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by effbott 13y ago
This doesn't make the target object read-only - it just returns a reference to it. data = {one: "one"} ref = makeRef(data) ref().two = "two" data => Object {one: "one", two: "two&quo
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by effbott 13y ago
Just delete the modal from the DOM and you'll have full access to the article.
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by effbott 13y ago
5 year ban for parking violations? That seems extreme.
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by effbott 13y ago
Wow.. this is amazing. I'm kind of blown away by how cheap it is. Is this your permanent residence or a vacation home? Does it feel weird to not have neighbors?
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by effbott 13y ago
Most automated phone systems will connect you to an operator if you press 0 repeatedly (as in 10 to 20 times in a row). There's almost always a way to get around automated phone systems.
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by effbott 13y ago
It's simple. People who have more experience generally demand higher salaries. The company in question is probably seeking someone who's fairly experienced but doesn't have the budget to afford a superstar.
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by effbott 13y ago
>Regardless, I think the author's point was more that there's nothing "special" about getters and setters in Ruby. They're just plain ol' methods. Ah, that's a good point. That seems to be a more accura
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by effbott 13y ago
Ruby really is a great language. The author just posted a poor example that is frankly NOT idiomatic Ruby. The proper way to create a getter and setter method on an instance variable is like so: class Person attr_accessor :sanity
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by effbott 13y ago
And by "automatic classification content filter" they mean "someone manually added the Guardian to a blacklist".
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by effbott 13y ago
How far do you take this? Kickstarter is a business and needs to make money. Should it be acceptable for people to Kickstart escort businesses, "legal high" websites, or Amway pyramid schemes? All of those things are legal but are
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by effbott 13y ago
Kickstarter is a business and has no obligation to uphold free speech. They need to curate their projects to protect their reputation. What if they allowed filmakers to Kickstart porn movies? You could call it free speech and make no judgme
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by effbott 13y ago
Something like that already exists: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/one-click-selling/
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by effbott 13y ago
True, but the risk of dying at the hands of these people is extremely slim. According to tabular data found here[1], which chronicles US terrorist incidents and assassinations dating back to 1865, only 5031 people have been killed by terror
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by effbott 13y ago
Thanks for making it! Computer security is a fascinating field that I've only begun to dive into recently.
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by effbott 13y ago
The password is sent in plaintext in the POST body.
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by effbott 13y ago
I'm confused by that as well. The POST data sends a nonce value but the message itself is in plaintext... not even Base64..
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by effbott 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by effbott 13y ago
You have to know the right people. I have a non-CS degree from a pretty average state school but I somehow fell into the world of HFT algo development. I suppose luck played a large role in my case since I wasn't actively seeking that type
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by effbott 13y ago
Nested if statements? I'd be interested to see how that looks. You only need one if statement, and you only have to involve a single guard.
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by effbott 13y ago
'guard' is just a placeholder. Try typing key = @xzoor.askKey(@door)
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by effbott 13y ago
Yeah, it was really meant as more of a dark joke than a serious point. But it does make you wonder what people consider "serious enough" to warrant a trip to the hospital, given that medical costs are so high.
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by effbott 13y ago
Only in America would somebody think twice about seeing doctor after being struck by lightning.
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by effbott 13y ago
>One of the healthy side effects is that you'll rarely end up with the "can you just quickly add x" requests Up until now I've always billed by the hour, but this sentence alone has convinced me to switch over to daily. Those "10 minute
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by effbott 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I'll have to give it a try. And I need to stop working for stingy clients...
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by effbott 13y ago
That sounds good from my end (as the freelancer), but won't the client be upset if they pay a day rate for what might end up being a half day's work? I guess the client would have no way of knowing this, but it still makes me feel uneasy.
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by effbott 13y ago
>don't bill hourly I hear this a lot, but I'm not sure how to implement it. Some people have suggested that freelancers ought to bill for the entire project, but in doing so you run the risk of losing money by underestimating the amount
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by effbott 13y ago
Looks really nice but I can't see myself using it. I use Sinatra when I want to throw together a quick "scetch" of an app and Rails when I want to make something that involves a database, controllers, multiple views, etc. I've never felt th
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by effbott 13y ago
Eloquent Ruby is an excellent book for beginners. http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio... If you just want to learn some basics of Ruby without diving into an entire book, check out Ruby Monk. All of the tutorials
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by effbott 14y ago
I disagree. Technology is advancing at an extremely rapid pace and in the future it will require more knowledge and training to keep up, thus raising the bar to enter. Look at the medical field, for example. 200 years ago it didn't take muc
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by effbott 14y ago
>More than 90 percent of the entrepreneurs ... were well-educated: 95.1 percent of those surveyed had earned bachelor's degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees. That really surprised me. Maybe it's just a tech entrepreneur t

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