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I've been treating Ember-Data very cautiously, and feeding it carefully prepared data. The biggest irritations involve multi-record commits and validation/error handling. But it's working well enough for my straightforward needs. Still, don
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I interpreted angersock's question to be about diversity in general, and not specifically gender diversity. For me, this is more of an observed relationship (with an overly-small sample size) than any kind of well-formed theory. Diversity o
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I know of two interesting data points here, actually. In the state of Maine, there were 3 programs which allowed high school students to simulate the state government (write bills, hold committee hearings, etc). Boys State / Girls State: Op
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A painful first-hand lesson: If you do a demo for your potential customers, and they say, "That's a great product. I can see how that would be really useful," you can safely assume that you're doomed. Keep looking until your customers are d
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Because women should put up with crotch-grabbing and being licked by strangers? Yuck. I know lots of really interesting people, male and female, who would stay home rather than put up with that treatment. Let's keep the interesting people,
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Well, that's what everybody is hoping for, at least. The worst-case scenario is that the W3C HTML 5 working group goes wildly astray and writes a horrible standard that nobody implements. Remember HTML 3.0? XHTML 2.0? SMILE 2.0? WS-*? Stand
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Looking at my local cable plans, watching Game of Thrones on TV would cost me something like $1200/year, because I'd need to subscribe to digital cable with a mess of extras. And our TV is the worst screen in the house (even my phone has
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This isn't a problem with HTML 5, it's a problem with the Camper site itself. The Chrome developer tools show 202 HTTP requests, including tons of tiny images, and many non-minified JavaScript files. And there's only about 500k of data, s
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I hate to be so cynical on Hacker News, but I think it has some bearing on the business opportunities, so here goes. If Watergate happened today, (1) the New York Times would assign a reporter like Judith Miller to present the administratio
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Well, it's a 3-minute introduction, and it's specifically focused on character mnemonics. Of course it leaves stuff out. But my real complaint here is the notion of a "royal road", an ideal path that works best for most students. This goes
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US clinical trials often involve a second, parallel clinical trial in India, because it's easy to find lots of poor patients in desperate need of treatment. I think that, at least in some cases, this probably works out well for everyone exc
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Eww, that's a nasty bug, though Python certainly isn't the first language to have it. IIRC, Dylan's "init-value" for class slots did much the same thing. But really, this question only tells you whether a candidate is lying about Python exp
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Maybe I'm weird, but I find puzzles to be a turnoff. I love writing code, and I enjoy working through a math book. But compared to coding and math, puzzles feel sterile. I don't get to build anything, and I rarely get the kind of insights I
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I don't enjoy brainteasers. If an interview question begins, "Four people and a goat need to cross a river...", I cringe. But when I'm interviewing, I do ask people for a pointer to their open source projects. And if they don't have open
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C.S. Lewis also wrote an interesting review of 1984 and Animal Farm, claiming "Both are very bitter, honest and honorable recantations" of Orwell's earlier revolutionary beliefs. Interestingly, Lewis greatly preferred Animal Farm. A p
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SEEKING WORK - Remote, with occasional on-site days in Boston, NYC, or general area. I've worked on lots of stuff, including Lisp compilers, robotics, embedded systems and video games. These days, I specialize in quick-turnaround Rails proj
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There are actually 3 major alternatives here, and the article ignores the third: 1) Run on dedicated hardware. 2) Run on EC2, or another "Infrastructure as a Service" provider. 3) Run on Heroku, or another "Platform as a Service" provider.
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This essay is analogous to a mathematical proof that begins "Assume A and not A" and concludes: "and therefore P≠NP." It's not that I disagree with Miller's conclusion, it's just his premise is a contradiction, and thus capable of proving
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Haskell doesn't really do inheritance, unless you somehow get O'Haskell to work on a modern machine. In place of inheritance, you have two mechanisms: algebraic data types and type classes. They work great for many programs, but neither of
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I've interviewed people in the US, and the first time I asked candidates to reverse a linked list, I was shocked by the results. Candidate A had a long track record of success, at least on paper. He was obviously motivated, responsible, and
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As described, this has interesting implications for GPS navigation: The NTSB recommendation calls for the ban the nonemergency use of portable electronic devices for all drivers. When I'm driving in an unfamiliar city, I often keep my pho
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This post is copied from a famous StackOverflow thread, including the pictures: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...
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Stephen Colebourne's original post on Scala was discussed at length on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264849 There were a lot of interesting perspectives, both for and against Scala's design decisions, and I learned a l
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Yeah, the big advantage of Haskell (and Scala) for abstract mathematical code is the compile-time type checking. Normally, I'm extremely happy with dynamic languages, because I make maybe 2 type bugs a year. I mean, it's not that hard to re
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Scala's great, if you have a gorgeous Haskell program and you want to port it to the JVM. Unfortunately, by itself, that may be a niche market. If you want a dynamic language, you have lots of great choices. If you want powerful syntactic a
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First, check the essentials: Are you sleeping, eating decent food, and exercising regularly? If not, you may be neither burnt out nor lazy. Take care of this stuff first. Second, have you spent the last year working so hard that nothing sho
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MVPs force founders to (1) talk to customers and (2) actually ship something. Most early-stage founders I meet are working in a vacuum. They have ideas, but no way to validate those ideas against reality. Mostly, they're just wasting time o
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Yegge says that novices don't like his second example. But I've been paid to maintain compilers written in Lisp, by people who've hacked in Lisp for decades, and I don't like it either: The "compressed" code example is not awful, but it's n
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If you like a robust maple flavor, the best tradeoffs are usually around Grade A Dark Amber and Grade B. These will pair well with a typical breakfast. The lighter grades are useful for some deserts, but they're easily overwhelmed. Grade C
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We're in violent agreement that startups should write as little code as humanly possible. I learned that lesson the hard way. You should test your ideas first. But sooner or later, you'll get a rough idea of what people need, and you'll t

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