July 31st, 2008 8:05:49 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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July 30th, 2008 8:32:07 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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These little guys know how to party. Not surprisingly, they’re closely related to humans.
Ninety-nine bertam palm flowers on the wall…
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In what languages (other than Lisp) can you do this in 180 lines of code or less?
Not just implement a Lisp interpreter, but the ability to write Lisp as a subset of the language.
Thanks,
apotheon.
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Takeaway: dynamic C# is still hard.
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George Orwell’s entries to be published online exactly 70 years after they were each penned. Subscribed. Thanks,
Mark.
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July 29th, 2008 8:32:44 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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July 28th, 2008 8:32:35 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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In the comments, “Anonymous” accidentally discredits the “science” of ID. Decide for yourself whether he does it justice. Thanks,
Phil.
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It wasn’t me, I swear.
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I <3 Barracuda. They're going to considerable expense and effort to benefit the open source community.
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Gustavo stacks up some numbers against the assertions.
I’ll probably use this in one of my IT Consultant articles in the future.
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Lots of good links on how to write.
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Death of a rich relative didn’t make the list. That’s the problem with inheritance — it rarely provides reuse when you need it.
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July 27th, 2008 8:31:41 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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July 27th, 2008 3:51:00 pm pst by Sterling Camden
I work remotely 98% of the time. Most of the communications, materials, and products are transported over email. It’s pretty easy and handy, but fragile. It’s the Internet equivalent of passing notes with paper airplanes. I’ve looked into a lot of alternatives (corporate wiki/blog or online groups come about the closest), but none of them seem quite sufficient. So I’m thinking of building something myself. Following is an informal first stab at a list of my requirements. Maybe someone can guide me to something that already exists?
- Conversation-oriented. Automatic threading of conversations.
- Privacy must be tunable. Whoever starts a conversation automatically becomes its moderator, and then invites participants. The author may then designate other moderators as well. Moderators may invite individual users or pre-defined groups of people, and grant them rights to the conversation. Rights include (at minimum) the ability to read a conversation, the ability to respond, the ability to add tags, and the ability to moderate. Two special groups receive no notifications but can be granted rights: “All registered users” and “Anonymous users”. The latter group may only be granted “read” privileges. Default privileges for new conversations must be user-configurable.
- Only registered users may start a conversation or define a group. The registration process has to be just painful enough to prevent automated registration.
- Moderators may ban users from a conversation, or any future conversations they moderate. Registered users may “Mark as spam” or “Flag inappropriate” to provide input to the moderator and the site host. Moderators may establish automated rules for expulsion from conversations based on that input (including the rights granted to the users who provided it), and site hosts may establish automated rules for deletion of accounts (with tunable warnings in both cases).
- A node in a conversation may be linked to other conversations by moderators or users with “respond” access – each link will only be visible to a user if they have read rights to the other conversation.
- Moderators may select portions of an existing conversation to designate as a separate conversation, optionally linked from the original. New moderator(s) may then be designated for the new conversation, and rights and membership may be independently assigned. Moderators may relinquish their moderator status, if at least one other moderator exists for the conversation.
- Moderators may delete conversations, remove participants, or remove/edit individual responses.
- A user may be a member of any number of groups, at the discretion of the group’s moderator and the consent of the user. A user may request to be added to a group (if the moderator makes it visible to them), or the moderator may invite the user. Groups have the following rights: users/groups who can see that the group exists, users/groups who can see the list of the group’s members, users/groups who are members of the group, and users/groups who can moderate the group. Any registered user may create a new group, and they become its moderator by default. The fact that a group is a member of another group will only be visible to users who have visibility rights to both groups. Moderators may rename or delete groups, or delete members from a group. Any user may copy any group to which they have full visibility (becoming the new group’s moderator), but any users who do not accept the invitation to the new group will not be included.
- Users may elect to receive group/conversation invitations from anyone, only specific users/groups, or nobody. Users may elect to auto-accept invitations in the same manner. Any invitation that is excluded from being received is automatically rejected.
