ender7

30 ms·

301.
by ender7 15y ago
Part of the point of the whiteboard is that it's not a real development environment. Google interviews are usually designed to test how you think, not how well you can place a semicolon. The point is, it's okay if you miss a brace or fo
302.
by ender7 15y ago
Neither are true. Non-blocking evented IO is mostly attractive from a usability point of view: it's much easier to write programs that aren't multi-threaded. It can also use much less memory than a threaded model in certain situations . No
303.
by ender7 15y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. Sorry, I realize I was being silly; the reason I needed this behavior is that I've overridden Backbone.sync to sync to the server in batches (every six seconds), rather than send off a new sync every time th
304.
by ender7 15y ago
The 'sync' addition is neat. Is there any way in Backbone to get a list of all of a model's properties that have been changed since the last sync? model.changedAttributes() only works for the most recent change (and only inside of a 'change
305.
by ender7 15y ago
Once again, the Onion got there first. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0 I will start worrying when companies are legally required to let the FBI trawl through the databases without a warrant. It's hard to make a law against scra
306.
by ender7 15y ago
Slight correction: sucrose (table sugar) and fructose are not metabolically equivalent. There's an enzyme in your duodenum which cleaves the sucrose molecule into one fructose and one glucose molecule semi-instantly. In both cases, your bod
307.
by ender7 15y ago
Since you've been registered here almost two years, I would hope you'd be aware that snide comments are discouraged here, regardless of context. I have yet to hear why you are more qualified to speak on the topic than anyone else, but I wil
308.
by ender7 15y ago
Two things: 1. The author of this article clearly has money on one side of the issue since he's trying to sell a cross-device app development platform. 2. The data he supplies isn't broken down by usage type, so it's a little hard to analyz
309.
by ender7 15y ago
This site is great not only for its recommendations, but also as a list of cool things that I didn't know about but may want to use.
310.
by ender7 15y ago
This is true, but you have to understand that there is a phenomenal amount of talent locked up in Hollywood. I'm not necessarily talking about directors or actors, but camera men, DPs, best boys, set dressers...the list goes on and on. Thes
311.
by ender7 15y ago
The sad fact is that corporations are already deeply involved in this bill - where do you think it came from in the first place?
312.
by ender7 15y ago
I wonder, who does the average American trust more: their Congressman or Wikipedia? (also: Wikipedia can easily put in a line next to the "Call your rep" section addressing this. I don't know about you, but "on hold" doesn't sound very fina
313.
by ender7 15y ago
For a long time I was skeptical that this movie could ever be made, simply because it would be impossible to find someone to play Ender. You need a 11-year-old who can seem simultaneously sympathetic and capable of killing another child. Th
314.
by ender7 15y ago
As someone who is used to SVN and Mercurial, I found this pretty useful. The author's going to have to decide what the intended audience is - people who have never used SCM, or people who are considering switching from another SCM (probably
315.
by ender7 15y ago
My use of the word "immoral" was meant to be within the context of a single society, not with the world at large. My argument is that current US society has created a de-facto class system where a significant percentage of the population is
316.
by ender7 15y ago
It's important to remember that the Finns implemented their new system for moral , rather than competitive reasons. Their resulting academic performance was a pleasant side-effect. This is a critical distinction that even this article seem
317.
by ender7 15y ago
(only mildly related) God, I wish there was a widely-supported standard for animated PNGs. Those GIFs look like they're straight out of the 90s. Yesyesyes, animated GIFs are the devil, but they're shockingly useful for certain tasks such as
318.
by ender7 15y ago
He links to and quotes the same source article one post previous: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/12/07/schmidt However, I agree; given Gruber's track record I expect him to post a correction soon.
319.
by ender7 15y ago
Needs an "I don't know who that is" button. Really fun though!
320.
by ender7 15y ago
...I understand that eval() is dangerous. As noted in my comment. Anyway, what do you count as a "real language"? I assume you mean Java. Which is...fine. But Java is not the answer for everyone.
321.
by ender7 15y ago
- XML and HTML are good ways to structure data...sometimes. Other times, they're godawful. Especially if you're trying to pass data from one piece of code to another piece of code in order to do RPC-like things (server->client, for exam
322.
by ender7 15y ago
Interesting, but it's really not that hard to crash Safari in iOS. We've had to redesign our web interfaces a couple of times to avoid endemic crashing. In general, lots of images + lots of javascript + screen rotation = crash.
323.
by ender7 15y ago
There was a similar issue with older Macbook (and Powerbook) laptops, where certain drives would occasionally refuse to eject a disk. The solution at the time was to insert a piece of folded-up paper into the slot, jamming the disk in place
324.
by ender7 15y ago
One of my favorite things about the web: I just learned three new CSS tricks from using the web inspector to figure out how he accomplished some things.
325.
by ender7 15y ago
Flash deals with this issue by cacheing any object that has a complex filter (like a drop shadow) applied to it as a bitmap. This works pretty well, but can lead to serious memory hogging. Effects like drop-shadows and blurs are notoriously
326.
by ender7 15y ago
I don't really care about profanity in speeches; I think the stronger argument was made by Rob Conery: I'm not opposed to swearing in presentations, or anywhere for that matter. I don't cringe when I read F-bombs nor do I care if you have
327.
by ender7 15y ago
No offense to the banking...actually, you know what, fuck those guys. I'm sure there are a lot of nice people working there (I have two friends who do so), but the average level of juvenile bro-tude and that passes for normal behavior among
328.
by ender7 15y ago
Sadly, the development environment matters quite a bit. - I will miss being able to declare classes using a sane syntax (Coffeescript helps in this regard) - I will miss the optional type annotations, which caught many a bug for me (you can
329.
by ender7 15y ago
This used to be a computer's model of a human being: http://librairie.immateriel.fr/fr/read_book/9780596518394/ch... The iPad is really, really awesome. But. All that's really changed is that they've added an extra finger. (sure there are
330.
by ender7 15y ago
You're certainly correct - sadly, that never seems to matter much to the press.

More ›