dealpete

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   by dealpete 4y ago

   It is a good way to get started with a new language, but you won’t make it to fluency. They don’t have enough content for that.
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   by dealpete 5y ago

   > My only complaint is that I don't particularly like PDF and wish there was an HTML-zip format that could be sent around and the browser did all the rendering work, while the udnerlying data tables are stored in well-defined format
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   by dealpete 5y ago

   There's no real need to know so much math for most professional programming jobs. Math problems tend to be over-represented on challenge sites because they are easy to implement.
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   by dealpete 5y ago

   I'm not sure that plunging my arm down its throat and choking it with my fist would be my first instinct if I were attacked by a dog :)
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   by dealpete 6y ago

   Nice to see this working well on Safari. Web games posted on HN sometimes don’t.
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   by dealpete 6y ago

   I couldn't get it to work properly in Lynx.
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   by dealpete 6y ago

   You have a gift for understatement.
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   by dealpete 7y ago

   My content blocker wouldn’t let me see this site... did I miss anything important?
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   by dealpete 7y ago

   I was amused by this doublespeak: "To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be discontinued."
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    by dealpete 7y ago

    I did some experiments the other day and found to my surprise that Google has by far the best no-Javascript experience of the major search engines. Duck Duck Go could learn a thing or two from them.
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    by dealpete 7y ago

    I just changed my Battle Tag to "FreeHongKong", let's see how it takes me to get banned :D