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by nmjohn 12y ago
Rocket engines get extremely hot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_engine#Cooling
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> that every evil minded person can look through the source code, abuse it, before we were able to counter/fix etc it. I think this is a worthy application of the phrase It's a feature, not a bug. Closed source necessitates tha
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I think you will find this interesting then: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Agents
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by nmjohn 12y ago
All three are viable candidates - however because it appears to me like you are trying to learn more about web development, I'm going to suggest node.js, because like it or not, when it comes to the browser, javascript is your only cho
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I don't understand the attention this is getting - sure, you don't need grunt on a lot of projects, I never start a personal project with it and only a fraction of my personal projects ever have me add it. However for work, it sav
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> done with malice aforethought > massive funding Who gets to make that judgement? In my mind you are asking for punishment based on subjective criteria, which would be ripe for abuse.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> JavaScript is not such a language. ... There are many “gotchas” I don't disagree, like all languages javascript has its quirks (more than some, fewer than others, all depending on a given developers perspective) but I fail to see
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by nmjohn 12y ago
But the thing is for many people (at least for me) was the instant gratification PHP provides can be a powerful hook. With PHP you can create interesting visual things with virtually no experience, no boilerplate required. It's one of
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Oh man, this is the first time I've ever heard someone else reference GW basic. When I was 10 or so I convinced my parents to let me put the ibm 286, which previously was sitting in their closet, in my bedroom. (At the time we had a ne
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I would say first, it depends on your personal life. Depending on where you're coming from, moving a family out here may be a challenge. If it's just you I absolutely would recommend it, if not I still would recommend it, but ther
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> A really smart and experienced developer who doesn't know your tech stack I really question whether that exists or not. The kind of developer you are referring to by and large knows how good they are and has no problem finding a j
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by nmjohn 12y ago
If you're needing to read 10 different books you are doing a very poor job of picking companies to apply to. If you're a python developer, it wouldn't make sense for you to apply for a ruby job, a nodejs job, a C++ job, and a
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Right, but that is different than paid experience, which is what the OP was talking about.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
What companies are you applying to? I find what you are saying very hard to believe as my own experience has been the complete opposite. When I was interviewing I got asked about my side projects more than everything else combined.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
How many interviews have you conducted? If the answer is more than 0, I feel you have gotten lucky in the candidates you interview or are far more selective on who you actually interview. If the answer is 0, then you would be incredibly sur
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by nmjohn 12y ago
That wasn't my claim, please don't misquote me. What I actually said was "Other times fat absolutely is converted to sugar." There is a very significant difference.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Google crawlers do index javascript now as many people have already pointed out. The other common practice is to use a "prerender" server which uses a tool like phantomjs to render the HTML of the page. When googlebot or any other
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Sometimes - but they ARE metabolized through the same pathway. Essentially: Glucose ->[0] pyruvate ->[1] acetyl-coa -> TCA cycle vs Fatty acids ->[2] acetyl-coa -> TCA cycle The TCA is cycle is the actual ma
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by nmjohn 12y ago
You should take a look at stock market returns over the last few years, this year included. If you purchased shares of a s&p500 index fund at just about any point in history, your net gain will be well over 5% annual growth. Even if you
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> ~x.indexOf(…) would be “starts with” rather than “contains”, for negative numbers such as -2 (from ~1) are truthy. Nope, here's an example you can run it run in your console: function contains(needle, haystack) { retur
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Which is why I only use it on solo projects. That being said, ~indexOf is hardly tricky. if(string.indexOf(term)) is far trickier, because if you didn't realize it returning 0 was a positive result, you easily could write it without a
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> This is an experimental technology, part of the Harmony (ECMAScript 6) proposal. It only works in firefox and if I remember correctly, it is no longer part of the latest ECMA 6 spec.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Learning about bitwise operators (and everything they entail - so binary in general, endianness, etc) was without a doubt the most beneficial thing I've ever done for my programming abilities. It was a complete eye opener to how comput
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by nmjohn 12y ago
You can get a dedicated gigabit line for like a grand a month - possibly less - which if you max out 24/7 gets you like 300 terabytes of bandwidth = $0.00333 - and one gigabit line is hardly wholesale.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> in my opinion Node has way too many issues to run in money-making scenarios. You can say that about a lot of languages other than node. How many billion dollar companies have their software written in PHP - a language that many people
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by nmjohn 12y ago
$200/gb of bandwidth is expensive for anybody!
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by nmjohn 12y ago
It's not as nefarious as you think, I didn't dig into deep enough to know why they are using the empty iframe to submit forms to, but the send button submits an ajax POST request main.js:460 $.ajax({ type : "POST&qu
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by nmjohn 12y ago
App gives an error on facebook login - I sent a link to a screencast of what happens to the email in your profile. That being said, why use facebook login? I rarely will use a site which requires a facebook login.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I think you're going to get a range of answers simply due to the diversity of people and their personalities. If you crash and burn miserably due to factors that you realistically could and should have known about and been able to cont
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I completely agree - but I love the fact that they are transparent about exactly how long they can operate without donations.

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