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by blinks 5y ago
Imagine making this same point about books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe...
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by blinks 9y ago
It's more important to make code readable than clever, and more important to be simple than fast. It tends to be pretty easy to speed up readable+simple code when you need to do so, but fixing broken fast+clever code is much more diffi
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by blinks 10y ago
> It does include a lot of arcana about how web application stacks work, the network and gateway protocols they use,... This was my second phone screen at Google, for what it's worth.
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by blinks 11y ago
I highly recommend looking into Inform7, effectively a text adventure IDE (though the community tends to call it "interactive fiction"). The language is a bit odd, and attempts to "read like English", but it provides so
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by blinks 11y ago
If the system was namespaced, it'd be even better -- essentially make Meshtag just the translation layer (drawing to id), and then pass that identifier into any backend you like.
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by blinks 11y ago
There are tens of thousands of employees at Google. Most of them interview. People are different.
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by blinks 11y ago
http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html You can [at least internally] define custom rules to handle pretty much anything, in almost-but-not-quite-python.
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by blinks 12y ago
For more concrete syntax, consider the following Python: >>> import re >>> route = re.compile(r'(?P<fb>^/foo/bar$)|(?P<fbd>^/foo/bar/\d+$)') >>> route.match(&
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by blinks 12y ago
> understanding why it is done in this particular way is another Isn't that the reason for comments in the first place?
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by blinks 12y ago
> Either way, when you’re reading a linked page, you may still > be “at” awesomestuff.com, as clicking the back button on > your browser can instantly confirm. Effectively, > awesomestuff.com has stolen content from newyorker
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by blinks 12y ago
Grep the article for "If someone had changed the calendar, wouldn't anyone else – say the Muslims? – have noticed?" -- a paragraph which ends with: "All these areas would require an enormous amount of research either to
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by blinks 13y ago
Specifically: * Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods * Merchants selling through Google-hosted marketplaces (e.g. Google Play) will be unaffected * Merchants selling physical goods will need to s
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by blinks 13y ago
I would ask if you had ever worked in IT. There is a reason such jobs turn people into curmudgeons. It's not like they all started that way. You attempt to give a simple explanation as to what you're doing, but as soon as you sa
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by blinks 13y ago
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete ?
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by blinks 14y ago
What's the point of Facebook? Twitter?
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by blinks 14y ago
> I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :) I think that's a really interesting comment! Perhaps it's because the UX is more social netw
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by blinks 14y ago
Your comment would carry more weight if I knew what projects you recently contributed to.
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by blinks 14y ago
Doesn't seem like an amazing rationale; personally, I like periods -- they let me know the writer finished their thought.
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by blinks 14y ago
I _think_ the complaint is the following: if x == nil { x.doSomethingCrazy(); // Runtime error? } else { ... } "Boolean blindness" (bah) is that either the type system should catch this at compile time (because we know x is nil), or th
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by blinks 14y ago
> Complaining that every attendee's attention is not > permanently fixed upon you strikes me as particularly vain. I read this differently: an audience can get the most out of a presentation by paying attention. If you're conscious
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by blinks 14y ago
> Prototypes are simply more complicated than classes. [citation needed] I'd argue the opposite: "Prototypes are simply more _intuitive_ than classes." OO-design says that X is-a Y is-a Z, with inheritance providing the main form of str
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by blinks 14y ago
The language is interesting, at the very least -- concurrency primitives are nice, and the interface-based type system works for most cases (generic containers notwithstanding). The major speed problem right now is GC, but that should be im
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by blinks 15y ago
Does http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/ not work for you?
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by blinks 15y ago
You can even go farther than that -- return true on success, and anything else on failure, and you get the semantics this person wants. If the results should be saved, that should generally be done outside the if condition anyway.
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by blinks 15y ago
Actually, they're _not_ both equal to infinity, in the mathematical sense (which I believe you're discussing) -- X / 0 is undefined. What's equal to infinity is the limit of 1 / x as x approaches 0, and that's only from the positive side.
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by blinks 15y ago
Caste system? I'm an SRE-SWE myself, but I couldn't tell you what side of the fence each of my team members are. (I might have an educated guess, though, based on the projects they choose to work on...)
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by blinks 15y ago
That doesn't seem to fix the underlying problem -- they understood/read the plain english version, just not the terms. Honestly (and I'm guilty of this as much as anyone), I doubt they even read the terms. Here we have this huge thread abo
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by blinks 15y ago
> You check the ones that you expect. You expect buffer overflows? Out-of-bounds arguments? These are the things the GP is referring to, I figure.
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by blinks 16y ago
Skaters are actually pretty cool guys, in general. First skate video I found on YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAvGzCPa0TU Sample comments: Asking for advice: > when you tre flip over something (gap, stairs or anything) does anyon
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by blinks 16y ago
The forum manager (Matt) on that thread is being very cool about the whole thing; bravo, Motorola.

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