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by phleet 14y ago
Even though it was a completely open space, I never really had problems with noise being distracting, even without my headphones on. If I _did_ ever have problems with it, there were always small meeting rooms with doors that were empty 90%
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by phleet 14y ago
I was an intern in the Palo Alto office which was pretty similar to that, and I never felt distracted by it. With my headphones in, it doesn't really matter whether I'm in an office or loud open field.
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by phleet 14y ago
Oh crud, sorry about that. You can read it here (without images, sadly): http://feeds.feedburner.com/JamieWong Or if you add that feed to Google Reader or some other RSS reader, you should be able to see it too. Will look into fixing this
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by phleet 14y ago
Why do you find this surprising? It's definitely had its ups and downs, but it managed to stay pretty stable when our traffic about doubled when CS launched.
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by phleet 14y ago
Granted this is certainly not JS best practices, but following best practices was not our goal here. Explaining variable assignment is much simple than explaining callbacks and/or higher order functions. On a more practical note, this is th
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by phleet 14y ago
Hey - I'm one of the interns that worked on this. I have my own reservations about JavaScript the language, but after seeing what John had built when I started, I believe that this is undoubtedly the right way to go. If we wanted to use ano
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by phleet 14y ago
eranation might be referring to the programs that have associated videos by Vi Hart - like this one: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/pascals-triangle/803149756 The program was actually written to match the video though, not the other way ar
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by phleet 14y ago
Why can't a custom JSON encoder be used with support for serializing/deserializing datetime objects?
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by phleet 14y ago
I completely agree with you. I've followed many different coding standards, none of which perfectly match what I use for my own code. Even if the coding standard was different in every way from what I like, it's still better than me doing i
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by phleet 14y ago
The problem with open source projects is that great != popular. There are certainly a lot of very successful projects that have painfully unmaintainable code that still get maintained because so many people are invested. And the problem wit
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by phleet 14y ago
Thanks for the sources - will sit down and read them later. The row, column analogy is pretty apt - it's an interesting way of looking at things. While it is true that adding a new behaviour in OOP is a pain in the ass, I definitely find my
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by phleet 14y ago
So I have very limited experience with FP, and a reasonable amount with OO (mostly dynamically typed). I can really see the benefits of FP, but there are some problems I have trouble modelling with FP. For instance, if I have a simple 2D re
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My Mercurial Setup and Workflow at Khan Academy(jamie-wong.com)
2 points by phleet 14y ago|0 comments
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by phleet 14y ago
Pro Git does a really good job of explaining everything you need to know about git without trying to do it really quickly. After reading it, I have a much better understand of git, and can work myself (and others) out of pretty much any oh-
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by phleet 14y ago
Here's an argument in favor of not requiring library consumers to use new by the author of the Raphäel library: http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/post/something-new
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by phleet 14y ago
Well.. that's mostly true. You can get some pretty interesting results if you return something in a function invoked using new: http://wtfjs.com/2010/11/10/false-advertising
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by phleet 14y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attac... (the demo of it is a bit outdated)
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by phleet 14y ago
The leading sentence "Some people believe that everyone should be a programmer." is crazy. I want everyone to learn how to code, but not to be a programmer. Just like I want everyone to learn math, but not to be a mathematician. There's a d
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by phleet 14y ago
This is really cool. And a little bit depressing that the typography in the preview is better than the typography on my actual site. I should really fix that.
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by phleet 14y ago
It's a Backbone plugin. It's name is accurate, just as any jQuery plugin should have "jQuery" in its name.
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by phleet 14y ago
Bolding (and other similar operations) should use Cmd instead of Ctrl on OS X. Google docs does this
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by phleet 14y ago
There's another lesser factor here that can determine the success of business: are your employees proud to work on it? If people are proud of the product - both functionally and visually - they're more likely to be happy and want to stay. A
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by phleet 14y ago
I don't think there's a direct equivalent, but you can get the ability to reset to the previous state using bundles. hg help bundle, hg help unbundle. Whenever you do an amend or a rebase, it tells you where it saved the bundle
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An Argument for Mutable Local History(jamie-wong.com)
12 points by phleet 14y ago|3 comments
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by phleet 14y ago
I don't know how well advised saying "No legal mumbo jumbo" then immediately using the latin phrase "ex aequo et bono" is.
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by phleet 14y ago
See also jquery-haml: https://github.com/creationix/jquery-haml
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Declarative Programming and Meteor's Autosubscribe(jamie-wong.com)
3 points by phleet 15y ago|0 comments
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by phleet 15y ago
The difficulty is how to deny this happening. Pages making GET requests across domains is so common and necessary that several technology standards would have to come together to propose a real fix. Every image or script loaded from a CDN
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by phleet 15y ago
This seems like a show stopper to me. The inability to have server side validation means there's no way to control access to things, meaning you have to fall back to security through obscurity. What would be really cool is if instead of a
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by phleet 15y ago
I'm a little confused by the reference to the Halting problem. You don't need to solve the Halting problem to prove that a specific algorithm will terminate. Random garbage here is still constrained because the input is still a sequence of

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