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871.
by nnq 12y ago
I'd like one message to come across to all child-prodigies and precocious geniuses: You're not a "rare natural resource", "human capital" or any other such demeaning term. You're not responsible for solvi
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by nnq 12y ago
> People prefer to debug a run time stack rather than deal with compile errors ...probably because most popular languages give you compiler errors that sound like "#@#E WTF @#@$ WTF2x @#/&^( WTF3x..." whereas a stack t
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by nnq 12y ago
How true and ironical. The author manages to prove exactly his inability to think logically by misunderstanding what Block was saying. And then he goes on being reactive instead of providing any meaningful arguments, even against his stra
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by nnq 12y ago
'subroutine signatures' is such a basic and expected feature that it isn't even named in other languages. People just assume "it has to be there"... This is what makes people run way from Perl nowadays. I recently t
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by nnq 12y ago
...expensive?! Maybe when you compare it to free. But for such a crucial piece of infrastructure, this looks like very cheap, IF its friendlyness is backed by SQLAlchemy-class code quality. The fact that there exists good free software ou
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by nnq 12y ago
I love redbean, it saved my butt once, but it gets lots of it's power from doing things "the PHP way", it makes linting and editor/ide autocompletion impossible, there is no one place you can look to find the part of th
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by nnq 12y ago
> It essentially decompiles the generator into its bytecode using the dis module, and then converts the bytecode into an AST. Uhm, anyone knows what are the performance costs of this?
878.
by nnq 12y ago
Let me guess, a new OCD-suffering designer has joined the team? :)
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by nnq 12y ago
> but I really doubt there is much of an advantage to teaching your child Depth-First Search There is a huge advantage if you can teach it to him in a way that he can understand it, not just memorize the algorithm, like the unfortuna
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by nnq 12y ago
> this manifesto seems built around the idea of minimizing communication Of course, because communication is expensive (as in time wasted, brainpower wasted, decreased focusing-ability etc.). But I think they get it wrong with meetings
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by nnq 12y ago
> “There is so much to learn and produce and improve that we should not spend more than a dribble of time living as if we were in Eden. Grandchildren, keep trucking.” - Richard Freeman, of Harvard ...somebody shoot this guy. Please. Wh
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by nnq 12y ago
Am I crazy thinking that we as web developers should NOT HAVE TO have to care about this? It's Google's and Bing's and Yahoo's problem to go build decent spiders that run multiple versions of the most recent web browsers
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by nnq 12y ago
It's obvious the guy needs some help to help him "pull out". Whether it's a friend, a psychologist, a psychiatrist or a "mystical" experience, he needs something. There's no point criticizing him, it'
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by nnq 12y ago
My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this: Step 1. Buy CC subscription and install what you need. Step 2. Look for a good patch/crack that makes everything work ofline, and that still allows you to up
885.
by nnq 12y ago
Nice, didn't know about all that happening in the Clojure universe. The scary part is that now your view code is tied to the structure of the HTML. The logic gets brought up in the code, where it belongs, but so does a lot of markup st
886.
by nnq 12y ago
Please, the big problem of governments and administrations is not using Linux or Windows, the operating system is irrelevant... The problem was probably reliance on crappy software written by shitty companies that only try to milk them
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by nnq 12y ago
Also, TL;DR with pretty pictures on the project github repo: https://github.com/adobe-research/theseus (though the linked article gives a better overview of its purpose and context)
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Visualize JavaScript run-time behavior with Theseus(alltom.com)
1 points by nnq 12y ago|1 comments
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Your templating engine sucks and everything you've ever written is spaghetti code(workingsoftware.com.au)
2 points by nnq 12y ago|3 comments
890.
by nnq 12y ago
Thanks dude. That bush to the right is a rare plant that only grows in a 600 sq miles radius in a known part of Africa. The recon guys are already there and they said they've found the only manufacturer of plastic signs around that are
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by nnq 12y ago
Is anyone not freaked out by Lens? Really, that "thing" is scarry... you realize you need something like `^.` from it because it can make life easier, but then you look at the whole jungle of what it really is and your mind explod
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by nnq 13y ago
Population dynamics have nothing to do with the dynamics of memes . People are just vehicles for knowledge and ideas. Just because they receive some knowledge and ideas soon after birth, it doesn't mean they have to keep them. Just li
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by nnq 13y ago
> I think we need more fragmentation. We've defragmented enough already. Are you f k kidding?! We aren't at even 10% of "defragmenting" the world's conceptual space... When we'll be close to 99.9%, then t
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by nnq 13y ago
It remains something that people living on a strict OOP+procedural+Algol-like-syntax only are willing to swallow. ...otherwise they'll just go "yuuuck!" or "wtf?" or "this is weird" and walk back away to t
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by nnq 13y ago
> C++ is impossible to parse! Bold, claim, considering all the C++ parsers out there that work just fine... The fact that you need to code a parser by hand doesn't mean that the language is impossible to parse at all. And even for a
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by nnq 13y ago
If you are far away from the peg and the hole, you use a robotic arm with high strength and poor sensors, and you have blurry vision (this would be the equivalent of the mindset of a high level programmer that lives far away from actual har
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by nnq 13y ago
Yeah, this is why I'd bet a lot on Go's success. The nice thing is that once you get "C with lambdas" most of the FP abstractions can be brought in. ...what "industry" doesn't like is "deep thinking&q
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by nnq 13y ago
Yeah, but if I randomly pick any 2 Windows apps, the probability that they will scroll the same is very low. Heck, even the bultin Windows Explorer I'm staring at on Windows 8 has nice smooth scroll on the main folder pane and "ch
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by nnq 13y ago
Designers tend to be extremely annoyed by Chrome's scrolling. I should count the time I've heard this or something similar from a designer: "but let's use css-transitions instead of free-form scrolling, it's so-
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by nnq 13y ago
It's 2014, most sites assume javascript, and the "graceful degradation" is never "graceful". Me and all people doing front-end work I know of, who even care for any kind of "graceful degradation" (that&#x2

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