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by phyller 9y ago
That's a fair point, currying is the main offender here, partial application is just making a new function. With the right name it's not harder to understand. It does add complexity because you have layers of dependencies instead
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by phyller 9y ago
Good points about bitcoin, but really that holds true of everything. I don't understand why gold always gets a pass here, everyone assumes it has some magic intrinsic value. But the same rule applies. It's worth what other people
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by phyller 9y ago
This is interesting, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, particularly in JavaScript. As soon as I started working on a large project with a team of devs my coding style began to change dramatically. Simplicit
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by phyller 9y ago
That makes sense, Bahrain is even more unusual, presumably for the same reason. With women in the area more likely to be out of the public eye, it must appear to be a surreal culture of almost only men. http://www.worldlifeexpec
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Ask HN: Why is the population of Saudi Arabia so abnormal?
6 points by phyller 9y ago|5 comments
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by phyller 9y ago
Yea. I think every employee of a 3 letter agency should be required to write a scholarly paper on the term "blowback" and have it peer reviewed before they get to spend any money.
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by phyller 9y ago
The article says they are theoretically only arming groups that are fighting against ISIS. I'm pretty sure if they can defeat them on the ground without committing American troops (airstrikes can only do so much) and only spending $1 b
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by phyller 9y ago
The problem is the food you are storing is constantly going bad. So you need to recreate the entire massive food stockpile every year or so, in order to have it ready when the time comes. We'd have to find a way to efficiently cycle fo
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by phyller 9y ago
It's true about the US, and if you go on unemployment the company that let you go can be on the hook to pay for about half of it. So you definitely want your ex employees to get another job fast.
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by phyller 9y ago
That's a good point. But there was an article in the BBC that stated at least one agency in the UK was aware of the situation. Given that the guy is temporarily at least a hero, the short time frame since Alphabay was taken down and th
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by phyller 9y ago
Your assertion is that the US should not arrest someone on US soil for crimes committed against US citizens by the person while they were in another country. That doesn't make sense to me. If an American was mailing handguns that are l
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by phyller 9y ago
The big stories at the time were that hospitals in the UK were getting shut down by it. If whoever did it lived in the UK they may have had a change of heart.
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by phyller 9y ago
Nice. This is what the original launch should have been like. Help doctors use this to provide better care and no one is going to be calling anyone a "glasshole"
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by phyller 9y ago
That's how App Academy works already. Put a deposit down, go through the program, then pay them a percentage of your first years wages from your new job. I did it, and rich people at the golf club where I worked were telling me it was
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by phyller 9y ago
Does anyone else feel reluctant to install a tool that allows a link on a website to remap your keyboard? Am I misunderstanding this?
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by phyller 9y ago
I lose a lot of respect for them, it's a symptom of so many (usually deep) flaws.
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by phyller 9y ago
I'm sorry that you are in a situation where your colleagues project their arrogance and insecurities onto you. I have also experienced this myself, and it was disappointing and confusing to me. I think that a person who is willing to o
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by phyller 9y ago
I'm sure you have no ill intent, but Heather Wilson, the Secretary of the Air Force who made that statement, is female. It's interesting that it is so natural to assume that someone whose job it is to be "lethal" would b
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by phyller 9y ago
100% agree. Full code coverage with acceptance and integration tests is really good. If you can get a test case for every feature that your app is supposed to have you can develop quickly and ship often knowing that nothing will break. Exte
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The case for being grumpy at work(qz.com)
2 points by phyller 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why so few front end positions?
6 points by phyller 9y ago|2 comments
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by phyller 10y ago
You're right, fixed
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by phyller 10y ago
The internet, freedom of speech. I know, we do actually have those things, its a facetious comment, but with a kernel of truth. Our freedoms rests more on personal respect and responsibility than the government and military. Once we pass a
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by phyller 10y ago
This is why we can't have nice things
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by phyller 10y ago
There are linting tools that you can and should add to your text editor of choice. Whenever I reference a variable in JS, if that variable is not assigned it highlights it as a possible error. If I define a variable or function and don&#x27
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The Electric Car Rush Started Too Early(bloomberg.com)
3 points by phyller 10y ago|1 comments
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by phyller 10y ago
While we all wish there was a standard few polished tools that did everything we needed and had good documentation and testing tools, I think the reality is that what we want to do and are capable of doing using javascript is evolving so fa
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by phyller 10y ago
It said one spacecraft was active, one was not, but it didn't explicitly say which was active? I was curious if they'll be able to reconnect with the Indian spacecraft. I assume that the LRO is active, since they mentioned people
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by phyller 10y ago
What advertising model are you suggesting? Perhaps it could be added to the Readme on the repo to help point advertisers in the right direction.
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by phyller 10y ago
At first I thought this was a great idea, but then I thought about it more. I think this is the digital equivalent of an angry mob throwing bricks through windows. We aren't doing any good, just destroying the community we live in. Wha

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