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

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…

> 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 wor…

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 …

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.

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

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.

For more concrete syntax, consider the following Python: >>> import re >>> route = re.compile(r'(?P ^/foo/bar$)|(?P ^/foo/bar/\d+$)') >>> route.match('/foo/bar').groupdict() {'fb':…

> understanding why it is done in this particular way is another Isn't that the reason for comments in the first place?

> 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, > aweso…

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 a…

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 …

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 explanatio…

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

What's the point of Facebook? Twitter?

> 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 c…

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

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

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…

> 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 pr…

> Prototypes are simply more complicated than classes. [citation needed] I'd argue the opposite: "Prototypes are simply more _intuitive_ than classes." OO-design says that X is-a Y…

The language is interesting, at the very least -- concurrency primitives are nice, and the interface-based type system works for most cases (generic containers notwithstanding). Th…

Does http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/ not work for you?

You can even go farther than that -- return true on success, and anything else on failure, and you get the semantics this person wants. If the results should be saved, that should …

Actually, they're _not_ both equal to infinity, in the mathematical sense (which I believe you're discussing) -- X / 0 is undefined. What's equal to infinity is the limit of 1 / x …