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by afshin 16y ago
I think you're talking past each other. If you want to build a web-based spreadsheet application, you neither "progressively enhance" nor do you "gracefully degrade". Your browser is either a supported runtime or it's not. Sure, if you're b
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by afshin 16y ago
Clever name ... a little crass.
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by afshin 16y ago
Yes, they do. But that's quite an exception.
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by afshin 16y ago
The best discoveries of these startups, like in any industry, will be copied by the market leaders — the countries of today. That seems to be patently false. If better ways of governance really were infectious, governments would be roughl
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by afshin 16y ago
I don't disagree with you on that point. Two books should be plenty. I'm only pointing out that there's a lot of utility in learning about JS as a programming language, completely divorced from DOM stuff.
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by afshin 16y ago
I think people coming from most other languages that have objects get very confused about prototypal inheritance. The significance of first-class functions is also not obvious to people who don't come from a functional programming backgroun
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by afshin 16y ago
This seems like a really easy way to dig yourself into a deep hole. Why not build a relationship with a decent attorney if you're in the habit of getting intimidating messages from lawyers regularly?
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by afshin 16y ago
This is a really useful idea and gives useful more fine-grained information without compromising the overall message: "I'm slowing down." Along a similar vein, I want car horns to be as loud inside a car as they are outside, to ensure they'
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by afshin 16y ago
This post is gibberish. My comment is about as insightful as anything you'll read in the post.
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by afshin 16y ago
New York City, 1010data http://1010data.com/company/careers/current-job-openings We're looking to fill a couple roles: Web Application Developer, Systems Developer, Infrastructure Engineer, and Data Analyst. We're a 'big data' company and
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by afshin 16y ago
Married couples are allowed to file separately if they wish.
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by afshin 16y ago
Financial independence is the only independence in a patriarchal society. Dutch society is pretty liberal, so it may be the case that financial dependence on men does not impinge upon the sense of freedom and well-being for Dutch women. I
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by afshin 16y ago
Oh, good point :-) I thought the way spoon worked was similar to those services that give you snapshots of your site in different browsers.
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by afshin 16y ago
My interpretation of this is that Microsoft realizes that developers are leaving their platform pretty rapidly. As more developers switch to OS X or Linux as their main development platform, the whole Windows ecosystem will suffer, not just
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by afshin 16y ago
I hope all the recent coverage and outrage will actually amount to something.
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by afshin 16y ago
I think it depends on the specific discussion. The front-page articles for the bigger subreddits are just too crowded to have any sort of nuance a lot of the time. But if you're interested in specific topics and are subscribed to smaller su
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by afshin 16y ago
I'm not a very good K programmer, but no K example existed, so I posted mine: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer#K It fits in a tweet (exactly 140 characters right now ... but it can probably be shortened).
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by afshin 16y ago
I don't think there's a reasonable way to interpret the uninvited and unwelcome prodder of one's genitalia as a victim of sexual harassment.
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by afshin 16y ago
Yes, I agree. Maybe I was unclear above, but what I meant to say was that not being photographed was one of the main motivations I had for consenting to being patted down, despite the discomfort.
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by afshin 16y ago
I refused last week. I got pat down pretty invasively. The TSA agent seemed rather embarrassed about it. The protocol says that when they touch private areas, they must point out that they're using the back of the hand, but being groped is
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by afshin 16y ago
Probably because people who are interested in reading about JS probably have JS-enabled browsers and aren't using NoScript.
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by afshin 16y ago
In addition to all of the UX issues that have been brought up here, there's also the problem of spaces in a user name. Sure, an algorithm could be written where the last broken up block of a string split by spaces in considered the password
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by afshin 16y ago
I figured numbers don't lie. Instead of picking bands that I thought represent me to put into Facebook ... I just linked my last.fm profile. What I actually listen to is tallied instead of what I'd prefer you to think I listen to. EDIT: H
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by afshin 16y ago
Thanks for responding :-) It turned out nobody else had much to say here, but I posted at /r/javascript ... if you're curious, here's what's going on there: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/dppwu/ask_rjavas...
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Ask HN: Thoughts on GWT?
7 points by afshin 16y ago|2 comments
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by afshin 16y ago
k, javascript, javascript None of my solutions were particularly elegant :-)
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by afshin 16y ago
Microsoft bundles Silverlight with every Flip4Mac update ... and I duly remove it each time.
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by afshin 16y ago
bonestorm |bōn'stôrm| noun A sausage party: a preponderance of men in a gathering. The term is a vulgar pun implying that men in a group with even a small number of ladies will become sexually aroused (i.e. have boners). EDIT: http://www.u
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by afshin 16y ago
A two-line shell script with a random sleep interval and a curl call (see invankirigin's on this page) has here put into a cron job does the trick. No Perl necessary :-)
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by afshin 16y ago
I think the problem is on the demand side: its employers posting jobs with ridiculous titles. I don't think applicants are walking around calling themselves ninjas or pirates or rockstars.

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