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by jrajav 14y ago
> Hmm, I found some of the criticism unfair. E.g. the example with "baz = foo->bar(3);". Yes, "bar" could be a number of things here, but that's why variable naming conventions help. Then why must variables have static types?
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> But there are disadvantages to: smaller components means dealing with failure at a much finer granularity. I am really curious why you see this as a disadvantage. At my current job, I've had the experience of moving from a relatively
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Yes, but it breaks usability slightly - it overrides the back button.
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> To address your other points - you can get a recursive reference by simply assigning your function to a variable, `var f = function(){ f(); }`. There's no need for named functions for that. > (I don't consider hoisting a benefit -
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by jrajav 14y ago
The memory leak issues you're referring to are old and have been fixed. They may be an issue if you are writing code that must support legacy IE, and then only in specific cases. However, if that's not you, then there's no reason not to use
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Other way around - because of braces and many other issues brought up when you try to take advantage of Automatic Semicolon Insertion, that is frowned upon.
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See my edit.
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The first one will be hoisted to the top of the function (the whole declaration), the second one won't (the variable will, but not the function expression itself). EDIT: To clarify: All variable declarations in Javascript do indeed get hois
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by jrajav 14y ago
This answer references Chicken Scheme, which compiles to C - I'm curious, is there any work on a Scheme that compiles to LLVM? (A brief search didn't reveal anything that's been updated in the last 4-5 years.)
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> Anyway, I always appreciate feedback. If you actually mean that, some candid advice: - Lists are good for enumerating points but not as the entire medium for your work. They don't scale well. After more than a few points, especially i
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Even disregarding that, this is kind of a fluffy article. I expected more from a top 5 spot - Is there something special about this blogger? (And not that it matters, but this and the last two articles of his appear to be self-submitted, an
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Perhaps a Chromebook would work great for a Javascript or Dart developer, but what about C++, Java, or Android? Or even Go? I'm curious how well Google dogfooding Chromebooks would work out.
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I didn't downvote you, but are you seriously suggesting that all you need for arbitrary development is a nice-looking, syntax-highlighting text editor? Leaving aside the fact that Brackets itself is relatively immature. It may work if you u
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I wonder how well Ubuntu would handle high DPI? (Honest question)
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Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say that they no longer support IE7 (or apparently IE8) going forward with the new version, 2.x.
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Yep, you're partially right: http://imgur.com/vFTvFTP However, it's worth noting that it works fine in IE8 if you have it set to IE8 Standards mode . ( http://imgur.com/GEuyx8X ) I'm sure that, like me, you had it set to IE7 Standards mo
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Huh? When is modded NOT better than the default? Why would you even do it otherwise? The issue is that modding/hacking is questionably legal and often dangerous for your console or its software (whether by the mod/hack's nature or because o
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I can confirm. Perhaps this is a bug? As per the C99 standard [Clause 6.7.5.3: Function Declarators, point 7]: A declaration of a parameter as "array of type" shall be adjusted to "qualified pointer to type", where the type qualifiers (if
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by jrajav 14y ago
This is one of my favorite articles of pg's and falls pretty squarely under "Minimalism: Best Practices": http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html In general, practical minimalism not a complicated notion; Just make a conscious effort to simpli
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Would the CPU really be the bottleneck for HN?
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If you do, please make it configurable to be a normal app as well as a menu bar app. I don't like menu bar apps that do not actually need to display some sort of persistent notification or control, and there may be others who feel the same
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Pretty sure the biggest "gotcha" for people is squares consisting of multiple smaller squares. Unless you've encountered problems like this before, it's not intuitive to consider the 2x2 or 3x3 squares (and they might even miss the 4x4). Th
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I think you're reading too much into it - the point actually is the puzzle. Some people find it really fun to have their mind challenged, even in small ways like this. It's the same idea as picking up a sudoku every day. The reason that s
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> And that's completely ignoring how HORRIBLY BAD a simple majority vote is. It essentially guarantees a 2-party system. Yes, personally I think this is a much more important issue than the electoral college.
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I did it manually. It would be easy to automate though, it was fairly methodical - Go through his posts in the AMA's timeframe, click through the Context link for each one and copy the immediate parent, make the whole parent a link to the s
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Bill Gates' AMA(gist.io)
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I too found that to be pretty dubious advice. I try not to recommend people any books or tutorials unless I've seen it and it's clearly a good beginner's resource or I personally found it to be invaluable when I, myself, was starting out
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Well it's not up to date, but it's not wrong either. It says "Largest known ... as of July 2012"
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This isn't exactly related, but it's very easy to justify keeping a tube TV around if you're an avid gamer, especially with older games. Even LCD and plasma TVs made for gaming and low response times still have some amount of lag, just due
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This sounds quite a bit like Objective C.

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