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by chris_st 7y ago
You REALLY want to do data validation and permissions/authorization server side. Never trust the client! It's fine also to do client-side checking, but you must do server-side. It's moderately easy with Firebase (haven&#x
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by chris_st 7y ago
Similar in some ways to the ancient "Daleks" terminal game.
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by chris_st 7y ago
The phrase "It's greek to me!" came up at work once, so we asked our co-worker, who was of Greek descent, what Greek people said. She said they use the phrase, "You're preaching a Turkish sermon"!
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by chris_st 7y ago
This is an awesome story. Oh, and in case you're wondering how they did (similar) things in the Good Old Days(TM), let me tell you a story from the late 70's/early 80's. I subscribed to "Cycle" magazine in my y
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by chris_st 7y ago
For difficult subjects, or stuff I might not work on immediately, I go through a book or class and take COPIOUS notes. The idea is that they're good enough for me to use to explain the subject to someone else; the old proverb about &qu
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by chris_st 7y ago
The company I work at has Aerons, and so I've sat in a lot of them over the past twenty years or so. They're moderately comfortable, but ALL of them (yup, all) have broken in some nigh-impossible-to-repair way. Typically, the co
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by chris_st 7y ago
Thanks! Their contribute[1] page has a list of things, including opening issues on their github[2] page. [1] https://exercism.io/contribute [2] https://github.com/exercism/exercism
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by chris_st 7y ago
Cool! It'd be great to have some videos of what it looks like... yeah, I can download it, but it'd be nice to see first.
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by chris_st 7y ago
On exercism.io, learning rust and mentoring people learning JavaScript. Both sides are a lot of fun! Please join in if you can on mentoring... there's a pretty big back-log.
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by chris_st 7y ago
Cool, which languages do this?
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by chris_st 7y ago
I don't mind the font, but the pointlessly narrow column (which makes you have to horizontally scroll the code examples) is unfortunate. Please, I have a wide screen, let me use it.
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by chris_st 7y ago
Downside: Still going over the array multiple times.
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by chris_st 7y ago
They'll learn.
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by chris_st 7y ago
Can we fire the security people at our company who test us for phishing attacks, and then send us emails (with off-company links!) to polls, etc., that are required... and all the "security" in these emails is words like "THI
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by chris_st 8y ago
Wow, this is fantastic -- can't count the number of "free hosting" sites that are disappointing because they don't have a database. Well done! I may try it out.
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by chris_st 8y ago
You might want to team up somehow with HackerNewsOnion[1]. They're fantastic. [1] https://twitter.com/hackernewsonion
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by chris_st 8y ago
Erlang's use case is handling lots of connections simultaneously, and messaging between processes. These benchmarks are all single-threaded, pure computation. Erlang is pretty slow at that (alas).
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by chris_st 8y ago
If you're interested at all in Swing (or like fun and interesting documentaries), the movie "Alive and Kicking" is a lot of fun. Looking forward to learning some day.
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by chris_st 8y ago
Many years ago, I switched from working on a C++ project to one using Java. I was amazed how fast the Java compiled! The downside: I used to use the "waiting for the compiler" time to think about what I'd written, consider
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by chris_st 8y ago
I've used www.slides.com to make and show (pretty simple) presentations, and it's quick and easy for just that. I've seen pb.goandmake.app but haven't tried it yet. There are probably others...
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by chris_st 8y ago
"Mysteries of Pittsburgh" remains one of my all-time favorite novels. Got bored part way through "Wonder Boys" and never finished it. I've read a few of his others, none even a patch on "Mysteries...".
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by chris_st 8y ago
It's simpler to just write code, rather than have to try to set up a container.
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by chris_st 8y ago
It's worth buying her book to read the introduction. It's not on the net, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever read in my life!
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by chris_st 8y ago
That's a great explanation -- I didn't get why it was so funny when I read it originally.
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by chris_st 8y ago
Quokka works in the IntelliJ family of IDEs as well.
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by chris_st 8y ago
> I don't think that these people are that thinly spread. There are an awful lot, it's true. However, there are a lot of projects (including a great many AWS services) that just don't have anything but reference mater
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by chris_st 8y ago
> 122 boards...If there has been a slowdown, Benchoff nailed the reason: poor documentation. I think that this speaks to a problem in the software development world as well. There are N! new AWS services, several times that new things
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by chris_st 8y ago
Patreon has a per-accomplishment tier, used by (e.g.) the "Pepper and Carrot" webcomic[1] to fund each page individually. You might consider that model for features... [1] https://www.peppercarrot.com (highly recommen
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by chris_st 8y ago
Problems with Safari as well.
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by chris_st 8y ago
That's okay, hardly anyone needs to factor prime numbers :-)

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