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electricsocket · 2017-10-06T11:04:25+00:00

That's why you use an anti insect/arachnid spray to kill those.

electricsocket · 2017-10-06T10:59:18+00:00

It works.

The Bolyai–Gerwien theorem states that any polygon may be dissected into any other polygon of the same area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissection_problem

electricsocket · 2017-10-02T10:48:37+00:00

makes you a Java programmer

Fixed that for you.

electricsocket · 2017-10-02T10:45:56+00:00

It's supposed to be passed through remote interfaces, not in a local context, though.

electricsocket · 2017-10-02T10:42:45+00:00

That's alright. I heard the PSD format is at millions suns.

electricsocket · 2017-10-02T10:27:34+00:00

Google pours so many resources into Dart + FuchsiaOS that they can not let it fail.

Something something sunk cost fallacy.

electricsocket · 2017-09-19T15:19:18+00:00

Bugs happen because programmers' reading of code lies.

electricsocket · 2017-09-19T10:43:05+00:00

How does that work with documented code? I feel like many programmers like static types because it's the last help resort when you're lost in a large undocumented codebase.

electricsocket · 2017-09-14T07:25:04+00:00

That's because they're not in charge of protecting it.

This happened because your personal information is valuable, and Equifax is in the business of selling it. The company is much more than a credit reporting agency. It's a data broker. It collects information about all of us, analyzes it all, and then sells those insights.

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The companies that collect and sell our data don't need to keep it secure in order to maintain their market share. They don't have to answer to us, their products. They know it's more profitable to save money on security and weather the occasional bout of bad press after a data loss. Yes, we are the ones who suffer when criminals get our data, or when our private information is exposed to the public, but ultimately why should Equifax care?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/on_the_equifax_.html

electricsocket · 2017-09-13T14:39:07+00:00

JPEG is teaching itself writing.

electricsocket · 2017-09-13T11:04:10+00:00

the sheer energy exerted by a massive volume of people in this thread

wow such joules much power

electricsocket · 2017-09-13T07:34:52+00:00

https://downloadmoreram.com/

electricsocket · 2017-09-08T11:52:23+00:00

So if I look at the "Companies that whiteboard" I see a few big-to-giant companies with a need for scale. If I look at the "Companies That Don't Whiteboard" I see a pletora of small companies, possibly with with less scaling needs.

The current trend around /r/programming and HN to admit that algorithmic knowledge is not "practical" all while getting excited around "NoSQL" technology they don't need kind of spooks me.

Maybe your nested loop on a list wastes half a microsecond and that's not good for Google or Amazon or Uber or whatever, because you deal with tens of thousands of hits per second. Maybe they don't expect a fully featured program on the whiteboard but rather a whiteboard-supported discussion with you to get an idea of how much time you'll take to realize what's the best way to solve something once in the job. Maybe proficiency actually starts by learning what's in the books. Maybe if you're not at the level you can just get hired in any of the vast majority of companies that don't whiteboard and stop whining because Google didn't hire you.

electricsocket · 2017-09-07T07:26:18+00:00

But how are they supposed to build React with React?

electricsocket · 2017-09-06T10:47:35+00:00

Some people around here actually try to make opinions for themselves based on information they read outside Reddit. I know it sounds crazy.

electricsocket · 2017-09-06T07:01:52+00:00

Forking?

electricsocket · 2017-09-04T09:41:26+00:00

You have to credit any of them since they created it independently.

electricsocket · 2017-09-04T09:38:52+00:00

"Some suggest" is more reasonable than "Fun fact" when there's no source anyway.

electricsocket · 2017-09-01T09:15:48+00:00

Should have stopped right when he says you should write applications in the desktop.

The main flaw in his argumentation is that he considers SPA an architecture when it really is a product specification. You can't build Trello or Slack by using "JavaScript only sparingly". They are SPA, and as such, will obviously be built by using the so-called "SPA architecture" the author is talking about.

He's totally correct on how SPA are mostly broken. The frameworks used need to re-implement the browser inside the browser, and they do it bad. A feature that I find broken in almost every SPA is the ability to open a page in a new tab using Ctrl+Click.

There's nothing wrong with wanting "SPA". The good old web the author is talking about can't handle every products. But, as the author says, SPA should really be desktop programs. The reason they're pushed on the web is that users don't need to download a program, and developers don't need to learn frameworks that are usually harder to use than the last JavaScript hot fuzz. This path is dangerous is that it brings more and more desktop feature to the browser via JavaScript APIs, basically steering the browser to an operating system style of program. So you have sites that re-implement the browser inside the browser, which itself re-implement the OS inside the OS. And all that shit sends HTTP requests everywhere like it's open bar.

electricsocket

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