justinlau

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by justinlau 15y ago
It's a new low for Microsoft to use MSDN as a corporate mudslinging soapbox.
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by justinlau 15y ago
I would like it if HN included a short description field, so that I'm not clicking articles with opaque linkbaity titles like "Stop fucking coding", and "You're killing yourself".
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by justinlau 15y ago
"Beauty, usability, and performance aren't mutually exclusive concepts on the web. It's just that most clients only care about the first one (until the site has already launched), and most designers don't have enough knowledge of the second
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by justinlau 15y ago
TRWTF is that this a site like this already and is hillllarious : http://www.thedailywtf.com/ Just kidding. I suppose there's a niche for shortform "sighs" too.
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by justinlau 15y ago
Exactly my reaction!
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by justinlau 15y ago
Investing yourself in the topsoil of shiny new technologies instead of sending roots down deep will set you up for rapid obsolesence. My CS program taught the latter, and it's served me well for almost a decade.
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by justinlau 15y ago
This too. It's much too easy to lift source from somewhere else, or hire somebody from India to write code on your behalf. I generally don't trust anything that I can't verify firsthand. Stated experience gets a guy in the door for the inte
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by justinlau 15y ago
I can't believe how many people here are averse to the idea of demonstrating coding ability in an interview. Github doesn't reflect the amount of time that somebody put into writing that code. It doesn't reflect how long it took for them to
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by justinlau 15y ago
I, too, would love to see a list of questions that I should avoid asking in interviews. :)
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by justinlau 15y ago
Getting responses about those projects isn't interesting. By now all the answers you will give will essentially be committed to rote memory, so the interviewer won't be seeing any actual thinking going on. It's also hard to gauge which cont
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by justinlau 15y ago
When you eliminate the reblogged duplicate content, that stream would just be a trickle. ;)
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by justinlau 15y ago
The search results are a hell of a lot better than they were a year or two ago. Content farm results, gone! Thank Jebus.
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by justinlau 15y ago
Awesome. Good times, good memories. Lots of my BBSing was done on slower modems, though - it would be cool if you could render them as an animated GIF with regions slowly typing into view... :)
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by justinlau 15y ago
Complex carbohydrates and fiber rich foods won't spike your blood sugar (and subsequently your insulin levels), so you can last for longer without eating more food.
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by justinlau 15y ago
You can't totally trust your own code, either. Look at all the buffer overrun vulnerabilities that have been found over the years.
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by justinlau 15y ago
A lot of the listed services are redundant. I think I could hit 99% of the same functionality at half the cost using just a subset of those products.
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by justinlau 15y ago
It's not the old code that I'm talking about, it's more like newbie programmers not being fully aware of their limitations. They might put up code that they think is hot shit but is actually laughable to experienced people. Or maybe that's
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by justinlau 15y ago
Most of the JS development that I've seen happen is done by people holding their nose and refusing to properly learn the language's idioms, or by people that wish they could be writing in another language that abuses JS as a glorified bytec
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by justinlau 15y ago
I disagree with the push for newbies to overshare on Github. Some of the code I wrote when I was learning how to program in middle school was completely awful. I'm pretty happy that it's not used as a representative sample of what I am capa
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by justinlau 15y ago
I'm surprised that you're surprised. Read the comments, it's pretty unambiguously spelled out here.
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by justinlau 15y ago
I don't think Dan shares a direct financial stake in the targets of his punditry like MG, MA, and SL do. Money makes for a powerful conflict of interest.
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by justinlau 15y ago
Good piece. I think of Arrington, Siegler, et al. as the Swift Boaters of tech journalism. They just throw FUD everywhere and they never clean up after themselves.
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by justinlau 15y ago
What's this now?
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by justinlau 15y ago
I do agree with the main thrust of article, but also think he and Michael are big hypocrites for complaining about it. TC is and was the Fox News of tech - all controversy and sensationalism, zero real discourse or educated insights. Th