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by fruchtose 14y ago
See, this is why I'm tired of freelancers and architecture astronauts at companies who just like to make things more complicated. UNITY_VALUE ? Seriously? The agile approach would be to contact the customer, ask them what kind of user stor
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by fruchtose 14y ago
It looks like George Hotz [1] is attending! Judging by his work with the PlayStation 3, I expect him to do pretty well at cracking Adobe Reader. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Speaking of the video you posted, go to 8:43. "I know someone who is working on a Ruby implementation and making very good strides and is not talking about it publicly at all--and I think you'll be surprised when you find out about it." Is
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Somewhere, in a small room in a larger building owned by a gigantic corporation, a SOAP programmer just felt validated.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
The difficulty level is hardly extreme. It is not an unreasonable challenge to learn that writing an array of elements requires opening and closing brackets.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
> There should only be one way to do anything. [...] > There are two ways to make keys. I guess I haven't had enough whiskey yet.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
What's worse is when an author abandons their project, when it has active users, AND when it has active problems. Some projects just need a big sign that says, "DO NOT USE." I learned for myself a few key signs that show when a project is a
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by fruchtose 14y ago
> This could be a little bit invalid because of things like Hangouts... I bet I'm considered an "active" Google+ user because I have participated in a Hangout. Sorry to break it to you like this, but you are an active user of G+. Yo
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by fruchtose 14y ago
> Suggested retail $549.99 What does that even mean? Google doesn't sell the Nexus 4 for $550 or anything close to that.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I found the Broom Groomer on Quirky's site [1], and what do you know?--the product description says, Patent pending . Well, that must mean there's a patent application in the USPTO system! Sure enough, Quirky's patent application, dated Se
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by fruchtose 14y ago
This reminds me of the first of Larry Wall's three virtues: "[Laziness] makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I would also add that variables can be re-declared. Many beginners probably think that writing this code would produce an error: var i = 0; var i = []; No runtime error will be produced, and the script will continue normal exec
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by fruchtose 14y ago
You've been awake for 30 hours. You are far from peak efficiency. Sleep.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
There's no way I would use Codeanywhere if what you're saying is true. In the worst case scenarios, you were given direct, unauthorized access to a stranger's personally identifiable information. What makes you think your information will b
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I can understand your predicament. IMO, this story would be better served by a descriptive headline rather than paraphrasing TechCrunch.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
The headline reads like the author specifically avoided Betteridge's law. However, the TechChunch headline reads at the end, "Could Be The Best Bang For Your Cap Table Buck [emphasis mine--left out of the HN headline]". We have to be care
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Oh, definitely. I write in JavaScript myself. I understand what the author is trying to convey, but both analogies (assembly and bytecode) are wrong in their own ways.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I agree with a lot of what you said, but I can see one area where I can see what the author is trying to say. > How is javascript like assembly? You're right that JavaScript is not like assembly; it's more like bytecode. A number of d
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Good on you for trying different languages! "An old Java convention is keeping the name of the file and it's class the same." One correction, the Java compiler requires the filename to be the same as the public class present in the file.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Great work! This might even have potential for browser-based testing, since mocha-phantomjs runs from an executable; I'd prefer a code-based solution like Chimera integrate with Mocha.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
The userbase would balk. Private subreddits are already a feature. Asking users to pay money for something they currently use for free would tick off power users who have ungodly influence among the users. I think I get what you're talking
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Publisher's website for the book: http://www.manning.com/resig/ You can order it through them rather than Amazon to get the eBook directly.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
That's not the point I'm making. I'm only talking about the temporary payroll tax decrease. His opponents will say that he's raising the payroll tax, when it is really only expiring.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking in American politics. There is no such thing as a temporary tax cut. In the eyes of Americans, there are only two kinds of changes to taxes: cuts and raises. A temporary tax cut is nothing more than
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I've read that malloc(3) will not always return errors when you expect them to [1]. Any comment on this? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4735589
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Yeah, I misread that part when I wrote the comment...
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by fruchtose 14y ago
I'm doing pretty close to what you describe, with a few minor differences. I have a single-page playlist app for YouTube and SoundCloud called Muxamp [1] that runs on Node.js. The site is served as static HTML/JS/CSS right now, using JavaSc
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by fruchtose 14y ago
"I eventually...[was] shocked to discover that I was paid more than [the dinosaurs] were." Freudian slip? I think you mean the opposite going by the rest of your story. ;)
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by fruchtose 14y ago
Wow! Sounds expensive, must be worth it.
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by fruchtose 14y ago
"And what will this money be used for? MS licensing fees for using "Metro" (or whatever they call it now)." At the very least, creating a product--especially on a new platform--costs money. People need to be paid. I am surprised someone in

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