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Re: Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python

Suchmaschinenoptimierung — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:08:14 -0000

Nice work buddy!!

Re: Shortcomings of Mercurial

Martin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:08:56 -0000

Better rename handling is currently being worked on in Google Summer of Code 2009: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_project/show...

Re: Google Friend Connect: Deface Your Site

craigs2 — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:49:21 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Disqus

craigs2 — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:48:35 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Akismet

craigs2 — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:47:50 -0000

Well done. I hope others enjoyed this as much as I did.

Re: Talking to Erlang

LukeHoersten — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:54:46 -0000

Looks cool. Thanks.

Re: Talking to Erlang

LukeHoersten — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:47:34 -0000

Thanks for the fixes. I actually did run this before posting it so they must have changed the interface... as for the missing semicolon, perhaps a bad paste?

Re: “That” Overuse

Arvind — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:29:56 -0000

I totally feel your pain. I'm in the middle of editing my thesis and 'that' seems to appear more frequently than it should. I sometimes feel the same way about my usage of 'I' in emails. There are many times in my own writing when 'that' appears to be superfluous. Its tough to gauge what is the right usage of 'that'. Anyway, I understand your confusion.

Re: Talking to Erlang

Luke Venediger — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:10:33 -0000

Also, Req:ok() takes a single tuple, not three arguments. So, this:
Req:ok("text/plain",
[{"User-Agent", "Erlang/example/0.1"}],
<<"Processing Request">>)

Should be this:
Req:ok( { "text/plain",
[{"User-Agent", "Erlang/example/0.1"}],
<<"Processing Request">>
} )

This had me stumped for hours!

Re: Talking to Erlang

Justin Sheehy — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:42:56 -0000

Luke,

This is a nice little example, and Mochiweb is indeed a great HTTP driver for Erlang. If you want a layer atop Mochiweb that adds easy and RESTful extensibility to your services, you might want to check out Webmachine:

http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine

Cheers,

Justin

Re: Talking to Erlang

Luke Venediger — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:10:22 -0000

Hi,

You're missing a ; after <<"Processing Request">>).

Thanks,
Luke.

Re: Semantic Crawling Optimization

Gold Trophies — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:41:08 -0000

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Re: Google Health Can Fix U.S. Healthcare

Quotes — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:28:38 -0000

Google is everywhere! No wonder It will definitely sort out many issues related to health!

Chris

Re: Life of Pi Quotes

Ariadne_2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:12:29 -0000

Quote pge -19-. Zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. [Pondicherry Zoo doesn't exist any more].
I am convinced there is an analogy with reference to PI, his Richard Parker and "the" Richard Parker that derives from the ballpen of author Neil Hanson.
Illusions about freedom;
The matter is; what would you be willing to do to survive? Our life in freedom? We are like the animals in the zoo. The confined survivalism in the lifeboat leading to existential mind explorations and leading to certain critical decisions.
The story in my opinion relates to the story "Custom of the Sea": a true shipwreck tale on the last taboo. The author is Neil Hanson. In short, a few shipwreckers after weaks of deprivation, ultimately choose to kill amongst them a weak and dying seventeen year old boy and eat him in order to survive. This boy, "Richard Parker" represents the death that is grabbed. Not by biological necessity. The death of RP in this book sticks to life in a sense that his body saves the lives of his fellows. They survive, but in spite of this life saving act, "custom of the sea", their spared lives do not leed to freedom. These few survivers are hunted and next to overwhelming remorse, they are hunted and overtaken by the legal system.

