reyan

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

This is just too much. Nobody wants to have a linter for their code “documentation”! Oh we’re gonna have the linter in our CI pipeline too probably.

reyan

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Please don't use inline CSS in your page. In order to read the cached version [1] I had to manually remove the sidebar because it overlayed the main content with inline 'position: fixed'.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9UMu5i7...

reyan

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Run this in your browser's JavaScript console:

  socket.destroy()

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

How do you deal with interoperability? You Android clients use your Shiny frontend over HTTP? Have you used rserve?

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

This is the correct xkcd for this analogy http://xkcd.com/882/, not #1132.

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Great progress. I think it would be better if you replace those pie charts with bar plots. Better use of the space, much better for comparison.

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I think many of us want Go to be something it doesn't want to and will never be. There is potential for a fast, simple, statically typed language; borrowing good ideas from Lisp, ML and others (and NOT resulting in something like Scala).

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Yes I have watched Bret Victor's talk. Narrow minded or not, Brooks's predictions held true for more than a decade after the time of writing. I'd like to read your counter-arguments.

I'd say architecture and advances in neuroscience are tangential here. I think the core of the problem is still somewhere else.

* sidenote: Lisp machines weren't at least completely _ignored_ by academia.

reyan

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

I think the author should read Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet". Many of his arguments are still valid after 28 years. "There is no single development, in either technology or in management technique, that by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I don't argue the merits, but the BMW case is obviously different (BMW core business, dependency on Google results, etc.), hence the disproportionate reaction.

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This (rather old) paper is still worth reading: Cleveland, W. S. (1984), "Graphical Perception and Graphical Methods for Analyzing Scientific Data"

http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i247/f05/readings/Clevel...

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Soot is the first known environmental carcinogen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweeps'_carcinoma).

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Another invaluable resource is 'Ruby Best Practices' by Gregory Brown. You can download the pdf for free (http://majesticseacreature.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf).

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

You can easily squash those experimental commits and have "incremental, atomic" commits in history. What it gives you is the freedom with a clean slate after each commit. And no stashing doesn't work because the next experiment might depend on the last one. Not happy? Interactively rebase HEAD~n and get rid of all the experimental stuff. Changed your mind? Git reflog is your friend.

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Isn't Murphy's book more up to date and comprehensive as a reference?

Edit: Andrew Ng's Coursera course is CS229A (http://cs229a.stanford.edu/), not really watered down.

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This is great. I suggest adding fallthrough statement in one of the switch cases.

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Original blog post: https://www.webkit.org/blog/2910/improved-support-for-high-r...

> Note that at the moment WebKit only supports the resolution modifiers (e.g. 1x, 2x, 3x).

The official [draft] specification: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/w3c-srcset/

The dimensions in the srcset attribute are the maximum (viewport) dimensions that an image is intended for. e.g.:

    <img src="pear-mobile.jpeg" srcset="pear-mobile.jpeg 720w, pear-tablet.jpeg 1280w, pear-desktop.jpeg 1x" alt="The pear is juicy.">

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

It's interesting that you talk about others' logical fallacies, yet you started the thread with a fallacy (appeal to majority).

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

A short and nice read is Unix for Poets by Kenneth Ward Church: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf

reyan

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

You don't really need to completely uninstall homebrewed python. Just `brew unlink python` and after installation `brew link python`.

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