tjarratt

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by tjarratt 15y ago
The resulting flamewar, however, is far from mild or small. There are a few vocal people that want everyjs.com to load in a reasonable amount of time in a desktop browser, as well as on their mobile phone arguing against proponents saying t
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by tjarratt 15y ago
I really hope this guy gets hired by Apple. There are some really great ideas here.
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by tjarratt 15y ago
What exactly would "well commented" mean for fizz buzz? One of my pet peeves are devs that comment insane things that should be obvious from reading the code. eg: #save the model and pass along a callback model.save(callback) If you were wr
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Beggars can't be choosers, but a cursory look at some of those jobs are awful. You can choose between doing some college student's cs100 homework for $15, or building a replica of match.com for $300. Off topic, but how do people determine h
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by tjarratt 16y ago
What if you already have a bunch of custom controls that are common to your app? I'm not suggesting not investigating more efficient selectors or better css practices to target multiple browsers easily, but once you have all the knowledge b
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Really depends on where you work. There are some managers that make $47k in some parts of the US and live very comfortably. Aside from that, contracting can help get bump your salary up. Fresh out of college I was making less than $47k and
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Someone more knowledgable might want to correct me here, but I think JFFS2 arrived a little too early; the performance gains are not enormous and it suffers from too many disadvantages (namely performance with small blocks and apparently de
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by tjarratt 16y ago
You raise a good point w.r.t. SSD drives, but the reality is that even if most computers being manufactured today included a solid state drive, the vast majority of consumers are using drives with moving parts. It will be at least a few mor
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I shudder to think how many hours I spent poring over textbooks and lecture notes just so I could have the "AHA" moment that comes along with dealing with abstract entities.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
My experience with Haskell reflects this pretty closely. A year ago I was using it primarily for scripting and daily exercise but I couldn't get past monads as a concept. A few days ago I brought out Learn You A Haskell and took a look at t
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Even `sudo rm -Rf /` with the password prompt in terminal would probably catch a few people unaware.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Based on what little I've seen, this sounds accurate. Both Android and iOS have a large amount of features and controls that developers are used to having access to - distilling that down into a simple codebase can't be easy. It will be int
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Currently employed at a large company, easily defined as "The Man", although I'm leaving soon to join a startup. Looking at the results of the poll, I can't believe how many people here own their own businesses. That's great!
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by tjarratt 16y ago
If I lost $1 for each time I left a known vulnerability unpatched because I was convinced I had more important work to do, I would be a very poor man indeed. Honestly, there are very very few developers that fix security problems in beta en
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Upvoted, as I agree with you philosophically, that the GPL is not exactly a corporate developer's best friend. However, neither Solaris nor Apple are typical corporations in terms of using licensed 3rd party code; given the terms the GPL po
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Not all Americans can afford $50 USD / month for a luxury service. There are also wide swaths of the US that don't have any better options since telecoms refuse to build more infrastructure.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
This sounds an awful lot like the business model in "Be Kind, Rewind". That said, it's also a lot more promising. Good luck finding a partner and growing the business, I've been saying for years that the movie industry needs some disruption
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Still stretching the analogy, but the same could be said of their password reuse.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
The phpfog guys really deserve praise for being so open on this issue. As a fellow engineer, being able to learn from their mistakes and see exactly what they could have done ahead of time to avoid the disaster is priceless. Just goes to
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Please, let's not give manufacturers any more ideas on how to lock down their functionality to specific hardware.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I think his point is that browsing to their website, it's not entirely obvious how to quickly share a file. When you initially go to sendoid.com, their link to share a file is the most prominent element on the page. Having the native hook i
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Crate is really great, and I definitely like their UI a lot more, but Sendoid really knocks it out of the park in terms of speed and security.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
That could be construed as a denial of service attack and would be illegal (or at least in a very murky legal grey area). Also you seem to have forgot that most AT&T customers have bandwidth caps in place that would make it difficult fo
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Very cool. Glad to see other developers creating an easy way for people to stay connected, provide aid, and keep information about the cleanup and humanitarian efforts in one place.
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by tjarratt 16y ago
For what it's worth, the linked code on github appears to be specific to node.js. Last I checked, there was no native function to convert strings to and from base64, only buffers. If you're writing this for client side, it would indeed be p
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Tim Fitz' blog is a great source of continuous deployment done right and finding useful information in a sea of chaos. I remember talking to him before and after he wrote some of these blog posts and it was fascinating seeing how his attitu
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by tjarratt 16y ago
node.js + underscore.js var numbers = []; require("./underscore-min.js"); var dupe = _.reject(numbers, function(number) { return _.lastIndexOf(numbers, number) == _.indexOf(numbers, number); }); console.log(dupe);
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by tjarratt 16y ago
I'd say they compare closely to either Redis' hash or unsorted list implementations. It's hard to say exactly since the operations tuples support are similar to both. This, of course, ignores the complexity of operations on Redis hash and l
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by tjarratt 16y ago
Those are great features, but probably not part of their MVP. Maybe you should propose that to them as feedback?
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by tjarratt 16y ago
The way I like to think of this feature is as a throwback to the days of "dumb" terminals that would connect to a server where you stored your files, account info, etc. "Back to Unix".

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