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I've been working on FluentCard.com - trying to build a better flashcard app for learning to read and write Chinese. The MVP is more or less done, and I'm honestly not sure what to…

If you're a developer - take a look at the keyboard first. They replaced the F keys with capacitive buttons (ie. touch sensitive buttons as opposed to physical buttons) and the cap…

For me, anyway, the answer is tracking time. If I want to do something, say, work on a project, I set a timer for 30 minutes and start working on the project. My rule for myself is…

Throttle is different, it's a rate limiter, whereas debounce just measures delays between calls. With throttle, the server request would be made every 200ms rather than 200ms after…

Underscore has a nifty function, _.debounce, which given a function f, returns a version of the function that behaves as the one in your interview question. http://underscorejs.org…

That would only be true if you had to pay the tax and nobody else did. Assuming the result of the tax is less liquidity, higher volatility and bigger spreads, it could cost you qui…

No problem, thanks for the blog post! I'd highly recommend taking the course - even with a traditional math/cs undergraduate degree from a good school, it was one of the best cours…

I don't think that I really understood closures until I took Dan Grossman's Coursera course "Programming Languages." In it, we implemented in Racket a simple programming language w…

Within the team, I think that is entirely appropriate. People thrive on, and should be given responsibility. Individuals should be rewarded or disciplined appropriately. That is pa…

"Compliments should always go to the team. Credit should be handed out freely and generously. Success belongs to the team but failures belong to you." This is a distinguishing trai…

I do something similar - discovered before I heard about the pomodoro technique. What I do is: 1. Pick a task, and explicitly state my goal. You could write it down, but the point …

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not (60-40 that you aren't - that's not to belittle you, I think you raised points worth discussing either way) - so in the case that you …

You've changed the question from "is the invention non-obvious, in the sense that current law requires to grand a patent?" to "do you agree with current patent laws and the value o…

It's a result of low interest rates and mortgages being the only way that most people can leverage themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money Imagine we enter an agreement - you'll lend me $100 for a year, and I'll pay you $10 after a year. The banks will pay you $5 to bor…

Man, don't let people discourage you. I guess the thing that you should realize though is that this isn't a degree in computer programming, or IT - it's a more or less a mathematic…

The idea with a basic income is that it's taxed back from the wealthier. There's no way without knowing income distribution and tax rates, but I would imagine that someone making $…

I think they're saying that the username has to match [a-zA-Z0-9_\.@/-]{6,} - note the "or" there.

I'm certainly no Angular expert, so take my advice with a healthy amount of skepticism, but I think that it would be one element. The idea being that if I want to swap that stuff o…

That's pretty harsh. How does one support Safari if they don't have a Mac?

Nice writeup, I especially appreciate the focus on testing. End product looks really slick. You might want to add a screenshot and a link to the blog post in the GitHub repo that y…

Imagine hiring a manager who expected their reports to be in at 9am sharp, when the current company culture is to work whatever hours people want. Or someone who very strongly pref…

My intent was to be terse, not rude, and to give actionable feedback - not hidden in language and subtext. And anyway, language is supposed to have edge! I didn't want to say "this…