john_butts

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by john_butts 11y ago
This gets back to the point that Swift is not a functional language. By default, the closure is capturing an immutable reference - the fact that the value might change is implicit to the way you must think about programming in a non-functio
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by john_butts 11y ago
Ah yes, not immediately dying. The mark of a not too poor.
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by john_butts 11y ago
Like, I'm not trying to be snarky, there's a lot of conversions going on there that aren't explicated. My takeaway is that if you can buy food and little else, that's poverty, right? Or no?
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by john_butts 11y ago
So poverty then. Or I don't understand your math?
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by john_butts 11y ago
That's a great course, and actually a perfect conceptual base for Swift in a lot of ways.
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by john_butts 11y ago
Not buying it.
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by john_butts 11y ago
I mean, Twitter only makes sense when a third party digests their API. The default web client is broken (sometimes intentionally) in many, many ways. Perhaps I'm misreading you?
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by john_butts 11y ago
Your scrolling social sidebar is obscuring the text, BTW.
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by john_butts 11y ago
Yeah but still. Yawn.
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by john_butts 11y ago
1. HN comment about some aspect of fizzbuzz or whatever. Not how to solve fizzbuzz or whatever; rather, some insight into how people solve problems, which is the interesting part of the question. 2. Two dozen oblivious nerds tell u how to d
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by john_butts 11y ago
"It's hip to be square" - Huey Lewis
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by john_butts 11y ago
Seconded wholeheartedly, from a non-friend.
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by john_butts 11y ago
Yeah I figured, but I didn't know if there was an actual parity error because I was working (impossibly) towards the wrong solution, or if there was a hard part that I might still work through and still arrive at a wrong but plausible
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by john_butts 11y ago
It's not "hard", it's just obfuscated as it stands. I chose one of many plausible success conditions to work towards and got one step away due to what seemed like a parity error and quit.
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by john_butts 12y ago
You nerds are sooooo fucked when the rubber meets the road.
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by john_butts 12y ago
Am I misreading the Japan thing? Like, it's not hard to imagine that there would be candidates that would be immediately excluded based on surname alone without even getting into race or gender - is this "fair" or "unfai
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by john_butts 12y ago
Orrrrr it brings him into line with appropriate workplace expectations in a world not dominated by dudes.
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by john_butts 12y ago
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/cursor-x-10/
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by john_butts 12y ago
Almost no one praises the books! In fact, that's the one caveat in most otherwise glowing reviews; that is a testament to the game design, that the only concrete narrative is the least effective narrative. However! - I think Blow was a
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by john_butts 12y ago
This is the origin story of Richard Stabone (RIP) also. Originally named to be used as a sacrificial bargaining chip with the standards board, he was somehow never cut, leaving Kirk Cameron stuck with a Boner for four years.
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by john_butts 12y ago
One of those is your own submission, from today, linking to a similarly outdated article, which is weird
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by john_butts 12y ago
Speaking as a rockstar bacon ninja Viking pirate robot code fu guru unicorn damn hell aged and wise app developer, many of these problems could be mitigated or eliminated in the web dev world if the web dev community could just slow down a
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by john_butts 13y ago
It seems like, for various reasons, you want to make a very public statement.
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by john_butts 13y ago
Wouldn't if be easier to lean on two or three grad students to step up? I genuinely don't know how these things work, but maybe that's why this looks a little nuclear to me.
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by john_butts 13y ago
Just when I thought medium couldn't get any mediumer.
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by john_butts 13y ago
There is a constant problem where I mouse over a link and see only medium dot com. It's a contextual stripping in a marketplace that pretty explicitly judges you on the unique ribbons in your hair.
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by john_butts 13y ago
Huuuuuuge jump up to his denouement.
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by john_butts 14y ago
Your site is barely readable and unzoomable on my phone where I would normally read a short blog post from an unknown but potentially interesting site. It's a very real glass house situation.