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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I think it's fair to say an environment that is so quiet you can hear a pin drop (i.e. ideal movie theater quiet) is not going to be welcome by most, for the reason you cited. But the same effect can occur in a noisy place as well, if a sin
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
To be fair, the author kept the post short. I didn't find any fluff in it. Perhaps as the guy on the team that's constantly interfacing with managers or clients, you don't find any value in a quiet atmosphere. How do the rest of the folks o
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It's pointless to think of it as "wrong" for third-parties to web-scrape. Entities will do as they must to survive. The onus of mitigating web scraping, if in the interests of the publisher, is on the publisher. As a startup developer, thi
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
As far as the blog article goes, IMHO the typos are irrelevant to the expression of the idea of "begging"/being more transparent about marketing. But with regard to the marketing effectiveness of the /yourhelp/ page, the typos are problemat
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The power in this article is not in accepting responsibility in general, but in accepting that a degree of self-interested rationality governs the actions of all people, including those on your team whose efforts run counter to yours, under
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This is a blog article from one of the researchers on a project to bring more immutability to C#, among other things. The paper the article references is well-summarized in a C# context here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/12/Immutable-CSh
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Imperative + Functional == :-)(bluebytesoftware.com)
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Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C#(infoq.com)
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"now I have to look at the upper-left corner". Surely this takes first-world problems to a new level.
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This is especially true and contradicts the generally accepted opinion repeatedly expressed around here, that knowing about programming in general is enough to be an expert in any technology in a short amount of time. The reasoning then goe
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Sign Language Science Lexicon Broadened by Researchers, Crowdsourcing(nytimes.com)
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It's hipster journalism. Why are you fighting the reality? ;-)
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The only reason that's necessary is because the game advances you regardless of finding the keys. This is because there is much reduced expectation of commitment from the gamer, and if they can't find the key and get stuck, there's greater
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
tl;dr - patterns are seductive, and without understanding yagni, they strongly tend to be counterproductive.
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His goal was to create a sustainable relationship with her, and therefore he proposed a new set of expectations of her in consideration of his household cash flow. She consented to them; she wasn't forced to. This resembles a typical "live-
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Agreed. To get around this but keep the per-field editability, a toggle to make all fields editable should be available, as well as expose an atomic aggregate save trigger.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Completely agree. My 2 cents: Since an individual can only play one part at a time, rather than showing two scrolling parts, two pages of the same part should be shown. Initially, page 1 can be shown above page 2. The playhead is the only t
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I believe he means that if you cannot use an architecture where you push presentation logic to the client as JavaScrpt (aided by an MVC-like framework like Backbone), serve all HTML/CSS/JS statically, and serve data dynamically through a we
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The primary gain is faster feedback, but this can also reduce server load. In general, you should never trust user input, so you should validate on the server. (In particular, not only is it possible for users to manipulate/disable your cli
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Simplest explanation: Backbone is an object-oriented library that can increase maintainability for so-called single-page applications. E.g. it's often used in an architecture which pairs a dynamic web service with static HTML templates, CSS
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Yeah the keyword stuffing nauseated me. But I found the empirical information interesting. I agree it doesn't feel "hacker-ish" per se, but despite the name, Hacker News has a broader following that includes startup people, i.e. the busines
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
IMHO it's not close at all. First, the namespace shouldn't be counted, leading to a huge difference in sheer length. Second, the words in the BCL name, more or less, form a comprehensible noun phrase. Third and anyway, this is the longest
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
"Complaints"? Wha? Did we read the same article? Except for a few asides, he wasn't complaining. He was explaining.
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Well, I personally agree with you, but my significant other likes to view social network content through it in certain circumstances, particularly at the end of the day after getting in bed. But that's the saving grace of Flipboard; it's th
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
The whole point of Flipboard is to add a magazine layout to existing content. As important is the fact that Flipboard allows you to choose what content sources to apply their layout to. In this regard, it leaves the whole issue in the hands
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Pinterest works for the average Pinterest user primarily because it fits into the metaphor of the site (items pinned on a bulletin board) and therefore enhances the information architecture of the site. This acts as a functional multiplier
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I didn't take away from the article a denouncement of all criticism. Perhaps I read into it what I believe, or was more charitable/liberal in interpreting/extrapolating the intended meaning from the clumsy wording. Either way, my take away
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Uh, the only people you trust to work on production code are those that think their work is "ugly" (which, in the context of the article, was a euphemism for harsh, one-sided, a-hole ripping condemnation)? Oh, but you cited evidence. Assu
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Either way, there is more to it than Dale Carnegie.
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Honesty comes first, definitely agree. I don't think that was ever questioned. What was questioned was delivery. Delivery is important because it overcomes the innate skepticism of many people (which can also have emotional and professional

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