Sweevo posted:

when each character is a variable size then you have to walk the entire string every time you try to access the Nth entry

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

today it's an http api serving json, but tomorrow...who knows! maybe it will be soap over amqp. oh and we're not using postgresql anymore, the storage is riak. i hope your model layer is sufficiently abstracted to accommodate this change

HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:

it was pretty laffo when i started at my job and my boss told me "we do everything mvc style here" and when i started looking in to the code i found controllers that did nothing but forward to jsps and scriplets, scriplets as far as the eye could see

tef posted:

http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/

quote:

Apple, Microsoft and Google

Malcolm XML posted:

repls own, esp when u can set a breakpoint and drop down into one for debugging, then have the editor splice in the code fix

MononcQc posted:

In other JS news (crosspost from security thread):

titaniumone posted:

then it should be called "clone"

a class named "...Immutable" with a method called "modify" is idiocy

suffix posted:

i'm playing spacechem right now and therefore i too can relate to queue chat

imo just make a really long pipe so it won't fill up before level complete

fart simpson posted:

whats the reference

Shaggar posted:

way to recommend a bunch of p-langs so they start off down the wrong path.

akadajet posted:

you can tell i'm a webdev i can't comprehend most of hackbunny's posts

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

1.0 was published in '98
1.1 was published in '04

the fifth edition is the 5th revision of the 1.0 standard, not the 5th version of xml

MononcQc posted:

Well "rest api" now means "api that returns JSON over HTTP"

JewKiller 3000 posted:

monads are not particularly interesting theoretical objects. the only reason anyone cares about them is because of haskell and its lazy evaluation, and the only monad that haskellers really care about is the IO monad. when they observe that lots of other things "are monads" too, they're doing that to make themselves feel better about needing the IO monad. it's a hack, and haskellers need to feel elegant like pretty princesses

Tiny Bug Child posted:

it is. the more you use json the more you notice how bad it sucks, especially because now that the useless academics are starting to use json, you're seeing a lot more json parsers adhere to asinine levels of "strictness" (to a spec that doesn't really exist). this leads directly to dumb poo poo like you quoted. they really hosed up php's json encoder/parser a couple minor versions ago; now it breaks if you try to parse json that doesn't double-quote the key names. thanks douglas crockford, that really helps.

i have a draft blog post somewhere that outlines my idea for a replacement for json: PAN, or PHP array notation. just like you can eval() json to get a javascript object, you can eval() a chunk of PHP and get a PHP array. it's a great idea because php even has the encoder built in: var_export(). there's really no reason not to use it over json. also, the spec for PAN is eternally frozen at "any php code that evaluates to an array" because deviating from that is where JSON started to turn to poo poo

Soricidus posted:

e: every time this comes up I start thinking that really what I want is optional typing, is that mainstream yet

Max Facetime posted:

I don't get it

Soricidus posted:

the only good languages are the ones that allow the poop emoji in identifiers

JewKiller 3000 posted:

the "distinction" between strong and weak typing is nowhere near as important as the distinction between static and dynamic typing (the latter is not typing). and as other posters have explained, strong/weak typing are not very well defined, so such terms are avoided in the literature. but when it does appear, the term "weak typing" applies invariably to C

or maybe PHP, but PHP is not a programming language. it's a set of functions that you can call, but should not

Volte posted:

I started making a webapp in Python without a framework by making it a series of services that don't even know about HTTP. It'll render templates, do DB access, sessions, logging in, user accounts, etc, but without HTTP.

Blotto Skorzany posted:

aspie.net

Slurps Mad Rips posted:

if your tired of the spam just change your name to a woman's and then you'll get a fifth of the spam and maybe even go 6 or 7 months without a single message

Bloody posted:

oh lemme guess it stems entirely from people using garbage languages/libs/tools/platforms

Suspicious Dish posted:

Wrote another article about computer.

http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/regions.html

Please bash it to bits.

ahmeni posted:

I can't think of a good consistency joke now but it'll come to me eventually

Gazpacho posted:

Vanadium posted:

How do I do this in practice, beyond my usual modus operandi of writing code no one actually needs