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by btipling 14y ago
> I use lists and strings and arrays with no concern about how many elements they contain or where the memory comes from. You should worry. If you don't want your server or your app to run slow, you should worry about these things. Can
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by btipling 14y ago
Could you imagine the impact it would have on traffic if every car accident had to involve radiation containment? Why would you support this? It could take hours, or perhaps millennia, to clear the road.
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by btipling 14y ago
Why an expression and not simply `function logArrayElements`? If you do the latter you'll see more information if you wanted to introspect (toString on the function, or in an error traceback).
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by btipling 14y ago
Agreed. But I'd worry about something like this once I notice I want to improve performance. In the book Beautiful Code one of the authors urged programmers to write beautiful code first then optimize when needed later. It's easier to optim
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by btipling 14y ago
I think this article might have made more sense during the primaries. I'm not happy with Feinstein supporting SOPA, but I'm not going to vote for her conservative opponent who probably also would have supported SOPA.
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by btipling 14y ago
This could also be horrible advice, because now you're mixing types which will make your code a little bit more complex, and you'll iterate over this null and have to deal with it. If you have an object property set to null you'll iterate o
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by btipling 14y ago
> Never use delete. Ever. ... This is horrible advice. There are plenty of things you want to delete, like references to elements when you don't need them anymore. A quick search of the Closure Library, jQuery, Backbone, Knockout, Angul
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by btipling 14y ago
His "solution" is just a tab/nav bar with different styling: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#navbar Given that a click is simpler and quicker than a drag, I think this suggestion is a worse user experience than a tab b
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by btipling 14y ago
This idea strikes me as appalling, but I'm trying it. I turned off syntax in vim just to see what it was like. I toggled back and forth a couple of times and found the syntax highlighting valuable, but without syntax highlighting it was sti
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by btipling 14y ago
Agreed, although ArsTechnica is pretty good and I'm starting to like anandtech
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by btipling 14y ago
This article does not seem to be objective and honest. Yes you can monetize an HTML5 app, but there is a difference between can monetize and can monetize and actually make money. If you are going to criticize app stores, you might want to f
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by btipling 14y ago
I don't like either of them, but if I had to choose one I'd pick the 3D one, it looks smoother and the red in non-3D version is really emotionally negative, like it's the kind of red that makes you angry or scared.
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by btipling 14y ago
> "Hey Bryan, its Paul. We loved you guys, we'd like to fund you." Zapier is pretty awesome, and the guys behind it are pretty sharp, it's no wonder Paul funded them. It seems like one of those things where after the fact you wonder why
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by btipling 14y ago
Sure, and you know what, actually after thinking about it and reading more of the sweet.js docs, I actually want to try it out some and see where it goes. I actually think I'm changing my mind already.
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by btipling 14y ago
I'm unconvinced. sweet.js is a terrible thing for JavaScript development. JavaScript is already dynamic and capable enough to build sophisticated applications. It is dynamic enough to help programmers avoid redundant code. If syntax is a pr
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by btipling 14y ago
Forever cookies are pretty bad. I know someone made a library as a proof of concept, but yeah, don't actually use this.
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by btipling 14y ago
I find PayPal incredibly convenient to use and prefer it when I see a PayPal button than giving my credit card info yet to another vendor. I trust PayPal more than I trust some random site that just happened to have a belt I wanted to buy.
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by btipling 14y ago
Mixing tabs and spaces. :S (Otherwise pretty cool)
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by btipling 14y ago
Yeah I guess their target audience would know what those things are. That's why I hedged my comment. I'm glad they're doing well, obviously doesn't seem to be a problem for them.
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by btipling 14y ago
It's probably not important to them, as I'm not their target audience but I looked at their home page and their about page and that techcrunch article and still have no idea what they do.
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by btipling 14y ago
Yes, there's actually a term for the failure of the hype: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter I think AI is currently in the phase of failing to live up to short term expectation while its long term implications are underestimated.
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by btipling 14y ago
It looks cool, but I think the animation should be faster for the demo. Making users wait for animation is bad UX.
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by btipling 14y ago
Cute idea, but it needs more value, probably some community features. This does little that you can't do already with Google Maps and most people already know what playgrounds are near them. What I find interesting though is the communities
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Will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?(theverge.com)
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by btipling 14y ago
The code for this thing needs a work: https://github.com/michalkow/cssConsole/blob/master/cssConso...
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From a pure market perspective, doesn't the regulation actually attempt to force a pricing inefficiency? If there are international candidates willing to work for less, why doesn't the average salary drop for local workers to the point wher
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by btipling 14y ago
Interesting and impressive from a technological perspective but wouldn't sweet.js make your code harder to debug? Macros in C are hell. Have you seen functions with ifdef littered everywhere? Why would anyone want this in JavaScript? JavaSc
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by btipling 14y ago
Via a Spectrometer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrometer You can do it yourself. Do you know why the sky is blue? Because blue light waves are scattered by molecules in our atmosphere. The light emanating from distant stars also inter
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by btipling 14y ago
As a driver, those bicycle boulevards, like Vermont Ave, in Berkeley are confusing to me. I just don't know what is supposed to be different about those streets, they seem like regular streets except for the designation.
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by btipling 14y ago
Replacing physical keys. You could use NFC to start your car or open your home's front door without a key.

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