joechung's comments

On: JQuery 1.4.4 Released

[joechung]

Unless you're on a device, like an iPad or iPhone 3.2, that won't cache jQuery because of its size.

On: Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid

[joechung]

Why stop at geo-redundancy? Let's set up an online backup store on the moon and Mars, too - http://domaingang.com/short-news/nasa-secures-moon-and-mars-...

On: You win some, you lose some: a review of Apple's M...

[joechung]

I love this mouse in Mac OS X, but it was a bit of a hassle getting it to work in Windows 7. It's also a headache to reconfigure the mouse after switching back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows. Hopefully, some updated drivers will fix this.

[jawngee → joechung]

I'm having the same problem with the trackpad on my MBP in Windows 7. It's a serious drag.

The drivers work, for the most part, but obviously not as well as in OSX. Have resorted to a USB mouse (another PITA, but I'm getting stuff done).

On: Debugging Your Girlfriend

[joechung]

Whipped.

On: The IE CSS Bug Which Cost Me A Month’s Salary

[joechung]

Talk to Pete LePage, a Microsoft Product Manager for Internet Explorer. He's working on the issue - http://blogs.msdn.com/petel/archive/2009/09/09/running-the-i....

On: IE6 users and status-conscious creative directors

[joechung]

3 out of 4 is not 4 out of 4 so it isn't totally pointless.

On: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your hom...

[joechung]

I'll definitely give Chrome OS a try when it comes out.

On: ‘Known Software Bug’ Disrupts Brain-Tumor Zapping

[joechung]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320

[jrockway → joechung]

This apparently does not work when a firmware flash has gone south. I tried the various combinations a million times while waiting for the battery to go flat :)

On: Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity

[joechung]

Working with people who are "strategically incompetent" is a nightmare. Don't do this.

[gaius → joechung]

It can backfire, too. A recent conversation:

Manager: Why are you working on system X?

Me: Because cow-orker Y says he doesn't know how to do it

Manager: But he's on-call to support that system!

Me: Perhaps this is an issue that you ought to discuss with him.

On: Next year's computers same speed but more cores/cp...

[joechung]

What is special about Python's yield statement compared to the ones in Ruby, C#, and other languages?

[camccann → joechung]

More significantly, continuations are a strict superset of coroutines, so standard Python is actually less powerful in this regard than languages with full continuation support, which if memory serves me includes Ruby, Smalltalk, and Scheme among others.

[m0th87 → camccann]

Python has coroutines as of 2.5: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/

[joechung → camccann]

Unfortunately, continuations are not supported in Ruby as of 1.9. They might come back in 2.0 though.

[wglb → joechung]

Er, limitations of my knowledge, as I have done more in python than the other two. My bad.

[ams6110 → joechung]

Also Lua

[seiji → ams6110]

I'm not sure why you were down voted. An excellent overview of coroutines in general, and specifically as they are used in Lua, is http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/MCC15-04.pdf