jackcviers

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by jackcviers 14y ago
Api docs do tend to merely provide method signatures, which is great when you know what you are doing, but when you come upon a bunch of generics, implicit parameters, and thats in the docs for the first time, you end up combing through a l
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by jackcviers 14y ago
Cool project, guys! Call me crazy, but I think threading could be implemented via green threading or by utilizing a global event loop to manage script execution. Using pop up windows, one for each thread, might also be a solution that takes
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by jackcviers 14y ago
Fingerprinting can be very useful to you as a user, as well. Imagine that you switch between devices and work locations all the time and you use a core suite of web applications. Fingerprinting could be used, with your permission, to uniq
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by jackcviers 15y ago
IANAL, but: It's easy, "Just Say No." If they really want the information, they'll get it somehow or refuse you employment, at which point they may open themselves for a lawsuit involving discrimination based upon race/sex/creed and/or priv
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by jackcviers 15y ago
Is it just me, or have we become the Evil Empire Reagan warned us about?
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by jackcviers 15y ago
^^^^^^^ This. It is so important to be a great idea salesperson. Even if you are writing a OSS tool, if you want contributors you need to sell the idea.
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by jackcviers 15y ago
I disagree that the paper is obsolete. References and pointers abound in nearly every popular modern programming language [C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, Python, Ruby, EcmaScript, etc.] and in fact are the defining feature of all OO languages. Oper