Comments by Jon Parise
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI've been able to work via SSH, but all of the web services appear to be unavailable right now.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI was there from 1998 to 2001. I finished with a major in IT and an STS minor.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI like the [Mercurial](http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) code base.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetPHP has offered a similar executor optimization for a few years now. It can be enabled via the `--with-zend-vm=GOTO` build-time configuration option.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAlternatively, consider hashing the source string and switching against a set of hashed target strings. Whether or not that's going to be fast(er) is up to your particular use case, of course, but I'd generally prefer the CPU hit of FNV1 over building a map<> (static or otherwise).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAnd it looks like there are clones for both [Vim](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2280) and [Emacs](http://jdhuntington.com/paste/color-theme-blackboard.el.html).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYears ago, a friend of mine described MySQL as "a relational interface to your file system", meaning that it didn't provide any more reliability or transactional features than the underlying file system. That's probably an unfair characterization these days, but that's around the time I started using PostgreSQL for everything, and I've never looked back.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThere are more examples of integrating Stackless and Twisted in the [stacklessexamples Google code project](http://code.google.com/p/stacklessexamples/wiki/StacklessTwisted).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWe built a similar gestural interface in our motion capture studio when I was in grad school, and we found more things to dislike about it than one would expect. * It's hard to map natural gestures onto the intended actions. * You have to build in some modal state to all of the gestures so that the user can do things like scratch his nose or turn to face someone without destroying his work. * Constantly motioning with your hands is tiring, and the users' motions become increasingly "sloppy" as a result. * If the application requires text entry, switching to a keyboard while wearing a gloves (or similar) is awkward, and on-screen soft keyboards aren't very efficient. * Even with a bit of practice, the interface was still much slower to use than a traditional mouse and keyboard combination.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI'm pretty sure that non-human animals eat bananas, too.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetA friend had reserved the upstairs area for her birthday on a Saturday night. I got there early (around 10:00p) because I couldn't stay too long, and the place was pretty dead, [...]
