bookface

I don't take as much issue with this happening the other way around. It's a rare opportunity for the information asymmetry shoe to be on the other foot.

bookface

11 lat temudiscuss

Wow, that is, appropriately, a tortured backronym.

bookface

12 lat temudiscuss

This is exactly why I started using iTerm. You and I even use the same key combination! It is so convenient that whenever I use others' machines, I try to bring down the visor and get frustrated when nothing happens.

Terminal.app can do this with the help of TotalTerminal. I used to use that, but switched over to iTerm for the greater degree of customization.

bookface

12 lat temudiscuss

If anybody prefers a .mobi: http://www.filedropper.com/linkers-ianlancetaylor

(If anyone has a suggestion for a good place to upload that, let me know. I don't know whether the site I found on Google is sketchy.)

bookface

12 lat temudiscuss

Seriously? What do you think it means to be a freshman? I am getting seriously tired of this attitude in the software community that you're only a legitimate programmer if you've been doing it since you were in diapers.

bookface

12 lat temudiscuss

What's with the hashtag?

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

Not that I know of, but javascript does.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

Can anybody explain some good use cases of implicit return? When I was doing a project in CoffeeScript last year (the only time I've used it), I found myself just using the return keyword explicitly because it was more readable, and I never ran into the issue the article talks about where it can be bad to accidentally return something from a function that should return null/undefined.

When would implicit return make code better? Maybe I'm answering my own question, but I can see them being more readable to somebody coming from a Haskell or LISP background than to somebody like me who has worked mostly in C, Java, and Python.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

These comments are disgusting. Why are you all trying to download the data? Why are many of you trying to distribute it?

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

I like using it when I'm filling an array with an indeterminate number of elements. I've used this pattern a few times:

    foo foos[255];
    int ct = 0;

    if (<condition for adding first element>)
        foos[ct++] = foo1;

    if (<condition for adding second element>)
        foos[ct++] = foo2;

    ...

    for (int i = 0; i < ct; i++) {
        /* do something with foos[i] */
    }

IMHO, this is more concise and readable than separating the increment and assignment into two lines.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

I was actually asked in an interview at Google in 2011 whether pre- or postincrement was faster in a snippet of code where the expression's value wasn't used. When I said that I was pretty confident that the compiler would produce the same assembly in both cases, the interviewer insisted that pre- was faster based on the same logic you mentioned.

To her credit, she didn't penalize me for disagreeing with her and I still got the offer.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

I didn't originally see the connection between MSG and Chinese food as coming from a place of racism, but you might be right. I'm still not so sure though. If somebody said to you "I got food poisoning from a Chinese restaurant last night", would you say "That's racist! An Italian restaurant could have just as easily given you food poisoning."?

It's pointless to try to tell people what is and isn't offensive. Normally, I err on the side of thinking that if somebody is offended, they must have reason to be and I should be sensitive to that, but in this case I had no idea what racism the author was referring to.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

I think the main difference between the two is the intent that's being implied. "Jewish Banker Syndrome" is implying something about me as a person. It's saying that, as a Jew, I'm more likely to be greedy and corrupt. "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" isn't really blaming the Chinese for anything, it's just noting the correlation that was observed.

Maybe a better comparison would be "Jewish Bank Syndrome", which to me sounds a lot less harsh than "Jewish Banker Syndrome".

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

Sorry if I'm being insensitive, but how is Chinese Restaurant Syndrome "absurdly racist"? If people were having health problems as a consequence of eating corned beef, I would, as a Jew, have no problem with that condition being called "Jewish Deli Syndrome".

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

Agreed completely about how awful dynamic languages can be in this respect. I've found what helps a lot is consistent naming of parameters. For example, numberOfWidgets (an integer) versus widgets (a collection) or file (a file handle) versus path (a string).

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

If you think tech internships are bad, you should look at literally any other field.

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

If this involved Apple, the article's headline would be "Apple using forced student labor to build iPhone"

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

Sounds to me like you're being intentionally daft. It's pretty easy to see that the /uː/ sound is associated with "oo" way more commonly than "o".

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

What makes you believe that Twitter isn't doing that? If you're willing to speculate that Google is creating "shadow profiles", why not Twitter?

bookface

13 lat temudiscuss

I was going to add a line at the end of my post saying that this was all, of course, my fault, but figured it went without saying. Lesson learned.

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Is there a regular expression to detect a valid regular expression? (2008)

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