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Vim.wasm 7 years ago

This is pretty dope, but I'm terrified about the fact that Firefox lets it take over Ctrl+L, Ctrl+1, or any other way (that I can find, at least) of breaking out of Vim with a keyboard aside from closing the tab with Ctrl+W - which is even more terrifying since I use that in Vim a ton, too :O

...but this is pretty cool :D

Hopefully it isn't intentional to suggest that you need to be a genius "guy" to do this. To be fair, this is about where I closed the article so maybe I missed the point.

Seriously, though, if you are going to post the following thing in your article then just reconsider:

"Warning: the following section involves googling usernames and reading the first page of results for the people involved. This may be unethical. I apologize in advance."

Obviously your apology means nothing if you are doing it anyway.

It's written to run Python 2.7 because these problems are largely solved in Python 3, and needs solved for people on Python 2.x versions.

"Upgrade to Python3" is the usual defense to that, but it's not really practical for large companies with software such as YouTube completely written in Python 2.x.

BlackBox 10 years ago

BlackBox: A website designed to stimulate seizures

Typedrummer 11 years ago

I think m/n is hitting the top of the hi-hat instead of the sides

I think that it's worth noting that you should still use `-f` if you are viewing a file over SSH that is being appended to a ton and you don't need every line. SSH will require that every line makes it to your terminal over it's secure connection, so you will be bottlenecked and most likely won't be viewing the latest messages. Everything will be queued.

Nobody is saying to intentionally put things wrong into the software in order to get your attention on the wrong things. They are saying that there are people who will ask for changes when there isn't value to them, but only because it allows them to make a difference.

I've seen cases where people have completely ruined products in ways like this. I don't think that anybody is actually saying that "broken" / "poor" features should be added just to be removed... Possibly unless you have been working with one of the people who require you to change things without unreasonably.

Third-party recruiters will often hint these types of things, because it gives the candidate a better chance of success.

After you interview, they will ask what you talked about and what kinds of questions you were asked. This allows them to keep track of how the company is interviewing, and to give the next candidate more information about what to expect.

This will mean that the recruiter doing so will have a potentially higher rate of success than a recruiter not doing so, since the candidate has this benefit.

Honestly, it's a pretty good thing. It's just good recruiters exploiting bad interviewers. It's better to design your interview around each candidate instead of recycling the same comp-sci questions that you heard in college over and over again.

Companies are really just testing how often people interview in most cases, but don't realize how bad the process is. They are using the same questions that every other company uses instead of creating their own, and it usually doesn't find good candidates as much as it finds people who memorize interview questions.

It is more than obvious that the author of this article really doesn't understand Angular. Also, you can't say that poorly educated developers is a "problem with Angular", and this is essentially the author's primary argument here.

Honestly, how did this make it to the top of HN?

I really hope that this is a joke. I figured that clicking "Buy Now" would go to a page admitting that this was a joke, but it did not.

We knew that this was a bad idea in 2002, so I don't know why anyone would think that we'd change our mind now.

Secure Secure Shell 12 years ago

To say the least, the number of recommended options here which are not supported on the version of openssh which comes with OS X is disappointing.

This is a good article, and the constant need to code bigger bowls of spaghetti faster is definitely a problem. However, I think that it's a stretch to imply that only older engineers do this.

Heroku isn't in a frozen state. I'm sure that they change the code daily. The fact that it suddently stopped working doesn't really point to any specific endpoint unless you know which ones have changed. Then it might mean something.