geraldalewis

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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Yay - strict mode early errors make CoffeeScript even more beautiful. Thanks @jashkenas!
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I used to be a smoker. Every year or so, I'd quit. I know some people have an easy go of it, but I was Mark from Trainspotting, watching that baby crawl on the ceiling. Every time I started smoking again, I'd curse myself, until I realized
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> It can be a prefix ‘this number is positive’ operator where it operates on a single number. `+` in this context is the "Unary + Operator" which coerces a value to a number via the internal `toNumber` method of the operand. It doesn't
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> We scan the left side of the code when reading Exactly. Sometimes you want the predicate muted so the consequence is highlighted. I agree that it seems counterintuitive, but I'm pretty sensitive to code flow and it works for me person
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> Verbally Readable !== Quicker Comprehension -> is Coffee-Script's greatest trick. When I first started poking through the codebase, it would take me ages to 'sound out' each line. Coffee-Script is succinct not simply because its s
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> it's extremely difficult to participate, I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate? > and I don't want to need to spend a bunch at Wikipedia reading countless rules trying to figure that out You don't want to spend time
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> why not use the 'foreach' or iterator paradigm? I totally agree, and I do use when it's available in a given lang I'm working in/it's not overly cumbersome (some implementations miss the point).
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I've been experimenting with being a joyful and optimistic programmer, and I feel a real difference when I code. At first, I started with little things, like leaving semicolons out of my JavaScript. I understand the subtle bugs that may man
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
This is an embarrassing low point for Hacker News. Trolling, exaggerated headline on the front page. It takes almost no effort to make a reasonable counterargument, so I sense that's not the point of the submission.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I usually use example.com for this. ... I should probably stop spamming them.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
jashkenas is one of the most prolific and talented JS devs around (CoffeeScript, backbone.js, underscore, docco are among his credits). I can see why he and other library producers would want as much flexibility in the language as possible.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
This is true for the most part, but there's a subtle edge case. Within a nested function, variables used in loops will redeclare within the inner function: -> outerVar = "outer" -> # this will output "undefined"
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Yes, though never enable strict mode (in JS) unless you know exactly what it does. `use strict` causes some subtle semantic shifts that can be easily overlooked. For example, there's no dynamic binding between the `arguments` object and a f
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> do kids stop learning that things can break, and be changed Maybe kids lose the expectation that software should break.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
GitHub's code search lacks regular expressions, which makes it far less useful than Google Code Search.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Thanks! I hadn't come across the foot-gun meme before ( http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/footshoot.html ).
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I'm looking forward to discussing this, but in the meantime, can anyone parse "Similarly, I think we can find a way to repair “this” binding foot-guns with softly-bound “this”." for me? I don't understand what "binding foot-guns" are.
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
On Safari, one only sees "WEB BROWSER [meme image] Y U NO FILEREADER?!"
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Why would ones ability to "spin stories and slag off others" be exclusive to their programming ability? I almost want to argue that they're demonstrating some form of communication skills, which may translate to more readable/maintainable
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> good code written by some one else Exactly -- someone else . I don't have a formal Computer Science education. I'm juggling reading the K+R C book, Knuth's Literate Programming , Odersky's Programming Scala and the Ruby "pickaxe
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
In the 11 years since this article has been published, Flash has changed, HTML has changed, and web developers' philosophies have changed. I don't like the tone of the article, but I have to hand it to Nielsen for creating something that li
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I appreciate that you asked in earnest, but the original comment conjures images of "trip-and-fall grifts" and "playing the long con". I usually look at big things like this in terms of where the money's going. But in the context of 'get un
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
1) I read the 'The company later had its employees comment on my blog with fictitious postings' out of context. It's not referring to `Jonathan's Card` but to the `Pay it Forward` campaign. Just pointing that out since it seems like other
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
There was an episode of 'The Office' where Jim took note of any time Dwight wasn't working. Dwight stops using the restroom in favor of a bottle beneath his desk. He keeps his eyes open while sneezing to keep them focused on his computer sc
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
> What time do you go to bed? 10pm, usually, and asleep before 10:30 (I've been using the K&R C book + melatonin as a sleep aid recently). 6.5 - 7 hours of sleep seems to be enough for me at the moment . > Do you ever drink,
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Most days* : 5:00am - 10:00am * OS development * puzzles * articles * work on personal projects 10:00am - 6:00pm * coding for my day job 13hr/day * 5 days/week = 65hrs + anything I can sneak in on weekends I aggressivel
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
Slightly larger: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/09/neanderth...
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
ActionScript 2 & 3 have a bunch of features being proposed for future versions of JavaScript: constants, parameter defaults, rest params, proxies, weak maps, binary data, private/protected/internal access modifiers. Also has an optional
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I was at a bar with a friend the other night, and he took a picture using a flash. I took one by holding very still so I could take a longer exposure without the flash. His image accurately recorded the scene in detail. Mine recorded the fe
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by geraldalewis 15y ago
I can set my Canon to take a picture after a 10 second delay, so that I don't have to be in the presence of my camera to take a picture. Canon does not own the image, simply because it activated the triggering mechanism.

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