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I must be missing something, but how is EventEmitter helping you get rid of the nested code in your examples? It looks like changing all the anonymous callbacks to named functions,…

On a related note, I love how some early RFCs are written in a pretty whimsical manner. Perhaps it's just Vint Cerf who likes messing around? For instance, see RFC968, 'Twas the Ni…

We need to turing-test people like that! But seriously, I've never encountered people who can really go that far off-topic. I'm sure it was an exaggeration, but if it was enough to…

It would seem that exchanges like these indicate the opposite. These chat bots have no understanding and anything that seems like it is just some cheap trick or other. It can't be …

RFC439, posted by the co-creator of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf, actually has a similar exchange between "PARRY" and the "Doctor" from 1972 (!): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439 It somehow …

It would seem pretty short-sighted for the developers to not have realized this though (though I wouldn't say the same for venture capitalists and media). I'm guessing they must ha…

From the link: Degrades gracefully if JavaScript is not enabled Graceful degradation is less common for JavaScript now than it used to be though. So if you want a smooth web experi…

Did you get in? If not, were you invited for an interview?

Deleted comments don't go dead, as far as I know. I think it was killed by someone by mistake (there are a few overzealous moderators here, or it may just have been a mis-click, or…

Full-screen application switching has a far far greater mental-cost than having two windows open at the same time. As an XMonad user with a 15.4" screen, I disagree. For example, w…

I'd encourage you to apply whether or not you have a working prototype by the 20th. In fact, apply today. You can update your application later if you have a demo or something to a…

You made me look this up. *Is it "concision" or "conciseness" - http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2005/11/is_it_conci...

Should be "Scheme -> C compiler".

I'm no security expert, but I don't think you even need an out-of-band key exchange mechanism. Just use public key cryptography [1], as used in SSH/TLS/PGP/GPG. [1] http://en.wikip…

This could be very painful for the likes of Mahalo. I remember Jason Calcanis mentioning, perhaps when he first noted a change of direction for Mahalo to high-quality content, that…

Yeah, it's overlooked by many that the Chrome isn't all that extensible compared to what you can do in Firefox with addons. Chrome's developer tools are built in because they must …

Maybe you'd like Mirah? http://www.mirah.org/

I've been listening to those talks. They're only about an hour to 1.5 hours long, and there's only 6 of them. They are supposed to be spread over a 6 week period. So every week for…

With bezier curves (it's prettier) in Canvas/Coffeescript (assuming an existing global canvas context 'ctx'): heart = (scale,x,y)-> ctx.beginPath() ctx.moveTo(x,y) p1 = [x-75*scale…

Also would be interesting to see how HN points are correlated to page views.

And raganwald was referring to the '#!' hack, since it's really just the '#' hack. He wasn't addressing the history api.

Note the account's name, 'TrollBait'. Brand new too. If he keeps those kinds of comments up, he'll be banned in no time. On the other hand, I'm impressed how you just ignored Troll…

Would you be willing to answer a few questions? I'm a recent mechanical engineering graduate (interest in dynamics/control systems) who likes programming. So I'm pretty interested …

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Counterexample: I doubt the current implementation of pagerank+additions at Google is all that simple.