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by asolove 15y ago
It is both wonderful and terrible to see so many js frameworks. Wonderful that js has taken off and is so easy to use that so many people can build useful reusable components to share with the world. Terrible in that all of the discussions
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by asolove 15y ago
Of course, not working is a much quicker way to increase most people's quality of life.
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by asolove 15y ago
I think this is no different than the situation with programmers. Are most programmers "overworked" in that they get too much done? No. But many are "overworked" in that they are constantly distracted with little problems and don't protect
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by asolove 15y ago
Not exactly. This is a syllabus from a course taught in 2002. - The syllabus refers to SICP as the standard text for the intro-level undergrad course, which it then was. - It says "All students are encouraged to acquaint themselves with" SI
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by asolove 15y ago
Ok, you've convinced me. Now what? I have time and money, so give me a call to action dammit.
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by asolove 15y ago
He's making a specific point regarding the relative importance of our senses. On the surface level, vision seems to play a far more important role in human life than tactile sensation. Losing your sight (the sense screens use) results in a
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by asolove 15y ago
The real question is whether this earnings difference is justified (the college degree adds enough value to the employee to put them on an entirely separate tier) or a "bubble" (perceived by hiring managers to be that important, but not act
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by asolove 15y ago
I was interested until this: > "Five years ago when jQuery was created, just about every web developer knew JS quite well and understood the quirks of every browser and JS implementation." False. Five years ago programs thought of JavaS
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by asolove 15y ago
Sadly, RSS is like many other platforms without a default client. Well-engineered, extremely useful, but impossible to explain to non-technical people. Before you can use RSS, you have to know what it is, look for it on a website, and have
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by asolove 15y ago
Does anyone know more about this phenomenon than the little in this and similar articles I've seen recently? Pointing a laser at an airplane thousands of feet in the air traveling hundreds of miles an hour for long enough that a pilot notic
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by asolove 15y ago
Proposal: GNU ships a working operating system that someone not a member of GNU wants to use, or they give this nonsense up. "But RMS made the C toolchain work" you say. Great, and lots of electric engineers made my computer work, but their
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by asolove 15y ago
Yes, just like with backscatter radiation, shoe examinations and 3oz liquids at airports. They generated media heat, but didn't lead to any attention or oversight. Everyone is used to them now, I'm generally the only person in line to reque
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by asolove 15y ago
Ok, come on. Both here and on Wikipedia people are posting links to blog posts or minor news sites that supposedly "support" the claim. But these are clearly instigated by the original Wikipedia edit itself, so that they don't provide any a
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by asolove 15y ago
For a fun portrait of McCarthy's early life and aspirations, see the passages about him in "What the Doormouse Said". [1] - Born to communist activists in 1920s Boston - Studied math with John Nash at Princeton - Organized the first compute
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by asolove 15y ago
Fantastic, I look forward to it. I started this post mostly frustrated by the idea of someone creating "yet another" js testing tool, but now I'm legitimately interested in seeing where this goes. Thanks for the fast and helpful feedback.
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by asolove 15y ago
Interesting. But how do I run tests with t.createWindow locally? Do I need a publicly-accessible IP? We are currently looking at Sauce because we can write tests against Selenium and run them locally or in the cloud, plus they make it easy
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by asolove 15y ago
Let's make an n-dimensional map of the available javascript testing environments. The dimensions are something like: - headless v. javascript driving browser v. full browser-level - js-only v. test-specific html page v. load full app html -
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by asolove 15y ago
- Do you remember which events IE conveniently forgets about, like not bubbling "submit" events above forms? - Can you write out AJAX code that reliably works in all versions of IE by memory? And don't forget to add automatic jsonp support
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by asolove 15y ago
There is: give the list a fixed height and a scrollbar to display more. Load the first two or so pages immediately and render them, then request more right away (or as the user scrolls, if they scroll faster than you can load them). As the
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by asolove 15y ago
"Nature is paywalled" is a sentence I fear I will see again, with a different meaning, at some time in the future.
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by asolove 15y ago
Yes, true, but the point is something like this: things that reduce costs in a way that is centrally measurable and worthy of bragging are not the things that waste real money, but are the things that will hurt morale. - They saved £200,000
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by asolove 15y ago
This is a sad day. A lot of good thought went into the plans for multi-form publication and the design for different form-factors. If anyone is interested in working on publishing readable, annotated code in print and on mobile devices, ple
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by asolove 15y ago
I have run into two reasons why this happens unexpectedly: 1. rvm-related. You installed a gemset for 1.9.2, and then either manually switched to another ruby version, or never set that version as your default. So the next time you come int
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by asolove 15y ago
Sage: http://www.sagemath.org/
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by asolove 15y ago
Welcome to the kool-aid club! Seriously, it's fun to see people still creating their first Rails app and enjoying it so much. I don't do Rails all day, but when I want to get something up in a quick and easy fashion, there's no doubt that i
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by asolove 15y ago
Totally speechless. Feel like this is what I ought to be working on/with. I look forward to the day when online news sources take advantage of the medium to cover wars and budget proposals in this format.
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by asolove 15y ago
I think the real question is: why is putting ads on our reading devices worth $50 to advertisers? We can be proud and say that such ads have no effect on our behavior, but statistics say otherwise. Certainly I see a lifestyle difference bet
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by asolove 15y ago
It's always good to go back to the start and remember how much worse things have gotten since any arbitrary time in the past. Before complaining about this rant, go out and explore some of our history: [1] Sketchpad ( http://www.youtube.com
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by asolove 15y ago
Yeah, I agree. It would be great to be able to go through a federated wiki, combine data from multiple stories into a single calculated story, and then see how they relate.
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by asolove 15y ago
This is fantastic. It would be nice to combine this with some of Bret Victor's work on mathematical interfaces, see his essays Scrubbing Calculator [1] and Magic Ink [2]. [1] http://worrydream.com/ScrubbingCalculator/ [2] http://worrydre

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