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by ef4 13y ago
Not yet, though they do have a version that works with Android over NFC.
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by ef4 13y ago
I wouldn't say they're patronizing, but they don't often portray child characters that have any complexity or agency. That is more rare, and I think it's one reason for Ender's Game's enduring appeal to young r
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by ef4 13y ago
Ah, but how can you possibly know whether the average person is innately stupid and incurious or whether school makes them that way? Anyone who spends time with small children knows that before they reach school age, they are all absurdly
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by ef4 13y ago
But there's no need to wrap every function, just the ones that can be top-level entry points. It's a very small list, if your application is well-designed. Patch setTimeout and setInterval. Register a jQuery ajax prefilter that
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by ef4 13y ago
The author is exactly backwards on the issue of team scaling. Even if I grant his premise that 10x engineers don't exist (which I don't), let's just presume 2x engineers exist. So is a team of four 2x engineers equivalent to
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by ef4 13y ago
The README throws up huge red flags to anyone who has studied crypto. For example, saying you use AES-256 without explaining what cipher mode really doesn't say anything at all about the security of your system. And even if your cryp
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by ef4 13y ago
That's trying to solve the wrong problem. Rather than try to prove the server is trustworthy (which is impossible), make the server untrusted. Which means finding a way to securely, reliably do the encryption on the client. Which would
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by ef4 13y ago
I think the intermediate images are a deliberate feature, at least during Dockerfile development. They serve as a cache of the results at each step, so that expensive steps don't rerun between invocations of the Dockerfile, even if you
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by ef4 13y ago
The author's main point is well-stated and deplorable. As for the ancillary issue of the class material itself being crap: yeah, duh. And it's not just computer programming. You only notice how bad that class is because you have
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by ef4 13y ago
Whenever somebody says "why would you quit such an awesome job?", they have it backwards. The better the job, the easier it is to quit and take a risk on something new, because (1) you tend to have more savings and (2) you are d
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by ef4 13y ago
I agree 100% with the idea that we need to build the next generation web-of-trust so that from the user's perspective it looks like a social networking app/game. Trust grows organically as your interact with others. Our computatio
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by ef4 13y ago
Sure, but the same objection applies to consumer-targeted products. If your product is for "everyone", you may need to spend large amounts of money to get attention.
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by ef4 13y ago
The validity of that statement depends on your historical perspective. To the modern eye, we see radically different type systems and conclude they are as different as night and day. But there was a time when the world was divided into peop
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by ef4 13y ago
In my experience, you have the difficulty backward. It's just fear of the unknown that keeps too many technical people from attempting it. If your product has a demonstrable return on investment, then it is far easier to sell to busine
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by ef4 13y ago
The existence of terribly written queries proves nothing. Because there's also plenty of terribly written code that takes 100 pages to do something simple. In both cases it comes down to people blindly grasping when they don't und
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by ef4 13y ago
We can and we must. I'm glad that Bruce Schneier has now had a chance to view some of the primary source documents from the Snowden leaks, because I trust him to speak frankly and I trust his technical ability. (I'm referring to
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by ef4 13y ago
People sometimes mock the idea of "rockstar" developers, but this is one of the things that separates the merely good from the great. A developer who can jump up or down four levels in the technology stack with ease is an entirely
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by ef4 13y ago
I'm not claiming that we should share completely without judgement . Just that the vast bulk of things people share are easy to judge as innocuous. The Star Wars Kid video is not a good counter-example, because it was never intentiona
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by ef4 13y ago
async.js still suffers the lack of real flow control that the article is talking about. In fact that queue you linked to is a perfect example of a naive implementation with no back pressure at all. The question is: how do you guarantee that
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by ef4 13y ago
I'll grant that it's logically possible. But I don't really understand why people think it's disadvantageous if others can find out whether or not you were cute when you were two years old. I think it has more to do with
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by ef4 13y ago
The author is wrong because she assumes social customs are immutable. They aren't. In 2028 there will be nothing embarrassing about appearing in thousands of online photos dating back to your birth. Because almost everyone will be in
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by ef4 13y ago
You lost me when you put "elegant" and "totally unmaintainable" in the same sentence. Does not compute.
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by ef4 13y ago
Go see these in person at the MIT museum if you ever get the chance. They also have a nice collection of holograms.
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by ef4 13y ago
It wasn't mentioned because that particular fallacy has already been beat to death. Take a look at Discourse or Bustle. They're pure Javascript apps that are still SEO-friendly.
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by ef4 13y ago
Only someone living in the relative safety of a hygienic society would assume the point of that statement is smell . Medieval peasants died from their lack of hygiene.
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by ef4 13y ago
Your contrast with television is astute. People who complain that digital technology leaves us isolated have it completely backward. Digital technology is slowly giving us back some of the interconnectedness that we lost to television, cars
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by ef4 13y ago
"This isn’t about the problems of digital connection, it’s about propping oneself up as more human and alive. By identifying with and sharing the video, we can put ourselves in the protagonist’s shoes. 'I too recognize this! I am
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by ef4 13y ago
Then you should oppose Germany's law, because it would take my kid away too. It makes no distinction. It doesn't set an educational standard -- it simply demands obedience.
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by ef4 13y ago
You're completely misunderstanding the motivation for many homeschoolers like myself. I am an atheist and an engineer. My local homeschooling groups have literally hundreds of families like mine, in which one or both parents have advan
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by ef4 13y ago
You're essentially saying we have no way of judging whether the law is good or not. But there are at least two large bodies of scientific literature that shed light on this question. The first is the psychological evidence that sending

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