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The Japanese language actually does have an idiom for "in the red". It's written as 赤字, which literally means "red letter" or "red text". The opposite is 黒字, or "black letter" / "b…

Not sure about bananas, but in general products are individually wrapped due to the high humidity in Japan.

I learned Dvorak in high school and was proficient in it after a couple weeks. In addition to actual practice, I found it helpful to just practice mentally during downtime. I used …

The .ts files will be compiled to AMD modules, so none of the declarations will be in the global scope.

I used to use a project called now on npm that was abandoned a few years ago ( https://github.com/Flotype/now ). I was curious how this new project was using the same name on npm a…

I think the branching factor is somewhat higher given that the order of actions makes a big difference. Also remember that when playing a card you have to choose where to place it,…

https://github.com/scriby/asyncblock-generators That's a control flow solution I wrote on top of generators to make it a little easier to manage parallel tasks, timeouts, error han…

The browser's built-in same origin policy will prevent the iframed content from being able to access cookies in the containing frame because it is being hosted from a different dom…

I think simply not using Safari will mitigate most of the impact for most users on OSX.

The whole paragraph can be translated like this: "I didn't really think I'd be able to write this [program], but somehow I was able too. Ruby is scary, isn't it? I wonder if you co…

Good point. Check out https://github.com/scriby/browser-harness-bootstrap-tests for a full example. Browser harness itself is just a conduit between node and a browser - you need t…

I'm working on https://github.com/scriby/browser-harness . It's a little different in approach because it doesn't use selenium at all (rather it uses a websocket connection with th…

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I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with this programming question, except that it might be a little involved for a short interview. The purpose of this question isn't to tell…

It would be tough for Fibers to be totally abandoned, as http://www.meteor.com/ relies on it. I don't think it's really needed any code updates recently, as it works on Linux / OS …

In response to your #4, check out the stopBindings option. It provides a pretty simple pattern where you can wrap your knockout bound components in a stopBindings, then you don't h…

https://github.com/scriby/asyncblock I'll just leave this here. It's been my pet project for the last couple years, and is a fully featured version of this concept. There's also ht…

Express does return a 500 on exception by default. This article showed details about how to customize the error page.

It's probably because their free plan already didn't require a CC. I think there's a big difference between "no access" and "CC required", but less of a difference between "free ac…

Japanese is generally more compressed than English. For instance, consider "dragon" vs "龍". The exception is when polite/formal language is being used, in which case it can get mor…

I don't think the attack as described would work in practice, because the modified javascript file would no longer be valid javascript and would just break the site. I think you'd …

Depends on the flavor of SQL. But also, might not be a totally missing where clause, but just an incomplete one.

This kind of bug can happen when you have code like this in SQL: SELECT @id = id FROM table --Oops, forgot where clause. This selects a "random" row DELETE FROM table_2 WHERE id = …

Will these examples protect you from thrown exceptions? Null reference exception? Oops, your callback isn't getting called -- and you're probably leaking resources or leaving thing…