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by couchand 13y ago
Did you read the article? They specifically address this: This means it might well be faster from an end-to-end perspective to send JavaScript+HTML than JSON with client-side templates, depending on the complexity of those templates and t
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by couchand 13y ago
If your grandfather's rural town was anything like my family's, it used to have a lively main street. Unfortunately the viability of that walkable neighborhood has been decimated by decades of greenfield construction out by the i
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by couchand 13y ago
This is not the same "surveillance apparatus [that] saw America through the Cold War." It's simply not comparable to even just fifteen years ago. The changes in technology and the self-satisfied attitude of the spooks have
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by couchand 13y ago
It's the same fucking fight, man: the fight for freedom. The fight for human rights and a non-dystopian future for our children. exactly.
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by couchand 13y ago
Yes. It is, after all, Salesforce.
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by couchand 13y ago
"What is Amazon Coins?"
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by couchand 13y ago
Can you reasonably anonymize it?
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by couchand 13y ago
why are there serifs on a font with "sans" in the name?
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by couchand 13y ago
all the deep questions are on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ or even http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/
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by couchand 13y ago
The author never said "government intrusion" he said "blackmail".
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by couchand 13y ago
In my experience pairing works best when it forces you to focus. If you have only a two or three hour pairing session with someone, you're going to make sure you use it effectively. You're right, sitting next to someone all day
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by couchand 13y ago
In a good pairing session, you are almost unaware that there's any social interaction going on. You and your pair are both in the zone, applying more than double the brainpower to the problem. The old saying is true, two heads are be
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by couchand 13y ago
If you've never gotten into the zone WITH a pair you're really missing out. It's a far more incredible experience than doing it yourself, just like many things... ;-)
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by couchand 13y ago
You're right, anything's bad if it's forced on a team or applied dogmatically. (Also I'd edit the last sentence to read proscriptively rather than historically: "Pair programming shouldn't be an iron dictate...
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by couchand 13y ago
Sure, you wouldn't respond well if it was forced on you. But what if you tried it sincerely? What if your whole team said, "this week we're going to try an experiment." Don't nitpick or naysay, just try it and se
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by couchand 13y ago
The interface is simple and clean, their mobile site is lightweight and they seem committed to continued improvements. I'd highly recommend switching to FastMail.
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by couchand 13y ago
Oooh, and also a kind of beer!
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by couchand 13y ago
Certainly a chart should be readable, but I think it's okay to ask for a few moments of careful study. I'm much more interested in a chart that provides some context or basis for comparison, if not with several series than with s
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by couchand 13y ago
But then I have to go to the bank. I'd rather have a chip in my arm.
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by couchand 13y ago
It couldn't, or they'd recognize that G+ is a false positive.
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by couchand 13y ago
Interesting stuff, but definitely a 101-level course. A more in depth treatment would discuss the trade off between non-data ink and embellishment, which is one of the most difficult problems in good data viz. Some more specific thoughts: