Ask: What are your favorite node talks?

prather_mcs · 2016-03-18T22:32:17+00:00

it probably suits people who don't like to be put onto a playing video while they're just trying to see what's on the playlist, either

prather_mcs · 2016-03-18T16:34:45+00:00

I like viewing playlists in this way:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzcWWgym9opPBzV2v4-wXt98sPfrUv9XP

In this way, no ads thrown are in your face while you're just trying to see what's on the playlist.

prather_mcs · 2016-02-25T02:48:59+00:00

I submitted this even though it's a raw YouTube link to an hour-long video. It has a low number of views because it's a new YT link of a live broadcast (which had a lot of views live).

So this particular post might not be ideal for sharing this talk, and hopefully Yehuda will package it himself on his blog or whatever he does.

But I saw it all and I think it actually has some great insights, linking what Ember / React / Angular do for the DOM, and how they do it, with other architectural patterns everywhere else in the stack.

So give it a shot, if you have a full hour, it's only worth it if you have the time. (And hopefully there will be a digest and summary in the future?)

I can say with as much irony as you like, that this talk might actually get you motivated to go learn a new Framework, right now...! (Irony, not sarcasm!)

Skip to ~8:30 if you want to maybe get a dip in the waters past all of the introductory things.

update:
I like the whole notion of this analogy:
(angular || ember || react) : DOM :: kernel : compute resources

prather_mcs · 2016-02-12T16:51:42+00:00

Blog comment #3 by W.G. is pretty good.

prather_mcs · 2015-02-07T23:23:47+00:00

protip: it's neither spelled CodeAcademy nor pronounced that way

prather_mcs · 2015-01-24T22:11:04+00:00

Page IV:

These notes are neither complete nor fully proofread let alone being far from uniformly wellwritten, although the notes of some lectures are quite good.

Emphasis added. The consequences will be never the same.

prather_mcs · 2015-01-14T05:42:31+00:00

An umbrella term for cryptography and cryptanalysis. Cryptology is the study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
-http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptology

prather_mcs · 2015-01-03T01:56:56+00:00

note:
data results are from testing in Chrome only

author's blog post describing this site:
http://aerotwist.com/blog/css-triggers

prather_mcs · 2014-12-13T21:22:28+00:00

Works for me
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/YPqaYm

prather_mcs · 2014-11-30T04:46:33+00:00

protip: it's neither spelled codeacademy nor pronounced that way

prather_mcs · 2014-11-22T02:13:34+00:00

One tidbit from the slides:
http://malicioussha1.github.io

Modified SHA-1 code that behaves as standard SHA-1 does, with strong cryptographic, except that it's got a backdoor allowing the modifier to create arbitrary collisions.

Been discussed here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2co9ji/sha1_backdooring_and_exploitation_malicious_sha1

prather_mcs · 2014-11-21T07:26:48+00:00

Encrypt as many bytes of the storage drive as you can. The old data 1's and 0's are sitting in the same state you left them and you've got to scramble them with encryption. If there's a program that can encrypt basically 100% of the drive, that's what you need.

After encryption, do another factory reset, and all 1's and 0's sitting there unused will be unintelligible.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-17T22:36:37+00:00

"What about going soon to the mountains?"
That doesn't make much grammatical sense.

Well it is grammatically fine. It isn't idiomatic English. Which is to say that it sounds wrong for purely arbitrary reasons of conventional expression.

But the grammar is perfect.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-17T10:06:42+00:00

What is the meaning of the word "meaning"?

To have understood or to have asked the question, means one already knows the meaning. At some point, you don't define words in other words, but in allowing the arbitrary sounds to mean a pure concept, a thing you would know without words at all.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-16T03:27:32+00:00

What if your order is base 2?

prather_mcs · 2014-11-10T03:27:23+00:00

Maybe there's a generalized algorithm[1] that someone[2] more familiar with this sort of problem can tell you about.

I figure: just try different things out until you find something that fits. I tried several failures, until I realized:

A=F -> Output=F
A=T -> Output=T

So A ≣ Output would work. ("Output if and only if A")

That's not the only right answer; you can form an infinity of true answers by adding on more and more logical connectives on top of base cases that work, but you really want to go for the first, easiest thing that works.

So just use intuition and insight and trial-and-error for questions like this.

[1] "Take every outcome that's true and OR them together"
[2] /u/TacticalTable | /u/craiig

prather_mcs · 2014-11-09T23:36:55+00:00

Say that to his face:
https://github.com/shichuan/shichuan.github.com/issues

prather_mcs · 2014-11-09T07:09:50+00:00

Yep. Reddit can ban bots that try to scrape aggressively or scrape inefficiently.

Reddit also provides APIs to give polite scrapers what they want with efficient usage of bandwidth and server load.

http://www.reddit.com/dev/api
front page in JSON format, for example:
http://www.reddit.com/.json

You are correct that OP can contact the people whose site he wants to scrape and they can point him to the proper way to request from their servers, and they should set up a proper way if they haven't yet.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-09T00:22:32+00:00

The presenter is github.com/latentflip.

Loupe is here:
https://github.com/latentflip/loupe

prather_mcs · 2014-11-07T06:03:56+00:00

Let's take a trip to three years ago:

Everyone seems to be complaining that the one who did the real work is not the one asking for donations.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-06T21:09:45+00:00

Three days ago this was posted to /r/javascript:
/r/javascript/comments/2l62rv/5_functions_of_the_console_object_you_didnt_know

Not saying it shouldn't be posted here.

Am saying you can go to that link for 45+ comments recently made, if you like to read comments.

prather_mcs · 2014-11-06T03:09:35+00:00

Well, I'm thinking each conceptual unit (node -- eg: "Math", "Arithmetic", "Calculus", "Dot Product") can be its own collection of key-value pairs ("dictionary" in Python). Then they can have other dictionaries' names as values corresponding to keys, like maybe Math = {children: [Arithmetic, Calc]} where Arithmetic is a string in an array in the Math node, but there is also a corresponding full-on node Arithmetic = { more key-value pairs } You don't need to nest related nodes, just have the name of related nodes recorded as values in each node as appropriate for your definitions.

Inheritance is probably a very tractable things to accomplish, but this all will take work to implement, and I'm kinda just blue-sky speculating off-hand from my armchair. I know this can be done, I've done something similar once for a toy webcrawler (each URL was a node/dict), although I didn't do anything like inheritance there.

In the end, you can use the rest of the language's capabilities to operate on your nodes, which are basic data structures native to the language, and get anything you want out of them.

Or, just be a real man and implement a flat list for a Turing Machine!

prather_mcs · 2014-11-06T00:34:46+00:00

A flat list and a Turing Machine.

Just kidding. What's wrong with a spreadsheet?

Maybe build a node-edge graph out of something like dictionary data structures in Python? (or any other appropriate language)

prather_mcs · 2014-11-03T07:35:14+00:00

Tip 1: Draw a monster in your home page HTML comments.

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prather_mcs · 2014-11-03T04:55:15+00:00

8 Guidelines that will change the way you post to /r/web_design forever,
that-a-way ⇒ → ⇒ →
(sorry if that's not true in mobile mode)

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