ehsanul

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by ehsanul 15y ago
I must be missing something, but how is EventEmitter helping you get rid of the nested code in your examples? It looks like changing all the anonymous callbacks to named functions, and then using the function names as the callbacks is what
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by ehsanul 15y ago
On a related note, I love how some early RFCs are written in a pretty whimsical manner. Perhaps it's just Vint Cerf who likes messing around? For instance, see RFC968, 'Twas the Night Before Start-up': http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc968.html
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by ehsanul 15y ago
We need to turing-test people like that! But seriously, I've never encountered people who can really go that far off-topic. I'm sure it was an exaggeration, but if it was enough to change your mind about how our brains work...
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by ehsanul 15y ago
It would seem that exchanges like these indicate the opposite. These chat bots have no understanding and anything that seems like it is just some cheap trick or other. It can't be called intelligence, in the same way we speak of human intel
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by ehsanul 15y ago
RFC439, posted by the co-creator of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf, actually has a similar exchange between "PARRY" and the "Doctor" from 1972 (!): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439 It somehow got no attention though, when I posted it to HN a long ti
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by ehsanul 15y ago
It would seem pretty short-sighted for the developers to not have realized this though (though I wouldn't say the same for venture capitalists and media). I'm guessing they must have figured this out, but just don't have a solution for it y
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by ehsanul 16y ago
From the link: Degrades gracefully if JavaScript is not enabled Graceful degradation is less common for JavaScript now than it used to be though. So if you want a smooth web experience, these days you just can't go without JavaScript. I p
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Did you get in? If not, were you invited for an interview?
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Deleted comments don't go dead, as far as I know. I think it was killed by someone by mistake (there are a few overzealous moderators here, or it may just have been a mis-click, or maybe even some algorithmic spam-killing, though I doubt th
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Full-screen application switching has a far far greater mental-cost than having two windows open at the same time. As an XMonad user with a 15.4" screen, I disagree. For example, when programming, I find it quite easy/fast to alt+1 to my
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I'd encourage you to apply whether or not you have a working prototype by the 20th. In fact, apply today. You can update your application later if you have a demo or something to add to it.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
You made me look this up. *Is it "concision" or "conciseness" - http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2005/11/is_it_conci...
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Should be "Scheme -> C compiler".
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I'm no security expert, but I don't think you even need an out-of-band key exchange mechanism. Just use public key cryptography [1], as used in SSH/TLS/PGP/GPG. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
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by ehsanul 16y ago
This could be very painful for the likes of Mahalo. I remember Jason Calcanis mentioning, perhaps when he first noted a change of direction for Mahalo to high-quality content, that he'll make sure Mahalo is the number one Google result for
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Yeah, it's overlooked by many that the Chrome isn't all that extensible compared to what you can do in Firefox with addons. Chrome's developer tools are built in because they must be, whereas Firebug should be able to do anything that Firef
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Maybe you'd like Mirah? http://www.mirah.org/
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I've been listening to those talks. They're only about an hour to 1.5 hours long, and there's only 6 of them. They are supposed to be spread over a 6 week period. So every week for six weeks, you need to find an hour to spend listening to t
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by ehsanul 16y ago
With bezier curves (it's prettier) in Canvas/Coffeescript (assuming an existing global canvas context 'ctx'): heart = (scale,x,y)-> ctx.beginPath() ctx.moveTo(x,y) p1 = [x-75*scale,y+20*scale] ctx.bezierCur
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Also would be interesting to see how HN points are correlated to page views.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
And raganwald was referring to the '#!' hack, since it's really just the '#' hack. He wasn't addressing the history api.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Note the account's name, 'TrollBait'. Brand new too. If he keeps those kinds of comments up, he'll be banned in no time. On the other hand, I'm impressed how you just ignored TrollBait's insult and just replied in an absolutely normal manne
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Would you be willing to answer a few questions? I'm a recent mechanical engineering graduate (interest in dynamics/control systems) who likes programming. So I'm pretty interested in the type of work you're involved in and want to see if I
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Thanks for signing up! (assuming you did)
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Counterexample: I doubt the current implementation of pagerank+additions at Google is all that simple.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
They had no remorse for the detrimental outcomes they brought upon those they stole from... no compassion whatsoever. Sounds like they were simply psychopaths, hence lacking most emotion. It seems like that emotion/empathy was selected fo
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by ehsanul 16y ago
There's a theory from the latest TED talk that says our survival prior to inventing weapons (like spears) depended on running other animals to exhaustion. http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector#p/u/0/b-iGZPtWX...
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by ehsanul 16y ago
While you start off with some (probably deserved) snark, I want to thank you for the way you wrote your second paragraph. I wish every downvote HN newcomers get came with a comment like that.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Oh, oops. Sorry, me and at least 3 others had a collective brain fart it seems. I had first thought you meant that both of those sets of compiler flags weren't quite right.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
You're probably right, I'm an amateur at this. My current solution works pretty well, but I should really drill into what may be wrong here. If you don't mind me asking, what in your estimation would be an ideal query plan for a join of the

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