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by hasenj 12y ago
> Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit. That's decidedly not true. Per your example: > Otherwise the only murderers in jail would be professional assassins. The people responsible
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by hasenj 12y ago
Technicalities aside. They're still making money by helping people "pirate" stuff. Assuming ads on their site do actually generate revenue, and that revenue gets forwarded to them. Though I kinda expect the average piratebay
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by hasenj 12y ago
It's also worth noting that `bind` is not all that special; it simply returns a function that calls `apply` and passes the `this` object you specified. I generally think of `this` as an invisible (sneaky) function parameter. It can be
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by hasenj 12y ago
I don't get it. How is this different from going under a shade?
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by hasenj 12y ago
I'm more interested in measuring abilities relevant directly to software as a profession (or craftsmanship), such as: how well can you architecture a system to solve a complex problem?
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by hasenj 12y ago
I think we can learn from some other (not-so-obviously-related) disciplines. The game of go[0] has a ranking system where players progress from 30kyu (complete beginner) to 1kyu, then 1dan to 9dan (very strong). [0]: http://en.wi
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by hasenj 12y ago
I used to believe that. It's why I picked up coffee script. I thought, the less there is to type, the more you can focus on the problem rather than the code. I found out I was wrong. The redundancy actually helps. There's somehow
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by hasenj 12y ago
I love this idiom. I also use it in Javascript.
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by hasenj 12y ago
But can any lisp dialect do: a < b >= c ?
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by hasenj 12y ago
That's what Einstein argued for, and it's what Bell's inequality proves to not be the case. I actually remember seeing a Youtube video of Susskind talking about how "FTL" communication is a hack to try to force the
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by hasenj 12y ago
He already mentioned it kinda: flexibility
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by hasenj 12y ago
Interesting history. Is there any link (wikipedia?) talking about that event?
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by hasenj 12y ago
Sure they are. The decision process is so complicated, if you were aware of every step in the algorithm, it'd be slow as hell!
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by hasenj 12y ago
> At the end of the experiment and after they woke up, participants had no memory of the words they heard during their sleep, though they recalled the words heard while they were awake very well. So not only did they process complex info
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by hasenj 12y ago
I experienced sleep paralysis a few times. What bothers me about it is not that I see monsters (I don't) but I that I feel like I'm not breathing .. and as hard as I try .. I still can't breath. That's why it feels like
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by hasenj 12y ago
In some parts of suburban Canada, many pedestrians don't bother paying much attention to the road; they just assume all cars will stop for them!
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by hasenj 12y ago
I was in Damascus around 6 years ago, and I noticed that most major downtown intersection are basically "shared" roads for cars and pedestrians alike. In my head, I was making a joke about how North Americans should learn "co
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by hasenj 12y ago
It's not really very slow. It took me about one year to learn English when I arrived to Canada (I was 16).
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by hasenj 12y ago
> not using flash cards because sometimes contextless learning is not ideal would be throwing away the baby with the bathwater No, that would only be the case if one decided to stop learning the language all together because they think t
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by hasenj 12y ago
No, I did not mean that the grammar is more important. What I was getting at is that it's not the individual words, but the context in which these words are often used. If you look up in the dictionary, there are about 6 different ways
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by hasenj 12y ago
Ah, but the word for X in this context is not necessarily the same word you should use in some other arbitrary context.
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by hasenj 12y ago
If you want to order breakfast, you can memorize things from a phrase book, or you can just carry the phrase book with you. And yes, of course, what I said was with "mastery of the language" as the goal in mind. You might have a p
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by hasenj 12y ago
1. Flash cards are boring as hell 2. Memorizing a bunch of vocabulary does not help you learn the language. If anything, it might be a hinderance. Bear with me here. The main obstacle in learning a language is not the acquisition of vocab
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by hasenj 12y ago
It solves the buzzword-compliance requirements.
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by hasenj 12y ago
Heavily used? Probably. Does that make it great? Not necessarily.
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by hasenj 12y ago
> We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple code and it solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. No offense but I completely disagree. I don't know what problems does backbone solve. > Bu
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by hasenj 12y ago
Keep in mind it's only the "Top" professional players who have spent hours every day for several years studying the game. The best "Bot" when I last checked was 5dan level; at this level it can probably beat > 90
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by hasenj 13y ago
Is it just me or is this just a poor re-implemntation of half of knockout.js?
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by hasenj 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is beyond crazy? Youtube was acquired for less than $2B (and not even in cash!)
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by hasenj 13y ago
Contact info? The application form on your website doesn't have a space for a message/introduction/cover-letter.

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