johnswamps

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by johnswamps 16y ago
Your problem is not with setTimeout, you need to learn how to write evented code because that is how javascript works and you're going to encounter this problem in different contexts. Passing in a closure to setTimeout usually suffices thou
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by johnswamps 16y ago
You need to learn javascript the language whether or not you use jQuery. You do not, however, need to learn the DOM API if you decide to use jQuery (which I recommend)
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Hm, I wonder if it's susceptible to clickjacking
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I'm not sure why : has been chosen as the canonical fork bomb function name, but it's more readable with something like resurse() { recurse | recurse &}; recurse
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by johnswamps 16y ago
The story isn't really about yahoo, though. Yahoo is not in the title or the url, isn't prominently displayed on the page, and only mentioned in a few comments. I didn't even realize it was from yahoo until I read your comment and I saw the
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I'm an alumnus of Simon's Rock and highly recommend it. I went in thinking I would get my AA and transfer but I stayed for my BA. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the school. It's technically still considered dropping out of high
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I would enjoy this, but I don't have any particular reason to meet with you guys. Are you looking mainly for people who are interested in photos?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I just completed it, it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes or so. There's no real hacking involved, it's mostly just using a tool like firebug.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Anyone know of a good resource for developing rails 3 plugins? Like the blog post mentions, rails has yet to update their plugins guide so I've had to resort to trying to piece together how it works by reading various posts like this one.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
When I built my PC, I was having a problem hooking up my optical drive so I thought "I just want this to work now, I'll hook up the optical drive later". It's been over a year later and I still haven't connected it.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It isn't specific to wakemate, none of the YC job postings allow comments (unless it's just submitted as a regular story of course) http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
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by johnswamps 16y ago
You're misunderstanding what gonzo journalism is. I encourage you to read some of Thompson's work.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Basically the game is a really enjoyable way of spending hours and hours collecting resources and using them to create giant buildings and structures. It's a lot of fun but you're still sinking a huge amount of time on it. Sure, I had fun b
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Huh, this is funny. I'm a grad student at Stanford and a few months back there was an opening for Mixpanel in one of the job digests that students in the CS department receive. I actually wrote out an application asking if you would conside
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by johnswamps 16y ago
How is this different from their existing book on git? What's the difference between "Pragmatic Guide to Git" and "Pragmatic Version Control Using Git"? I'm assuming the latter is aimed more towards people without version control experience
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Better yet, mount the hard drive read-only (on a different computer if necessary).
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by johnswamps 16y ago
This is a bit tangential to the main point of the story, but I was a student at the school that was torn down the author mentioned. It's sort of an interesting story, you can read more about it at [1]. I think it was mostly politics, it too
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by johnswamps 16y ago
I don't think swombat was trying to argue that. It seemed to me like he was just using it as an example of another plausible, though not necessarily true, explanation for the data. The article says that "Statistics show X, obviously Y is th
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Here's a list of many other proofs for the P vs NP problem: http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Yes, medical school is ridiculously expensive, but what you're saying doesn't necessarily follow. It's not like all their money comes from tuition and once they spend all that money that's it. The medical school might be taking a loss on th
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by johnswamps 16y ago
If you can't possibly wait for the book until November, you can get a beta version of the ebook at http://www.manning.com/fogus/ for $28. Highly recommended.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Can someone with both the iphone 4 and an ipad comment on how the screens compare? The iphone 4 screen is so great that I'm worried the ipad screen will seem disappointing by comparison.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Can someone explain the java/clojure code in the article? I'm assuming the jvm is able to make some sort of optimization because o was set to null which it wouldn't have been able to do otherwise?
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Here you go. Copy paste into your url bar. Only tested in Chrome (edit: apparently also works in safari 5) javascript:var dashes = ""; var num = 20; while(--num) dashes += "-"; setInterval(function() { window.history.pushState("", "", dashe
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's 3 months old. Here's the original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303
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by johnswamps 16y ago
It's not a huge deal in practice in my experience. You could always buy a press that uses filters, such as the aeropress.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Nope, though I can try guessing. Although the material used can have a noticeable effect on the tea (both in temperature and flavor) I would think this is just for convenience. Glass is a neutral material good for any kind of tea and is eas
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by johnswamps 16y ago
This is all spot on. The art of making the perfect cup of tea is fairly analogous: buy fresh, loose leaf tea, pour the right temperature water over the right amount of tea for the right of time, and then enjoy some great tea.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/20/email-files-to-dropbox It's one of the most requested features on dropbox, but isn't one of the "in progress" features.
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by johnswamps 16y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1334187 . Some guy was storing his data on Amazon EBS and it was all lost (not sure how EBS compares to S3 in terms of probability of data loss).

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