in your filenames, this will throw off /bin/sh and you have to specify delimiters or work around that.

Lastly, I've found with find that if you have a n-sized conditional where n > 1 and an -exec, you'll want to use escaped parentheses or otherwise the conditionals won't evaluate properly.

Edits: addressing formatting woes.

Here's a far more comprehensive article on it: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090516/windows-7-native-v...