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by bbotond 12y ago
The only solution I could think of is this: function foo(n) { var result = []; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) (function(j) { result.push(function() { return j; }); })(i); return result; } Wha
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by bbotond 12y ago
As far as I can tell, it only runs on Windows. In my opinion, any general programming tool, however revolutionary, is at a significant disadvantage if it lacks multiplatform support.
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Viennese Mazes: What They Are, and How to Make One(zulko.github.io)
95 points by bbotond 12y ago|9 comments
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by bbotond 13y ago
The Soviet Union was advertised as democratic. Nazi Germany was advertised as democratic. Communist China was/is advertised as democratic.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Or "Come on..." :)
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by bbotond 14y ago
It is actually worth reading.
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by bbotond 14y ago
> Are you saying that an hstore is really a string? I'm not familiar with hstore but I think he means you can store some kind of reference under a key.
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by bbotond 14y ago
I just checked and Dune has a new Kindle version for $5.28 which seems to be a second, much better edition.
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by bbotond 14y ago
The theoretical stuff wasn't immediately applicable but it changed my mental model of databases and that has helped me tremendously in my work since then.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Why was he a terrible cultural fit? Also, do you think it was because he was older or for some other reason? (honest questions, no sarcasm intended)
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by bbotond 14y ago
The title should say iRecognition. IRecognition looks like a C# interface.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Honestly that's a shame.
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by bbotond 14y ago
It's the top story because we all thought: "I'm going to send this to THAT person!" - then clicked upvote.
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by bbotond 14y ago
C is to assembly what an ORM is to SQL - a scripted way to generate code.
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by bbotond 14y ago
I think it's more important to be familiar with the concept of MVC. After that, learning any MVC framework is easy.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Maybe our experience is different because of where we live. I'm Hungarian and most people here speak poor English (due to various reasons - the education system is not exactly stellar and also Hungarian is very, very different from any othe
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by bbotond 14y ago
Which is most developers. Maybe you work with exceptionally well-informed and talented people but 90% of the web devs I know don't know squat about responsive and MVC frameworks, REST or how to optimize JS. And by "don't know" I mean they h
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by bbotond 14y ago
Agreed. It should be "GHC Developer Leaving Microsoft".
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by bbotond 14y ago
Delivering a working product that will continue working for years, and is easy to understand, fix and extend, is true productivity.
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by bbotond 14y ago
The mostly linear execution of a console app is IMHO much easier to understand than the event-based paradigm of most GUI frameworks.
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by bbotond 14y ago
I agree about the IDE building bad habits. Almost all people I know who started programming in Visual Studio have atrocious formatting habits - they believe code formatting is something they don't need to care about because the IDE will do
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Do You Really Need to Say Thank You?(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by bbotond 14y ago|0 comments
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by bbotond 14y ago
And this is why the author will slowly realize why the other datepickers aren't so "lightweight" - because they solve a hard problem.
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by bbotond 14y ago
But those tutorials should include a warning like "what we teach here is enough for you to build a nice dog house but using the same techniques on a sky scraper will surely lead to disaster" - and then give you resources to educate yourself
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by bbotond 14y ago
Very true. It amazes me that in 2012, the code in 8 out of 10 PHP/MySQL questions on StackOverflow is still vulnerable to SQL injection. Sometimes people post code that is running on real, production web sites that handle credit card data.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Seconded. I would love to have this as a screensaver.
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by bbotond 14y ago
Well, I still remember my first projects: * a console hangman game * a weird ascii art animation program * a "guess the animal" program that used a binary tree of yes/no questions to guess the animal the player thought of. if it failed, it
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by bbotond 14y ago
Isn't it new[]{1,2,3,4}? Or is this some new syntax I don't know about?
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by bbotond 14y ago
Could you please tell us which EU country is that? Or at least tell me if it is the UK or the Netherlands? We have some servers in those countries and the last thing we want is them to be searched (they store extremely personal information
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by bbotond 14y ago
Programming is not hard to learn if you can already think rigorously. But most people have no experience expressing their thoughts using strict formalisms and have to learn that separate skill along with programming.

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