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by esk 15y ago
Could please someone give a layman's explanation for this bombshell? > Assume I hide a ball in a cabinet with a million drawers. How many drawers do you have to open to find the ball? Sometimes you may get lucky and find the ball in th
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by esk 15y ago
Doesn't Google Analytics also phone home? Google's tracking is far more widespread than Facebook's if that's the case.
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by esk 15y ago
> "I mean, I literally don't think there's anything to be learned from other people's stuff." That is exactly what happened with Color, which Nguyen never even bothered to test. "I'm not here to practice. I'm here to play," says Nguyen
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by esk 15y ago
PG, this is only tangentially related, but I've noticed you quite often use phrases like "starting a startup". Considering you're an excellent writer, I figured you must have a reason for employing redundancy. Is there a reason you don't sa
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by esk 15y ago
For those of us hacking in languages with significant whitespace, I made a simple plugin for treating indent levels as text objects. It's not nearly as cool as Easymotion or Surround, but here it is if you're interested: https://github.c
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by esk 15y ago
If someone had told me his work had been done by a devoted team of a dozen people, I'd still be tremendously impressed that only twelve people managed to accomplish so much. The fact that it's one man? It's chilling. Try looking at things
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by esk 15y ago
> But I think it’s curious that Facebook has reacted so strongly to Google+: for such a small network (relatively) they seem quite afraid of it, going to the point of trying to match all of its innovations. Why is this curious? A gian
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by esk 15y ago
> Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product That's a wonderful way of putting it. Steve Jobs was inspirationally, infectiously passionate about making good things. Rest in peace, Steve
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by esk 15y ago
Ouch! Awesome apps like this are totally humbling. Congratulations, guys. If you're still following this thread, amasad and max99x, I have a simple question: how many hours did you two put into this?
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by esk 15y ago
What's the story behind the name? Also, do you think the "Built with" blurb at the bottom adds value to the site? I know I think it's cool when I see stuff like that, but I can't imagine a non-developer caring.
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by esk 15y ago
I've shied away from Clojure because I have no Java experience. However, I really love Lisp, and I'd love to get some practical experience with it. Has anyone used Clojure as their introduction to the Java ecosystem? Did you survive?
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by esk 15y ago
For those too lazy to click through to the article, the author says that neither pt nor px are relative units, and then drops a bewildering bomb: "I’m saying is when you need an absolute measure you’ll want to define it in pixels." I'm
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by esk 15y ago
I turned off Chrome's prediction service once I found myself relying upon it—it was becoming difficult for me to perform searches on DuckDuckGo without it! Google was making my mind dishearteningly lethargic. For decades, affluent humans ha
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by esk 15y ago
With Windows 8, Microsoft is ushering in native JavaScript apps. It's probably in their best interest to keep developers firmly in the JavaScript camp—the more JavaScript developers their are, the more developers there are for whom native W
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by esk 15y ago
You're right—employers are being lazy. It's safe for people in HR to mindlessly prefer mediocre Candidate A with a degree over stellar Candidate B without one, so instead of actually examining the values the candidates can bring to the comp
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by esk 15y ago
Considering the tone of these letters (especially the last one—wow!), it's a bit difficult to summon empathy with their authors. And I think that's unfortunate, because they have an exceedingly valid point—American universities are making
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by esk 15y ago
That's a very attractive site, and I really find the icons attractive, too (though I imagine they'll be unhelpful for people with difficulty discerning colors). I thought I'd let you know that you have "DEBUG = True in your Django settings
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by esk 15y ago
I love and use CoffeeScript because it removes almost all of JavaScript's cruft, making the true purpose of the code much clearer. Ultimately, removing cruft is all CoffeeScript does—it doesn't fundamentally change JavaScript—but man does
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by esk 15y ago
I definitely understand where you are coming from (and I didn't downvote you), but I have to disagree. That employee (we'll call her Sarah) isn't being paid to see how a startup is created; she's paying to see how a startup is created. Sh
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by esk 15y ago
I really love visualized algorithms like this. To less-than-brilliant people like me, it's often the only intuitive way to understand how an algorithm works.
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by esk 15y ago
I envy your understanding—I'm struggling to figure out what that line is supposed to do. Is he switching to a different branch, squashing all of its commits into one, and then merging that branch back into master?
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by esk 15y ago
In fact, if you're solving "NASA problems", being the first solver even has some potentially crippling disadvantages—nimble competitors can learn from your public mistakes and build off your public successes, all for a lot less time and mo
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by esk 15y ago
I haven't a clue why this is being downvoted, unless the point you are making is too obvious. Perhaps the parent was only describing startups that neither give employees equity nor pay them at market rates? Do many startups try to pull st
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by esk 15y ago
Thank you for mentioning this—I had no idea it existed! Do you use lazy enumerables in your projects? I can think of a few fun uses (such using them as creative replacements for looping constructs), but I'm struggling to find a problem that
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by esk 15y ago
Indeed, but that's what the grandparent is saying—you need to bring your own language to the party.