SerpentJoe

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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Not the parent, but the JS regex engine is less powerful than what Sublime uses (PCRE?), lacking among other things atomic groups, possessive quantifiers and lookbehind.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Oh please. Energy from food gets stored in fat molecules, that's true, but it's not like physics decrees exact equality in people's outcomes. Someone who digests less efficiently will receive less nutrition from the food they
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
That may be, but nobody was whining. Your solution is in need of a problem.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
You can do something like this (using Bluebird's Promise.delay for convenience): // using Promise.race so whoever finishes first wins var fetchingWithTimeout = Promise.race([ // first promise:
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
I'm confused, I don't know what type of errors a promise eats. If you're chaining together promises returned by other routines, especially with async/await, then error propagation and handling is very natural. If you&#x2
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
ESLint combined with Babel for syntax highlighting has made my life so much nicer. https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/lint-like-it-s-2015-6987d44c...
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
TFA seems to come close to arguing that certain businesses should plan to provide value, then fold within a few years. The idea had never occurred to me. It seems to have some difficult implications. If you're the founder of a business
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
It also loads quickly and runs almost no Javascript, making it great for anything you want to test in the dev console.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
I prefer that model for floor numbering, personally. It means if you're on floor N that you're N stories above the ground.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
The page makes use of numeric expressions like 9x2^27. What's with the choice of exponent? Why not e.g. 1.125x2^30?
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
The parent isn't saying the author is cranky, like ornery, he's saying he's a crank. The link being referred to [0] seems to be a classic piece of crankery meandering from the solution to global warming to perceived slights a
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Police serve the community, not the other way around. No one would ever say "if you want your street sweepers to stop running people over then you need to make sure you respect their pride," because street sweepers, unlike cops, a
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
There are certainly legitimate complaints to be made about how Reddit empowers the volunteer work of moderators, but that is the least of the complaints that are clogging the site right now. There are three major objections being raised lou
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
I don't work in 3D graphics but it seems challenging to me because of the fluid dynamics. Fire is very low density gas rushing upward into the moderate density air - and even if you can do all the fluid dynamic calculations to render t
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
That's true, but given that pinch to zoom is nearly ubiquitous, and given that the double tap gesture requires a 300ms lag before responding to single taps, the Web would arguably be better without it.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Backtracking is required in a lot of cases. Consider matching the pattern /^(AA|AB)*$/ against the string "AAAAAAAAB". Before it can come up with the answer (it doesn't match) the engine has to backtrack all the way
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
It is. You can try to translate the snippet using babel, it doesn't work unless you remove that parameter.
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Promises are certainly better than promise-free 2005 style callback code, but they do require that you reimplement language features like try/catch. Yield allows you to do asynchronous try/catch, which doesn't depend on some
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER. [0] [0] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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by SerpentJoe 11y ago
Surely script and meta elements aren't markup?
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
The ozone layer is AFAIK not correlated with heating. It blocks UV radiation which is harmful to humans and other living things but plays no significant role in temperature changes. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
> Running dog-Thing has earned its customized bass lurk, composed by Ennio Morricone, which, in fairness to your ears and mine, could be an expensive John Carpenter imitation. > Carpenter’s Thing, for its part, discouraged the future
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
There's nothing unfortunate about acknowledging the racial themes in To Kill A Mockingbird, and doing so doesn't diminish any of the other messages. It would be a shit book if it were only about one thing. One of the things it&#x2
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
What is the world?
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
What jobs do remain relevant, though, assuming hard AI? Is there anything a human person can do better than a software person if the latter can duplicate itself, requisition a larger brain to work on a hard problem, and communicate hundreds
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
You could always do it right with `location.replace`, but that was never as common as it should have been. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location.re...
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
Ah yeah, I was double wrong. I see now that N insertions require a maximum of 2N-3 copy operations (with a growth factor of 2), so O(1) amortized. Thanks!
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
O(1), or O(log N)? Small difference but I was just having this argument yesterday. Each reallocation takes O(1) time (we assume), and you need O(log N) reallocations to grow by a cumulative factor of N.
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
6 orders of magnitude is the difference between minutes and years. I don't think I've ever heard of an estimate with that much variance.
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by SerpentJoe 12y ago
There seem to be two major ideas going on here: CSP, and modifications to try/catch syntax. It would be easier to understand the former without the latter.

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