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kremlin
11y ago
I came up with a pretty good 404 page recently. The company has a logo that features the silhouette a man on a horse playing polo. The 404 page features the same logo with the horse taking a tumble and the polo player being thrown off.
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(i know i'm just responding to myself over and over again but) apparently its the opinion of quite a few that the experiment doesn't have any rule that states that you can't make a script for it. that's fully in line wit
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11y ago
apparently the naive solution for a script is to press the button when the desired second hits, but because the timer doesn't reset immediately, the button is pressed many times automatically. The server can tell that the button was pr
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11y ago
I just read somewhere that they have something that detects cheaters. how does that work?
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11y ago
is it cheating to just put some javascript into the console to check the button timer and automatically click it when you want it to click?
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11y ago
the problem with using it even when you don't have falsy values is that, eventually, you're going to forget that you can't use it when you do have falsy values. You're going to get too comfortable with it, and it's
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11y ago
The article mentions an idiom for iterating over an array. It says 'an even nicer idiom is...' and then it shows it. I just wanted to say that the behaviour of this 'nicer' idiom may not be what's expected - it stop
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11y ago
also it likely disproportionately selects for people who do well in those kinds of situations, which may be completely orthogonal to the position they're being hired for. That being said, I also really like the idea.
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11y ago
this...sounds...beautiful I really enjoyed reading about functions being identified by their hashes, and what advantages that could have.
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11y ago
yes you're right
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11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfsnlbd-4xQ Great, great talk linked to in the article, about using Clojure to abstract and live-code music. It actually helped me to more appreciate a funny episode in Star Trek: Next Genera
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11y ago
Yes, writing tests is easy; however writing rigorous tests ... seems like one of those things that you can't really trust yourself not to say, 'Eh, it's rigorous enough'.
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11y ago
That's an interesting concept - testing the tests themselves.
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11y ago
Yes, I think so.
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kremlin
11y ago
But the question is explicitly about lying about previous salary.
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11y ago
That was extremely funny. Especially the bit about putting the north on the bottom. "But you can't do that."
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11y ago
Your explanation worked really well for me. I now understand what it is bayesians don't like about p value reliance.
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JS Promises Pattern
(flanneljesus.github.io)
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12y ago
Though as the author himself implies, it's not always appropriate to allocate the time necessary to do anything but corner-cutting. "If you say that you don't take this relatively fast road for Linux init scripts, I'll r
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12y ago
In my current employment, the environment provided me doesn't exactly feed commitment, but it at least marginally allows for it. We are soon moving office and the new environment is definitely one of those "the best you can hope f
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12y ago
Calling it "pass by value" without qualifying that, for objects, it passes the reference by value, is very confusing.
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Setting Up a Shopify Development Env for Windows
(flanneljesus.github.io)
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I'm on Chrome on Mac and it's not entirely obvious how to navigate these slides. Going to the link only shows me the first 3 slides by scrolling right. Playing around a bit, I discovered that the arrow keys bring you to the next s
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CSS Flexbox Cross-Browser Inconsistencies
(flanneljesus.github.io)
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That tradition goes back a long, long way. When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken. A great tradition.
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12y ago
Viewing this on Chrome on Android. Being built with bootstrap, it's a bit surprising that the responsiveness of the site is so poor. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/nnG3zgg.png
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12y ago
He also didn't mention giving him time to go to the bathroom.
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12y ago
lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.
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12y ago
sorry, OT -- at smaller screen sizes something in your formatting is breaking words apart. I first noticed on Chrome Android, and then I checked on Chrome on my MBP, and yes, when the window is too narrow, the words get broken but not hyphe
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12y ago
feature request (hopefully this doesn't sound crazily absurd - also hopefully doesn't come across as rude) -- the ability to string saved tracks together. Run TrackA 4 times, TrackB 2, TrackC 1, TrackD 1, TrackA 4 again, etc. And
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