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Hello, I created a Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/web-framework-architecture for discussing platform independent web-framework (or web-server) architectures. Everyone can agree that Rail''s style MVC design is not the end-all web development platform but merely a leap forward in our ideas of how to best work with HTT protocol. With tools like Ruby, Mongrel, and Rack, sitting

Hi, How about creating another mailing list to let people vent themselves? It would make it easier for everyone, since technical/troubleshooting issues and opinions target different people. This messages is a test as well. I couldn't write to the list through gmane so I corrected the address with gmane admin. Hope this works. Regards,

...ate (I still think the way we are doing it is more developer time efficient overall), but I don't think so for security. >> * I don't want to pretend that cherry picking a few bound checks will make lld safe on untrusted input. > > My impression is that there is a kind of "philosophical" view at stand: are we treating such crash as bugs and prioritize fixing them accordingly or not. I believe we had the same kind of philosophical disagreement with the development practices (no global state, etc.) a few months ago: while acknowledging that "perfect is the enemy of good&qu...

Dear Sirs and madams :-) I am trying to teach myself multidimensional scaling. To that effect I have collected a survey asking people to rank 10 philosophers and politicians according to their preference. I have collected 61 answers. The data is organized in ten columns and 61 rows. the columns are "choice_1", "choice_2", "choice_3" etc. The cells is the name of the

Im trying to run this program called Thinkboxx and wen it tryes to comunicate over the comm port it hangs. Here are som output to read. earlier on i get: Call kernel32.VirtualAlloc(43050000,00001000,00001000,00000004) ret=0058557c Ret kernel32.VirtualAlloc() retval=43050000 ret=0058557c thats from vhere the com port gets an virtual memory space, i think. and in the end i have: Call

Hi Russell, > br i32 1, label %1, label %6 if you build LLVM with checking enabled, then you would not have been able to create this bogus branch instruction: the BranchInst constructors assert if the condition does not have type i1. This does raise a philosophical question though: should the verifier try to catch mistakes that constructors would catch if assertions are turned on? Ciao, Duncan.

> The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably copyright > holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN > policy violation ... It's a bit of a philosophical question right now, but at some point in a developing package's life - particularly one that starts small but is subsequently refactored in growth - there may be no code left that was contributed by the original developer. Is there a point at which the original developer should not stay on the...

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Hey everyone, I have a philosophical question here. Say I have a website that uses two models for accounts: Person and Company. Normally I would just have /accounts/new for user signup. However, the RESTful way to do it is to have /people and /companies. Unfortunately, this doesn''t account for a situation where you'...

...h* tests. The above approach passes all the tests and checks I'm aware of and on all platforms. Before I ping the CRAN team explicitly, does anyone know whether this is a valid approach? Do you know if there are alternatives for asserting that a package is never attached. Maybe this is more philosophical where the package "contract" is such that all packages should be attachable and, if not, then it's not a valid R package. This is a non-critical topic but if it can be done it would be useful. Thanks, Henrik

Hi guys. Quite happy with mocha for testing. It''s been a bit of an eye opener for me, and I expect to begin using it heavily. One other thing I''d like to do is stub out particular class methods in development. Is there a way I can do this with mocha? Jason

...? I realize that in the base R code alone, there are thousands of calls to as.integer() which would trigger such an event, so this would not be a very practical configuration... 2. So, assuming the answer to (1) is a resounding "no", does anyone care to state an opinion regarding the philosophical or historical rationale for why this is the case in R/S, whereas certain other interpreted languages offer the option to perform strict type checking? Basically, I'm trying to explain to someone from a perl background why the (apparent) lack of a "use strict; use warnings;" equiva...

I was testing my implementation of the usual ternary function just now, and it's giving the wrong answer; I would attribute this to an error in my parser/abstract syntax tree code, but looking at the output, as far as I can see, the intermediate code is correct at the point where I hand it to LLVM's JIT. Could someone look and see if I'm doing something wrong, misunderstanding the

Hi Reid, > Instructions are members of a linked list. Consequently if you insert > some Instruction, that instruction gets changed. So, its not const. > > Simple enough? Yes, thank you. I started thinking if "mutable" is right here, but that's long philosophical issue ;-) - Volodya

...GSSAPI Key Exchange patch ever be incorporated into the OpenSSH source? http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.html I'm sure I'm not the only one that uses it and would like to see it become part of the OpenSSH source. Is there something missing or is there some technical/philosophical reason for not including it?

...are random, and a*b are fixed terms, I would use: aov (v ~ a*b + Error (s / (a*b)), data = d) Is there a way to get the same results using lme or lmer? How should I write my "random" argument in lme or the "(...|...)" terms in lmer? Please notice that I am not interested in philosophical discussions about whether I am trying to do wrong things. I would only like to know whether a given R function could be used in place of another R function. Thanks in advance for your help, -- Rafael Laboissiere

...script failed to clear two iterators, so they both grew with every record.) As an quick experiment, we removed that item from our data set and re-ran the process. The results were not very good. Perhaps 75% as good as training with the "wrong" factor included. So, this is really a philosophical question. Do we: 1) Shrug and say, "who cares", the SVM figured it out and likes that bad data item for some inexplicable reason 2) Tear into the math and try to figure out WHY the SVM is predicting more accurately Any opinions?? Thanks!

Dear all, Consider a completely randomized block design (let's use data(Oats) irrespoctive of the split-plot design it was arranged in). Look: library(nlme) fit <- lme(yield ~ nitro, Oats, random = ~1|Block, method="ML") fit2 <- lm(yield ~ nitro + Block, Oats) anova(fit, fit2) gives this: Model df AIC BIC logLik Test L.Ratio p-value fit 1 4 624.3245

a specification will _eventually_ be used, by someone, to tell the user they are doing things "wrong", won't it? and doesn't that turn markdown's genesis upside-down? heck, next thing you know we'll be telling them to r.t.f.m. i would prefer that implementers get more sophisticated about teasing out the user's intent in "ambiguous" cases. of course,

...it is more developer time efficient overall), but I > don't think so for security. > > >> * I don't want to pretend that cherry picking a few bound checks > >> will make lld safe on untrusted input. > > > > My impression is that there is a kind of "philosophical" view at > > stand: are we treating such crash as bugs and prioritize fixing > > them accordingly or not. I believe we had the same kind of > > philosophical disagreement with the development practices (no > > global state, etc.) a few months ago: while acknowledging th...