chrisdevereux

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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Oh, I wasn't really objecting to the content of what you said there... It's open for debate whether or not there's a better expression than "man hours". I just wanted to point out that said debate would hinge on mor
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest "PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Language is about more than sematics...
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Given that this is an unproven experiment that could potentially be misinterpreted as something more, that could a feature, not a bug.
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Might be worth reaching out to the relevant companies once you reach a certain size, as they presumably will patch any holes in their spf records that you bring to their attention.
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Seems like React does (some of) the same stuff as d3, at least w/r/t mapping DOM objects onto data. What does d3 add over React, other than some utilities for producing scales, etc?
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Any word on minimum specs from people who've got the beta? I'm guessing that moving the system graphics frameworks over to Metal will result in the minimum specs being bumped to whatever they've written Metal drivers for.
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
Irony is beautiful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Project
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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by chrisdevereux 11y ago
> Finally, note that all the new enhancements have come without breaking backward compatibility. Doesn't string interpolation break from ES5? "${foo}" means something different in 6 vs 5, right?
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I'm interpreting the "this license will revoke" as referring to the additional patent grant, not the BSD license for use of the software.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Any idea what there is in React that Facebook have or are likely to have Patents over? Presumably, using another React-like framework might open you up to issues with these without the (limited) protection of the patent grant.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
As a side note, 'Hello world' is a fantastic thing to write on the card when one of your co-workers has a kid.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Right observation. Wrong target.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I'm lacking sleep a bit here, but wouldn't NaN == NaN do the same trick?
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Cool. I've always thought that the native view layer is better viewed analagously to how web developers tend to view the DOM: a low(ish)-level API upon which to build abstractions that better fit the domain. Hopefully, we will come to
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Depending on how you define 'Democracy', you could count the war of 1812 (USA vs UK) as two democracies openly fighting. Both had elected legislatures & executives at the time (although both with a heavily restricted franchise
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Do you think that poor social service provision is a more important factor than the the homeless being insufficiently criminalized? If you do, you should probably clarify that.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
> The country is surprisingly politically free for a tiny nation facing an existential threat from a hostile super power that has invaded, attempted to assassinate it's leader, and funded militants dead set on violent revolution for
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
> Countries like the UK and Portugal have high penetrations of NFC-based terminals at physical point of sale. Yet contactless cards just can’t get traction. Anecdotally, NFC has taken off a lot in the UK in the last couple of months. Ver
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Speaking as someone who wasted time and money on an interdiciplinary philosophy programme that existed only for the sake of placating a particular professor (like, they didn't even bother making sure that the timetables were compatible
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I won't bother dazzling everyone with a list of qualifications, but you're really misrepresenting Positivism here. Positivism is really the idea that being empirically testable is a necessary condition for being both non-trivial a
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List of days called “Black Friday”(en.m.wikipedia.org)
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I think Latin America is doing quite a lot better for "petty tyrants" this century than it did for most of the last. The main difference is that the US hasn't been as successful at replacing the uncooperative ones with its ow
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
By entry-point, do you mean a server that you would typically own/rent, or some other server in the tor network that you would not normally control?
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Anyone who knows more about tor than me care to explain how DNS works on onion sites? I assumed that it would be distributed in some sort of way that prevented this sort of thing from happening? Or does transferring ownership require the ow
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
Despite what Fox News may have told you, "Europe" is not coextensive with "France"
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
While we're posting DFW links: http://stanford.edu/~sdmiller/octo/files/GoodOldNeon.pdf Deals with the concept of feeling like a fraud (which seems to come up here a lot), amongst other things. Occasiona
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I heard that if you try to run Java in a Javascript VM, it is silently coerced into almost the right JS code.
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by chrisdevereux 12y ago
I think you mean Facebook/web machine, not phone. Which is exactly what most people used their (not at all locked down, similarly powerful) laptops for before smartphones existed.

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