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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Along these lines, John Resig recently created http://nodestreams.com/ as a way of composing and conceptualizing stream processing. Pretty nifty.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Let's be fair about this. You have a right to mouth off to a police officer as much as the police officer (in this case) had a right to arrest the offender. Neither are necessarily constructive, but simply allow stubborn people to prov
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Getting Excited Helps with Performance Anxiety More Than Trying to Calm Down(apa.org)
2 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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User Growth for Twitter Starts to Slow, and Stock Dips(nytimes.com)
3 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Yes yes, done is better than perfect. However, it helps tremendously for imperfect code to exist in a disciplined higher-level organization. In particular for OOP, this means interface and package/assembly responsibilities should be cl
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
True, but I think he meant give them a chance. His point is that people seem to be criticizing it without direct experience, especially in a case that seems clearly fair on Azure's part to people who have experience with both Azure and
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
"Bait"? Oh geez. First, they have Linux images all available under BizSpark. Second, you act as if entrepreneurs are idiots who don't read terms/considerations of agreements and aren't capable of evaluating costs&#x
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
For partial argument binding, I find myself using an implementation that doesn't close 'this' much more often. E.g. Function.prototype.partial = function () { var fn = this, args = Array.prototype.slice.c
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I would love for there to be some regular program of independent security auditing of major web companies focusing on social engineering attacks. It can be government-funded or privately-funded (companies would pay to be audited in order
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
To get into the linguistic nitty-gritty, perhaps he could have said "elitist strategy". But the point was that Dustin's execution, and the decisions behind it, were based on the marketability of exclusion. The point wasn&#x27
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Lesson learned: don't expect a business built on breach of standards of conduct to be sustainable. Monitoring call records and targeting ads based on them sounds very close to what the NSA has been exploiting in mobile apps (c.f. revel
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Did Big Internet Companies Handicap Startups in FISA Rule Changes?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Not that I have the time to do this, but it would be ideal if something like this existed for multiple services and was run by a third-party. Kind of like http://speakeasy.net/speedtest that speaks the APIs of various strea
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Given that the greatest challenge to JavaScript testing is the browser environment, it'd be worthwhile to mention Zombie.js (simulated DOM) and PhantomJS/CasperJS (V8). Code organization is also important for any large codebases,
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The addition you're recommending is somewhat orthogonal to the article. The update at the end of the article clarifies that all one must do, strictly speaking, to protect against the weakness they describe is to power the computer down
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Down-voter, can you articulate your objection?
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I disagree with this premise, that we necessarily need that "end" state in content consumption. As many things in the real world have an end state as (effectively) don't. I can finish a game of Risk, but I will never finish b
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Whitespace insensitivity and inability to return void in generic contexts are "critical flaws"? Anyway, no one's saying C# is flawless. Personally, I would love the ability to declare immutable graph references.
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A member of our community is missing, help find him(blog.izs.me)
594 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|65 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I don't completely agree but your point is well-argued. I'm bootstrapping my startup in NYC. I've spent over a year focused on iterating from intimate feedback of a slowly growing test group. The core product feels ready for
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Ironically, at the moment the link to their own Privacy Policy page is broken. (I notified them by email.) https://thedaywefightback.org/privacy.html
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Gmail Plans to Allow Google+ Users to Send Any Google+ User an Email(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I wasn't making any comparisons. But since you brought it up, I'd rather have a $50- open source router than a $300 one. Just me. Ironically, Belkin has a decent line of routers that are already flashable. I bought a dual band one
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Belkin bought Linksys, so they're the ones to blame, not Cisco. I'm wondering if there's still marketability in stackable form. Do they even have switches of compatible footprint? Although I always dreamed of the day I'd
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
> pass through a million requests... How does that make sense? As if CloudFlare would honor status codes but not take advantage of cache headers (which in this case stipulated an absurd 10 year expiration).
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Clearly that venue data is valuable to them. Guaranteeing 99% accuracy can be a crucial selling point for 3rd parties. With a subscription-based offering, that data can provide a significant revenue stream.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Thoughtful comment, but I want to point out that your basis is misleading. His essential point goes beyond eschewing formula, to specifically recommending people use a spoken voice style. The rationale that I infer is that when people sit d
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The Mathematics of Gamification(engineering.foursquare.com)
58 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|3 comments
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
And how is the author instituting this knowledge culturally at work? The implied equation of sleep and vacation is far too crude. Mixed in the post is the golden nugget that it's necessary not to burn out. Vacation is simply one very s
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Amen. I would argue that it's not even clear how the market would respond to this, and yet the pro-neutrality camp paint a picture of corporate apocalypse. This seems reasonable to me: Neutrality rules are repealed. Some ISPs begin dis

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