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13y ago
This is a sexist article, because it tells a company that they should hire people just because they are women, it's also racist because it remarked that the team was white as a problem.
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13y ago
Why not just use the Promise API?
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Dear everyone who likes to post sensationalist posts that rehash the same "sexist" whining. This is not news, this is just jumping on the "male-dominated industry" bandwagon. I get it: tech is mostly composed of white ma
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13y ago
This article is really short sighted, wrong and biased. Some users might just use your app from the browser, in that case URLs do make sense. You don't need to have a URL for everything, you should just have URLs for things you would w
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13y ago
I think I would prefer to work with "assholes"-only if they could get the job done, because a lot of these non-"assholes" are only good at bullshitting their way out of responsibility. I would prefer to have a person say
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13y ago
> This article is idiotic and is clearly written by someone who doesn't understand Subversion. Or maybe you don't understand what the article is about. > You work on feature branches, then merge them into trunk. Only at the
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I strongly disagree with this whole notion, I think in fact that the opposite is true. With Git you can make sure that you merge when your story is actually done, with Subversion you need to worry about other's changes if you commit al
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> A profoundly disagree. Javascript is a great language, but that does not mean there is not room to improve. Disagree with what exactly? Where did I say that JavaScript is perfect and can't be improved? On the contrary I actually s
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13y ago
Apparently you have to "emulate" functions in Dart: https://www.dartlang.org/articles/emulating-functions/ After reading this I got the impression that Dart is yet another attempt to make the client side
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13y ago
Now we are coupling data transfer with encryption, which we couple with validation, I thought people would learn from SOAP that this is a horrible idea. I understand messing around with SSL certificates is no issue for the likes of Google,
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This is almost like saying that fashion models should be short, fat and ugly.
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13y ago
Firstly: they could just start using TypeScript if they really care that much about type erros, since TS is a superset of JavaScript they can start using it with their existing code, so there is no excuse not to use it. Secondly: it's
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13y ago
You can write any article like this about anything, here is the formula: - pick a language feature - write an article with the title "<language feature> as our Generation's Goto Statement" - write an example where you m
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13y ago
> David also tries to cover a range of devices, browsers, operating systems and networks in his test This title is misleading, nowhere does it have the word "browser".
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I stopped reading here: > "It provides access to jobs purely based on merit and results and really, in some ways, neutralizes some of the gender discrimination that exists around the world." The fact is that Elance does not neutralize a
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14y ago
So instead of implementing a proper way to measure employee performance they are banning remote work. I think people who were unproductive at home will remain unproductive in the office unless they actually find a way to measure productivit
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14y ago
> certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace; from Nexus all the way through likely the biggest failure to date, Google TV. "Reception of the Nexus 4 has been very positive overall. Reviewers were consi
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14y ago
No, it has no chance of replacing Vim because it doesn't run in the terminal and it doesn't come out of the box on most *nix systems. Initially I don't like the title, because it is too vague.
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14y ago
You can write a dummy backend endpoint, it shouldn't take too long in any platform also you can use PhantomJS with CasperJS and/or Selenium to simulate real user interactions which I think can be much more useful than simple unit tests. Als
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14y ago
Answering correctly to these questions only means that you know these edge cases/quirks, heck you could memorize most of them. A real developer should never write code like that.
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> I chose MongoDB because it seemed very lightweight and the ease of changing the models. This makes me think that the author didn't put enough effort into determining the right solution for this problem. Using something like MongoDB r
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> In reality, RFID isn’t that scary, and we should embrace it. It was never about RFID, it was about te level of tracking the students had to put up with. > In reality, these concerns are minor and based on fear of technology. This
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Sometimes you render content with JavaScript and want to avoid FOUC(Flash Of Unstyled Content) also sometimes you have JavaScript polyfills that you want loaded as soon as possible. But I assume that in Apple's case, they are doing it even
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14y ago
I wouldn't care about what politicians do in their private life, but the thing is WoW addiction can greatly hinder one's ability to do a good job. WoW addicted people may not fully care about 'our' world, they may deprive themselves of slee
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> Ever try to use different JavaScript tools with conflicting jQuery versions? Yeah, that sucks. So library conflicts are unique to JavaScript? also I never had compatibility issues with jQuery because it does a good job at staying bac
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Relational databases are awesome if you are not dealing with huge amounts of data that your current hardware can't handle the relational way. There are some cases where you have a ridiculous amount of data(rows) and you simply can't store t
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14y ago
I would not call this a threat, I would call this a "friendly reminder" or a warning. The OHA members agreed not to make devices with incompatible versions of Android, Google simply pointed out that Aliyun qualifies as an incompatible versi
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14y ago
The difference is that you are free to use the Android CTS, unlike the Java TCK, which had a Field Of Use restriction that did not allow using it for mobile. The big difference is that you can do whatever you want with Android and it's comp
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I think Google's position is reasonable: either Alibaba make Aliyun OS pass the Android compatibility tests, or remove the Android app runtime.
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It's weird that Google gets the most flack, because others are doing exactly the same thing, they just suck at it most of the time. Microsoft made the Xbox, competed with Sony, Microsoft made Bing and Bing Maps, becoming a Google competer,
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