jpadvo

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by jpadvo 15y ago
I don't typically mind too much, but this post is misleading. The headline specifically made this sound like it was a working project, not just a photoshopped screenshot. Bait-and-switch is just as bad a form of linkbait as any other.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Thank you! That was very helpful. :)
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Thanks, dilap! That does make the concept a lot clearer. Especially the Haskell-ish typing. :)
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is absolutely fascinating, but I'm having trouble really grokking the principle behind this. I understand fixed points of mathematical functions with numbers, but my mind seems to explode in the transition to functions of functions. Is
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Beware -- this article makes a variety of claims that are not well supported. They are not even anecdotal, they're just out of thin air. Just one example from the first part: "Alas, today’s full-time professional administrators tend to view
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Interesting point. There are probably a lot of variables that would make something like this work or fail. Team size, company culture, the kind of work, and things like that.
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Working Together In "War Rooms" Doubles Teams' Productivity, Researchers Find(sciencedaily.com)
5 points by jpadvo 15y ago|3 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
The fact that this will be offered for credit at accredited universities with physical campuses is really intriguing. Often efforts like this have difficulty getting the institutional buyin that will lead to real change. As a side note, the
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Flagged for exactly this reason. He clearly wants privacy surrounding his health. Let's honor that here, at least.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Good old fashioned HAML is regularly maintained, and appears to have been the inspiration for SHPAML: http://haml-lang.com/ It also comes with SASS/SCSS which similarly cleans up stylesheets, and adds things like variables and mixins.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Thanks ggchappell for the correction. In the future I'll run quotes by snopes before using them.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I think this gets at a key misunderstanding in the post. The purpose of a grid is not to align everything to pixel perfection, but to assist in generating an interface that communicates well and is attractive. Departures from the grid sizin
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I guess saying "main point" was an unnecessary value statement. Different applications will find different aspects of loaders useful. I should have said that discussion missed the point(s) of script loaders...
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This misses the main point of javascript loaders. The idea is that you take all the scripts that are not essential for immediately rendering the page, and tell the browser that it is okay to render the page before those scripts are loaded.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is a really inspiring article. Jason, I don't know if you're able to comment on this or not, but do you have any kind of vocational education projects brewing? > Oh wait, venture capitalists think social media is a better investmen
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I poked around, but couldn't find any articles behind the nagwall. Any chance you could let us know where we can see it working? Great concept, by the way.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
The word "is" is overloaded pretty hard...
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by jpadvo 15y ago
"Garden path sentences are less common in spoken communication because the prosodic qualities of speech (such as the stress and the tone of voice) often serve to resolve ambiguities in the written text." Another random and crazy thought: pe
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by jpadvo 15y ago
The combination of the ambiguous word "is" and the mixed capitalization styles in the title is interesting. When I first read the title, I saw it as: ReadingHackerNews.is_going_to_launch? # false And wondered who the Reading Hacker
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Thank you for pointing out OMeta, that project looks amazingly useful. Especially since it's original implementation is in JavaScript. Which means I can (fingers crossed) easily drop it into a project I'm working on...
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by jpadvo 15y ago
If you use this with Coffeescript, you don't need the backslashes. :)
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That's cool, I didn't realize it was so short - I'll load it on my ipod and read it in spate moments. Don't know what's up with the downvotes. I appreciated this comment and upvoted accordingly.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This bug report reads like a report from an archaeological expedition.
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Ghosts in The Code: vestigial 1998 government backdoor in Firefox(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
7 points by jpadvo 15y ago|2 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Interesting -- so not only does mixing good news with bad like this anger the recipients and cast doubt on the leader, it doesn't even accomplish anything. And thanks for reminding me that I need to read that book.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
A few thoughts on communication... Don't talk about "exciting plans" in one sentence, and "a series of restructuring initiatives, including a significant reduction in our workforce" in the next. Especially when you just worked your employee
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by jpadvo 15y ago
It sound more like he is describing Chrome OS, actually.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
In this case, it doesn't matter that Khan is displacing worse things. These videos are still a dis service to their viewers. Better for people to know that they don't understand history, then to wrongly think they do know it. A little know
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by jpadvo 15y ago
In terms of satisfying the technical demands of the form, yes. But creating a work with evocative punch like this poem has is more akin to composing a symphony.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
"When I read this, I wondered if it was about offering consumers the right number of choices. Cash Only sounds restrictive, while a laundry list of types of currency seems like you have options." (Why did this comment from clarebear get kil

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