tonyle

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by tonyle 5y ago
Someone non technical once told me they "programmed as well" and proceed to talk about planning and scheduling things.
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by tonyle 8y ago
Now we can bring back html based applications using html and vbscript and jscript. https://www.599cd.com/tips/hta/beginner/B1/
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by tonyle 9y ago
Simple continuation explanation for web developers. 1. Write some JS code in chrome and verify expected behaviour. 2. Add a debugger statement. 3. When the debugger pops up, go down a few frames and add debug point. 4. Right click
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by tonyle 10y ago
Reminds me of Ira Glass's Quote. http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-... And for a different perspective. This was posted 5 days ago. https://neilonsoftware.com/books/p
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by tonyle 10y ago
Key takeaways. 1. Fingers are sensitive. 2. paper has a saw like edge. 3. paper cuts tears up skin so nerves are exposed to the world. Not really a lot of substance to this article. Speaking of saw like edge.... https://www.youtu
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by tonyle 10y ago
He also has a nice page on his github with lots of info on making stuff fast on node. https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
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by tonyle 10y ago
Sometimes programmers need to look at unusual files: binary files, very big files, odd data files. Epsilon was designed without the limits of other editors, so it can handle these kinds of jobs, as well as ordinary files. For example, with
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by tonyle 10y ago
There was some people talking about this issue in the support forums and their response was to stick with v2 until they sort out the issues. They recently made a change with the node sdk recently so you don't need the apiKey for public
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by tonyle 10y ago
I'm not sure when promises came to the javascript, but it seems weird that people would settle with callback hell for so long without even attempting to refactoring it. I mean if I didn't have the option of using promises, I would
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Ask HN: Is callback hell exaggerated?
11 points by tonyle 10y ago|17 comments
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by tonyle 10y ago
This is great. One of my biggest pain points when switching to OS X was finding a good replacement for autohotkey.
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by tonyle 10y ago
This is pretty common with a lot of companies switching to byod (bring your own devices to work) The idea is the company saves money by loading a secure workspace to your personal device instead of paying for a corporate device. Companies s
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by tonyle 10y ago
That data structure is basically a CSV file. If I were you, I would convert the JSON to a CSV file, load it into excel and use a pivot table dive into your data and convert it back if needed. A pivot table will do exactly what you want and
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by tonyle 10y ago
Chrome console allows you to inspect an object and expand on the properties visually. For the most common cases, I just copy and paste the string into the chrome console if I need to inspect some random JSON file really quick. If it is too
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by tonyle 10y ago
Pretty cool. However, how can you call it 17 LOC and then put in a link to a "readable" version with 67 LOC on the same page.
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by tonyle 10y ago
At first I thought it was some employer gone crazy. Halfway down, I realize it's just like any other big company tactics. Some upper management suggest all employees practice positive thinking, offering a course on how do deal with str
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by tonyle 10y ago
This is funny. Suppose there was a giant fight taking place, would it take millions of years before we notice the first punch? btw here is a size comparison of various mecha, guess which one is the biggest. https://www.youtube.co
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by tonyle 10y ago
I came across this post a few years ago, reminds me of the javascript games written 15+ years ago. For a lot of use cases, This technique is simple and has good enough performance. http://buildnewgames.com/dom-sprites/
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by tonyle 10y ago
I wonder if multiple native app is still cheaper than maintaining multiple different web builds. Reminds me of this library I stumbled across. http://www.zebkit.com/ People either respond with this is cool or your going aga
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by tonyle 10y ago
Google is too useful to not use it, But you shouldn't have to do a google search because you don't remember a command or basic functionality of a language or library. That information should be rapidly available by the documentati
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by tonyle 10y ago
This could be really horrible, especially if you use a password manager and copy and paste your password......
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by tonyle 10y ago
A lot of corporate companies have a mitm or some form of network monitoring in place. There are a ton of products out there to do this, for example Microsoft forefront TMG. I never access personal stuff on corporate internet at work for thi
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by tonyle 10y ago
This is really cool,though I really wish I didn't look at the source code.
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by tonyle 10y ago
When I first got into promises, they were annoying for certain tasks. Something as simple as download a list of 1000 files was hard to do since you didn't want all the calls to fire off at once. After a long journey with various techni
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by tonyle 10y ago
Ask yourself this question. Where are you now? Where will you be tomorrow? Where will you be in a month? Where will you be in a year? Now as yourself where you will be if you made the choice to spend an hour a day on task X. Where will you
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by tonyle 10y ago
To expand, I don't see anything wrong with the joke question, I just think they both fall in the same category. The user created the question and answered it immediately with a link to his goto library. The issue is not answering your
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by tonyle 10y ago
Reminds me of this post. Poster created a question and immediately answered it with his own link. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9751207/how-can-i-use-got...
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by tonyle 10y ago
Lets break this down. sms, not encrypted. pin messages/BBM, "scrambled" BBM protect, encrypted BES (corporate device), encrypted with a key that BlackBerry is not suppose to be able to access. Originally bb devices could send
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by tonyle 10y ago
The initial goal is reduction, It is unrealistic to get rid of the call centre right away. I'm not trying to compete with phone, but existing online solutions such as email, faq, knowledge base and forums. Most customers would rather s
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Apply HN: Scalable troubleshooting
2 points by tonyle 10y ago|2 comments

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