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by ef4 14y ago
My single favorite thing about CoffeeScript seems tiny, but makes a huge difference: the chainable existential operator. It's gotten to the point where I keep trying to use it in Ruby and getting annoyed that it's not there. Rails at least
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by ef4 14y ago
This is essentially the same argument that people try to make against disclosing security vulnerabilities.
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by ef4 14y ago
I think that this is a stretch of the term "purely functional". The relevant property is actually immutability , which looks nice. While immutability and functional programming often go together, they aren't the same thing.
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by ef4 14y ago
> it's probably a requirement if Bitcoin is to be taken seriously as a safe medium of exchange for business purposes Bitcoin is just an alternative to cash. It doesn't aspire to be anything else. Businesses generally don't transact in l
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by ef4 14y ago
I don't sense any dark connotation for the word. I've seen it used most often in a pretty value-neutral way to describe any group of people living outside their country of origin. These days most diaspora are composed of economic emigrants
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by ef4 14y ago
I'm still wondering if there's a Macbook Air with a retina display in the works.
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by ef4 14y ago
Yeah, the whole Stack Overflow family of websites blocks EC2. Other examples include Yelp and Bank of America.
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by ef4 14y ago
What annoys the crap out of me isn't objective C, it's XCode. This looks worth it just to have an XCode-free toolchain.
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by ef4 14y ago
Since I have a bunch of EC2 nodes anyway, I route my own traffic through one of them when I want a VPN (mostly for a little extra safety on untrusted wifi). It works great until you realize how much of the web blocks access from EC2.
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by ef4 15y ago
The thing is: school is nothing like the real world. It teaches you how to deal with school. School is a very weird, twisted little society where none of the work has any real point, there's no source of purpose other than pure social app
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by ef4 15y ago
Save money. Invest it well. That's it. Most people in technology are earning significantly more than the median income in their region. If you can learn to keep your spending near median, you end up with a sizable cushion. If you can save 1
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by ef4 15y ago
The advent of social networking can actually help make this stuff easier for normal people. The hardest part is managing a web of trust. If you can automate building your web of trust on top of existing social network connections, you can g
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by ef4 15y ago
Because the actual law as written excludes someone not born in America from becoming president. Obama was born in Hawaii, so he passes. Musk was born in South Africa, so he doesn't. It would take a constitutional amendment to change the law
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by ef4 15y ago
You're missing the point. It's actually written into the American Constitution that the president must be born in America. I don't think the above comment had anything to do with his capabilities. Merely the practical difficulty in becoming
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by ef4 15y ago
You can't talk about sensible naming without also talking about scope. When a variable is only in scope for five lines, it's perfectly reasonable to give it a really short name.
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by ef4 15y ago
> I just think being passionate about one subject to the exclusion of everything else is dangerous, no matter the industry or lifestyle. Probably true. But you don't get to be Mozart or Van Gogh by being well-balanced. ;-)
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by ef4 15y ago
The only reason this whole debate exists is that there are lots of us who love programming, and would be doing lots of it whether or not it paid. This naturally makes 501 types uneasy, because it leads to unfavorable comparisons.
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by ef4 15y ago
(3) Cost basis matters whenever you sell an asset, whether it's a house or a stock or whatever. You can get sucked into partnership cost basis calculations simply by buying certain mutual funds that are structured that way. (6) Diverse acti
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by ef4 15y ago
That's a bummer. I was planning to rely on them soon. Any links to more detail?
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by ef4 15y ago
Yeah, agreed. Writing good source code despite not liking to read source is about as likely as writing a great novel despite not liking books. And like reading books, it only became enjoyable when you reach a level of fluency. Sadly lots of
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by ef4 15y ago
It's way too early to know whether you're really at a disadvantage. That's just your lizard brain freaking out. Your biggest risk is failing to execute. Both you and your competitor have a thousand ways to screw up long before you have to w
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by ef4 15y ago
Try getmail. I've used it to suck down a very large amount of mail.
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by ef4 15y ago
The difference I see is that this author isn't asking for anything more than a little bit of useful static text. No meaningful code changes, just a tiny snippet of plain old HTML will do the trick. That's dramatically easier than trying to
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by ef4 15y ago
> There aren't enough people without Flash for it to be a concern. That's not really true anymore, given the 200 million iPhones kicking around.
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by ef4 15y ago
Well, there are some pretty good reasons beyond faith to think that there's no practical upper limit on human wants. First, there's the drive for status. No matter how rich everyone is, demonstrating that you're slightly richer (usually to
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by ef4 15y ago
Increasing productivity is ultimately good. There are always more unmet human needs and wants that can absorb all that new productive capacity. So there's no reason to believe that underemployment is a permanent situation. To the extent tha
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by ef4 15y ago
I just switched from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3 specifically because it cuts Rails startup time in half.
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by ef4 15y ago
If you didn't take the author's advice and read [Lockhart's Lament]( http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf ), go do it. It's worth it.
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by ef4 15y ago
I'm surprised to see the complaints about call quality. In recent years I've found the call quality to be really good. It helps if you have a dedicated headset. I'd much rather criticize their UI design. The latest OSX client is an abominat
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by ef4 15y ago
For one thing, the regime has been a fairly rational actor that does what's necessary to stay in power. You need to look at what they do , rather than what they say , which often has more to do with domestic politics. There's no doubt tha

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