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Simple types are by value, objects are only by reference - feel free to verify in your friendly local debug console. More than that, assignment of an object is also only by reference which is super useful and great potential for spaghetti c
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Don’t get me wrong, I actually love Javascript. I have written code in quite a few languages but JS is the one I am most productive and happy in by far (within the area of network services and web apps that I work in). It has also been very
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It is true that C is capable of those thing by virtue of being capable of everything, including writing a functional Javascript engine. But you have a choice. You can have strict typing in C, you can pass structs by value and most C program
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If it helps you, great. I’m happy enough with plain JS, thanks. ;)
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When you have reached the stage of mud-ball it is already too late. ;) With the appropriate amount of skill and discipline, however, this stage can be postponed for longer than the life of the application. Typescript is absolutely not requi
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It probably does apply to all languages, but I prefer to speak from experience, which in my case is mostly JS. Architecture and the related abstraction is definitely the hardest thing about programming in my experience, and what really sepa
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It is not difficult to implement all those features using plain Javascript, in fact I would recommend it as a great learning experience. What is difficult is doing it in way that is maintainable over a long period of time. The nature of the
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Real Attack Stories: Online Payment Center DDoS(devcentral.f5.com)
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Unfortunately it is written by someone whose technical ability far exceeds his people skills, which are essential for a library module that developers can safely depend on. This is doubly unfortunate because I very much share his views on b
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> Decorative or not, for example, I can't understand why the British don't behead their royalty and be done with it. As long as we have a Monarch, our PM can never become President. Even though the power of the Monarch is theor
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"checkm8 doesn't allow law enforcement to decrypt the phone, but it does allow them to rootkit it with 30 seconds of unattended access. Once it's unlocked by the user they'd get everything they need." That sounds li
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I use Vue.js old style without any compilation for a reasonably complex app and it’s pleasant enough. Node.js backend uses Pug for templating, each template includes a script template file. These template files are built with Make and load
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This is very bad and dangerous advice. Please don’t try to learn and practice advanced energy arts from books and the internet. At best you will waste your time, at worst you will mess yourself up. Source: 15 years of practice under instruc
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Makes me think of this: https://unbreakableumbrella.com/product/unbreakable-walking-... I own one and it’s a great umbrella that I have only ever used for conventional purposes. :) Now I just need to learn this Kunfgu
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Structured JSON logs to Elastic Search and local disk. ES gets “info” level, disk also has “debug” but only 2 weeks.
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There is also the simpler "Isha Kria" guided meditation available online: https://www.youtube.com/embed/K4hCvdDn7Zc (important introduction) https://www.youtube.com/embed/wHnl_XugJyE (in
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> This is a frustrating belief It is not a belief. It is a realisation that came from 15 years of inner work, for which I literally travelled the world. But if you want to play the victim and wallow is self pity that is your right - it i
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> Telling this is like telling "Just believe in God". It is nothing like it. Believing or disbelieving actually means you don’t know, but are not accepting it as that. If you know something it is useful, if you admit that you d
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Life does not ask “why?”, it only asks “how?”. Just enjoy being alive! :) Looking too hard for meaning, even if you zoom out a little to the context of our solar system is a sure way of getting depressed. The meaning of life is to experienc
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Except, TFA talks about renting a server rather than running your own infrastructure. ;) Sure, with AWS there is less work to do (if you have the skills to set it up in the first place, or it’s £££ time) but TFA is right in that you get muc
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Good luck finding a Cloud Engineer for that money to manage your cloud-based infrastructure. ;) Because it’s not going to manage itself, not if you are doing anything remotely complex. And even if you are not doing complex things, DYI is on
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I would certainly question his advice to go to Malaysia - the Chinese community there has been subjected to increased discrimination over the years.
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I don't think it's complex at all. The scoping rules are very simple. Block scoping just added another piece. The difficulty is that there are many simple things like this to learn and to combine in a safe and maintainable manner
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No, otherwise I would have written it that way. ;)
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I would say JS is simple, but it’s not easy. :) I love the language - it is earning me a comfortable income and I am very productive in it, but it requires experience and iron code discipline not to let it bite you!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30414955
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This is a very important distinction to make. Success is external: it is a certain set of arrangements in your exterior circumstances. Happiness is internal: it is a certain state of your mind and your emotions. Because success is external,
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The National Forest is one such organisation. https://www.nationalforest.org/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Forest_(England...
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No, it really is that simple, if you are taking about a “website”, not a “web application” or some sort of “platform”. Learn to do it by hand or you will forever be dependent on tools. VSCode or Atom is what everyone seems to be using but t
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My advice is based on my own experience, so obviously I think it is true. It is my job to know a LOT about putting content in users browsers (from TCP protocol level up to the HTML) but I still think that GitHub pages is too limited for any

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