bookface

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by bookface 5y ago
I don't take as much issue with this happening the other way around. It's a rare opportunity for the information asymmetry shoe to be on the other foot.
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by bookface 11y ago
Wow, that is, appropriately, a tortured backronym.
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by bookface 12y ago
This is exactly why I started using iTerm. You and I even use the same key combination! It is so convenient that whenever I use others' machines, I try to bring down the visor and get frustrated when nothing happens. Terminal.app can d
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by bookface 12y ago
If anybody prefers a .mobi: http://www.filedropper.com/linkers-ianlancetaylor (If anyone has a suggestion for a good place to upload that, let me know. I don't know whether the site I found on Google is sketchy.)
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by bookface 12y ago
Seriously? What do you think it means to be a freshman? I am getting seriously tired of this attitude in the software community that you're only a legitimate programmer if you've been doing it since you were in diapers.
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by bookface 12y ago
What's with the hashtag?
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by bookface 13y ago
Not that I know of, but javascript does.
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by bookface 13y ago
Can anybody explain some good use cases of implicit return? When I was doing a project in CoffeeScript last year (the only time I've used it), I found myself just using the return keyword explicitly because it was more readable, and I
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by bookface 13y ago
These comments are disgusting. Why are you all trying to download the data? Why are many of you trying to distribute it?
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by bookface 13y ago
I like using it when I'm filling an array with an indeterminate number of elements. I've used this pattern a few times: foo foos[255]; int ct = 0; if (<condition for adding first element>) foos[ct++]
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by bookface 13y ago
I was actually asked in an interview at Google in 2011 whether pre- or postincrement was faster in a snippet of code where the expression's value wasn't used. When I said that I was pretty confident that the compiler would produc
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Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? (2008)(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by bookface 13y ago|1 comments
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by bookface 13y ago
I didn't originally see the connection between MSG and Chinese food as coming from a place of racism, but you might be right. I'm still not so sure though. If somebody said to you "I got food poisoning from a Chinese restau
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by bookface 13y ago
I think the main difference between the two is the intent that's being implied. "Jewish Banker Syndrome" is implying something about me as a person. It's saying that, as a Jew, I'm more likely to be greedy and cor
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by bookface 13y ago
Sorry if I'm being insensitive, but how is Chinese Restaurant Syndrome "absurdly racist"? If people were having health problems as a consequence of eating corned beef, I would, as a Jew, have no problem with that condition b
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by bookface 13y ago
Agreed completely about how awful dynamic languages can be in this respect. I've found what helps a lot is consistent naming of parameters. For example, numberOfWidgets (an integer) versus widgets (a collection) or file (a file handl
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by bookface 13y ago
If you think tech internships are bad, you should look at literally any other field.
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by bookface 13y ago
If this involved Apple, the article's headline would be "Apple using forced student labor to build iPhone"
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Me Too (2004)(blogs.technet.com)
1 points by bookface 13y ago|0 comments
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by bookface 13y ago
Sounds to me like you're being intentionally daft. It's pretty easy to see that the /uː/ sound is associated with "oo" way more commonly than "o".
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by bookface 13y ago
What makes you believe that Twitter isn't doing that? If you're willing to speculate that Google is creating "shadow profiles", why not Twitter?
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by bookface 13y ago
I was going to add a line at the end of my post saying that this was all, of course, my fault, but figured it went without saying. Lesson learned.
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by bookface 13y ago
Wouldn't another solution to this be to have an object that would mimic the dom, performing reads immediately (or reading from its own cache of written attributes), but allowing explicit control over when writes get committed? It woul
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by bookface 13y ago
This really screwed me over this time. My developer account expired a few weeks ago and I got worried because I still had the beta installed. I tried upgrading via iTunes, but it said I was up to date, and I assumed that meant that the phon
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by bookface 13y ago
s/titled/tilted/
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by bookface 13y ago
Just print the box titled a few degrees :-)
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Libertarian Summer Camp(npr.org)
1 points by bookface 13y ago|0 comments
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by bookface 13y ago
I had this same experience. In 2010, I decided to buy the Captivate over the iPhone 4 after reading a bunch of reviews online. IIRC, I bought it right when it was released, which almost exactly coincided with the release of Froyo. After
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by bookface 13y ago
I still don't quite get what that means. If you click Python, why is Ruby highlighted, but not Django?
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by bookface 13y ago
Good read. Thanks for that. edit: HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627

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