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Oh man Palau has NaN% software engineers accepted :(

those are the export formats

One of these links is not like the others...

Thoughts on which has the better type system?

I know category theory Kidding. Where's the tl;dr?

I know how you feel. I've worked at a couple of startups, two groups at Apple, two groups at Google and now at Twitter. I've learned two things chasing a feeling of fulfillment, li…

Hilarious, but needs more vbscript.

The authors makes it sound like after designing the UX, the implementation will become trivial. I think this is a bit naive because most serious applications go through many iterat…

So how do you reply when the interviewer asks you why you left the previous job?

Yes, Javascript the language is getting better support in browsers, but DOM manipulation without a framework (like jQuery) is still horrible.

If you don't understand basic memory management without ARC, you have no chance of ever understanding the weak reference annotations that ARC requires in certain cases (e.g. to avo…

The Todos example is handy, but not every app is a todos app, and there's plenty of Backbone functionality that is not exercised in this simple app. And when there isn't an existin…

I'm tired of this alarmist tone.

i'm only on chapter 34, but i'm not enough of an old timer to comment on historical accuracy.

Do you really think Steve Jobs, a man obsessed with his legacy, would authorize a hatchet job?

> I would posit here that nothing I could do in best practice would have caught the offending line. bullshit. jslint or clojure compiler would have found this error at "compile tim…

Kind of strange that they only used the street name exclusively when referring to the drug. It's MDMA, BBC.

omg what if he came up with a decent syntax for tex? that would be truly earth shattering.

kinda banal if you ask me. it's two simple tools that do approximately the same thing. even grep vs ack would be more interesting. no offense to the authors of course, they did a g…

Him actually owning up to it without the sly language?

(Maybe) It's just Gruber's entry into the iPhone Rumors Game. But he's Gruber, he doesn't merely spread rumors, he conveys them subtextually. (/Maybe)

Writing Java apologetics with using Scala sounded like a great idea at first...