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sharkbrainguy

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About sharkbrainguy

I'm a developer, animator, standup comedian in New Zealand.

http://www.gerardpaapu.com/

gerard@gerardpaapu.com

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    Comment #6118100

    Is this helpful? http://en.wordpress.com/windows-live-writer/

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    Comment #6036360

    2004 seems really late for the inception (or possibly formalisation) of Domain Specific Language, I assume that you're talking specifically about embedded (also called internal) DS…

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    Comment #6036184

    It seems like for reduced calorie Coke specifically, it is marketed as "Diet Coke" or "Diet Coca Cola", in at least Australia[1], New Zealand[2], The United Kingdom[3], India, Isra…

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    Comment #5106940

    I think you've excluded the middle here, (#1.5 perhaps) one who thinks that your code is worthless/dangerous and does not call you a loser. It can be true that a piece of software …

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    Comment #5106870

    I don't think a critique of the code in question is especially relevant to the main point of the article, i.e. the practice of mocking open-source projects. Debating the technical …

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    Comment #5090420

    If you're after a standard library for Javascript, you could do worse than including es5-shim. Which has the advantage of being a library that (partially) implements a standard: Ec…

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    Comment #5090380

    Clearly jQuery isn't providing a lot of the things they are looking for in a standard library, as it is focussed on DOM manipulation and Ruby.js attempts to provide core types like…

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    Comment #4378764

    You can achieve the same effect without using eval, which his many known problems in terms of security and performance. function render(tpl,data){ function lookup (obj, keys) { ret…

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    Comment #4216146

    No, Javascript is not "just scheme" with a few bad design decisions. They have significant differences. Scheme has: call-with-current-continuation http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffe…

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    Comment #3916795

    I have the same reaction, because I prefer this: Q: "How much will lunch cost?" A: "$20" To this: Q: "How much will lunch cost?" A: "Either $0 or $200"

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    Comment #3073346

    I think you're referring to John Key. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Key

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    Comment #2843123

    Pandoc does that already http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ Pandoc is written in haskell but there's c bindings to it https://github.com/toyvo/libpandoc so you can use it from anywh…

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    Comment #2712037

    I would also love an invite: @gmail.com edit: Invite Received! Email redacted! Thanks alot

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    Comment #2272600

    Here's javascript, the other languages are left as an exercise. function Kitten(width, height, color) { var img, g, w, h; w = parseInt(width, 10); h = parseInt(height, 10); g = col…

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    Comment #2186399

    commit only commits changes that have been staged

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    Comment #2099324

    (function foo() { console.log("hello world"); setTimeout(foo, 1000); })();

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    Comment #2029452

    Most javascript modules are defined inside a similar pattern, I'm surprised you haven't seen it yet. http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Patte... https://github.…

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    Comment #2027356

    Chorus makes it super easy to embed live timelines from twitter, facebook, friendfeed, hackernews and github into webpages. https://github.com/sharkbrainguy/qorus is a port from th…

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    Comment #2026036

    The immediate-function pattern starts with an open paren. (function () { }());

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    Comment #2005749

    If you're using mootools, I've written a simple wrapper for Embedly (available under BSD). https://github.com/sharkbrainguy/Chorus/blob/master/Source/E...

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    Comment #1972656

    ah, I see I was reading completely wrong

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    Comment #1972355

    http://keithmajhor.pastebin.com/xvgVAKve removed the implicit global

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    Comment #1905567

    Good point, I was just using that because that's the domain, I normally use. I've just pushed an update to fix that. (also I updated the demo)