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by thurn 13y ago
We should be careful to avoid presentism, applying modern moral standards to somebody who lived over 200 years ago. By the standards of his time, Franklin was unquestionably a great man.
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by thurn 13y ago
This seems like a useful feature. Any chance of an open standards process bringing this kind of functionality to browsers with more market share?
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by thurn 13y ago
I mean, there's a spectrum here. I don't think anybody is going to argue that that java.util.LinkedList shouldn't have tests. On the other end of the spectrum, there are things that obviously shouldn't be tested (getters
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by thurn 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your criticism here, care to elaborate?
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by thurn 13y ago
Presumably because it's official confirmation of the feature. The gigaom piece seems more speculative in nature (no official sources).
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by thurn 13y ago
What percentage of the techniques in this book are also applicable to Clojure programming? I don't know a lot about how the two macro systems differ.
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by thurn 13y ago
I mostly write javascript all day, and I'm pretty sure that less than 0.01% of the javascript I've ever written is called often enough to make closure allocation time a serious concern. By all means, optimize if you're writin
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by thurn 13y ago
So, why not? Has it been experimentally shown that +1-based ranking performs worse?
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by thurn 13y ago
Sounds like the Modules implementation isn't ready yet, that's too bad... probably one of the most useful parts of ES6
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by thurn 13y ago
I often feel that it's necessary to stretch the truth a little bit on SO. Otherwise you ask "How can I do X?" and all your answers will be "Don't do X. Use Y instead."
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by thurn 13y ago
Interesting, although a couple of these factors (wanting to just spend all day working on your passion instead of wearing many hats) don't seem inherently limited to designers. Programmers can have an appreciation for their craft as we
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by thurn 13y ago
We're working on solving these problems with new tools (flexbox in this particular case), but it takes time for those tools to become widely usable. You can look at e.g. Google's Polymer project for a glimpse at the vision for web
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by thurn 13y ago
I quit caffeine and ended up regretting it. I felt tired a lot more, even a year later. Staying awake after lunch became a real challenge for me. I'm just saying this to temper the confirmation bias here - I think people who quit caffe
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by thurn 13y ago
You can live your life the way you want right up to the point where you want to visit your husband in the hospital or inherit the estate of your dead wife. Then these legal things start to matter.
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by thurn 13y ago
Human language & behavior are not Turing-recognizable.
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by thurn 13y ago
I expect BlackBerry apps would be first, since they still have the larger market share [1]. [1]: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2482816
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by thurn 13y ago
I believe (IANAL) that once you have a priority date, you keep it even if if you switch jobs.
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by thurn 13y ago
Sadly it's prone to freeze your Emacs on a bit repo. It seems to assume that "git status" won't take 10 seconds to return.
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by thurn 13y ago
It's been back and forth. GOOG was worth more than MSFT until quite recently, but MSFT was up 18% in April.
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by thurn 13y ago
Accessing root on a device by using the built-in debug mode counts as "jailbreaking" now?
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by thurn 14y ago
Brute-forcing a 55-character password is a transcomputational problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcomputational_problem ), i.e., it's impossible to accomplish using a computer the size of the earth within the expected lifetime of th
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by thurn 14y ago
I think it's a shame that you need to pay Apple $100/year to put a free game on their app store. It seems like some sort of special exception for open source apps would be reasonable.
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by thurn 14y ago
My biggest hurdle with Meteor so far has been how hard it makes testing and test-driven development. Built-in testing support is pretty much absent from the core framework and has been marked a "post 1.0" feature on the roadmap. If you know
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by thurn 14y ago
How about exposing an API for dev tools similar to the "swank" protocol that Emacs uses for editing Lisp code? I know there are people doing stuff like this already, but it would obviously be a lot easier if there were a nice protocol for i
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by thurn 14y ago
See also the "Unlicense" for something explicitly designed for source code: http://unlicense.org/ . I find this preferable to something like the MIT license because it doesn't include the annoying requirement to include a copy of the licen
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by thurn 14y ago
The documentation has always explicitly stated that notifications may or may not be triggered by requests: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/channels/
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by thurn 14y ago
I might not understand the complaint here. I don't get paid royalties on the software I write either, because my employer owns the copyright to my work. That licensing arrangement suits both of us because I would like to collect a salary wi
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by thurn 14y ago
I'd be really curious to know which libraries, frameworks, or engines they intend to employ. Just yesterday I started learning the melonJS canvas game engine and it's been a lot of fun so far!
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by thurn 14y ago
Great stuff. Meteor is getting more and more compelling as a platform. At this point, I'd seriously consider using it for a new project. One thing I'd be slightly concerned about is the lack of a serious server-side rendering option, though
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by thurn 14y ago
It's a shame that Twitter decided to roll their own solution to this problem instead of using schema.org or other existing semantic markup. I'd be interested in knowing what didn't work for them about the existing standards.

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