mjs

For example, under "Hospitality":

"In some places, my hosts act as if my every wish were their command. By catering to my every whim, in effect they make me a tyrant over them, which is not a role I like. I start to worry that I might subject them to great burdens without even realizing. I start being afraid to express my appreciation of anything, because they would get it and give it to me at any cost. If it is night, and the stars are beautiful, I hesitate to say so, lest my hosts feel obligated to try to get one for me."

Does anyone know how this cookie is used to prevent CSRF?

How does that work??

I think it could be a really useful site if Amazon would invest in it a little. But it seems as if they've given up on it, since nothing seems to have change since the site was launched. (Also, I haven't seen any review mention it, so perhaps people don't care.)

i.e. "but their isn't", "Do we need module's at all?", "do suggest alternative syntax's here."

webOS 1.0 did do a lot of wacky/strange things that were annoying, though not bad enough for the phone to be useless. As well as the hardware problems, you'd get stuff like like the alarm going off a minute before it was supposed to (going by the phone's own time display). It would also repeatedly tell you every few minutes that it was unable to send an email message when no network was available.

They're reduced the number of annoyances in webOS 2.0, though, so I am hopeful for the Pre 3. (It also now has close to acceptable performance, instead of completely unacceptable performance.)

The marketing and app problems are much more difficult to solve; I'm not sure what they can do there. Throwing money at it, maybe...

http://jsperf.com/backreference-copy

I don't see why you say an array is a more appropriate datastructure for the algorithm, though--that seems very much implementation dependent. And at the JS level, arrays support operations such as splice that strings do not, suggesting that they'd typically be implemented with a more sophisticated datastructure, and hence slower at primitive operations like index access. (Perhaps V8 notices that these expensive operations aren't actually used, and creates a fast, basic version instead.)

http://jsperf.com/backreference-copy

I couldn't actually get Safari to complete; FF 4.01 is fastest by a long way.

Q: What are your favourite tech sites? (hacker news, /r/programming, etc.) A: hacker news

RAM is important, sure, but there should be some way to quantify the expected CPU performance as well.

http://beebo.org/lately/2001-07-10_cambridge.html

I quite like the 2.5 hour "English Essay" for bizarreness:

Write an English Essay on one of the following subjects:

1. English country life in the 18th century. 2. The battle of Blenheim. 3. The character of Rachel Lady Castlewood. 4. Duelling.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c8

"I see this as well. Sounds like clipping or some really bad sample rate frequency conversion."

(It's only later that it becomes clear that this is due to a glibc "regression".)

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  foo(..., function (n) {
     // closure over q, r, s
  });

  function bar(q, r, s) {
    return function(n) {
      // still has dependency on q, r, s
    }
  }

  foo(..., bar(q, r, s));

The main loop of

https://github.com/ithinkihaveacat/node-fishback/blob/ce5f9c...

does quite a lot of this, if you want a real example.

* JavaScript wasn't the original language choice: he originally tried C, Lua and Haskell. He especially liked Lua but "it already had a lot of libraries written with blocking code."

* He regrets using the CommonJS module system. ("Far too complex and wildly different from how the browser works.")

It does seem somewhat difficult to end up on a green square though--there aren't that many of them and there are even fewer long runs.