zoips

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by zoips 11y ago
I think you misunderstand. What I meant to convey is that I believe adding filler weakens her already valid point.
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by zoips 11y ago
Some of those try much too hard, which is kind of silly because you don't need to reach very hard to find people saying stupid/ignorant things about any race/religion/sex/gender/orientation/whatever. &quot
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by zoips 11y ago
Kind of code golfing it: http://play.golang.org/p/s53zQrE0ei
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by zoips 12y ago
The problem is that the general public is going to take "unbreakable encryption" at face value. So don't worry, unbreakable encryption prevents the hacker from getting access to the golden key, because without the golden key
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by zoips 12y ago
The post was a riff on the standard "One weird trick that [does something] discovered by [quirky, unexpected source]" ads you see.
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by zoips 12y ago
Which is too bad. I'm curious about rtc's argument around machines taking the pictures. It seems the logical conclusion of his argument is that if you buy a camera, and the software on the camera takes a picture without the act of
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by zoips 13y ago
Other way around: opting out will cost extra.
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by zoips 13y ago
Q contains some helper functions for creating generators, tying them to a promise, and automatically starting the generator, eg Q.async(). I've found that I'd rather continue using Q and use Q.async()/Q.spawn() rather than de
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by zoips 13y ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276585/Follow-self-... Seems automated from the article. Edit: As mentioned below, reading is fundamental, I should learn to do it sometime.
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by zoips 13y ago
Have you ever worked at Amazon? He did. For 3 years (I did for 4). I very much doubt PA is any worse than Amazon with regards to it being the job from hell. Everything in the PA job description is practically a carbon copy of what should be
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by zoips 13y ago
You're conflating their target functions. etcd is all about configuration distribution. Serf seems more like its about member discovery. So you might have a service you run in multiple clusters. Each cluster has a different configurati
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by zoips 14y ago
No, you're just missing the point. People are focused on the profit and monetary cost of decisions based on their limited capacity to reason about time, which is on the order of probably 10-30 years (if we're being overly generous). Reitera
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by zoips 14y ago
This is a relatively short-sighted view, and the problems with it can be summarized with two very glib statements: 1.) Don't shit where you sleep. 2.) Don't put all your eggs in one basket. As a species we really ought to stop doing both of
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by zoips 14y ago
In the short term: https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers In the long term: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators
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by zoips 15y ago
They haven't reached them, that much is obvious since Lua is every bit as dynamic as Javascript and LuaJIT is orders of magnitude faster than V8.
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by zoips 15y ago
If Google was only interested in putting a faster language into Chrome they could have just shipped with LuaJIT for Lua and been done with it. Obviously they're more interested in playing around in their own sandbox (Dart).
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by zoips 15y ago
I don't think there's a reason to bake futures/promises into the language. Once you've got coroutines (generators here), people can build the abstractions around them that they like.
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by zoips 15y ago
That's a pretty terrible way to share code. Simple example: I work on a project, write some code. Turns out that code is useful for someone else, so they reach in and include it, which is easy since it's all the same repo and all delivered
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by zoips 15y ago
Harmony will include generators, which are basically coroutines.
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by zoips 15y ago
> Very common problem: interviewers asking questions about who was going to take care of the kids. Not to excuse this, but it made me think of a rather terrible mistake I recently made, which I am glad has not come back to bite me. I wa
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by zoips 15y ago
Node is marketed towards people with Javascript experience to a large degree, it seems to me (I could be wrong). People with Javascript experience more than likely have it via writing for a browser. A browser functions functions identically
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by zoips 15y ago
This is great, but I'd rather not use a fork of Node, and Joyent isn't going to integrate this, unfortunately. I wish that Google would just add yield to V8, but they won't do that unless Apple adds it to whatever the hell their interpreter
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by zoips 15y ago
I do like that parsing the claims and determining what is being described is actually harder than designing the system from scratch when you actually finally figure out what the hell the patent is actually about.
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by zoips 15y ago
I think that misses the point of useful loaders like RequireJS or Dojo's loader. The point of those to enable developers to actually design a modular system with well thought out and declared dependencies. Without them you end up designing
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by zoips 15y ago
I'd argue that that would be a really bad idea. You can't be a good software engineer without having a good grasp of Computer Science.
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by zoips 15y ago
I'm a bit confused about how a web app doesn't infringe. Your claim is it doesn't because it's split between two machines, but that's merely a function of one use. A web app can be used from a single machine, with the server portion and the
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by zoips 15y ago
A wiki seems to be a pretty good example. A wiki processor parses data (text) looking for "structures in the data" (camel-cased words), which it then converts to a UI element (hyperlink) that a user can take action on (click it to cause the
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by zoips 15y ago
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proxies Proxies, which are only supported currently in Firefox but should see support in other browsers eventually, will allow you to intercept all types of property access/manipulation on ob
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by zoips 15y ago
I wrote a simple library based off of Crockford's writings to make creating reusable constructor functions that supported public/protected/private simple (and without resorting to silly "if it's preceded with an underscore don't touch it!"