mattnewton

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by mattnewton 12y ago
The basis for the argument seems to be that, we do not do as well on international test but produce more cited research. Maybe the problem is that the international tests measure the wrong things from the wrong people? I can't see why
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by mattnewton 12y ago
I find all his digs at javascript funny since, at least the way I use it, javascript is basically an ugly-looking scheme. Javascript is responsible for my 'lisp enlightenment' with the language using first-class functions and clos
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by mattnewton 12y ago
While I don't doubt that they pay more because of the Bay Area, the best developers are worth more money, and I think the best developers tend to flock to the Bay Area for the network effects.
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by mattnewton 12y ago
I agree, I think there are real problems in modern web development, but they aren't in replacing javascript; they should be focusing on ideas like the shadow Dom that make things that weren't possible possible iMO, and leave these
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by mattnewton 12y ago
My silly theory is that this is economically driven- why compete with senior devs in technology x, when you can choose new tech Y and be just as senior as everyone else to managers and recruiters?
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by mattnewton 12y ago
It might be for technical simplicity: this method requires no more work from the site designers, who are often contractors or otherwise expensive, and off the top of my head I don't know how they could do this kind of disabling on the
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by mattnewton 12y ago
I often suffered from that problem with unit tests - if you thought of writing the test, you could have written that case into your code, making it only really useful for regression testing. It doesn't help you discover bugs that are t
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by mattnewton 12y ago
I don't think this analogy is useful. I think understanding the why is important. The plumber knows why you want running water, has seen many homes with water systems similar to yours, and almost certainly owns a home himself. But int
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by mattnewton 12y ago
That doesn't seem likely to me: what features does iOS not have right now, that this is likely to use? It seems more likely if they are targeting chrome only they did it to avoid the support overhead of making it work in multiple brows
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by mattnewton 12y ago
I think the examples shown here don't really show how it can help- the real win for me is if you already have a function to filter over (like "article.isJava()" or something) it becomes much clearer. It also is eye opening to
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by mattnewton 13y ago
Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?
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by mattnewton 13y ago
+1 Internet.
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by mattnewton 13y ago
This. The privacy cost is relevant and not easily quantifiable.
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by mattnewton 13y ago
Who says the cost is purely economic? What is the value of the first and fourth amendments to americans?