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by hnmcs 12y ago
summary / teal-deer: Provocative author says: you never need semicolons in JS, so don't feel you have to use them. Free your mind from the cargo cult. Provocative author admits that you do need them to get something like this to p
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Semicolons in JavaScript are optional (2010)(mislav.uniqpath.com)
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Thanks for the heads-up. It is a good way to get more, relevant information quickly. But given that the link is an hour-and-a-half long, and that article is quite brief, it would be more accurate to say that he's filling in some of the
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by hnmcs 12y ago
At this time, these few options are available: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc >Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Gotta love the fact that there are open pull requests. https://github.com/git/git/pulls
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Worth mentioning here, again (I learned of it from someone in the Screeps thread a week ago) is the Brood War API project: https://code.google.com/p/bwapi/wiki http://bwapi.github.io It let you write C
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Using this automobile production analogy, I would say that a full-stack tech engineer is analogous to an autoengineer who understands all levels of the production, with some direct experience in the types of relevant manufacture processes o
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by hnmcs 12y ago
I'll get a thread-ball rolling by linking to source code. Some day soon I may be doing something like this myself. https://github.com/fivedogit/hn2go-chromex https://github.com/fivedogit/hn2go
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Ah yes, RFC 1149... http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers >On 28 April 2001, IPoAC was actually implemented by the Bergen Linux user group. The
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by hnmcs 12y ago
Hell yeah, Ilya Grigorik. https://www.igvita.com/archives "A word to the wise is sufficient." When he speaks, it's quite often relevant at a quantum level beyond your average tech post or presentation.
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by hnmcs 12y ago
>Kurt Gödel left a large amount of unpublished writings and notebooks and preserved correspondence. These writings were cataloged and organized by his first biographer, John Dawson, for a heroic two years. Those of highest scientific and
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Genecoin: back-up your DNA in the Bitcoin Blockchain(genecoin.me)
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Automated Transactions: Turing-complete Byte-code Instructions for Blockchains(ciyam.org)
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