gruseom

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by gruseom 13y ago
I so agree. Whenever I hear people say "changing the time twice a year sucks, we should stop doing that," I wonder whether they mean "let's ruin everything" (stay on 'standard' time all year) or "let&
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by gruseom 13y ago
No, it was a traditional job title that existed before they put it on the TN list. I think, but am not sure, that it would be something like "business analyst" today.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I wonder if Spaniards used to stay up late before Franco changed their time zone in the 1940s. Does anybody know?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Your argument is really that syntax is nothing and semantics everything. I sympathize, but it's not how most people see it. As long as we accept syntax as a significant part of what defines a programming language, "visual language
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15-Year-Old Jane Austen Wrote a Satirical History Of England(openculture.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Blunders(nybooks.com)
4 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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True free market proponents should support private-public competition(theguardian.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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The Metaphysician and the Hole in the Ground(3quarksdaily.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Vermeer and the Threshold(thesmartset.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Those aren't superlatives. We'd need to find something like "wicked" or "sick", but from food. The ones I can think of all come from religion or sex.
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by gruseom 13y ago
You've made this point before and it seems like a good one, but it raises a question. If you don't have a trial period, does that not make it harder to correct mistakes? The barrier to quickly firing someone who (perhaps through n
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by gruseom 13y ago
How interesting that the French use food for superlatives. Do we have anything like that in English? It feels weird to me, so I'm guessing no.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That "substitute 'damn'" quote is damn good, but the attribution to Twain is damn bogus: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/08/29/substitute-damn/ He never said that the coldest winter
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The Enigma of “Blind Tom” Wiggins(blackpast.org)
91 points by gruseom 13y ago|2 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Absolutely. To nearly everyone, the user interface is the program. This sounds like a truism but really is the opposite. It has important practical consequences.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Wow, this is a superb article that resonates with me as much as anything I've ever read on the subject. It practices what it preaches, too. Reading it made me feel the very things it's talking about. I sense, though, that the auth
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by gruseom 13y ago
I love that book. Just browsing through it brings relief to the soul. Imagine if all buildings were alive like that! Alexander's critique of modern architecture is devastating, but his later, hugely more ambitious work is somehow less
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by gruseom 13y ago
Ok, thanks, I get it now. In my case a macro transforms the body of each callback to catch exceptions and pass them back as error args through the callback chain. So in your example, there would be a generated try-catch around the JSON.pars
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by gruseom 13y ago
I don't understand most of this. For example, I don't know why you say that the async library couldn't try-catch every place that an exception might occur (mostly its calls to the functions that get passed in to it). It would
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by gruseom 13y ago
There may be a few, but there are countless more who falsely believe this about themselves. Therefore it is wiser in most cases, especially one's own, to presume that this belief is self-deception. Self-observation quickly reveals how
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by gruseom 13y ago
Naive questions are often the best questions. You'd be smart not to let go of that one. The terms "object" and "object-oriented" mean so many different things that it's hard for any discussion not to run agroun
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by gruseom 13y ago
"Not a net good in this medium" is exactly the right way to look at this. In a more robust environment, your (IMO) true and well-intentioned original comment would not have been a problem.
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by gruseom 13y ago
The correct way to deal with an error in asynchronous code is to pass an object describing the error as the first argument to the callback. Sure, but what if the error is thrown at you as an exception in the first place—which happens a fa
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by gruseom 13y ago
The tell is the angry sarcasm, which releases chemicals of pleasure in the brains of the already-convinced, but turns off anyone else.
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by gruseom 13y ago
nothing more than a rationalization and opportunistic bolstering of his preexisting belief system Whose behavior does that not describe?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Considering how strongly your sources disagree with the OP, I find it surprising that the opposing graphs are not all that far off from each other. The graph from the last article you linked to: http://skepticalscience.com/&
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by gruseom 13y ago
But runtime errors are exceptions, so even if your code doesn't throw them, you have this problem. No?
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Under the Spell of Yoga(nybooks.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I have a question about the async library: what does it do if an asynchronous function or a callback raises an exception? The word "catch" doesn't appear in https://github.com/caolan/async/blob/
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by gruseom 13y ago
Please don't bikeshed in technical threads. One comment on something like this is more than enough; zero is probably better. When a new thing comes out, the discussion should focus on what's significant about it.

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