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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.

Wow, that is, appropriately, a tortured backronym.

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 …

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 sit…

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 b…

What's with the hashtag?

Not that I know of, but javascript does.

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 …

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

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 ( ) foos[ct++] = foo1; if ( ) …

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 wa…

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 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…

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 …

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…

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

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

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".

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?

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.

Wouldn't another solution to this be to have an object that would mimic the dom, performing reads immediately (or reading from its own cache of written attributes), but allowing ex…

This really screwed me over this time. My developer account expired a few weeks ago and I got worried because I still had the beta installed. I tried upgrading via iTunes, but it s…