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  1. Re:I used to swear by MySQL on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1
    Postgres is where it is at.

    No, I'm sorry. SQLite is where 'it' is (at).
  2. Re:All-time most-useful open-source program on Sought: 500 Great Lines Of Open Source Code · · Score: 1

    'Used patterns before they were en vogue'? That's the point of patterns: they're formal descriptions of different software engineering solutions to common scenarios.

  3. Application programming on Subversion 1.1 Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    I really hope they've changed the API around...damn.

    I swear, when I find out who decided to call every damn parameter in the entire damn thing a 'baton'.

    I hope they'll have a developer conference soon, I'll be bringing my 'baton' along.

  4. Re:Finally- hope it pans out! on Sam and Max 2: Reloaded · · Score: 1

    Grim Fandango had an excellent storyline. It would just have been better in proper traditional 2D setting.

  5. Re:Java is to C as ... on Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5 · · Score: 2, Interesting
  6. Re:But... on Celsius 41.11: A Rebuttal to Michael Moore · · Score: 2, Informative

    An internal temperature of 41C will cause the risk of the brain starting to coagulate (like an egg), but one can briefly weather 41C out; anything over 42C is a hospital visit or serious risk of damage.

  7. Re:Inspirational Words on George Soros Speaks Politics · · Score: 1

    Republicans started with the platform of 'small government, low taxes and freedom and equality for all'. I don't think any of those attributes describe the current Republican party to any extent bar the taxes.

  8. Re:Meh? on Korundum Brings eXtreme RAD to Linux · · Score: 1

    I said I disapprove of their business model but gave them a credit of at least having one.

    FxRuby takes advantage of the standard Ruby features and seems like the smoothest transition between GUI and logic programming (I think GUI programming is painful). All of the toolkits offer basically the same functionality.

  9. Re:Meh? on Korundum Brings eXtreme RAD to Linux · · Score: 1

    As long as we're slinging around personal preferences... I hate QT (and disapprove of their business model -although at least they have one.)

    For Ruby GUI stuff, FxRuby (FOX toolkit) is hands-down the most natural-feeling one in a Ruby environment.

  10. Re:Looks like on Not Life After Death -- Email After Death · · Score: 1

    No kidding.

    I just have a cron job that runs a Ruby script, which reads a text file. If the date in that text file hasn't been updated by me (another script triggered when I log in or do certain other actions) within the last week, it'll send an e-mail to everyone I know: "If you get this message, it means I'm dead. The will is in the left drawer of my desk."

  11. Re:We . . . on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap? · · Score: 1

    Good point. Also, if you're running a stable server -which should always be a separate machine without the latest bells and whistles- (or better yet, an independent inet proxy/firewall), you can just leave it running indefinitely. As long as you don't reboot, you're not getting a new IP. Whenever you're going down for maintenance, just change your zone files once you're done, the updates are pretty fast nowadays.

    dyndns.org is a decent site for actual dynamic IP machines; you can even buy a 'real' domain name. If you already have a domain registered, just change the DNS records to point to the dyndns domain.

  12. Re:Not too valid. on Programming Language Popularity Survey · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but if you're searching for something specific, that will often narrow it down. For example, searching for:

    +java +IOException

    will pretty much kill any chance of matches including references to coffee or the island.

    Reminds me of when my passport got stolen.
  13. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    No, no, that was the British in WWII.

  14. Re:should the gov decide who has the right to marr on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is it a genetic defect? From the point of view of the survival of the species homosexuality itself is a minor risk, and you have to remember that many gay couples would be willing to adopt or be 'inseminated'. By your logic, we should also not have any laws that protect other 'genetic defects' such as handicaps, mental development problems, albinism, people with genetically elevated risk of cancer etc.

    I doubt you fundamentally understand evolution.

  15. Re:More to the point... on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    I've considered the exact same thing. Let's formulate this a bit better and phrase it as a question.

    Sirs, since marriage is currently commonly defined as a union of two persons before the eyes of the Law and the eyes of God, it is dualistic by nature. We grant that it is the right of every religion to establish the rules of their unions. However, since the United States is a heterogenous country with respect to religions, it should also be established that one religion does not dominate all others (or those of no faith). Indeed, the most common antithesis for same-sex marriage is usually on religious grounds: I daresay most of the opponents do not protest to the gay household itself (at least to a comparable degree) but specifically designating that household to be one through marriage.

    Therefore the most logical solution would be to separate a marriage in two parts; the religious and the legal.

    How do you view, sirs, the viability of a proposition to completely remove the term 'marriage' (and any derived terminology) from the Law and replace it with 'civil union' (for both homo- and heterosexual unions) while at the same time granting any religious organizations an express permission to, upon their choosing, not perform or honor marriages on couples depending on their sexual orientation?

  16. Re:You have 40 days on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Open source!

  17. Re:The debates could be very good for Kerry on Presidential Debates Set · · Score: 1

    Historically, yes. However, Bush is much more reliant on his aides, Cheney and Rove that it's imperative to know their agendas.

    You criticize Edwards for inadequate international experience. Tell me, how does a one-term US Senator compare with a one-and-a-half-term Texas Governor in international experience?

  18. Re:You have 40 days on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1
    I'm almost done:
    $tally = {"Bush" => 0, "Kerry" => 0, ...}

    def vote candidate
    if $tally.keys.find candidate
    $tally[candidate] = $tally[candidate] + 1
    else
    puts "Incorrect choice. Try again."
    end
    end

    def show_tally candidate = nil
    if defined? candidate
    if $tally[candidate]
    puts "#{candidate}: #{$tally[candidate]} votes."
    else
    $tally.each do | k, v |
    puts "#{k}: #{v} votes."
    end
    end
    end
    Just need to write a GUI. You can peer review it in the interim.

  19. Re:The debates could be very good for Kerry on Presidential Debates Set · · Score: 1

    This election everyone really, really should.

  20. Re:useless - Kerry is already kebabized on Presidential Debates Set · · Score: 1

    It's New Bushistan. They weren't kidding about the elections in Iraq.

  21. Re:There's no libel here on CBS and Rather Admit Mistakes in Bush Documents · · Score: 1

    Please show a quote and your source. The White House rhetoric surrounding this is always circumlocutory -ever since 1994, which suggests that they're trying to avoid a situation which would allow for impeachment.

  22. Re:Drudge Report on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, yeah. Being in war with one middle-eastern country and getting all news through the government's filter really makes you a fucking expert in the cultures of the world.

    You must be an American.

  23. Re: virtual inheritance on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1

    If you find yourself doing MI where the same base class gets inherited there's a very good chance you're doing something wrong.

  24. Re:Operator overloading is only half the story on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1

    All Java Generics do is preprocess the generic definitions into their respective Java representations. So (excuse the syntax) for an object

    MyVector[int] vec = new MyVector[int]

    All calls like this

    int value = vec.find(x)

    are replaced with

    int value = (int) vec.find(x)

    C++ templates are much more versatile.

  25. Re: Bad coders are a BAD THING on Numerical Computing in Java? · · Score: 1

    If something is commonly expected not to produce side-effects, then the coder should write it so that it will not produce side-effects.

    How hard is that?