aur09

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by aur09 7y ago
100% agreed. You can write C-style code in JavaScript, but it won't be idiomatic C and it won't be idiomatic js. Syntax is a very minor piece of the programming language pie. If Python, Haskell, and Rust all shared the same syntax
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by aur09 7y ago
Relying on fast estimations is one of the most powerful aspects of the way our brains work. But applying the skill of finding and applying fast estimations exclusively to every topic--like reading SparkNotes over an original piece--is a goo
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by aur09 7y ago
This is impressive. I can tell that you effectively group the red squares together, but I can't figure out exactly how you went about it. What was your thought process?
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by aur09 7y ago
Wow—and spread into 11 files to facilitate CI, linting, etc—and with 1kb worth of error checking. That is nuts!
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by aur09 7y ago
You got my hopes up, thinking you’d discovered some esoteric way of overloading the console to behave as a chat box itself. Manually calling a global function from the console and having messages logged to it… I guess it is clever, but I ha
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by aur09 8y ago
This one is golden: "What's the best way to indeed start a process on an OS x machine? What is the best way to start a process on Mac OS x Snow Leopard? There I just need to be able to run the OS x.exe from the command line and it
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by aur09 8y ago
Now that Amazon has begun pulling books, they have set a precedent that dooms them to continue doing so to the potentially many thousands of others with bad information. This is acknowledgement that they have a responsibility as a marketpla
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by aur09 8y ago
It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
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by aur09 8y ago
Every message so far is some form of test. And what else would you expect? Nobody will care to continue chatting if there is no purpose uniting the room, especially when the more you participate the worse off you are. What are you hoping to