joelangeway

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by joelangeway 15y ago
The article only names the OO and functional paradigms. The reader is led to believe there are just two.
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by joelangeway 15y ago
But the ingredients can't just mix because those classes don't know about each other! They are good self contained classes. We need to employ the "mix ingredients" pattern. Why is the cake cooker tied up with the representation of atmospher
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by joelangeway 15y ago
You put that excellently. Indeed, Hacker News was and should be a place where social proof is not desired.
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by joelangeway 15y ago
I'm not sure I care about comment scores, but I am concerned by how much other people seem to. Relying on scores to choose which comments to read is like getting all your news from the most watched cable news channel. I might prefer that th
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by joelangeway 16y ago
My greatest hope is that the makers of node.js will continue to abstain from language changes. Some inconvenient syntax is a small price to pay for the confidence that node.js isn't going to get turned into another regurgitation of Java mee
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by joelangeway 16y ago
The author takes care to point out that it is worth examining the extremes of I.Q. but does not examine the extremes of wealth. I wouldn't begin to argue that those earning even 100 times the median income are necessarily taking advantage o
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by joelangeway 16y ago
It's not because it is the same language that is in the client or that so many novice programmers all ready know that is important. It's that it is a much better programming language than any in wide use, developed by people more interested
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by joelangeway 16y ago
The purpose and meaning of the hash-bang convention is that there is a "real" url that corresponds to this "javascript" url. That has a lot of advantages that the post does not mention.
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by joelangeway 16y ago
You'll find more scientifically oriented articles about this subject if you call it nootropics. Here is another personal (not me) anecdote about it which comes off quite differently. http://www.imminst.org/forum/topic/36691-ten-months-of-r
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by joelangeway 16y ago
Sorry, I'm not a physicist. I just like listen to lectures while I work. Please post here if you find something though.
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by joelangeway 16y ago
"I confess that something in me tightens whenever I hear a scientist pontificating on issues that belong to the arena of philosophy or metaphysics. I will gladly listen to Stephen Hawking when he holds forth on matters of theoretical physic
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by joelangeway 16y ago
Nothing in this is new or unexpected. See Ripptoe and Kilgore's Practical Programming for Strength Training for a comprehensive guide in deciding how much weight to lift how many times.