@kaleidic I am out on a limb here, perhaps the exception is for logical dyads (ld)? eg. (x ld1 y ld2 z) is equiv to (x ld1 y AND y ld2 z) in reply to kaleidic #
@kaleidic a logical dyad being a dyad which returns True/False or equivalent. in reply to kaleidic #
@kaleidic I can [...]
@kaleidic I buy the comment to the extent, "a < b < c" should be supported by all languages which support the syntax "a < b" (not <(a,b)) in reply to kaleidic #
@kaleidic I find a < b < c extremely convenient. However the usage of == in such expressions though obvious in hindsight surprised [...]
Getting ready for a "technology trends" talk later today. Should be posting the presentation on the blog later. #
RT @andreisavu: Get your distributed pub/sub on… Ben Reed talks about Hedwig http://ff.im/-nBlJs #
.@Nambekar Sorry .. didn't mention .. but its a talk to a large private audience (not a public one). #
RT @dehora RT @jeffbarr: New [...]
How to be a worse programmer http://ff.im/-nyMQK #
RT @navneetk: Interesting, Programming via building blocks for non-programmers. Android AppInventor http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/ #
How to avoid the assignment statement http://is.gd/dpbIc (actually more about immutability & functional programming) #
The Dwarfs and The Fast Marking Algorithm http://ff.im/-nzRGD #
Internet Kill Switch http://ff.im/-nzRXU #
Why is Twitter Really Not Using Cassandra to Store Tweets? http://ff.im/-nzSc8 [...]
@sbtourist Thanx. Though need to catch up a bit on all the stuff happening on twitter / blogosphere. in reply to sbtourist #
Is particularly non idiomatic to add a method to jquery wrapped set which returns an array and *not* another wrapped set ? #jquery #
#jquery I prefer $(…).map(…).to_array().join(..) to $.makeArray($(…).map(…)).join(…) but is it allright? (to_array vs. makeArray) #
Was away from twitter for long (a little over a month). Any new good programmers started tweeting lately ? [...]
This was a good evening. A great opening #worldcup soccer match and massive rains n lightning and a suddenly cooled down temperature. #
InfoQ: John Hughes on Why Functional Programming Matters! http://ff.im/-lS4xp #
Switching to the Strategy Pattern in JavaScript http://ff.im/-lS4xt #
@djspiewak I concur. I had to scale back after criticism my code was very high on [...]
RT: @dehora RT: @darraghcurran Nice post about how Facebook handle web page requests using BigPipe http://j.mp/cgRbcE #
@davetron5000 One could argue both ways successfully. Counterpoint: Private methods are a vehicle for intra class functional decomposition. in reply to davetron5000 #
RT: @sbtourist My interview about Terrastore 0.5.0 is on DZone, vote it up if you liked it! http://bit.ly/dz2S1X #
RT: @sbtourist RT @al3xandru Kyoto Cabinet (successor of Tokyo Cabinet) reaches1.0.0. Is this the [...]
Software As A Destination vs Software As A Journey http://ff.im/-kV3w5 #
@KentBeck Feeling's probably same as when "all the large no. of test cases run properly". Wonder which language would have a word 4 that? in reply to KentBeck #
What a complete surprise. I can't find a single javascript control to render a credit [...]
@jneira I found some of it silly. The first argument against python was that it was dynamically typed. Thats like : hate water cos it is wet in reply to jneira #
@djspiewak javascript is simultaneously a fantastic and a kludgy language. Its easy to swing opinions from one end to other. in reply [...]
A formatted version of google javascript pacman game http://pastebin.com/enyeHeKg (via @reddit_prog) #
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Concurrency http://ff.im/-kL2i0 #
LOL! RT: @dhh I wonder if using Microsoft tools would work as "protection money". Would they have sued Salesforce if it was .NET? #
Couple of days old news but confounds RT: @dhh Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce: http://bit.ly/cb9vJD (ridiculous [...]
Getting Old. Daughter using her mom's accessories. Son takes away my games DVDs. #
Congrats n the very best RT: @_sunil_ Our startup Shopsocially is featured on TechCrunch today http://tcrn.ch/balfS7 pl. spread the love #
@_sunil_ I was able to see the replies and DMs. Just run "gwibber-service -o -d" from cmdline n hack code to find prob if different. in reply to _sunil_ #
Chief Architect at Vayana Enterprises Private Limited http://ff.im/-kftsZ #
@surya_s oops .. that was an accidental tweet. My LinkedIn update (13 months late ) propagated to FriendFeed n then onto twitter. in reply to surya_s #
This mashup/auto integration of status updates confuses. Have lost control on Twitter<->LinkedIn<->Facebook<->Friendfeed propagation #
Reading up on Restfulie. [...]
@rickasaurus not sure what plugin you're using, but I found this one quite useful http://bit.ly/ePwaM in reply to rickasaurus #
@kshashi Its more than just data. One of my prof's wrote a blog post on it http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-python/ in reply to kshashi #
Great to see a professor (a stalwart academic in Finance in India) I studied under writing a blog http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/ #
RT: @sbtourist Very valuable real world considerations: @mtnygard on failover in distributed systems http://bit.ly/d6xyDc #
@sbtourist [...]
Not April 1. SEC proposes to move to XML (Asset Info) / Python (Cash Flow Provisions) from English (End of page 1) http://is.gd/bCsDW PDF :S #
Wondering if complexity will force computer languages to replace English as the basis for legalese re: last tweet – Python in SEC filings #
RT: @sallamar On the blog – Uncomplicated [...]
Interesting. Not sure how long it has been around. But http://www.google.com/moderator/ helps you get inputs from lots of people. #
@mike_acton hmm, kind of strange for a google service to be not widely known in reply to mike_acton #
@mike_acton Interesting you ask, even though I don't use it much, Orkut is big in India. [...]