The life of PI embodies, however in metaphors, these various moral ambiguities. PI's beliefs and hope lead him to choose for the other kind of death. The kind of death that comes with faith, the kind that leaps over oblivion easily. PI could not abandon RP. To leave him would mean to kill him (pge 276). Quote; in the throes of unremitting suffering PI should turn to God. Thank RP for saving his life and wishing God would be with him. Like RP in Neil Hansons book where his life was stolen and used to save the lives of others, the leg of the wounded sailor (Zebra) was "stolen" by the French cook (as bait) to save the lives of others. The sailor died and was butchered like Hansons RP.
Moral and legal justification
In the story of Martell, PI concluded, he (the tiger RP) should not trust Man (pge 279). Man is not your friend. To do RP justice there's this shift of roles. Instead of the weak pray-like RP of Hanson (the RP that gets eaten by men) in contrast, the RP of PI's story is the strong tiger. The kind of tiger that for instance, eats the French cook alive. Talking of justice done, no weakness and cannibalism is never an option.
In this alternative way, the telling of something, the life of PI, becomes this astounding hard to believe story of courage and endurance. Then again, quote pge 294: Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

Having read this magnificent book, in the end it may feel safe to conclude that given the extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances, the (moral and/or legal) justification of certain seemingly "unorthodoxe" acts, may not be in mortal hands.

Re: Fix Disqus Validation Errors on Wordpress

spencerbeggs — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:56:16 -0000

Disqus released a new version of the plugin that, unfortunately, still outputs invalid XHTML. Any chance you could take a look at it and get it working again?

Re: Fix Disqus Validation Errors on Wordpress

james34 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:21:54 -0000

Thanks man, very good post.

Re: Google Friend Connect: Deface Your Site

sproutly — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:50:55 -0000

You do have a pretty good looking blog ;)

Re: Applications I’d Like to Write

Jon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:35:37 -0000

2nd the cli daap client - I've been searching like crazy for one and found nothing, so I don't think there exists such a project. I currently use the flash/web-based FirePlay for my firefly server collection which is a fantastic app (and can also be used remotely!), but I would really love a simplified ncmpc-like cli client.

For me daap is the way to go- I have a freenas file-server which comes w/firefly built-in so it's a cinch- I can listen from any computer on or outside the network, and also from my Roku Soundbridge for the living room.

So for me firefly/daap is a lot more functional than mpd, although mpd is very good as well.

If you ever find a cli daap client let us know!

Re: Google Friend Connect: Deface Your Site

LukeHoersten — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:16:38 -0000

Sucks they couldn't have done something better. Phil was so excited about it's potential too. I bet he's disappointed.

Re: Google Friend Connect: Deface Your Site

sahil — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:13:25 -0000

I think you really nailed it here. I just found this article that i read a while back before Friend Connect came out fully.

We'll have to see how all this FB Connect, GFriend Connect stuff works out.

Re: Life of Pi

Bryanne — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:35 -0000

If I were you, I would definitely go back there when the same guy is working, and ask for the same book...then if he tries to correct you, say, "Actually, I've already read it. And it is PI, like the Greek letter."
Ha!

Re: Why Make Erlang a Functional Language?

LukeHoersten — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:39:58 -0000

That is not me though my family is from Germany. If we've come as far as the US I imagine we've spread to Belgium as well.

Re: Why Make Erlang a Functional Language?

wow goud — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:31:37 -0000

Luke, I'm just curious, do you happen to live near Antwerp (Belgium) ?

The name 'Hoersten' was mentioned during one of my employer's recent gatherings and I was curious if it's you. You know, the world's a small place sometimes. :-)

Re: “That” Overuse

Tyler — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:33:07 -0000

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/062.html

omitting that. You can omit that in a relative clause when the subject of the clause is different from the word or phrase the clause refers to. Thus, you can say either the book that I was reading or the book I was reading. You can also omit that when it introduces a subordinate clause: I think we should try again. You should not omit that, however, when the subordinate clause begins with an adverbial phrase or anything other than the subject: She said that under no circumstances would she allow us to skip the meeting. The book argues that eventually the housing supply will increase. This last sentence would be ambiguous if that were omitted, since the adverb eventually could then be construed as modifying either argues or will increase.

Re: SocialThing vs. FriendFeed

Dream Car Blog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:15:24 -0000

Socialthing is my choice, but as we've seen time and time again with this whole web2.0 thing, those who release first usually end up winning :/ (in this case friendfeed)