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asolove
12y ago
Why not? While there are lots of terrible SEO consultants and stupid recommendations, knowing how SEO actually works and the way it rewards good, up-to-date content, is incredibly valuable. And knowing how things really work is the best way
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asolove
12y ago
He's describing using rAF essentially as a form of throttling, to make sure you render at-most once per frame, but usually much less often.
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asolove
12y ago
I think the above is trying to say that the percentage of total possible trees that a human would bother considering is much lower in Go than most games, like chess. So the computational resources needed to do Monte Carlo and get results co
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asolove
12y ago
Webs, Washington DC: Web Developers Webs builds a suite of products that help small and micro-businesses do business online. Webs SiteBuilder is an easy-to-use in-browser website builder with a bunch of really beautiful and customizable the
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asolove
13y ago
This implementation will be incredibly slow for large lists. Every time any one of the elements moves, you will make N dom changes rather than the needed one or two. In an individual case, you can hand-write the faster version. But when you
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asolove
13y ago
Ok now let's try to write a Todo List app. We'll have a TodoListView that shows a set of TodoViews. The TodoListView will need to initialize instances of TodoView for each item in the list, and react to model change events to know
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asolove
13y ago
I think the point is that while hard work has a strong positive correlation with success in most circumstances, the scale of that correlation is dwarfed by other factors like where you were born, how you were raised, and who you have access
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13y ago
DC/MD/VA - Webs - Rails, Front-end, Java, QA, Design & Product Webs builds tools for small and micro businesses to do business online. Customers use our tools to build websites, track customers, and engage with them on social
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asolove
13y ago
This is a known bug where Chrome 33 renders webfonts blank: http://blog.typekit.com/2014/02/28/new-bug-in-chrome-v33-aff... It usually goes away with a soft refresh. This was measurably affecting our conversi
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asolove
13y ago
I was going to disagree with you, but then I realized I didn't understand what you were saying: What do you suggest they should have done?
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asolove
13y ago
If they work on the same branch, what happens if A finishes early and B is late, or abandoned as a bad idea? Instead, A and B should be on separate branches. Maintain integration environments where the feature branches are regularly merged
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asolove
13y ago
This is the classic "I want to use a new, more powerful tool, but I'm going to rely on concepts from the old tool and not bother to learn the new one." If you're using git in this way, you should just use svn. You'l
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asolove
13y ago
"Setting up thousands of students for success" is not the goal of a university. If it were, they should also offer majors in underwater welding, computer-aided machining, and other currently-understaffed specialist roles where a p
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asolove
13y ago
I think this is pretty possible. You could use Mori [0] or another set of persistent JS data structures. And you'd need to monkey-patch them to all support being used as cursors like in Om. That'd be pretty cool for those of us wh
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asolove
13y ago
> The X-to-Javascript tools work best if the language actively embraces the Javascript roots I don't think this is true. X-to-Javascript tools work best when they are well-designed to fit both the norms of the original language and
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asolove
13y ago
Surely it's Romans 11:36: "All things come from God, through God, and return to God." As we can see, God does not use continuation-passing style.
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asolove
13y ago
The Chinese name has a good deal to do with cultural tradition. In traditional Chinese practice, north is the direction of evil. Cities were planned with gates at the south and rulers sat facing south. Magnets were actually first used as to
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asolove
13y ago
Interesting, what do you mean he "understood he was in the Northern Hemisphere"? There are an infinite number of possible ways to divide a sphere into hemispheres, so how did he define the hemispheres and how did he describe the o
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I agree that "conspiracy" isn't the right explanation, but only people in the Northern Hemisphere would navigate by the North Star to begin with. So we're still stuck at this being based on who made the maps. But note th
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asolove
13y ago
I just want people to see that there are many paths to a fulfilling, excellent life. In this community, we have so many models of two of those paths--making FU money, or achieving technical mastery--and so few public models of other options
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13y ago
Hi, I'm Adam, 27, married with a two year old and one more on the way. I commend your efforts and wish you luck. Some small percentage of people who start out down the path you're on make it to the end as true technical experts. A
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13y ago
I have long wanted to see a completely straightforward, all-in-one-place explanation of these topics. It could start with the question: "Aren't we divided into men and women?" Then it would briefly describe the levels on whic
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asolove
13y ago
I'm sure his diversity is only skin deep, and that being born in Hyderabad to an Indian civil servant and migrating to America as an adult had no effect on his personality, experience, or opinions.
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13y ago
The easiest way is to make sure your company is using good outside recruiters or that your internal people are doing things the right way. And that you're also trying to hire through internal referrals and being visible in the local co
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asolove
13y ago
Lots of good options here but let me add one more: maybe you're completely fine and don't need to make any kind of career change. I and many developers I know have been through a phase like you describe. This is especially true in
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13y ago
As someone who has worked on teams willing to train less-experienced developers, I find that previous expertise in any other subject is a good indicator of future success in web programming. I've seen good Ruby and JavaScript developer
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Build 3d web applications with MontageJS
(montagejs.org)
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asolove
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Yeah, I think this is just a terminology problem. Let's just lay out the complete answer: if you have a list of 1000 things to render in the same way, you can make it faster in various ways: 1. Don't render all of them at once, us
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Yup, it's the DOM stuff and not the js initialization that is the bottleneck. This is why Ember and React can be faster: you still have the same number or more js objects, but the automatic event delegation and managed draw cycle minim
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Well, Backbone handles delegation for elements within the same view. But it doesn't handle the case where you have lots of instances of the same view class in a list and want each handler registered only once for the whole list. You ca
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