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For me, reusing widely used code that's heavily tested is preferable to the liability of handwritten code. If I'm given the opportunity, when possible, I'm going to choose the form…

React is a view library. It keeps the page to date with your data, much like Vue or Angular. jQuery is a DOM manipulation library, so in a sense it is lower level than React. It ab…

RFC: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/16/files?short_path=5c765e6 Summarized algorithm: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*1b7KHDG2St5D-6jepf...

There's a nice set of challenges for learning window functions and testing your window function knowledge: https://www.windowfunctions.com/

> The big problem with trying to tune a guitar that way is that you're tuning a guitar so it's in tune when you don't press the strings, but then when you actually play it you do p…

> Any slack present in the string winding can cause the string to go out of tune easily if you loosen the string to the correct tension. You can get around that by using harmonics.…

The article is short and cursory. It can be summarized with the following excerpt: > Zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs to guarantee that transactions are valid despite the fact that…

> Fulcrum. Given a sequence of integers, returns the index i that minimizes |sum(seq[..i]) - sum(seq[i..])|. Does this in O(n) time and O(n) memory. This is doable in O(n) time and…

Perhaps China is advertising this to deter crime, as a potential criminal might worry about facial recognition before doing something illegal.

I found this guide (with slight modifications) helpful for setting up stubby as a localhost DNS resolver to proxy through 1.1.1.1 with DNS-over-TLS on macOS: https://medium.com/nln…

jQuery's bread and butter is DOM manipulation. However, for even moderately small use cases (even an interactive form) it is useful to use React, Angular, or some data binding fram…

GitUp[1] is an excellent alternative to gitx and ungit, for those unhappy with either. [1]: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

Source: https://github.com/bootandy/window_funcs

Here's a link to the graphical explanation listed: http://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-02.pdf

slap[0] (the terminal-based text editor) was designed to emulate Sublime's UX within the terminal. It has a shallower learning curve than other command line editors. [0] https://gi…

Along with New Tab iFrame[0], I use TabTerm[1] for a terminal in the new tab page. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-iframe/pjj... [1] https://github.com/tabter…

Another useful quality of a diff algorithm is being able to understand and detect moves. This is not commonly implemented but one real-world example is https://www.semanticmerge.co…

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