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by bulatb 13y ago
If the story is about someone achieving a rare but desirable outcome, and there's a common perception that the outcome isn't rare, then it makes sense to post a comment like the GP's. It may help prevent availability-biased readers from imp
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by bulatb 13y ago
What's (allegedly) hard to grasp is that Tumblr is Tumblr, not a generic money-engine that eats X dollars worth of fuel and puts out $Y worth of value. Mayer is acknowledging that part of Tumblr's recipe for spitting out that $Y is the cult
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by bulatb 13y ago
Those aren't conflicting statements. If SkyDrive is 5 points worth of good, and Dropbox is widely rated 30 but "actually" a 10, then it's overrated but still better than the competition.
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by bulatb 13y ago
The article's real title is "SignForms – Going paperless just got easy." It's about an app they built in Node, mostly covering their choice of modules. The title here on Hacker News does not reflect that.
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by bulatb 13y ago
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM&t=34m20s
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by bulatb 13y ago
Hundreds of millions is two orders of magnitude more money than "the first few millions." To me that seems pretty significant. And even more so when you factor in how many more things (or even classes of things) you can buy with $10E8 vs. $
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by bulatb 13y ago
Is thinking about getting gas a couple times a month actually worse than remembering to charge a Tesla every single night? What if you forget to plug it in? I'm skeptical that any of their customers are so inhumanly busy that the split-seco
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by bulatb 13y ago
Covering how $a or $b does stuff on a PowerPoint slide isn't the same thing as having students write a $thing. Which sort of sucks when they go on the job and have to write a $thing! That statement is true for many different p
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by bulatb 13y ago
> The future is extremely hard to see through the lens of the present And the past is hard to see without the lens of hindsight warping things. A decision might look silly in the face of information from the future, but that doesn't mea
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by bulatb 13y ago
If people who already work in software feel the need to study for an interview, it's a pretty decent indication that the interview itself is... not ideal.
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by bulatb 13y ago
But the industry hates her.
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by bulatb 14y ago
I wonder on what basis people make predictions like that. It seems like wishful thinking.
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by bulatb 14y ago
A gallery page is not very specific. What is it you can do?
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by bulatb 14y ago
Where's it gonna go? Even if jquery.com and all the CDN-hosted copies just fell off the face of the earth, you'd probably still have a dusty fork somewhere. Worse case: you go digging through your browser cache. It's certainly good to know
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by bulatb 14y ago
I've found the web becomes much better when you make Flash click-to-play. YouTube especially, since the videos don't start until you ask.
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They did what?
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by bulatb 14y ago
I prefer to eat the rabbit holes.
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by bulatb 14y ago
The key to being a good developer is to be able to find your answer as quickly as possible without learning anything else. That might be the key to short-term productivity, but I think "good" is more complicated. I'd rather take a s
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by bulatb 14y ago
Whups! Thanks.
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Obligatory bookmarklet: javascript:void(document.location='http://5minfork.com'+document.location.pathname)
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by bulatb 14y ago
The comma operator takes two expressions, evaluates them both, and returns the second. In this case, (1, eval) becomes a reference to the eval function and then gets fed 'this'. Since the call is now indirect, the eval happens in the global
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by bulatb 14y ago
Bookmarklet to toggle it: javascript:(function(){var style = document.getElementById('toc').style; style.display === 'none' ? style.display = '' : style.display = 'none';})()
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by bulatb 14y ago
This is a nice list. Thanks for the alternatives.
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I'm not sure about this. The very first link I clicked had some iffy advice. The "Function declaration" section makes an unsubstantiated claim that function declarations are an antipattern, neglecting to mention the significant difference i
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by bulatb 14y ago
Closures and plain anonymous functions solve different problems. Using one when you wanted the other is a good way to cause problems you don't how to solve if you don't know the difference. The SO thread has some good examples. A common one
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by bulatb 14y ago
Maybe something like this? http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php