IsaacSchlueter

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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
>could be handled by a simple tool that generates CSS. Not quite. Check the bits about changes to the DOM interfaces. You can get and set variables via Javascript, and the styles of the page will all update as a result. That's powerf
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
You could argue that a taste for convenience is a pretty good definition of a quality developer ;)
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
There are a few problems with doing that, in my experience. First, from a theoretical point of view, Javascript is an functional language. That's ideal for expressing event-driven behavior. Not so great for expressing style information.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
In the long run, I think that maintaining a blog does have to do with a programmers competence. Programming is a social activity. Communication and discussion are important. Even if no one reads your blog, the act of regularly putting ins
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Completely agree. After a few years doing this job and taking it seriously, diligent practice and all that, anyone who's reasonably bright should be at the top level in at least a few of these categories. But it's always good to spot areas
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/378/
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Does Mapou == Louis Savain? http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Mapou
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Louis Savain's "arguments", which he likes to claim "over people's heads", are mostly just examples of the Argument from Intimidation fallacy. Ie, "only an idiot would disagree with this". (Complete with overly complicated and inadequatel
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Well, that's just it. The kind of power that I think hackers crave is the kind that you can't buy with money. Even if you had billions of dollars to throw at the problem, you could never be as relevant a figure in shaping the face of tec
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
I was the front-end lead on: http://pirates.yahoo.com http://harrypotter.yahoo.com http://gta.yahoo.com http://starwars.yahoo.com While I don't think that I personally failed these sites, there were a lot of very deep problems which
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Interesting. I see power a bit differently. Power is one's ability to affect the world. "Getting other people to do what you want" doesn't really cut to the core of the matter. Jobs and Wozniak, Gates, Torvalds, Brin and Page, these peopl
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
+1 for slicehost. Simple, easy VPS, just works, plenty of very handy tools. Upside of any VPS, you get to manage the whole server. Downside, you have to actually manage your server. I've used DreamHost, but their crap up-time and extra c
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Power > Money. It's practically a hacker axiom. Money matters, but changing the world is what really matters. Money is just a way to be able to work on changing the world without having to worry about keeping the rent paid. Thanks f
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Replace the whole page so that the top-level URL in the address bar says "yahoo" or "google" when they're signing in. Otherwise you're just another phisher. "Normal" users don't care. But they'll learn and eventually expect the conventions
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Yahoo has lots of documentation organized in a single library. That's what the "developer.yahoo.com" bit is. Yahoo's is just better organized.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
It's irresponsible to expect your users to care about their privacy, just as it's irresponsible for a doctor to expect his patients to care about their health as much as he does. Your duty, as a provider of web services, is to be far MORE c
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
OpenID: If they have a yahoo account, the user just has to remember "yahoo.com" and if you're supporting OpenID 2.0, it'll work. If they have almost any kind of blog or social networking profile these days, it's also an OpenID. Users remem
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
How is it we're still talking about this? This is a solved problem, and has been for the last 5 years or so. It's not a "Holy Grail" any more.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
I believe IE8 beta has support for display:table* properties.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
The last time I wore a tie at work was my job interview. You should always dress nicer for the interview than you expect to for the job. It has nothing to do with impressing the interviewer. I wore a tie to my interview because it made me
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Even if it currently would cost $1000/barrel, it's still worthwhile to pursue as an alternative to drilling. Greater efficiency can come in later iterations. Immediately, at any price, it's more carbon-responsible and less politically vola
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Is the "tax" the upfront cost of writing code that uses static typing? If so, I most strongly disagree. Static typing is not a silver bullet. The claim that not using a static typed language f
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Well, I don't feel like YUI tries to make JS into Java. The goal of YUI is to add some extra APIs under a single global object, and pretty much let you write your code however you want. It's a library that quietly does nothing if you don'
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Yeah, it was intended as such :) As I write most of my Javascript at Yahoo, and we can assume that Yahoo webdevs know Javascript, but not necessarily jQuery, YUI is a much better choice. (Just addressing the language conventions, not nec.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's a language specifically designed to make it very difficult to do anything interesting. PHP (the language, not the implementation) has some very deep problems, in my opinion. But at least you can sk
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
> If your back end is Java, use GWT ...and then take a long hard look at your life, and see if you can figure out where it went so wrong. ;P
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
It really depends on whether you like Javascript or not, and whether or not your new library-based code has to play nicely with non-library javascript. jQuery is an interesting language. But I feel like it's no more "javascript" than C is
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
Thanks. off-topic: I don't know how people can watch the show weekly. Get the DVDs, and start at season 1. You won't regret it. Careful, though, it's a terrible time sink.
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by IsaacSchlueter 18y ago
It's a difference of attitude more than subject. In a way, your emotions are your instincts, but that's a bit like saying that your brain is your mind. While that may be true, there's a big difference between talking about brains and ta