Xavi

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by Xavi 9y ago
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
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by Xavi 11y ago
Well a package manager does much more than verify downloads, but sure you can think of it as a single featured package manager.
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by Xavi 11y ago
Just brain storming... could another possible solution be to create a public list of hashes of well known scripts, and then write a small `sh` wrapper that verifies that hash of the script it's about to execute?
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by Xavi 12y ago
Why is having node as a dependency such a bad thing? No snark. Genuinely curious.
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by Xavi 13y ago
Neither did I, though I still enjoyed it. Really opened my eyes to aspects of web development I never considered.
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by Xavi 14y ago
Are you paying any money to the original author?
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by Xavi 14y ago
When I used to work on windows I created a little AutoHotKey script that remapped my keyboard when ever the capslock key was on: https://github.com/xavi-/Keyboard-Remapper It mapped I,J,K,L to the arrow keys, U to the home key, O to the e
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by Xavi 14y ago
There's an option to turn on/off the auto responder. Checkout the second image in the slide show: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/illgajkjilbddcllil...
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by Xavi 15y ago
BTW, Google seems to be pretty open with what they know about you. Here are two links where they display an explicit list: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
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by Xavi 15y ago
I understand in principle this is true, but in reality what kind of performance hit are you looking at? I've never seen any real stats.
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by Xavi 15y ago
Quickly switching of themes is one reason why you would want to make it easy to change css: http://xavi.co/articles/jquery-ui-css-themes-hosted-on-cdn I can also be quite useful during development. One cool trick to achieve something sim
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by Xavi 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you make sure only real people are playing?
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by Xavi 15y ago
Presumably the code snippets are meant for beginners who need/appreciate more verbose comments.
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by Xavi 16y ago
Oops, that's a type-o. The capitalize doesn't need to change. Thanks for the heads up.
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by Xavi 16y ago
Yep, that is exactly the solution I would be looking for. I would be blown a way if someone came up with solution that could handle arbitrary function returns. My friend actually wrote an interesting article on the subject. Here's the lin
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by Xavi 16y ago
Many interviewees, when presented with `say("hello")("world")`, understood that `say` was a function that returned a function, but few were able to actually implement `say`.
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by Xavi 16y ago
A while back a couple of colleagues sat down and came up with our own set of JS interview questions. Here's what we came up with: Can the interviewee code: https://gist.github.com/633341 Can the interviewee read/debug code: https://gist
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by Xavi 16y ago
The performance is quite good. Is the source (the unminified version) available anywhere?
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by Xavi 16y ago
The async and defer attributes are great. Don't forget to added them to your disqus script as well.
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by Xavi 16y ago
I'd argue that "cute obfuscation" techniques aren't needed anymore... gmail's spam filter is pretty good...
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by Xavi 16y ago
I agree, TypeState seems especially interesting. This paper from one of the comments does a good job describing it: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/classic/tse12-typestat...
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by Xavi 16y ago
"I know many of you think JavaScript is a toy language..." hmm, I thought the dev community got over the javascript-is-a-toy-language mentality 3 or 4 years ago?
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by Xavi 17y ago
I agree, this does help fix the "fastest gun in the west" issue, but I don't think it eliminates the problem. A mediocre answer that was posted one minute after the question was submitted often has more votes than a well thought answer post
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by Xavi 17y ago
I know it's fun bashing IE, but if anyone cares, this css rule achieves the same effect in IE: filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Matrix(M11=1,M12=.2679,M21=0,M22=1,sizingMethod='auto expand');
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by Xavi 17y ago
I've heard similar stories form friends of mine who were also CS TAs.
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by Xavi 17y ago
They've also moved away from document.write. Now we can use google analytics on pages served as XHTML without resorting to these types of hacks: http://www.the-xavi.com/articles/operation-is-not-supported-...