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by ender7 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not arguing that a degree is a good indicator of performance. You have to put yourself in the shoes of the person in charge of hiring. If you advertise a well-paid tech position, you will probably get thousands of applications. Yo
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by ender7 14y ago
Unfortunately, "went to MIT" is both easily recognizable and easily verified. "Built a fusion reactor in my basement" is neither of those things. Similarly, "check out my GitHub" has many of the same problems. I'm sorry, but most employers
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by ender7 14y ago
I agree that the price of a college education is too high. I don't see how this justifies the conclusion that "therefore, people should stop going to college and take online courses." Most medical care is overpriced, but that doesn't mean t
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by ender7 14y ago
Nit: it's jarring that when I first mousedown on the control, the value changes. This makes small, incremental changes difficult. Now, if I click on an area of the circle that is far from the pointer, perhaps it should snap. But if I'm clos
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by ender7 14y ago
This was, sadly, a problem long before piracy came along. Hollywood is a famously conservative industry.
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by ender7 14y ago
"Designer" is underspecified. Engineers are, in general, bad at two things: - Designing a product that people want to use. By this I mean focusing the idea, cutting off the extra bits, refining the workflow, making it simple enough for peop
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by ender7 14y ago
Note that attribute selectors have really terribad performance on complex pages; avoid them if you're writing a single-page web app. (actually, most things have terribad performance on complex pages, including inheritance selectors, :nth-ch
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by ender7 14y ago
Many of the quotes in the article suggest that the Sun people really thought that there current system was a credible solution for the mobile space. Anyone who has ever used Java on mobile is going to have a hard time swallowing that one. I
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by ender7 14y ago
Why not just use Unix time (in milliseconds) for your timestamps? You'll have to convert it to whatever your desired container format is on the other end of the wire, but...you're going to have to do that for all of your other data as well.
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by ender7 14y ago
As an ex-Actionscript, now-JS programmer a lot of this resonates with me. After the move, I missed a lot of things - mostly the productivity stuff like type-safe renaming; intellisense; clickable function names. Also the presence of a real
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by ender7 14y ago
The problem with Javascript's prototype system is that it's not a real prototype system - it's a chimera that's halfway between a traditional prototype system like Self and a class system like Java. The result is a system that is fit for ne
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by ender7 14y ago
To everyone raising their noses at these cinema hipsters who doubt the attraction of 48fps: take care. Human perception is a fickle thing and does not always follow the logical path one might expect. Consider the uncanny valley, where addin
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by ender7 14y ago
This is the kind of thing that separates Apple from the rest of the crowd. In this case? A small, but nice feature. But it's this degree of perfectionism that also means that they have the smoothest animations of any smartphone OS, the most
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by ender7 14y ago
I would love to see class syntax in JS. Until then, this is the system I use: var MyClass = classdef(SuperClass, MixIn, AnotherMixIn, { constructor: function() { ... }, publicFunc: function() { ... }, _pr
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by ender7 15y ago
'Window Steam Blog'
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by ender7 15y ago
Every piece of academic code I have ever seen has been an unmitigated nightmare. The sciences are the worst, but even computer science produces some pretty mind-crushing codebases. So, I don't blame them for being embarrassed to release the
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by ender7 15y ago
Is it me, or did the author tack on a new topic regarding the use of && and ||? The fact that they return the controlling operand is quite useful. Consider a situation where you want to check the property of an object, but don't kno
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by ender7 15y ago
Besides the novelty factor (which others have mentioned), his 'paint' version is also much simpler, and therefor much easier to understand at a quick glance. - Large text - Not very much text - A single image - A single visual flo
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by ender7 15y ago
"The authors do a convincing job of explaining why things are they way they are, but fail to explain how we might go about changing them."
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by ender7 15y ago
Unless you do client-side encryption (which is impractical unless you want to manually sync your encryption key between your devices), they can't ever issue such a guarantee. Even if Google promised to never examine your data, it could stil
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by ender7 15y ago
I don't really have an opinion on Windows vs. OS X, but I have been extremely impressed with iOS's graphical performance. It's not just that they have good framerate - even Android can get good average framerate. The amazing thing about iOS
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by ender7 15y ago
This is a great idea for deployment; I really want someone to write something that helps with development. Example: I'm using Coffeescript/Closure/whatever as well as LESS/SASS/Stylus as well as some javascript package system. Whenever I ch
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by ender7 15y ago
Depends on the species of maggot. The good ones only eat dead flesh, effectively cleaning the wound. The bad ones eat everything.
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by ender7 15y ago
Yes. Go to college. The only reason that I'm doing the (amazing, fun) things I'm doing now is because I went to college and met some amazing people. People I would not have met in a tiny town in North Carolina. Things I would not have learn
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by ender7 15y ago
Or possibly they get better compression with a JPG.
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by ender7 15y ago
Almost certainly. You could use another material, such as some clear plastic or epoxy, but the idea is still the same (and glass has the most desirable transmittance properties I believe).
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by ender7 15y ago
I think PG is actually arguing something closer to the opposite of this - instead of property being a natural concept with a single, universal, and unchanging definition, it is something a bit more ephemeral. A smell is valuable property on
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by ender7 15y ago
Yeah, this looks like academic code to me. I've never found an academic codebase that didn't make you want to cry.
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by ender7 15y ago
I've actually grown to like the monochrome treatment of the Windows 7 logo: http://www.seeklogo.com/images/W/windows-logo-C2E55C2526-see... It looks quite nice on the back of monitor screens, for example. The extreme fake parallax in the
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by ender7 15y ago
As a UX person, I have a little secret to tell you: if the product idea is really good, the UX part is really easy . Hiring a UX person isn't going to make your product take off. It's not going to make your users love you. It can make it e

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