YmMot

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by YmMot 15y ago
This is neat. It reminds me a bit of part of my Conky setup. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/zi1Ub . It's not as accurate, but it gives me an idea of what time of day it is everywhere. I have a cron script that runs every hour that p
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by YmMot 15y ago
I've traveled a fair bit across 6 continents and I don't think I've ever encountered a society that is simultaneously multi-cultural and without racism. I'm also a believer in the axiom that those who don't remember the past are doomed to r
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by YmMot 15y ago
I'm also not a fan. As a piece of juvenile science fiction I think it's serviceable though if I had children I'd probably prefer they skip it. To start with, the story is predicated on the notion that Eugenics works , or as the saying go
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by YmMot 15y ago
I think what they mean is say you have a bit of obsfucated, minified, and or complex JavaScript code you want to reverse engineer. You can start writing a an "unobsfucated" version in JS, pseudocode, whatever you wanted....and use source-ma
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by YmMot 15y ago
Yea I would imagine they are. I haven't been following the development like I used to, so thanks. How accurate does the source position information have to be? I don't think the CoffeeScript lexer can output column numbers (at least it didn
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by YmMot 15y ago
It allows you to debug any language that compiles to JavaScript, with the caveat that the language's compiler must output source-map compatible code (or the source must be run through some other program that somehow does it). It's a prett
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by YmMot 15y ago
It's not good enough now , probably because JavaScript was designed as a lightweight scripting language to make web pages a little more interactive and not as a general "bytecode for the web". However, it always amazes me when people in di
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by YmMot 15y ago
I agree for the most part that Google is not "fighting for it's life", though I think it has faltered a bit. > people are not defecting away from search to use Facebook's search or Bing or whatever. You are perhaps missing the point a l
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by YmMot 15y ago
I think perhaps you are the one who needs to read up about it more. > Placebo is astonishingly powerful I would agree that placebo is "powerful", in that it can provide surprisingly powerful subjective effects...however it's mechani
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by YmMot 15y ago
This is just wrong on so many levels... That is absolutely not the "point" of modern homeopathy... The point of modern homeopathy is to spread a lot of nonsense about water with memory and other such bunk. Secondly, you seem to have som
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by YmMot 15y ago
This is a very destructive and incorrect attitude. Psychogenic illness is not "faking it"...it is very real. It simply means the cause of the problems are based somewhere in the "software" rather than the "hardware". The brain is an exc
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by YmMot 15y ago
It has a small deterrent effect on first time offenders. However, the study also notes that it does not significantly affect repeat offenders, there's little difference in how "dangerous" (likely to reoffend) registered offenders are vs one
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by YmMot 15y ago
You use the phrase "outed", which to me implies public exposure, so my post is based mostly on that premise. If that's not the case, please just clarify and ignore the applicable parts. In theory that sounds nice, and to a certain extent th
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by YmMot 15y ago
Technically most web servers are teapots, just incredibly bad ones.
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by YmMot 15y ago
pffft, what a silly question. Manhole covers are round because manholes are round...why would you make a square cover for a round hole? (Seriously though there's a lot of conceivable reasons, and while that's one I doubt it's a major one, a
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by YmMot 15y ago
> If I wasn't allowed to research those beforehand or have them explained then I would fail It's implicit in all of these that the concept is explained to you. Nobody would ask you to "implement a X" expecting you to know what X was (be
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by YmMot 15y ago
There's huge a difference between having to look up syntax/api and what is being discussed here. Everyone will occasionally forget the syntax for something, or the argument order for a function... especially in a language they don't use all
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by YmMot 15y ago
> Do you think this accurately reflects the working conditions of a developer? That's not the goal of the exercise however, nor is it a desirable one. The point is to a very loose test of basic ability. You can test the basic ability of
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by YmMot 15y ago
Well nobody said they aren't being given those things, you certainly might be...however even then it's not true. None of those things are necessary to solve the problem. There's no need to search for information...all the information you ne
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by YmMot 15y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. This is not a test to see if you know what Pascals triangle is....it's a simple test of your ability to take a simple algorithm that has been explained to you and translate it into code. This is the essence
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by YmMot 15y ago
I believe you are misunderstanding. Pascal's Triangle is not some obscure and difficult mathematical formula you are expected to have memorized...This is not "construct Pascals Triangle and if you don't know what that is, too bad..." It's a
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by YmMot 15y ago
This is a fair point, but it should be noted that is seems that Christoforo and Kotkin are friends, rather than Christoforo just being some random shmuck. Should Kotkin be penalized for his friends behaviour? Probably not, but he should be
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by YmMot 15y ago
> Yes, it's one sided. It's an opinion piece in the comment section, and labelled as such. This is indicated by the breadcrumbs at the top reading "Home / Opinion / FP Comment". This strikes me as a rather poor excuse (if it's intended
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by YmMot 15y ago
> Go ahead an chalk that up to "Ryan doesn't know CS", if you believe it's any more incriminating than missing any ol' arg in a function signature. Precisely what I intend to do. Everyone makes little logic errors and whatnot, I was jus
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by YmMot 15y ago
Sure, and here's the issue: At the point you do plate.dirty plate === "ryansPlate" In CoffeeScript the construct for foo of bar Iterates through the KEYS of bar in turn, assigning them to foo...NOT the values To be more spe
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by YmMot 15y ago
Sure, likewise it's not my intention to write you off, you clearly have some good points based on real usage... I'm just trying to contrast your experience with people who have used it even longer still. > Like I said in the article, I
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by YmMot 15y ago
Ok, just to be clear because this comment is ambiguous as to if you understand what I'm saying. The comprehension in your article is not valid, you need to change one thing or the other for it to work. > Dishes is an object of key value
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by YmMot 15y ago
I think this article is a mix of fair criticisms but at points lapses into a lot of hand waving. At points it devolves into "This is confusing/non-intuitive if you don't know CS" and "This is not the way I like to do things". I find the pro
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by YmMot 15y ago
That's true, but the part of the reason that it's a big problem that various news sources are so slap dash is the way the human brain works. Once a person has read a news story, it's more difficult to displace those "facts". People generall
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by YmMot 15y ago
To be fair Harry Potter is about evil witchcraft, it just doesn't promote it...or rather It's about the power of friendship (and good witchcraft) defeating evil witchcraft.

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