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This is where my curiosity lies. I wonder if the DICE founders were very sharp, knew what they were getting into, and had the leverage to set the kind of terms that would maximize …

What about DICE? And BioWare? I wonder if DICE came to the negotiation table more prepared and/or with something up their sleeve. It could be that EA is hands off so long as a stud…

Here's a related talk, good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo

Only habit. We're so used to var. But yea, need to transition to let for most things.

That's ES6 JavaScript (running on Node 0.11.15). We've already migrated most of our production code to this and we're loving it! If you like that kind of control flow, check out th…

A common problem in a service oriented architecture is needed to minimize the amount of round trips to a particular service. Example: To render a UI view, I need to fetch a list of…

> If you haven't spent the time to figure out why Redis is so successful, it's very much worth sitting back and thinking about it. For anyone who hasn't explored the Redis source, …

What a terrible post. Actually, it does have one use. If you're a recent grad or new to the industry, pay close to attention. Don't be like this guy. Before you envelope yourself i…

My understanding is that Neovim will make it much easier for plugins to execute tasks in parallel and in the background. I'd use that for running ctags on save without blocking the…

I picked one up today. Impressions so far: - Comfortable. - Looks nice, I like wearing it. Doesn't feel flashy. - Does what it says it will. No buggy surprises. - Scroll performanc…

Or is this just the place where I do need to catch errors and process them? And if that is so, isn't it at odds with the whole concept of writing intentional code? No it's not. The…

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrison_Predictor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachymetric_anti-aircraft_fire_...

Nothing wrong with two services using the same data source. If data locality is a concern, deploy both services alongside one another. Or you could place the data behind an API. It…

One thing express doesn't do is manage URLs for you. I wrote a simple module that does this[0]. It helps, especially when you have a large number of URLS. [0] https://github.com/ar…

I'm also a VIM+Jedi a user. ipython is a pretty sweet interactive interpreter. Also try ipdb[0]. I can't live without the interactive debugging it offers. [0] https://pypi.python.o…

This is true, but existing Chrome users aren't notified when an extension is removed from the store. I had no idea of this malware until it surfaced when the redirect failed.

Since Chrome auto-updates extensions, users are likely not aware of this change. I've been using the extension for several months until I noticed the transparent redirection. In fa…

I was showing my Glass to a family member who visited from out of state. He's a commercial helicopter pilot, isn't wired in to the tech space, and didn't know much of anything abou…

Guido brought up Python functional programming during the 2012 PyCon keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBRMq2Ioxsc#t=44m25s

There is a nice VIM plugin for renaming the current file you're editing. I use this a lot: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1928