twitchard

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by twitchard 9y ago
To me knowing the CLI is a little like knowing how to read sheet music. It makes analysis and collaboration a lot easier. You can put down a sequence of git invocations in a text file or script, stare at them, reason about them, tweak them
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On Showers, Golang, and Creativity(medium.com)
2 points by twitchard 9y ago|0 comments
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Javascript Classes vs. Closures – Testability(medium.com)
22 points by twitchard 9y ago|0 comments
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by twitchard 9y ago
Sorry -- more precisely a "straw man" is usually an argument which you do not advocate yourself, that you construct -- usually in order to argue against it and strengthen your own position. When the author of the comment says &quo
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by twitchard 9y ago
If it's code - a github repo with issues to track TODOs is sufficient for me.
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JavaScript Classes vs. Closures – Performance(medium.com)
5 points by twitchard 9y ago|2 comments
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by twitchard 9y ago
The "straw man" in the straw man fallacy is the argument that nobody is making. The comment about "Java is right here" is not a straw man fallacy -- but it is a straw man.
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JavaScript Classes vs. Closures – Lintability(medium.com)
5 points by twitchard 9y ago|0 comments
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by twitchard 10y ago
As a class project we wrote a Chrome extension that transformed our university's terrible course offering page into something like this (but less ambitious) It was a pretty big hit and continues to be used even 3-4 years later. https:
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by twitchard 10y ago
If you tdd, you will write the test for the new code while the old code is still available, and you will use the test as a guide rather than the old code. Even if you don't tdd, I would say that typically if you understand the code wel
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by twitchard 10y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- Uber needs to release a tier where you can hire a backhoe or other construction vehicle and arrive at your destination in style.
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by twitchard 11y ago
Is this anything more than the insight that your perception of 'average' is calculated from the distribution of what you observe, not from the true distribution? Or am I missing something
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by twitchard 11y ago
Rats are, in some ways, very different from humans too. But if it's impossible to run human trials, or there are severe deficiencies in the way we are able to execute them, studying rats is still the best argument. If there is a convin
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by twitchard 11y ago
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is theoretical economists are doing. A medical scientist runs experiments on rats, to gain insight into what the effects of a certain phenomenon might be on humans. Rats aren&#x