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What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers(blog.chewxy.com)
4 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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In what sense? DMPs are doing fine in online advertising.
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When I was in the advertising business, one of the core products I created was a brandsafety product - basically preventing advertisers from advertising on dodgy sites. I messed around with algorithms that detected nudity (because big brand
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by chewxy 13y ago
a touch screen is essentially one big button. It hides away all the complexities of a physical interface. The problem with this is people tend to add a lot of extras. I wrote[0] that the internet radio thing cannot be done in the Tesla with
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by chewxy 13y ago
Author here. What did I do?
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> Go is a badly designed language. Wat. FWIW, Go was designed for productivity, not for breaking new ground. In that respect, it has it well achieved. You just need to program in Go for a bit to realize you don't really need classes
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by chewxy 13y ago
Yup. It's also 13A in UK. I'm using 10A as a rough guide - mainly to illustrate the power differences between AU and US. The post has now been updated to reflect your comment. Thanks
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Do you finish said 5 pounds (2.5kg) in about a fortnight or so? Just curious
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Yup. And possibly in a product tent or something. How much did it cost for your to build your version of the Turbo Crazy
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author here - boyter informed me that this was front page on HN. I'm actually seriously contemplating building a rig. I have 3 spare flashes for my camera and my table is a frosted glass table. It should be able to give uniform lightin
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by chewxy 13y ago
I list some my failed startups in my HN profile. Chronologically: 1337Tech(2005) - a tech review blog ala AnandTech. Tear downs, detailed reviews and the like. Failed because we couldn't keep up a schedule edgeyo(2009-2012) - a matchin
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by chewxy 13y ago
Because it's difficult. Count how many steps it takes to generate a public key (opening a terminal window counts as one, answering each gpg question counts as one, moving your mouse counts as one). And then there is the fact that your
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Elliptic Curves as Elementary Equations(jeremykun.com)
63 points by chewxy 13y ago|1 comments
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I just use RescueTime's get focus functionality.
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What are the ages? I think a lot of the problem stems when the girls grow up to adolescents. That's when all the negative societal pressures start to set in. How would you keep this up through their teenage years?
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by chewxy 13y ago
Actually, it is. It is very easy to confuse an object literal and a block in Javascript. In fact, in the book I am writing[0], I dedicate an entire chapter to using this ambiguity to write arsehole code. Here's another example[1] [0]
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Ask HN: Can Gift Economies Replace Traditional Economies when Freelancing?
1 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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Evan Miller has really good guides and tools : http://evanmiller.org Check his site out. Start with How Not To Run An A/B Tes
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by chewxy 13y ago
Backbone for the minimalist? Wat Angular/Knockout is minimalist. I do agree with you on the shadow dom thing tho. React looked fantastic though I have yet to have a proper project that would need it
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Oh, I'm familiar with that. I'm also familiar with the pancake flip algos. What I've never read about before was his attitude to hacking
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OK, so Bill had really modern thinking. I mean if you apply what he said to modern software design, it still stands mostly true. So here's a question - given his understanding of team management, product design etc, how the hell did Mi
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The Switchless Switch – Deconstructing a bad design of a light switch(blog.chewxy.com)
3 points by chewxy 13y ago|0 comments
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I'm on: * Pycoders Weekly (pycoders.com) - not really a mailing list, but well, it's a list you sign up for * Sydney Python * PyPyDev and a few more I cannot remember. I used to be in Python List as well, but that got noisy real q
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by chewxy 13y ago
Been working on a book on asshole Javascript. A/B testing two titles: Javascript Technical Interview Questions[0] and Underhanded Javascript[1] It's cool because the way it came to be was entirely accidental. I was working on much
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by chewxy 13y ago
No. It's not a good introduction to JS. JS is very WTF worthy (I should know, I'm writing a book on how to write asshole Javascript), but the WAT talk is NOT a good intro
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So basically Fetlife?
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That I should actually give myself some credit and that I'm not that bad. I gave a talk on Javascript[0] recently when I went to Malaysia. I thought I did an extremely terrible hatchet job. The audience thought otherwise, and I took qu
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by chewxy 13y ago
I'm so glad I cancelled my Network Solutions account 2 months ago. I discovered they were still charging me for a domain I no longer was interested in. Unlike most other domain name registrars, they actually auto opt-in for automatic
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I've recently started following datasciencelab.wordpress.com as well as your standard R-bloggers and the like
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How very coincidental. This afternoon I was talking to my cofounders about test data generation - and names were one of them. Here are other resources that we found that were helpful: - http://www.generatedata.com/ - http:

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