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I'm suspicious of any article that's widely slated by a community yet still trending. I feel there's a market need for a browser plugin that lets you filter out clickbait factories…

Babel has to turn it into valid JS for it to work so you'd still have the 'and' and 'or' functions. In the bottom right corner of Hzoo's example you can see what I mean ( http://as…

To solve the readability issue, why not use Babel to transpile JS expressions into the equivalent syntax? To generate the first example in the readme: import {solve} from 'logic' f…

Something that is true of a group he is a part of isn't necessarily true of him. However, if he did want to change parties over this he'd have to drop out of mainstream politics en…

If you're a small-time programmer unless you move to SV, what does it mean to be 'big' in programming?

What's stopping an entrepreneur from building a new network now, in a single town?

Looks like a good article but the url violates the same origin policy and as a result it render images. Readers will get a better looking page if they knock the 's' out of https un…

Let's draw a distinction between registered users and active users. Browser games have notoriously high inactivity rates. Many - perhaps most - create accounts, play once and never…

"privacy betrayed" -> any of this data was ever private. it wasn't.

I like the boxes but it desperately needs immediately visible results.

There's a problem with box 2. If the IOException is thrown in the stream's constructor (FileNotFoundException) then there will be a NullPointerException if we try to call close! In…

# Language Illiteracy 1 C 0.02877583 2 Perl 0.01635618 3 Ruby 0.01560477 4 JavaScript 0.01330989 5 Shell 0.01235425 6 Python 0.01046104 7 PHP 0.00910218 8 Java 0.00736395 (For heig…

I noticed another problem is that the highlighter will select the language name as well as the term which means I put together a GitHub Illiteracy Index script https://github.com/j…

Well observed, but I think we need to tell apart cases where performance is mandatory and where it is optional. People wouldn't just complain if it was mandatory, it simply wouldn'…

I think the point is that there's something intrinsically verifiable about a mathematical model since you're dealing with quantifiable output. Other cases I can think of are system…

"We work in an environment where hearsay and taste drive change instead of studies and models. We are stumbling in the dark." I completely agree. Programming became a lot less fun …

>There is a certain danger in being educated, for example a self educated programmer might have a problem and just implement a O(n^2) solution and move on whereas a college educate…

+1. wish I'd seen underscore.php sooner!

It looks like someone had fun! Native parsing of markup and SQL looks like a neat idea (reminds me of Facebook's XHP plus LINQ) but I'm concerned about using the JVM. Does this use…

Maybe, or perhaps it's just been done badly before. ZeroMQ's bindings are an example of it done well. I find the API is almost identical if I switch between Python, PHP and Erlang …

Weather forecasts are a more optimal way of knowing the future than looking at the sky. These incremental improvements might not mean much by themselves, but in aggregate, they've …