dmethvin

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by dmethvin 13y ago
This is similar to the "kill Hitler" time travel joke [1], it's easy to say things would be better but all we know for sure is that they would be different. Instead of `char` we'd have strings that were `struct` and we&#
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It's not ironic at all, it's the intended consequence. Thoughtful, in-depth, well-researched articles are not only more time-consuming to write, they're more time-consuming to read and that's not what a lot of people wan
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by dmethvin 13y ago
In plenty of companies I've seen people get off with warnings for at least their first few offenses of sexual harassment, being drunk or stoned on the job, and abusive language towards others. Yet here is something the execs should hav
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But a lot of databases have to deal with people's names. To paraphrase an old saying, "I don't care why I'm in the database, as long as they spell my name right."
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Read the article, there's no way to specify "optional closing tag depending on whether a `src` property is present" so therefore it's manditory. You can, of course, write the parser to do it, but there isn't a way t
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by dmethvin 13y ago
I don't have the ability to downvote today, but please take this to Reddit.
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Something like they found a SQL dump file that shouldn't exist, looked at its creation date, inspected the log files (e.g., web server logs) and found network activity indicating it had been sent somewhere bad. Or they saw some unusual
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by dmethvin 13y ago
I think the Amazon example was being used as an example of the "directional cone", not preloading.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
As a startup, you should also use this information to help decide your company's own risk/reward ratio of pursuing a customer. I worked in a B2B startup, and when we tried to engage larger businesses we ran up against this "t
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> He doesn't mention anything at all about networking ... It was a blind spot for Gates and Microsoft in the 1980s. He wasn't alone, of course. People like Marshall McCluhan had laid out a vision for it years before but Gates w
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Even better is LogParser, which lets you do SQL queries against just about any data format you'll find in a file on Windows. It's been around for a decade and continues to be improved. http://technet.microsoft.com/
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by dmethvin 13y ago
In any airport I frequent, this would not be worth the money. Some garages offer free parking for 30 minutes for pick-ups, but by the time you park, go through security, eat, and return you would owe at least $4. Then there's the time&
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> The APIs seem to be designed with the assumption that all your code will be using jQuery. Again, not true. For example, the `this` in an event handler is the actual DOM element, not a jQuery object. Whether you handle that directly wit
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> The problem with jQuery is that it's an all-or-nothing approach. The way it wraps native DOM nodes means it keeps trying to pull you back to using its inbuilt utility methods. Not true at all. You can do a custom build and leave o
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> Also, last time I checked jquery uses "querySelectorAll" for that fancy $("selector") syntax, which is slow as hell with every possible browser compared to "getElementBy*". Not true, and has never been tru
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More to test than you thought. That just broke more than 20% of the Android installed base, since Android 2.3 doesn't work with classList.
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Android 2.3 is the problem more than IE<9 for many developers at this point.
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If you've got some ideas a ticket at bugs.jquery.com would be a great place to start, with whatever analysis you have. Remember, however, that many of your "comparable" test cases are making assumptions that jQuery can't
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Every Open Source project needs people. Find one that is doing things you are interested in and take a look around for things to do. Be sure you like the vibe of the project as well, do the people seem like folks you'd want to hang out
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> entirely caused by the javascript engine I've profiled a lot of web pages/apps and this hasn't usually been true in my experience. Occasionally JavaScript is the culprit but that is more often to be due to really bad O(n
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Generally, this happens through simplifying assumptions. For example, let's say you need to often check whether an element matches a specific CSS selector. That's easy with `elem.matchesSelector(selector)` but the browser has to a
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I had the fun of programming a this machine at the University of Virginia during the 1970s, and the Grishman book linked there was our textbook. It's a very pleasant and entertaining read. The key to understanding the architecture is t
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As I understood it, the basis for their system was that each customer's account contains the actual current balance (remaining value) at any point (any given day). If you charge $10/year for a service that's 2.739726027 cents
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> why would you invest a ton of money into quality photography and then cover it up with a watermark I can't speak to Google Shopping, but Amazon requires a high-quality image before you can list a product. So if you spend money o
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Win95 had preemptive multitasking. Win 3.1 had cooperative multitasking. The "multiuser" aspect of Win95 wasn't secure at all, it was more for letting multiple users have separated settings (e.g., browser bookmarks). However,
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If you know anything about big companies and PR, you would know that much of what he says is true. They do indeed monitor what various media outlets say and create an "enemies list" that will be starved. Even big and influential m
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Perhaps this could be retitled "Having cake and eating it too: No good options." Big companies want technologies they can invest in that will remain stable and supported for a decade or more. Hell, many of them are upset that XP i
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2880823 http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/11/12/security-a...
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There aren't a lot of good reasons to use `eval` and `with` in production JavaScript. Two wrongs don't make a right, even when you use them on the same line of code.
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You haven't provided enough information for anyone to give you advice about what might be the problem. Perhaps you live in a state that has its own exchange (e.g., Kentucky or Maryland). Or maybe there is no data for your area yet. Try

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