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This works well for us: obj = [obj].flatten
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Commerce is a big factor, but so is government intelligence, so is education, and and so is bottom-up social interaction.
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I follow but disagree. The world's largest and most successful torrent site calls itself The Pirate Bay. There are political "Pirate Parties" in Canada and Sweden. It may have been a pejorative label initially, but file share
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by twerquie 13y ago
The Canadian press has been beating Blackberry up since the first round of delays leading up to the BB10 release. The Globe and Mail, CBC, National Post and The Star have all turned on them, and continue to be pessimistic while covering tod
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by twerquie 13y ago
It shouldn't be a surprise to you that words can have more than one meaning.
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They're way too important and ubiquitous not to.
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> It's telling of what exactly? That the candidate favors transport-agnostic APIs or has limited familiarity with HTTP. One easy follow-up: "I notice you decided to call the method createUser..." and you've learned s
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> There are issues with SQL (how many things can NULL mean?) Please elaborate, I can only think of one.
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by twerquie 13y ago
The JS CoffeeScript produces is never going to be as clean as well-written JS. Since you cannot avoid the JS but you can avoid CS, I choose the former.
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Not to build it up too much, but Live is one of the more remarkable performances I've ever heard. Unbelievably tragic, visceral and funny. Not to be missed.
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I can't see it as anything but satire.
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> I have realized that there is nothing great to be gained by using JS at server side compared to using say rails. Web sockets, anything with many thousands of concurrent connections is better in node.js. They each have their strengths,
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by twerquie 13y ago
This happens to our team too. Does anyone else find it ironic that Git is a distributed version control system, yet we rushed to centralize it and base our entire workflow around GitHub?
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Reasons to like js: 1) There are very fast implementations in production, as well as an arms race between some of the world's most powerful titans of software development to outdo each other at js vm performance. 2) It is a thin abstra
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From the actual press release: > These alternatives could include, among others, possible joint ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the Company or other possible transactions. http://www.marketwire.com&#x2
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by twerquie 13y ago
I think they have stated quite publicly and explicitly: The company is for sale.
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I suspect this is more for data analysis than it is for user-facing features. I hope.
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> In what circumstance is it appropriate to consider the CoffeeScript ecosystem to be distinct from the JavaScript ecosystem? Example code, debugging tools, message forums, developer teams.
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by twerquie 13y ago
She was just being direct and honest. She knows Yahoo's reputation precedes her.
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> I can't really envision a scenario where Twitter killed them, but if you can, please share. They enter the market with a competing product.
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JetCooper, a Toronto-based design agency has been acquired by Shopify(jetcooper.com)
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Why not? It seems perfectly suited to run any application.
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> And what are these "peers" that exist in our profession? Your peers are people you work with to achieve a common goal. > I have a team lead who doles out work, with a manager over him, with a manager over him and so on. Th
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by twerquie 13y ago
(I deleted my comment above before I saw your reply) Society has norms for determining right and wrong social behaviour. We teach children not to behave this way at a very early age. I'm sure these societal values aren't completel
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It's clear that Linus, having spent his career working from home in his bathrobe, has absolutely no clue what professionalism means. It's less about the neckties and watercooler politics he imagines and more about treating your pe
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by twerquie 13y ago
PostageApp ( http://postageapp.com ) targets that specific need. Web-editable templates, including separated CSS and attachments which are flattened at send time. It's like a CMS for your transactional email.
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I disagree, many applications can be defined entirely in client-side code.
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Multi-master in the core distribution.
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Can this be considered a code smell?
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One of the things I like most about Sublime is that it just works right out of the box. Sure almost everyone uses a plugin or two, but to me it's the editor that doesn't need blog posts about how to configure it, it doesn't require you to k

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