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by ycitm 4mo ago
The next sentence in the quote hasn't aged so well - "What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
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by ycitm 1y ago
Most importantly, this means my type system N-queens solution now works for an 8x8 chessboard (actually up to 10x10) instead of complaining about recursion depth: https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/type
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by ycitm 1y ago
Doesn't seem to be any discernable improvement on the Zoom Cat Lawyer.
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by ycitm 4y ago
You can also play around with the code in the TypeScript playground: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/PTAEEkDsAsEMBsCmAa...
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by ycitm 4y ago
Ah, thank you so much! Great spot. I've corrected this, and credited you in the errata - https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...
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by ycitm 4y ago
I don't think there's any way to do iteration in the type system (other than recursion), so there's no way around it. I considered forking the compiler to set a deeper limit, but at some point Typescript itself is going to st
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by ycitm 4y ago
I wondered if anyone would spot this :) There's a recursion depth limit of 500 on the TypeScript compiler, which prevents this solution working for N > 7 Even Aphyr's original Haskell solution only demonstrates N = 6, so in som
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by ycitm 4y ago
The series is actually by Aphyr: https://aphyr.com/tags/interviews This post is a pastiche of https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
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by ycitm 4y ago
The runes are mostly "just because", but there is a reason. Ideally, I would have written: type Nil = unique symbol Which would ensure the Nil type wouldn't match with anything but itself. Unfortunately, the compiler d
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TypeScripting the technical interview(richard-towers.com)
727 points by ycitm 4y ago|159 comments
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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)
2 points by ycitm 4y ago|0 comments
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How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk(insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk)
49 points by ycitm 4y ago|43 comments
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by ycitm 9y ago
If you've got any experience or interest in programming, I'd recommend having a stab at Google Summer of Code[0]. [0] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
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Lessons from last week’s cyberattack(blogs.microsoft.com)
377 points by ycitm 9y ago|282 comments
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by ycitm 9y ago
One of my new years resolutions was to learn to type faster. To get some practice I started taking notes in all the meetings I attend. This wasn't common practice in my team before, but I've found it to be really useful. I've
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by ycitm 10y ago
If you have control of your nameservers you can use cloudflare's free TLS offering and keep your current webhost.
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by ycitm 10y ago
Surround support was just added in IdeaVim 0.46. From the release notes: Support for vim-surround commands ys, cs, ds, S, enable it with set surround in your ~/.ideavimrc
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by ycitm 10y ago
Looks like it's just an optimization. If you change to let test_curry x y = x + y + x You get the expected output function f(param) { return test_curry(32, param); }
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by ycitm 10y ago
You could call your js function with a string, and rather than a compile time error you'd get broken behaviour at runtime.
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by ycitm 10y ago
At least in new versions of Chrome, NodeList is iterable, so you can use forEach and map on it. https://medium.com/@devlucky/nodelist-object-is-finally-an-i...
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by ycitm 10y ago
Some nice intuitive stuff in the help, too. :help paragraph [...] The default is "IPLPPPQPP TPHPLIPpLpItpplpipbp" [...] (they're nroff macros, but pretty baffling to a beginner)
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by ycitm 10y ago
Perhaps Tōkaidō Shinkansen would be a better example? 331 trains / day, 391 thousand passengers / day according to: http://english.jr-central.co.jp/company/ir/annualreport/_pdf... (pdf)
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by ycitm 11y ago
Yup, see @pauljz's comment above - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375297
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by ycitm 11y ago
Regarding [7] and [8], Snowden has explicitly denied that he is the source for the GCHQ Oman leak - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/23/uk-gove... .
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by ycitm 11y ago
Agreed, both of those are better. Hopefully one will gain traction. Thanks for the link, good to know people are thinking about the naming issues.
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by ycitm 11y ago
Is this just criticism of the "isomorphic" term? I'm not a fan of it either ("isomorphic" already has a different well-defined meaning in CS), but it does seem to have some traction now. Perhaps you have an alternat
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by ycitm 11y ago
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by ycitm 11y ago
Nitpick: strictly speaking setting cookies is not part of ECMAScript, it's part of the DOM api.
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by ycitm 12y ago
The phrase "it makes for really boring dinner conversation" does though.
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by ycitm 12y ago
As @Joeboy points out, the title is a play on "The loneliness of the long distance runner", so it's not literally about loneliness.

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