brlewis

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by brlewis 6y ago
Are there times when you think TypeScript could make some of the advanced projects less frustrating for the students?
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I'm not saying using HowTruthful is an obligation either. It's a good thing to choose to do.
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I'm with you, but I think the parent comment is right. Because generally comments here are either over-criticizing or over-defending JS.
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Code goes under src/. For pdfs of receipts, notes I jotted in txt files, etc., I create a new directory each year and just leave everything in there unorganized.
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Right, Facebook is not a court, police force, or anything else with legal jurisdiction. Assuming the problem is that Trump is issuing an orders to the military that are illegal, that's not a problem that Facebook can police. The Presid
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What you're describing does not sound like Facebook's jurisdiction.
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On the contrary, when you're paying people to do a job, explaining why you've decided a certain way is not your obligation. And when the people you're paying are software engineers, you're unfortunately inviting verbal a
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by brlewis 6y ago
You're joking, but this is the kind of thing that becomes true when enough people think it's true. What does a reasonable person think they're getting when they buy a book? That's the implied contract.
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> So I’ve learned my lesson. REPL driven development feels easier and faster than TDD; but it is not. Next time, it’s back to TDD for me. In the long run it's not faster. However, the feature he was using REPL driven development f
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by brlewis 6y ago
Angular went all-in on TypeScript in a way that React still hasn't. The React crowd is the general development community, and TypeScript has expanded into it.
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> When did you start web development? Serious question The question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll answer anyway. I started in 1993 and released some widely used web software in 1994. In your last paragraph you list 13 techno
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> Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing Is this certain? The effects
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create-react-app may already be doing so according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259803 EDIT: Nope, exploit worked for me against webpack-dev 3.10.3 used by react-scripts 3.4.1
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by brlewis 6y ago
This Hamming quote is gold. I like the way it tells how to put "know your audience" into practice: ... ask why you read some articles and not others. You had better write your report so when it is published ... as the readers are
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Zuck was talking to Harvard's newspaper about Facebook shortly after he started coding it, and as soon as it was finished he sent it to a 300-member email list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#Fac
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Making Rectangle a child of Square would violate the principle, because code that works correctly for squares might not work correctly for rectangles in general.
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by brlewis 6y ago
> asshole culture is endemic in American business Is it really endemic, or do isolated cases get undue attention? A mutual fund portfolio manager once told me she would avoid investing in companies where the CEO was an asshole, because s
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by brlewis 6y ago
You make a good point. I'll revise my statement: It does not seem plausible that reasonable people would suggest suppressing data just because some people tried to spin deaths reported May 5 as being due to the May 4 reopening. If info
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The curse of emacs is "Jack of all trades and master of ones that don't attract new users"
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Let me enumerate the doubts I have about makomk's speculative guess. 1. The linked article in the comment reflects a clear understanding of the lag between occurrence and report dates, which points to the dashboard not having been in a
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Is the quote below the one you're describing? It's strongly worded, but I don't see how it would hurt her ability to be seen as credible. “As a word of caution, I would not expect the new team to continue the same level of ac
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I'm drawing the opposite conclusion. That it's hard to conspire to keep the public in the dark about data, due to the large number of people involved in gathering, processing, and presenting it.
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Previously, responsibility for the dashboard was taken away. The firing is new.
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> then I would be able to organize my knowledge in a way that mirrors my train of thought I made HowTruthful for organizing trains of thought. If that's the only way you want to bookmark, you could use it. It's just that ever
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by brlewis 6y ago
Read the 4th and 5th paragraphs of the article, starting with "Blame broken supply chains"
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There are reasonable arguments that CSS is best done with no classes, only semantic elements. There are reasonable arguments that CSS is best done with classes only, independent of element name. And there are valid arguments for various inc
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by brlewis 6y ago
I think for emacs/tide I'll just be able to follow the instructions for Atom here: https://github.com/justjavac/typescript-deno-plugin
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by brlewis 6y ago
Exactly right. A modern website is one that knows that the browser's configured language is the best way to determine the user's language. A website that uses location to determine language is hopelessly outdated. I never complete
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54794933/how-to-pull-typ... Looks like there's a plug-in. Can't research much now, but I hope there's something like that for emacs tide.
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by brlewis 6y ago
That's specific to Coffeescript. Implicit returns in Scheme don't do that.

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