alextgordon

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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's interesting to hear jQuery being criticised for being at to low an abstraction level. I thought the hip thing to do was to revisit the stone age: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com If jQuery is low level, what is high
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The contention is whether the valuables are being traded voluntarily for welfare, or whether they are being taken by force (i.e. stealing ). Presumably Danish citizens can choose whether to claim welfare or not. Also, while a normal person
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by alextgordon 11y ago
50g sugar is like 2.5 apples.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Xcode 3's code completion made everything run so slowly that I had to turn it off, and for a while I just copied and pasted method names out of the Cocoa header files.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I mean, some groups of people on earth are uncontactable or their existence is unknown (see Sentinelese, people in the Amazon). So you have to make a compromise at some point. The choice of percentile is somewhat arbitrary.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
But do they need permission from the courts, or from the home secretary? Theresa May will do whatever the US tells her to, it's not like Assange is the cause célèbre that McKinnon was.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I guess, but if you go to the trouble of localising your website into Chinese, then loading a self-hosted version of the library for Chinese users doesn't seem like much extra work.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> People take libraries like lodash – or jQuery, as we analyzed earlier – and insert the whole thing into their codebases. If a simple bundler plugin could deal with getting rid of everything in lodash they aren’t using, footprint is one
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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's pretty easy. There are ways to test primarily such that constructing a counterexample would be an important mathematical result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baillie–PSW_primality_test > The power of the
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by alextgordon 11y ago
That video appears to be talking about epidemiology. That is fine if you are interested in the broader public health concerns, however it cannot possibly give actionable advice to an individual.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Stared at that for a while, wondering why it was all highlighted as a comment. Then it dawned on me: \r line endings.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Throughout its life, CoffeeScript has been by disparaged by those who just seem to really hate it's existence for some reason. At first it was "you can't debug generated code!", now that everybody is using generated code
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The laws of thermodynamics still apply. If someone does not lose weight on 1300 calories a day then either their body is a marvel of science and should be studied for its amazing efficiency... or they are completely sedentary.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Important food source or only food source?
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The death of the Cavendish banana(bbc.co.uk)
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I don't think it's the act of invention that's the hard part, but without long-distance communication or trade, the same inventions had to be made over, and over, and over again. If a tribe died out due to disease/war&#x
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I agree 100% with your analysis long-term, however it seems unlikely that interest rates will rise for the foreseeable future.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The traditional way to buy a consumer good is in a store, then you can see the alternatives and pick the best one...
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Most Python code does not involve the creation of classes, so I think you're wrong to associate it with true OO message-passing languages such as Ruby and Java.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Yeah as nice as Swift is, Cocoa was designed for Objective-C. e.g. -[NSBezierPath setLineDash:count:phase:] takes a C array in Objective-C, but an UnsafePointer<CGFloat> in Swift. Apple needs new API interfaces for their new language,
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Haha, good one.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
All successful products will have stupid users. If you don't want to have stupid users, don't write successful software.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
We are talking about a manual dial here, not a programmable thermostat. "Hey it's too cold right now, better turn it up." In fact you will save money & energy with manual control because the heating will not turn on when
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by alextgordon 11y ago
> Well an IDE with less features is going to be faster than VS, that isn't a question. Just see Sublime Text, insanely fast until you start adding extensions and it gradually gets slower and slower. In principle, only a small propor
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by alextgordon 11y ago
It's not a population of 25k events, but a sample size of 25k. News organisations pay a lot of money for polls of only 1000-2000 people. 25k data points is quite sufficient in most cases.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
And furthermore, the comments can be turned off.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
Wikipedia explains: > Visa Electron card accounts may not normally be overdrawn. Visa Debit cards, on the other hand, typically allow transfers exceeding available funds up to a certain limit > Some online stores and all offline termi
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by alextgordon 11y ago
This only works if the input password has low entropy. You would think that people using Linode are savvy enough to be using long, randomly generated passwords.
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by alextgordon 11y ago
The best programmers have a choice of where they work, and will avoid environments that have a reputation for excessive blaming or scapegoating. So it's a self-defeating strategy for a company to take. Only the desperate need apply. Be
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by alextgordon 11y ago
I suspect "worst case" may be a euphemism for "poor people".

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