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by leepowers 14y ago
If I had to summarize this blog post in one phrase it would be: work the problem not the person . The act of solving the problem changes the person. The major exception to this is intent. When a person isn't interested in solving the probl
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by leepowers 14y ago
The key thing when working with engineers is to give them a problem to solve - but don't tell them how to solve it. As a programmer I relish the challenge of problem solving. But I hate being told how to think. In this case I was part of
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by leepowers 14y ago
Interesting. Though I wouldn't want to include the entire Google Maps API just to get a nice array helper class.
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by leepowers 14y ago
My first thought was "overriding the default Array object is dumb". But it turns out Array.js doesn't overwrite JavaScript's built-in Array objects. Instead it's an array-esque Object: var arr = array([1, 2, 3, 4]); // An Array.js "
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by leepowers 14y ago
Transparency is definitely called for. Especially for a use case that's getting a lot of attention. Heroku's lack of transparency is what caused this problem in the first place.
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by leepowers 14y ago
This quote from Broder is telling: This evaluation was intended to demonstrate its practicality as a “normal use,” no-compromise car, as Tesla markets it. [1] The problem is "normal use" for gasoline engines doesn't map to "normal use" fo
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by leepowers 14y ago
This policy is just common sense - it applies to bank tellers, the gal minding the till at a coffee shop, the checkout grocer, the gas station attendant, etc. When someone attempts to physically steal from your business do not escalate . T
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by leepowers 14y ago
This is an interesting way to coax contextual metadata from senders. However, for certain senders I will always respond promptly and thoughtfully, regardless of message formatting. Senders such as friends, family, clients, etc. Which make
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by leepowers 14y ago
No one should be influenced by PHP's ad-hoc language design. PHP is an idiosyncratic, programmable API for web apps - it's not really a proper programming language. More pidgin than high elvish.
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by leepowers 14y ago
Cool, love it - the multi-byte support and baked-in validation is awesome, going to play around with this.
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by leepowers 14y ago
My ignorance may be showing, but this article seems a tad hyperbolic. As mentioned by others Lisa Loeb also had a #1 (nearly 20 years ago!) while she was unsigned. Is Macklemore really a harbinger of things to come? Or an outlier, an aberra
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by leepowers 14y ago
Administration and faculty should care about students and they should listen to their students. If a service outage occurs and effects thousands of students I have no doubt faculty is going to be made aware of it - regardless of who is resp
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by leepowers 14y ago
Civil disobedience is illegal by definition. DDoS attacks are illegal. Marching down the middle of the street is illegal. But are these acts immoral?
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by leepowers 14y ago
I'm not a member of any movement, Anonymous or otherwise. The point I was trying to raise: civil disobedience is disruptive by nature and will inconvenience and annoy - but it is far from immoral. Why should a DDoS be considered any differe
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by leepowers 14y ago
That's insane. There's no way an individual student can possibly vet and approve every decision made by the school administration. If the U.S. president engages is an immoral action do I bear the guilt of his actions because I voted for him
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by leepowers 14y ago
My guess is someone wants to "send a message" to MIT and so they're attacking the most vulnerable, most exploitable part of MIT's infrastructure: a non-critical system run by student volunteers. I doubt it's anything personal against Alex o
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by leepowers 14y ago
An important caveat to the "load scripts at the end of the document technique": The visual elements of a page will render before the functional components (i.e., JavaScript) are available. Imagine a site the sets a custom `submit` handler f