- Users may elect to receive notifications of responses to each conversation in which they are participants, with a tunable user-defined default. Some rules for determining the default might include the conversation’s author, moderator(s), groups, tags and individual respondents.
- Users may configure visibility of each piece of information in their personal profile for groups or individual users.
- Must be able to attach any file type to a message. HTML or plain text formatting for content. (Perhaps stick with MIME here). Provide hook for server to scan for malware and remove. Attached images and videos can optionally be retrieved in situ as part of the message. Any file type can be downloaded via a URL provided.
- Implement a RESTful API for client/server interaction (over a secure connection). This allows users to access via either a shared web site or a desktop client.
- Each conversation and each response must have a unique permanent URL, both for the API and for the web client. This allows easy linkage from outside. Naturally, if the data isn’t readable anonymously and the incoming user is not logged in then the API will respond accordingly, and the web client will prompt for a login. If a logged-in user does not have rights to view the content, then an appropriate response will be returned instead.
- Open-source, with the expectation that multiple conversation servers could spring up. Anticipate interaction between multiple servers: for instance, provide the ability for user profiles and group memberships to be shared between servers.
Wow, this is growing more complex the longer I think about it. But I want to have a way to converse online that’s reliable, as private as I want it to be, and defeats spam. If I could get everything I’m asking for here, it sounds like it could replace much of the use for email, chat, Twitter, Facebook, and even blogging. Do I have delusions of grandeur? What are your thoughts?
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July 25th, 2008 8:33:00 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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From JCL to Ruby in under six minutes
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Intelligence test scores by football position (via
Hacker News). It would be interesting to compare scores across different sports as well.
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One of the few things that might draw me into the Twitter-hole: Kathy Sierra’s talking there. Subscribed. Thanks,
Eric.
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They were on the BIO channel last night, and I still can’t shake “Dancing Queen” from my head.
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6. Don’t be expendable
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Just wait until your wife wants to get a second puppy, Scott.
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Redesigning the stop sign, corporate edition. Thanks,
Jason.
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I can understand why Germany is still shell-shocked over Nazism, but doesn’t suppression of expression defeat the purpose?
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Zing.
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And now for something completely different…
(Thanks,
Paul)
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More like its own punishment
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MAHAHAHAHAHA!
I dunno, maybe they enjoy it. That might be even an interview question.
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July 24th, 2008 1:33:08 am pst by Sterling Camden
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Hadn’t seen this one before. Fascinating…Subscribed.
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I might not believe that everything in 1957 was as rosy and normal as Randy paints it here, but I’ll agree that fifty years later we’ve gone way overboard in the other direction.
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What about the footprints in the butter? Oh, wait, that’s elephants in the fridge.
Thanks,
Reg.
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Democracy: the group that shouts the loudest wins.
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Not so much “David vs Goliath” as “The Stonemason’s Guild vs Michelangelo”
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“They say the older you get the less likely you are to protest the rules. I think there is some truth in that.” I’ve found the opposite to be true, at least after 40.
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Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice — but I don’t know…
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July 23rd, 2008 1:36:47 am pst by Sterling Camden
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Maybe you’re not dangerous, Reg — but you are very insightful, and you will be missed.
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“What goes tek tek dee?”
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Amazing, but what else could he do?
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Why do so many blogs die young? And why does Yvonne enjoy watching it?
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The girls outrank the snowflakes in my version. This is a fun site of pop culture graphs submitted by readers. Subscribed. Thanks,
Joseph.
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Optimize at the right place, and take advantage of language features that promote security
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And if you’re stumped on what to post
Your diaper’s content’s good as most
Thanks,
Jason
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July 22nd, 2008 1:45:02 pm pst by Sterling Camden
My youngest son asked me, “what does ’bush’ mean?”
Kind of surprised by his question, I responded “it’s like a small tree…”
“No, what does the bad word ‘bush’ mean?”
I guess he’s overheard some of our political discussions…
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