Zarel

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by Zarel 7y ago
It was ten years ago so I don't remember. I don't remember anyone disliking me or anything, though.
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by Zarel 7y ago
Oddly, I had the exact opposite experience interviewing at Microsoft. I blazed through all the questions the manager asked, and the manager told me I was the most talented person he'd ever interviewed and would definitely get the job,
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by Zarel 7y ago
(I think you wanted to use "complicit") Please update us as to how this happened!
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by Zarel 7y ago
This is one of my favorite stories. When I updated to OS X 10.7 Lion on my Hackintosh, I got a weird issue where the hard drive would wipe itself every few days – like, I would turn on the computer, and it would tell me the hard drive was b
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by Zarel 7y ago
I ran a hackintosh setup for most of my university days. I loved OS X on my MacBook but I wanted more power and a larger screen, and I couldn't afford a Mac Pro. Compared to both Windows and Linux, I preferred OS X's behavior in:
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by Zarel 7y ago
That only works if you're ranging from 0 to n-1, though. A popular way to partition an array at i and j is to do: arr[0..<i], arr[i..<j], arr[j...-1]
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by Zarel 7y ago
This is definitely one of the things xkcd has talked about: https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'd always heard about this, but the one time I left my backpack in a Yamanote Line train, it was returned with around $2000 worth of cash (in multiple different countries' currencies) missing from my wallet. My wallet was really
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'm moderately annoyed you think I don't already know all these things. The problem isn't that I don't know these things, it's that I'm beyond those things and trying to add subtle things to improve quality of
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by Zarel 7y ago
Because I still believe in the ideals of responsive web design. If a desktop user wants to use my site in a tiny window (maybe to tile it next to another window), they should still be able to use keyboard shortcuts. And if a user with a lar
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by Zarel 7y ago
I know, that's why I said "unanswerable" and "all I can do is guess". The specific feature this came up recently is whether or not a chat app should autofocus the input box. Ideally, the answer is "yes" if
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by Zarel 7y ago
New browsers still don't support everything. One of my biggest questions: "Does this device have a keyboard?" (relevant for "should I show hints for keyboard shortcuts?") is still straight-up unanswerable, and all I
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by Zarel 7y ago
Hm, if a phone is to support a factory reset feature at all, everything it's bundled with needs to be there somewhere in read-only memory. And everything I've read says that disabling an app and removing updates removes it from ev
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by Zarel 7y ago
I think it's easier to drag-and-drop from the Downloads folder to where I want to save it, than to dig through a Save dialog to find the folder I want to save something in. So it's less work whether or not you want to put your dow
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by Zarel 7y ago
The recycle credit is 30% off a new Sonos product, which, as far as I can tell, is worth around $100. The linked tweet says the recycled Sonos would have been worth $250 on the secondhand market if not recycled. It's extremely doubtful
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'm also confused. That link does not mention hydrogenation at all.
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by Zarel 7y ago
I was an expert on JS way before TypeScript. I was kind of slow to adopt it because "the type hints are optimized away and can't even be used to boost runtime performance", but when I did start using it, I loved it and wish I
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by Zarel 7y ago
I'm still confused by what sense Elon Musk's statements were knowingly false. My memory of the situation was that the Saudis offered to buy Tesla, and Musk considered this to constitute funding being secured. Does "funding se
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by Zarel 7y ago
Having lived through the CoffeeScript thing, the main issues were: 1. CoffeeScript required a compile step; JavaScript didn't. It also meant that you needed to do your debugging in JavaScript, and deal with a lot more leaky abstraction
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by Zarel 7y ago
If you block port 80, you'll never get to the part where you do URL filtering in the first place. (And also the redirection thing.)
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by Zarel 7y ago
Sadly, feature detection is still impossible for many features. For instance, the only way to detect `contentEditable` support is through user-agent sniffing. Many versions of Android Chrome and iOS Safari will happily report that they supp
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by Zarel 7y ago
I've always just typed constants and SQL with my pinky on the left Shift key. It feels easier than having to toggle Caps Lock all the time. In situations where I'm excited and messaging my friends to yell, I've typed entire s
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by Zarel 7y ago
Personally, I'm just waiting for non-nullable types. After getting used to them, it's hard to imagine going back to a language that doesn't have them.
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by Zarel 7y ago
> It does not interop with JavaScript. I don't know what you mean here, but it is certainly possible for TypeScript code to use JavaScript libraries and vice versa, which is presumably what most people mean by "TypeScript inter
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by Zarel 7y ago
If the other party is not so innocent, I believe that counts as market manipulation, which is highly illegal. There's not much incentive here to do that, anyway; it doesn't increase your expected value over the original coin flip.
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by Zarel 7y ago
You're not understanding the math here. RobinHood is essentially lending unlimited money to the teenagers in question. Assume, as an oversimplification, half of them will win big, and half of them will lose it all. For the wins, the te
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by Zarel 7y ago
That only works for other companies, not for patent trolls that are usually holding companies that own patents but don't have any products that could infringe on patents. The company that sued Cloudflare, Blackbird, is one such company
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by Zarel 7y ago
I have a similarly funny one I like to use for this purpose: http://zombo.com/
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by Zarel 7y ago
None of the flaws you list apply to TSX, which essentially gives you the best of both worlds. I really wish SwiftUI had used JSX-style syntax, just because of how nice it looks.
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by Zarel 7y ago
It's funny that he says that, then suggests using Normform instead, which very much hides checkboxes to replace them with mimicking components. To be fair, it's not like I've found a better solution for styling checkboxes.

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