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Re: Disqus public profile page privacy issue.

davemw — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:38:30 -0000

Poke?

Re: Disqus comments

HighSchool — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:22:40 -0000

This tips can help a lot on me buddy. Thanks a lot.

Re: Disqus public profile page privacy issue.

davemw — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:02:39 -0000

bleepotron :)

Thanks,

David.

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Re: A Challenge To Break Python Security

Lie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:15:16 -0000

But if we don't start hacking this code now, you'll never see the end any time this decade, and the decade after it, and the decade after that...

Re: A Challenge To Break Python Security

davemw — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:20:55 -0000

I very much doubt you'll see the end any time this decade. If you want a pretty robust sandboxed Python, consider running IronPython inside an AppDomain on .NET :)

As for CPython, I'd never trust what you're trying to do.

Re: Microsoft to incorporate jQuery - Miguel de Icaza

davemw — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:44:39 -0000

I've been trying to get hold of a copy of VC6 since yesterday to confirm this, but I think I've been confused by the memory of a banner ad from one of the old MS-style blue-gradient setup.exe installers which indicated compatibility with Boost. Sorry!

Re: Disqus comments

phildawes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:19:14 -0000

Thanks for pointing me at your script - I'll defo check it out

Re: Microsoft to incorporate jQuery - Miguel de Icaza

Nicholas K. — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:52:41 -0000

That's not true. MS never bundled Boost with their C++ compiler.

Re: Microsoft to incorporate jQuery - Miguel de Icaza

migueldeicaza — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:00:30 -0000

Very interesting! I did not know that.

Re: Microsoft to incorporate jQuery - Miguel de Icaza

davemw — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:52:32 -0000

It's not a first; Microsoft have been bundling Boost with their C++ compiler since at least Visual Studio 6 (or maybe it was the next release).

Re: Disqus comments

davemw — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:24:21 -0000

For the past 5 years my blog has consisted of a gently accumulating Python script. It is currently around 300 lines, up from 200 or so when I initially created it. Around 2006 I decided to write a script to import the (filesystem-based) articles into a WordPress install. Instant dissatisfaction. WordPress is huge, insecure, and a little overfeatured for the average Joe.

So I'm still here with my horrible little Python script, and quite happy to be using it over WordPress. I'm presently adding an archives facility, integration with Disqus, and my first attempt at a pretty theme.

Take a look, it does HTML and RSS 2.0 output, and supports either HTML or a horrible wiki-like formatting for posts:

http://pastebin.com/f1be9ea59

Re: Public Service Announcement - Miguel de Icaza

Ed Ropple — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:02:05 -0000

I don't find it confusing, but why remove specificity? The declaration is already on its own line (well, according to the Microsoft code standards, which I use; I find Mono's pretty painful, with all C-isms), it's not like it's a "waste of space" or anything like that.

Wherever possible, I write my code to be as readable as possible to as large an audience as possible. Specificity and verbosity *are* good; one just has to look at the morass of nigh-unreadable, super-dense C code out there to see why.

Re: Public Service Announcement - Miguel de Icaza

David W. — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:22:35 -0000

“Understanding the language I'm paid to work in is hard, let's go shopping!”
— Programmer Barbie

More seriously, if you find it confusing to omit "private" from a declaration, then you do not understand the basic philosophy of C#, never mind the specifics of the language. I would not look favourably on a co-worker or underling complaining about this.

Re: Searching arrays in X86 assembler with a bloom filter

David W — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:45:40 -0000

How much memory have you got to play with? It's a primitive approach, but holding your set of ints in a 512mb bitset would allow very fast lookup. =)