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by wmil 11y ago
I always feel like scope inheritance problems are overstated. It's weird, but it's weird in the exact way that JS prototypical inheritance is weird. So it's important to learn. Anyways the fix is simple, always initialize yo
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by wmil 11y ago
I used to use a mobile RSS reader that was just a phonegap app. It was useful for downloading reading for my morning subway ride. Cell service on the TTC has been long project filled with fail. In general I expect that it's not the b
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by wmil 11y ago
Was his paper as verbose as this article? If so it's no wonder that no one would publish it. He writes like he's being paid per word....
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by wmil 11y ago
NAT / Firewalls cause a lot of issues. Peer to peer data isn't as straightforward as you'd expect. The Skype people actually came from Kazaa, so they had a lot of experience with sending peer data across corporate / edu
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by wmil 11y ago
It's not easy to make a peer to peer system that can get past most corporate firewalls. So Skype is more complex than you'd guess. Your best bet is something using WebRTC.
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by wmil 11y ago
1995.
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by wmil 11y ago
Jeb is actually really unpopular with a lot of the Republican base. He gets booed when he's at conventions. His strategy was to use his Wall St connections (he was working for Lehman Brothers when it went bankrupt) to build a war ches
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by wmil 11y ago
I suspect that this is actually Google's Flash->SWF converter in action. I'm guessing that you're using adblock, and it's hiding the relevant content.
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by wmil 11y ago
I've seen some impressive integration between Clojure and Emacs. A quick edit - run cycle is a huge win. As are good debugging tools.
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by wmil 11y ago
A Greek exit was the right solution in 2005, in 2010, and again in 2015. It won't happen so presumably we'll be talking about this again in 2020. It's amazing how correct the UK "No" campaign was.
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by wmil 11y ago
> 70 percent more tomatoes per 1,000 gallons of water Am I reading this wrong? The "1000 gallons" seems superfluous since we're already talking about percentages. Replace it with "gallon of water" or even &quot
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by wmil 11y ago
I actually think the worst bad habit of unions is taking over managerial functions -- eg scheduling, vacations. It effectively turns the union into a subcontractor, and employees start needing a union to protect them from the union.
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by wmil 11y ago
Putting it in the public domain sounds great, but someone needs to conduct the human trials needed to make it safe and effective. They aren't cheap and producing a vaccine carries huge liability risks.
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by wmil 11y ago
I've always found the "don't waste vertical space" rule to be particularly important when I'm reading code. I've also always hated frames in IDEs. I think I used too many small monitors...
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by wmil 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Eraser (1996), staring Schwarzenegger, had a smart rail gun that auto-targeted hearts. It might have even been hacked or jammed in the climax, my memory of the movie is a bit fuzzy.
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by wmil 11y ago
My understanding is that Quebec is the only place Pepsi outsells Coke.
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by wmil 11y ago
TodoMVC is great because every framework has to implement the same thing. That lets you see some of the warts of the framework. Skimming over the official Angular docs and examples you probably wouldn't guess that ngRoute won't l
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by wmil 11y ago
Jeff Atwood has two posts on the topic that support flat comments. Personally I prefer threaded. http://blog.codinghorror.com/discussions-flat-or-threaded/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-f
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by wmil 11y ago
Where do you live? You can't be paying much rent.
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by wmil 11y ago
Wages have been stagnant for the past 30 years (inflation adjusted), but education and housing costs have been skyrocketing. Rent control laws are set up to benefit long term residents, so new workers or people who move to a new city get sc
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by wmil 11y ago
I'd be worried if the crows refused to drink from them.
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by wmil 11y ago
Could someone edit the title and put spaces after the periods and around the dash? It's really bothering me.
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by wmil 11y ago
I'm not buying this article. There's a very strong tabula rasa / pure nuture contingent that's been refusing to cede any ground despite decades of evidence. The article is pure opinion... and I have trouble believing tha
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by wmil 11y ago
You need to keep yourself marketable. There are plenty of interviewers who expect most good JS devs to have React knowledge. It's the hot framework right now.
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by wmil 11y ago
I only found out about that in 2014, so I didn't include it. But I've heard it was possible.
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by wmil 11y ago
IE5.5 had the broken box model. IE6 used the standard box model if the site had a recognized !DOCTYPE and the 5.5 model if it didn't. Web dev was "fun" in the early 2000s. Also console.log and javascript debuggers didn'
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by wmil 11y ago
Keeping a large number of properties empty is extremely disruptive to transit planners. They have to puzzle through the situation where homes next to the subway aren't using the subway.
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by wmil 11y ago
What gets me is that the problem is very easy to solve. Bring in property tax brackets, increase the top rate.
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by wmil 11y ago
Perl's critical failure is that most CPAN modules expect admin rights and a gcc build environment in order to install correctly. That killed it on shared hosting and for small projects that may not have a server admin's support. A
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by wmil 11y ago
It's another barrier to entry. Documentation is probably the worst place to encounter a new language, since the reader is already confused and frustrated. CoffeeScript is a nice language, but I think it's reputation suffers from

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