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by jpeterson 15y ago
This was my first thought as well. If he instead initializes: var result = ""; and checks for: if (result.length === 0) { ... in the third conditional, is there still a bug?
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by jpeterson 15y ago
The same pattern is widely used to test whether an array-like object is empty. Since a length of 0 is also "falsey", it evaluates as false when the array has no elements. A typo in this case would result in the tested array always being "em
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Yea, the author really means creative and motivated people.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Pretty cool, but what exactly qualifies someone as a "philosopher", and how is that relevant to this product?
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Really? This is what we've come to, people?
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by jpeterson 15y ago
I know a few people (who shall remain nameless) who collaborate and check each others Why would someone do this for a free online course that gives no credit for a degree? I mean, the whole point is to learn, not get the highest grade. I
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Well, finding out that I've no chance of making the top 1,000 in the class or any opportunity of a job is certainly a swift kick in the huevos, 2 days before the final... :(
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Can someone fill me in on why the regular solarized theme is not proper for Emacs 24? I've been using it for a few weeks, and it seems to work fine.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Too late. HN has basically become reddit.com/r/programming in the last year or so. The glory days are over. You have to admire how long the quality remained high, though.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Funny, I was thinking the opposite -- the Clojure code is far more readable.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Every time I read something like this, I feel a certain sense of regret for idolizing this man--alas, no one will ever say these kind of things about me.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
#> psql mydb
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by jpeterson 15y ago
I can think of a few reasons: * Some of us are actually comfortable with and enjoy programming in JavaScript. :) * Are we absolutely sure as of now that adding the CoffeeScript abstraction will not introduce performance regressions and/or s
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by jpeterson 15y ago
How is this a defficiency in the C# language, exactly? Sounds more like an issue in the current version of the .Net CLR to me.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
iTunes does not support FLAC.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Yes, and they're also useful for helping the interviewer feel "smart".
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Yes. Better still would be a proper health-monitoring load balancer like HAProxy.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
I'm a little confused here. Wouldn't client DNS resolution performance really depend on your local DNS cache (e.g. the DNS server at your ISP)? Nobody going to your site will hit Route 53 or MediaTemple's DNS servers directly. These only se
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by jpeterson 15y ago
This might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen on Hacker News.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
If you're going to try to convince someone that our universe has multiple parallel futures, you should be ready to explain how that relates to our lives. Isn't it a bit presumptuous to demand that any theoretical truth about the nature of
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Is this still Hacker News, or have I traveled to a strange and horrifying dimension where we've become Reddit? Enough Airbnb posts already!
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by jpeterson 15y ago
If Microsoft can't bring it traffic... who can? Facebook. Even though IE is still in the lead (for now), everyone "googles" and "facebooks" their way through the internet. No one "microsofts" anything.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Well, people are down voting me, but everyone ripped the developers of Diaspora apart for basically the same exact flaw in an early alpha release of their system. The Google fanboyism seems to be running strong here.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
This is a pretty amateurish mistake, actually, and I'm shocked that it was in production at Google. Proper authorization checks are web programming 101.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Alternate link, in case these are taken down: http://pastebin.com/9vjfkigY
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Isn't this true of basically any post (the author expressing his belief)?
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Don't be "that guy".
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Oh man, please tell me I'm misreading you, and you don't actually store your users' usernames and passwords in a cookie.
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by jpeterson 15y ago
Been a few years since Latin class, but I believe it would be more like: JOURNAL PAYWALLS DELENDAE SUNT
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by jpeterson 15y ago
I imagine part of the use case is "quickly and easily getting back to a snippet within one of those old files", in which case the tarball and archive method won't really work.

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