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Imagine making this same point about books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe...

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

It's more important to make code readable than clever, and more important to be simple than fast.

It tends to be pretty easy to speed up readable+simple code when you need to do so, but fixing broken fast+clever code is much more difficult.

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قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

> It does include a lot of arcana about how web application stacks work, the network and gateway protocols they use,...

This was my second phone screen at Google, for what it's worth.

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قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

I highly recommend looking into Inform7, effectively a text adventure IDE (though the community tends to call it "interactive fiction").

The language is a bit odd, and attempts to "read like English", but it provides so much scaffolding I feel like it's worth it.

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قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

If the system was namespaced, it'd be even better -- essentially make Meshtag just the translation layer (drawing to id), and then pass that identifier into any backend you like.

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قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

There are tens of thousands of employees at Google. Most of them interview. People are different.

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قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html

You can [at least internally] define custom rules to handle pretty much anything, in almost-but-not-quite-python.

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قبل 12 سنةdiscuss

For more concrete syntax, consider the following Python:

  >>> import re
  >>> route = re.compile(r'(?P<fb>^/foo/bar$)|(?P<fbd>^/foo/bar/\d+$)')
  >>> route.match('/foo/bar').groupdict()
  {'fb': '/foo/bar', 'fbd': None}
  >>> route.match('/foo/bar/1').groupdict()
  {'fb': None, 'fbd': '/foo/bar/1'}

If the fb group is set, act on the first route. If the fbd group is set, act on the second.

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قبل 12 سنةdiscuss

> understanding why it is done in this particular way is another

Isn't that the reason for comments in the first place?

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قبل 12 سنةdiscuss

> Either way, when you’re reading a linked page, you may still > be “at” awesomestuff.com, as clicking the back button on > your browser can instantly confirm. Effectively, > awesomestuff.com has stolen content from newyorker.com, just > as the compiler of “Most Thoughtful Essays” stole content > from me.

"At" is the wrong word. The browser is requesting content. If it's requesting content from awesomestuff.com that only newyorker.com has permission to copy, that's a copyright problem.

This is a very odd metaphor for a journalist to mistake. It's as if any reference they make in a piece is violating the copyright of the referenced item. Is reference that difficult of a concept to grasp?

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قبل 12 سنةdiscuss

Grep the article for "If someone had changed the calendar, wouldn't anyone else – say the Muslims? – have noticed?" -- a paragraph which ends with:

"All these areas would require an enormous amount of research either to validate or refute the theory, research that is unlikely to be undertaken by anyone not interested in rewriting the timeline."

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قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

Specifically:

* Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods

* Merchants selling through Google-hosted marketplaces (e.g. Google Play) will be unaffected

* Merchants selling physical goods will need to switch to third-party alternatives (see below)

-- https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449

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قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

I would ask if you had ever worked in IT.

There is a reason such jobs turn people into curmudgeons. It's not like they all started that way. You attempt to give a simple explanation as to what you're doing, but as soon as you say anything about their computer, they assume it's technical and tune out.

There are definitely people that would come into the office and learn how you fixed things, and those people were wonderful. Few and far between, though.

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قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete ?

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

What's the point of Facebook? Twitter?

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

> I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :)

I think that's a really interesting comment! Perhaps it's because the UX is more social network-y (FB/Twitter), which are historically public, and less email-y+historically private?

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

Your comment would carry more weight if I knew what projects you recently contributed to.

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

Doesn't seem like an amazing rationale; personally, I like periods -- they let me know the writer finished their thought.

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

I _think_ the complaint is the following:

if x == nil { x.doSomethingCrazy(); // Runtime error? } else { ... }

"Boolean blindness" (bah) is that either the type system should catch this at compile time (because we know x is nil), or the language should make it impossible to phrase (pattern matching to pull the information out, such as with the Maybe type).

Go has many type system oddities (reflection instead of generics, for instance), but the things they _have_ done (auto-implementation of interfaces, for example) are pretty cool.

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قبل 14 سنةdiscuss

> Complaining that every attendee's attention is not > permanently fixed upon you strikes me as particularly vain.

I read this differently: an audience can get the most out of a presentation by paying attention.

If you're consciously communicating while attending a presentation, you're probably not getting anything out of what's being immediately said. In an information-dense presentation, that means you're not getting the most out of the presentation: unfortunate at best, and making the rest of the presentation hard to understand at worst.

Perhaps it's more useful read as an "attendee tip" than a "presenter request?"

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