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by mkozlows 10y ago
That's definitely a better example, yeah. I think that it's a very manageable problem -- if your functions are small and compositional in the first place, you're not going to be refactoring your 100-line magnum opus in a majo
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by mkozlows 10y ago
The "problems with callbacks" section of this is loaded with FUD. I mean, the actual problems they list are almost all minor or easily solvable. 1. Repetitive error-handling, because you usually just want to pass it along. Maybe.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
The biggest reason for that is that Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung have designed their own custom cores, rather than using ARM's license-able ones. So most of the phones you see, instead of using Cortex A72, use Snapdragon 820 or Exynos
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by mkozlows 10y ago
I use Cmd-[ on OSX, and it works regardless of focus.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
I agree with you on all of this, except that I don't think this article really relies on Magical ARM ISA Performance Elves. All it's saying is that the counter-theory ("Magical Intel Process Mastery Performance Elves") k
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by mkozlows 10y ago
I mean... "get a paying gig"? Lots of people don't know how to program, but really do need something programmed, so this is a pretty straightforward peanut butter/chocolate scenario, plus you get money.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
3200x1800 is 282 dpi. That's about on par with high-end tablets, worse than good phones (440 dpi or so), and worse than jaggie-free laser-printing (600 dpi, although that's not strictly comparable). Text on high-DPI laptop screens
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by mkozlows 10y ago
As a team, decide how much you care. Some teams won't care much at all, and will follow a "hey as long as it works" attitude. Other teams will be deeply interested in making their code as good as it could be, and will want co
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Legal barriers are not the only barriers. Many companies don't work with a quick-fire model. If you, as a hiring manager, hire a person and then fire them within a month, you're going to need to sit down with your manager and expl
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Of course they're unrelated. The interviewer asking this doesn't expect you to write these algorithms all day, they want to know that you have the basic mental dexterity to figure things like this out. They are, ideally, abstracte
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by mkozlows 10y ago
If you're working for employers who think it's easy to find good developers, you're working for employers who hire lots of terrible developers.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
If you want an ARM laptop, buy one. The reason most people don't is that that they're slow -- the most popular Chromebooks aren't running Atom or Core M, they're running faster processors.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
So the thing is, if you're doing Node development on Windows, you're not going to be running in production on a Windows box, right? So use Vagrant or Docker or some other "run in a virtual Linux environment" thing, which
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Your problem is: 1. Great senior devs are actually rare, so yeah, you won't just have them flowing into your applicant queue no matter who you are. 2. You're not just looking for great senior devs, you're looking for great se
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by mkozlows 11y ago
These discussions are always frustrating, because both sides have perfectly sensible points. From the employers' side: They really really really do get many candidates who cannot program at all. I've been on the hiring side and se
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by mkozlows 11y ago
The Windows version of gVim is much worse than MacVim, if that's a thing that matters to you.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
The point of using Docker on Mac is to ensure that your local dev environment is the same as your deploy environment, and avoid that ever-delightful "well it works on my machine, not sure what's breaking on the build server"
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by mkozlows 11y ago
That's not even true, it's just that nobody pays attention to other things. Look at Windows desktop apps. If you wanted to make a native Windows desktop line of business app in 2000, you would use Win32 APIs. In 2002 or so, you we
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Powerline/Airline is one big one -- the status line in Vim is just a character-mode thing, but with a few extra glyphs (for line number, git branch, and arrows/wedges, most notably) it looks a lot better than if it's using a
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by mkozlows 11y ago
I think "it's hard to read code in a language you don't know." You're fooled on this because so many languages are so similar -- if you know C++, you can trivially read Java and C# and Python, and even languages tha
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by mkozlows 11y ago
No. When you start a transaction, you hold onto the particular connection you started it with, and that connection is busy in your connection pool and won't be assigned to unrelated queries. See for instance: https://github.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
There are libraries that handle database transactions cleanly. See for instance: http://knexjs.org/#Transactions
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Should get better Linux drivers, since the GPU driver will be a much thinner layer.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Just use a Digital Ocean droplet or something; that's what I do, and it works well. I mean, not if you want graphical UIs, but if you're good with Vim and a command line...
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by mkozlows 11y ago
The Chromebook Pixel is new in 2015, and is wonderful. ChromeOS is an excellent, rock-solid OS built on solid technical foundations.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
How on earth are you coding in Vim on a keyboard with no escape key, no [], |\, or {} keys, and a misplaced +/= key?
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Most of this review is basically correct -- it's a device with a good screen and good battery life, it'll be a terrible laptop replacement because Android isn't well-suited for that -- but the stuff about poor touch sensitivi
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by mkozlows 11y ago
It matters for accessibility. Marking up headers as headers, lists as lists, etc. is valuable for people using assistive technology like screen readers. If this post were phrased as "web developers don't know accessibility" i
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by mkozlows 11y ago
There are no useful abstractions that will let you fail to understand how HTML and CSS work.
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by mkozlows 11y ago
It would be basically impossible for React to reach jQuery-like levels of adoption. The beauty of jQuery was that you could take an old, crufty pre-jQuery application, drop in a single script tag, and start writing nicer code immediately wi

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