clintjhill

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by clintjhill 15y ago
The HTTPS support is required so that you don't get the mixed content warnings from some browsers. It's a must have.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I appreciate the small reference to "The Elements of Style" by Strunk. That book has helped me refine not only my writing but also my software design.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
How about for starters don't do this: <body onload="window.print();">
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Yes - that's not the point however. It's the "hoisting" that is different within those blocks. Firefox isn't hoisting based indirectly on spec. This can be circumvented by not using function declarations and instead using variable declarati
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by clintjhill 15y ago
The question I have (almost always when reading things like this) is what are the real advantages to a language being both static and dynamic? The only thing that I can think of is that you can have a type system, but then ignore that whene
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by clintjhill 15y ago
This is a fair argument to make: "Remove unnecessary layers or complexity when learning new languages." And I also don't TDD when learning a new language - in the beginning. However TDD (when done pragmatically) is actually a great way to d
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I would love to hear why GWT wasn't used more. It seems to me that GWT is not widely used even at Google.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
This will be very interesting to watch. I remember when other IDE tried to setup this up (Visual Studio had a "hosting" feature for a while). Because the tech stack was so "config" heavy it was very difficult to get right in a lot of cases.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I don't know that it required an apology or if he was even really wrong in the first post. The result was his digging into it to figure out the default config included a computationally expensive setup. That's a debatable thing. Not necessa
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by clintjhill 15y ago
It's great to follow up. Especially with such a particular detail. It's also good to have thick skin. HN can be aggressive. But for good reason. I'd be willing to bet this tiny sting will result in more rigor in the future. I know it has wo
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I wouldn't characterize it as "semantic". It is definitely the Microdata spec from HTML5. But it's barely semantic.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I would apply the same methodologies to finding out if your problem solvers are "happy with the solution(s)". There are plenty of occasions where engineers are handed solutions they aren't totally keen on. The same trap can be landed in. It
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Not at all. In fact you should always wait until eye contact. I can't count the number of times I wish I had stared down a boss to make him/her understand that I was drowning in boredom only instead to give a quick smile and nod while conti
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Abstrations are hard to debug, require a learning curve of 2x the original problem and are rarely complete. Thank you for that. I've been looking for this concise a statement to make in debates I've had in the past.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Wouldn't it be awesome if one of these days these kinds of hackers actually did something that improved the world?
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by clintjhill 15y ago
In my opinion, the best part of their infrastructure is their willingness to specialize in languages within each stack. It isn't simply "Java everywhere". "To allow developers to choose the best language for the job, Twitter has invested a
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Was there something particularly wrong about my comment(s) here? Seems I was down voted on all 3.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
I realize I implied "every table or model", and I would always argue for composition the way you describe it. But ... there are good reasons to decompose and expose these things in your API. While maybe not for Public consumption but certai
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by clintjhill 15y ago
You may find that Sling supports you're request here. But to the extent that they are all "lame database serialization" layers, I'd have to say "well - ya". REST is kind of just that. I think that what you're really trying to say is that im
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Content Negotiation is a critical part of REST APIs and it's my observation that most simply ignore or default to JSON in all cases. Good REST APIs allow the client to "choose" the mime type. Without this part of REST - you have no "represe
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Maybe not encrypting text on a page, but possibly to encrypt JSON data to local storage for persistence. Never do this with absolutely private data, but then again.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Good questions/points. I would only respond with that in particular, GWT is more than a compiler - it is as much a JRE as anything. So there is more to it. I personally don't see Google doing much public interaction with the development of
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by clintjhill 15y ago
"Do you want to maintain a compiler? Does anyone on your team have the skills to do that? That ulcer is going to get pretty big while you prepare to explain to the CEO that you now need to rewrite the UI in JavaScript." GWT could be really
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Reading this made me think about the punk movement in music. In the beginning it was about being different. Real punk was anything that your parents and friends didn't like. It wasn't about the kind of music you were playing per se, rather
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Let's not forget though - "I'm just doing my job" absolutely applies here. DPS did not create the laws. They enforce them. AZ is the state where a guy died doing his job in a photo radar vehicle. He was shot by a guy who felt the man in the
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by clintjhill 15y ago
The morality argument is interesting. However killing and abusing is hyperbole in this context.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
If you lived in AZ you'd know that DPS had very little to do with 1070 and in some cases spoke against it.
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by clintjhill 15y ago
Exposing home addresses and wife is uncool. Leave the home and family out of it.
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by clintjhill 17y ago
Since when does an apology get down voted?
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by clintjhill 17y ago
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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