esmooov

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by esmooov 12y ago
What next? Crosswords in the paper?
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by esmooov 12y ago
I don't understand why designers refuse to pay attention to typographic guidelines. 95 characters per line is not very readable. To be fair, Wikipedia already suffers from this problem. Between 100-character lines and sans-serif body c
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by esmooov 12y ago
Well, if you ever wanna chat about core.async or PourOver or jobs or life, I'm more than happy to do so: erik.hinton@nytimes.com Nolen's also a great guy and really serious about helping folks out with stuff like core.async. I&#x2
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by esmooov 12y ago
Alright, this is a great point. It would be trivial for me to add addPossibilities. I think I'll do that! Thanks. This will really help for using PourOver to power tagging selection fields where you can ... add possibilities!
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by esmooov 12y ago
I totally wouldn't be intimidated. We all just love what we do. The best way to get a job is often to get to know the folks on the team, hack with them on projects. I'd really hate to work at a place that I felt was exclusive.
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by esmooov 12y ago
I think I'm a little confused. Why wouldn't you have just added the "roman" possibility from the get go? Could you provide an example of a situation when you don't know the universe of possibilities in advance?
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by esmooov 12y ago
I would absolutely like to add a Crossfilter Filter type. I'd even accept a pull request ... ;)
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by esmooov 12y ago
This looks really cool. I wouldn't say PourOver is focuses on speed as much as focused on being fast enough to get 60fps for 100k items. Cheers!
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by esmooov 12y ago
There are some benchmarks against the base underscore filter methods in the tests. These are what Backbone uses by default. However, the real utility of PourOver is less in its raw speed -- I'm sure that it could be improved by smarter
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by esmooov 12y ago
Hi, all. A lot of folks are asking for a demo and, you're right. I should have included one. My apologies. I'll get to working on one as soon as I can. In the meantime, I encourage readers to check out the source for http:/&
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by esmooov 12y ago
Crossfilter was absolutely the inspiration. I just wanted to make a Crossfilter that worked with the arbitrary boolean composition, could be dynamically added to and updated, and supported some of the less numerical patterns I was encounter
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by esmooov 12y ago
Oh this is great! I really should port something like this to the docs.
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by esmooov 12y ago
This is exactly what PourOver offers. You can chain filter results to any boolean complexity, as well extend the default filter types to optimize indexing and caching. Indeed, PourOver was trivial to make, an outgrowth of the very pattern y
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by esmooov 13y ago
"If you are not paying, then you are the product" is not logically equivalent to "if you are paying, then you are not the product". !A -> B != A -> !B Denying the antecedent.
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How the New York Times Used Haskell for Fashion Week(source.mozillaopennews.org)
7 points by esmooov 13y ago|0 comments
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by esmooov 13y ago
Just want to point out that you could implement similar behavior in Haskell: {-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-} {-# LANGUAGE FlexibleInstances #-} class Concatable a b where concat' :: a -> b -> a instance Concatable [a] a w
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Final Hours to Help Kids Learn to Program(indiegogo.com)
1 points by esmooov 14y ago|0 comments
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by esmooov 14y ago
That's really excellent. It's funny, although not entirely surprising, but we have also been using parts of Khan and Bret Victor. The students seemed to really enjoy the sandbox of Khan as a starter to what is possible with code. Repl.it wa
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by esmooov 14y ago
Haha. I'm happy someone saw that. I wish I could say that it had something to do with my theory of Social Catamorphism, folding our disparate talents into a better future, or something. Unfortunately, no such theory exists, and I just picke
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Teaching Computer Programming to Underserved Kids(indiegogo.com)
49 points by esmooov 14y ago|13 comments
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ScriptEd Teaches Underprivileged Kids to Code(techland.time.com)
5 points by esmooov 14y ago|0 comments
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by esmooov 14y ago
Ah, yes. You are absolutely right that I pooched the Android memory example. Laymen might not care and it might not help them. I think a better example might be someone copying information off a website. I've seen this happen a lot. Someone
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by esmooov 14y ago
Right, and this is a barrier to learning digital domains. There is no physicalization of many digital ideas but, precisely by being digital, they do not map onto physical things. I can't run into a lambda on the street or have to fix a leak
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by esmooov 14y ago
I like this point. It is an important distinction and a good comparison to a related area, physics. Two thoughts, though, that I'd like to hear your thoughts on: 1. Don't we all learn physics? At least basically in school we learn about ine
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by esmooov 14y ago
Haha, that's awesome.
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by esmooov 14y ago
I wanted to add this to my original post because I think it sums up my point nicely: "That which interests us in a given situation, that which we are likely to grasp in it first, is the side by which it can respond to a tendency or a need.
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On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code(gist.github.com)
206 points by esmooov 14y ago|60 comments
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The 2012 SXSW Experience Engine(sxstweets.com)
1 points by esmooov 15y ago|0 comments
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by esmooov 15y ago
I'm not sure that this conclusion follows nor am I sure that discussions like this accomplish anything. CoffeeScript makes it easier to write "correct" JS and patches an institutional bug: Javascript's development crawls along. Even if it d
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by esmooov 15y ago
I think Jeremy's real point is that Javascript is an entirely different beast than Haskell or Java or Ruby. Why? Javascript depends on a free and open code environment to get around the fact that the actual language's development moves glac

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