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by marrs 10y ago
It's a perfectly fair point. The function keys provide 2 operations each, depending on whether you use the [fn] modifier, so does the ribbon duplicate this functionality or are we effectively left with half the functionality of the ol
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by marrs 10y ago
You're wrong? Muscle memory is not that hard to retrain. I had to do it when I first started using a Mac, on which most of the non-qwerty keys (and some of the qwerty ones too) are in a different location to the standard IBM layout.
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by marrs 10y ago
Map Caps-Lock to Esc?
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by marrs 10y ago
Well having to stretch your little finger all the way to the corner of the keyboard gets pretty annoying when you have to do it all the time, as you do with Vim. Much easier to remap another key close to the home row, and since caps-lock i
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by marrs 10y ago
Yes, but don't forget that you are expected to progress from the lower paid job to the higher paid one, so it should be no surprise that the respective job descriptions will be different for the junior and senior candidates respectivel
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by marrs 10y ago
Maybe?
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by marrs 10y ago
Let me try that again with formatting this time: #define HANDLE_ERROR(label) bool label = false; #define ENSURE(label, pred) if (!(pred)) { label = true; goto label; } #define RESOLVE(label) label: if (label)
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by marrs 10y ago
ObjC is a native language and a direct descendent of C, and powered the phone's built-in apps. JS was provided for 3rd party developers, who incidentally rejected it. I wasn't aware of the SIM card running Java. I guess Java was g
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by marrs 10y ago
I wrote a simple set of c/++ macros to encapsulate this functionality, though it still relies on the dev to unwind in the correct order #define HANDLE_ERROR(label) bool label = false; #define ENSURE(label, pred) if (!(pred)) { label =
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by marrs 10y ago
and promptly went out of business when the iPhone showed up
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by marrs 10y ago
Let me try again: you might not be using Express to develop a website. If you are, install the meta-package, or create one. Now you have your defaults.
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by marrs 10y ago
This is very true and cool shiny new things are hard to counter, mostly because ones instinct is to point out the deficiency in the "innovation", which is often only obvious to you. The best way I've found to counter this is
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by marrs 10y ago
You're presuming that's why they ignored your resume; it might not be. A good recruiter will help you improve your CV and will also ask the employer why you were rejected. It is also worth while including a covering letter that yo
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by marrs 10y ago
that depends a lot on how well they can work together. This is also where good team leaders add a lot of their value.
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by marrs 10y ago
A good place to start is by writing productive code. As part of the development process, look back on what parts of the code are holding you back the most. Perhaps bugs keep appearing in this dialogue, or that list renders very slowly, or
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by marrs 10y ago
Just tell them you have none because you haven't needed to use them yet, and tell them why you haven't needed them yet. It may be because you haven't built complex apps or it may be because you have found your own way of de
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by marrs 10y ago
I have to say, this strikes me as an odd way of filtering out bad developers. jQuery is a time-saving library. It seems like you're presuming that they must lack proficiency in the DOM if they're choosing to use jQuery. Perhaps y
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by marrs 10y ago
In my experience, the developers who fall into this trap of despair almost always do so because they aren't consciously choosing what tools to use; instead they are letting the tools choose them. They see job descriptions demanding Ang
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by marrs 10y ago
and that's how you can use express.js to run a service that uses a different protocol to HTTP. Express is one of the easiest libraries to learn in any programming language. It's certainly much easier to learn than Django, at least
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by marrs 10y ago
clearly you've not hired many developers
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by marrs 11y ago
It's interesting the debate was about "anti-semitism", because so far as I can tell that has become a code the UK press uses for anyone who thinks that Israel may not necessarily have the moral high ground
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by marrs 11y ago
Everyone has been triggered emotionally in a situation. I can't believe that anyone can even get through childhood without experiencing an emotional trigger of some sort. I think we can all relate to this. As for safe spaces, this is f
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by marrs 11y ago
It is? How can something illiberal and constraining be an outcome of it?
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by marrs 11y ago
Now that I think about it, a few years after 9/11 I was in Sweden taking a Swedish course. It was a 9/11, so the teacher thought it would be an interesting topic for the class. Completely out of the blue, I star
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by marrs 11y ago
I think it's increasing because things that are recent naturally progress from things that started in the past. The examples you cite are all post 1960s, which is when a lot of these movements began (political correctness, feminism, an
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by marrs 11y ago
I've always presumed that the point is to encourage the company to spend money and get cash recirculating through the economy, which of course you can further tax through the VAT system, PAYE system, etc.
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by marrs 11y ago
If anyone is falling prey to Simpson's Paradox, it's you. You're the one implying a causation based on those statistics. I'm asserting that there's not enough information there to make any such connection, and I&#x
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by marrs 11y ago
long term, yes, but in the few years after the gun ban, the graph goes steeply up, so I don't know how you can draw the conclusion that banning guns had the consequence of reducing gun crime. And the graph I linked to seems to use the
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by marrs 11y ago
I was referring specifically to the situation in the UK because this is what the GP was talking about. I don't know enough about US culture to be able to comment on the issues faced there. I can only say that US citizens appear to have
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by marrs 11y ago
Uhm, that graph shows the gun crime rate going up directly after the handgun ban, not down. That doesn't say to me that banning handguns reduced gun crime. Here's another graph showing the same thing, and another one below showing

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