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by spenuke 10y ago
I'd really like to see something like this for mobile apps as opposed to form-based web apps.
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by spenuke 10y ago
That's fine, but you have 3 years of experience with a CMS. SQL is the Structured Query Language used to make queries, so if you're not writing that, then you aren't working with SQL. I've been driving cars for twenty ye
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by spenuke 10y ago
I think you might be misreading the parent statement as "I will never write JS > ES5". I too find that the easiest to implement features are (not terribly surprisingly!) the least interesting; they are not worth the terrible
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by spenuke 10y ago
I'm still totally ignorant of the new primitives in the original link, so maybe that's why I'm confused, but: are you saying that as of today, wrapping a big parsing job into a promise frees up the event loop? I really don&#x
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by spenuke 10y ago
This is my experience. It's a codependent relationship between management who is unable to determine the feasibility of what it's asking for (or, just as often, what it is asking for) on the one hand, and an eager-to-please yes-
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by spenuke 10y ago
Kind of tangential, but I'm wondering: if he is unable to implement BFS in a reasonable time, how was he able to implement Math.pow over the phone? Would this have been a Math.pow that didn't account for fractional exponents? I sp
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by spenuke 11y ago
No, probably not. On the contrary, what I'm suggesting is that the solution of Step 5 you suggest would be "the hot new thing" of Step 4. It's about unforeseen consequences of a solution to a problem. That's what I
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by spenuke 11y ago
Yep, I think this is a huge, HUGE part of it. Step 1: Create a culture in which "having open source contributions" is a requirement to entering said culture. Step 2: Remove all friction from introducing open source contributions i
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by spenuke 11y ago
Not Invented Here Syndrome has been around a long time. But it used to indicate a sort of conservatism and fear in corporate culture. This NIHS seems more the result of ADHD and impatience, sprinkled with a little enlightened precociousness
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by spenuke 11y ago
The Dr. Segev mentioned in the article is an awesome guy. His wife Dr. Sommer Gentry is an operations research professor, and they worked together on this stuff. Here's a fun and educational video they did on the math behind transplant
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by spenuke 11y ago
First Performance Global | (Multiple) Mobile, Backend, DevOps | Atlanta, GA | REMOTE, ONSITE | Full-time We're building a distributed system and a front-end mobile app to allow consumers to control their credit card fraud settings. Our
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by spenuke 12y ago
Lewis Carroll also wrote an excellent essay using digestion as a metaphor for reading. http://harpers.org/sponsor/balvenie/lewis-carroll.1.html
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by spenuke 12y ago
This is the point. You are most likely already testing your code (logging, printing, or the like). I learned how to write tests and I was sold on the value of TDD only after I was in the middle of writing a non-trivial, multi-module client&
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by spenuke 12y ago
It's for this antiquated technology called a "book", where you lay out every other page to the right or left, respectively, to account for this thing that people once called a "margin".
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by spenuke 12y ago
Hey, thanks for the response. Years ago I was doing network and Windows system administration for a few years. Went back to school to get a degree in the humanities. To be clear, I am planning on going the portfolio route. Part of the probl
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Ask HN: I have 3 months severance. Seeking advice preparing for a dev job. Help?
7 points by spenuke 12y ago|5 comments
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by spenuke 12y ago
"I'm a parasite on the sick system because I want it to die. I don't see anything against Ayn Rand philosophy here." Oh, I agree with you completely. Most of her critics will say that her system is obfuscatory bullshit t
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by spenuke 12y ago
Wow. Are you saying that you adhere to the Libertarian/Ayn Rand philosophy of personal responsibility, equitable rewards for creating value to society, and all that jazz? You know, the type of philosophy that purportedly values persona
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by spenuke 12y ago
"The internet is great partly because people chose what they do how and at what pace, because it's more like a book and less like TV, and making it more like TV is not improvement." Well worth thinking about.
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by spenuke 12y ago
My uncle is a psychiatrist, and he has a theory that the definition is more of a matrix than a spectrum. He says that what is often called attention deficit would better be described as intention surplus - you have more intention than your
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by spenuke 12y ago
The vast majority of music has what's known as a meter, which is a cyclical pattern. Just like we can think of time in terms of a neverending stream of occurrences, or choose to think in terms of a 7-day week, we simplify the understan
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by spenuke 12y ago
Duke Ellington routinely gave his audiences a lesson in his inimitable style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPcZ5ex2t-g Harry Connick Jr. didn't bother educating his European audience with any explanation. He simply
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by spenuke 12y ago
Oh, for sure. Aristotle is an even better example. Doubtlessly one of the best minds on record, and yet he came up with a "completely wrong" model of the universe. Really makes you question what we are so sure about these days, an
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by spenuke 12y ago
Two thoughts: 1. Your nearest definition of consciousness "emergent properties of lower level functions" or something along those lines doesn't really cut it, either. To say that something is an emergent property of another t
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by spenuke 12y ago
This is what I want to know. I'm not an expert with ChromeTools, but I was able to determine the following: 1. Viewing the page source showed that only maybe a few dozen lines of html were being retrieved. Stopped somewhere in the mill
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by spenuke 12y ago
Here's some advice: Stop looking for advice. I don't mean to sound harsh. But considering that you had to ask your psychiatrist whether or not you were depressed (not to mention that you accepted his/her answer unquestioningl
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by spenuke 12y ago
Before seeing your reply, I did a similar "alternate version" write up. I disagree that the long sentence makes you forget he's trying to contrast something. There's a built in hierarchy in the grammar itself that tells
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by spenuke 12y ago
I parsed it in one pass (don't have strong feelings for pleasure or pain on it). It's not the best sentence ever, but I don't really see the problem with it. To find out, how about we try to say the same thing in a different
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by spenuke 12y ago
There is a competing interpretation that this lack of a meaningful life you allude to is in fact the RESULT of a society built on strict financial benefit. You've conflated the terms "meaningful" and "useful". These
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by spenuke 12y ago
So he sounds stoned?

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