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by raganwald 13y ago
Encapsulating instance state us not the point, encapsulating the class behaviour is the point. So, if you can make the prototype itself private and modify the prototype with class methods, you have something that prototypes by themselves do
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by raganwald 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was_(Not_Was)
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by raganwald 13y ago
This is the best feedback so far.
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by raganwald 13y ago
Did you read TFA or simply fold it into an airplane and launch it towards the dustbin? 1. This is not a dynamic vs. static thing, the languages cited in the article with classes are all dynamic languages. Metaobjects are typically found in
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by raganwald 13y ago
NewtonScript had a neat concept of heterogeneous multiple inheritance: Its "objects" had a prototype-like inheritance chain and a container inheritance chain. If client-side JavaScript had this design, there would be no need for t
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by raganwald 13y ago
I think that the claims that "JavaScript is like Self" or that "JavaScript is like Scheme" are attempts to legitimize what really isn't a very good language to being with. I think it can be helpful to say that Jav
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by raganwald 13y ago
And weirdly, I often miss-spell JavaScript as "Javascript." No idea why.
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by raganwald 13y ago
Would that make them... Self-aware? I'll just show myself out...
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by raganwald 13y ago
Some people just want to watch the world burn. Others are curious. What is fire? Is electricity fire? What's the smallest thing That can be on fire? How can you make something burn faster? We make up little explanations about how knowi
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Prototypes Are Not Classes(raganwald.com)
64 points by raganwald 13y ago|43 comments
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by raganwald 13y ago
My own experience with "X years of Foo" hiring is that for a time, I was quite knowledgable about Java and the JVM, having worked on some very successful Java development tooling. But all too often, I met with resistance when look
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by raganwald 13y ago
For the sake of a constructive argument... If you woke up one day and decided to "hack" that problem by making it low-cost to do bad hires, what would you do? Would you run a company like open source, perhaps, with a lot of remote
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by raganwald 13y ago
You can write a blog post explaining why any repeatable, empirical hiring method is flawed. I'll repeat that: If you can produce a repeatable, empirical method of hiring, you can also demonstrate flaws in the results. The only way to
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by raganwald 13y ago
I do carefully think through a lot of things, I just don't end up with the conclusion that companies should be free to form cartels while passing "right to work" laws that hobble unions. I'm ok with you disagreeing with
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by raganwald 13y ago
Me, personally, I use my judgment. Others go by whomever has the cleverest lawyers or the most well-paid lobbyists. Or you can cop out and say that since there is no perfect way to write a law relating to this, there should be no law. Which
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by raganwald 13y ago
In theory, at least, the reconciliation is to side with the little guy. When there's a massive imbalance of power, there's an idea that you will be more restrictive of the powerful side. The theory is that this is in the public&#x
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by raganwald 13y ago
What's the difference between an audiophile and a musicophile? "An audiophile uses music to listen to stereos."
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by raganwald 13y ago
I read this with great sadness. In the culture of grift, the highest form of con is when you induce someone to do something they know is wrong, like a 419 scam where you convince the mark to impersonate a dead person in exchange for a fee t
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by raganwald 13y ago
I'm sure it's in the agreement somewhere that Fadell must essentially assure existing Nest customers -- regardless of what's going to really happen. And more importantly, reassure potential Nest customers that it's sti
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by raganwald 13y ago
So, this is a blog post, quoting a blog post, describing rumours of an operating system release that is over a year away, with no specific features quoted, just a name and a bunch of "it may ___s?" Hacker News, you can do better t
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by raganwald 13y ago
I won't take that bait, but I will say that wasteful or not, the US can lean more heavily on its trading partners for concessions, just as whether wasteful or not, giants like WalMart can lean on their trading partners. Size is might
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by raganwald 13y ago
With three times as many people as the US, isn't passing the trade per person a more notable milestone? That's certainly notable, but not interchangeable with this one. The total size of your economy reflects certain opportuniti
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by raganwald 13y ago
The examples seem to be based on the premise that web apps commonly forgo the simple escaping of quotes, and instead implement a complex parsing and analysis of user input as code to identify malicious statements, which can be defeated as
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by raganwald 13y ago
If Facebook acquired this then the technology would be accessible to a far greater audience than just the users of Apple products. I'm unclear why we are arguing whether this technology is somehow better off in the hands of one monop
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by raganwald 13y ago
!i does the same thing as !image for me.
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by raganwald 13y ago
I had some natural advantages, my mother was a systems analyst, and I had some early precocity. But I also ran into some very encouraging people at key moments in my youth, for example there were various students at UofT who encouraged me t
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by raganwald 13y ago
I think it's important to pick and choose how we conduct ourselves in life carefully. I have met many smart people. Some do alienate others around them, they are "intellectual bullies." Others are reserved and/or withdra
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by raganwald 13y ago
You say "socialism" like it's a bad thing. I don't feel "alienated" from hacker culture, everyone I've met seems quite nice and receptive to me (although perhaps I'm in the wrong room). But perhaps wh
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by raganwald 13y ago
You say you want the right but never expect to use it. If that is the case it is probably not worth very much. I know you mean well, so I say this without trying to be antagonistic and start up a "debate." The thing is, this is
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by raganwald 13y ago
No disparagement clauses are a lot like non-compete clauses. I would never sign one, but at the same time, I am reluctant to speak poorly of a former employer or to go into direct competition with former colleagues. I want the right to do

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