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Someone non technical once told me they "programmed as well" and proceed to talk about planning and scheduling things.

Now we can bring back html based applications using html and vbscript and jscript.

https://www.599cd.com/tips/hta/beginner/B1/

Simple continuation explanation for web developers.

  1. Write some JS code in chrome and verify expected behaviour.
  2. Add a debugger statement.
  3. When the debugger pops up, go down a few frames and add debug point.
  4. Right click the frame and select restart.
  5. In the new break point, write some code in the console to modify the state.
  6. When you step through the code, it now does something else.

I leave the rest to imagination.

Reminds me of Ira Glass's Quote.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-...

And for a different perspective. This was posted 5 days ago.

https://neilonsoftware.com/books/personality-patterns-of-pro...

Key takeaways.

1. Fingers are sensitive.

2. paper has a saw like edge.

3. paper cuts tears up skin so nerves are exposed to the world.

Not really a lot of substance to this article.

Speaking of saw like edge.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfkhdKcEiE

He also has a nice page on his github with lots of info on making stuff fast on node.

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...

Sometimes programmers need to look at unusual files: binary files, very big files, odd data files. Epsilon was designed without the limits of other editors, so it can handle these kinds of jobs, as well as ordinary files. For example, with Epsilon, lines can be as long as you like.

This text editor gets it. Such a contrast to some of the editors we have today where anything over a few megabytes is an edge case not worth fixing.

There was some people talking about this issue in the support forums and their response was to stick with v2 until they sort out the issues.

They recently made a change with the node sdk recently so you don't need the apiKey for public access. Not sure about the web version, You would probably have to use the Browserify or something.

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/07/firebase-react-nativ...

That said, If I were you, I would stick with V2 sdk since I don't think hacker news has actually updated yet. An easier way is to just use the rest apis, That is still clearly working.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json

I'm not sure when promises came to the javascript, but it seems weird that people would settle with callback hell for so long without even attempting to refactoring it.

I mean if I didn't have the option of using promises, I would have probably written something like this.

function handler(callback){

  var state={};

  function logic(step,err,data){  
    if(!step){
      connectToDb("somedatabase",logic.bind(state,1))
    }
    
    if(step==1){
      if(err) callback("error1")
      state.dbInstance=data
      state.dbInstance.query("someQuery",logic.bind(state,2))
    }
    
    if(step==2){
      if(err) callback("error2")
      csvExporter(data,logic.bind(state,3))
    }

    if(step==3){
      if(err) callback("error3")
      callback(data)
    }
  }
  logic()
}

This is great. One of my biggest pain points when switching to OS X was finding a good replacement for autohotkey.

This is pretty common with a lot of companies switching to byod (bring your own devices to work)

The idea is the company saves money by loading a secure workspace to your personal device instead of paying for a corporate device.

Companies setup a mdm server such as blackberry, good, airwatch, etc that basically send a remote wipe command. You would then download an app to activate it.

It depends on the company but check if there is an opt out clause or demand the company to provide you a corporate phone as you don't have a personal device.

It's ok in most cases since the company is paying for your phone bill as compensation so you can just get a second personal device.

I'm not sure about the legal issues, especially if you can't opt out of it.

That data structure is basically a CSV file. If I were you, I would convert the JSON to a CSV file, load it into excel and use a pivot table dive into your data and convert it back if needed.

A pivot table will do exactly what you want and more. If you hate excel, You could load it into a database and do a groupby query. I suspect most JSON in that data structure were auto generated from CSV files or database anyways.

Another option is to just convert that JSON to another JSON keyed by name with Lodash then inspect it.

var anotherJSON=_.keyBy(oldJSON, 'name');

Chrome console allows you to inspect an object and expand on the properties visually.

For the most common cases, I just copy and paste the string into the chrome console if I need to inspect some random JSON file really quick.

If it is too big to copy and paste, pipe it into a html file as a global variable and view the object in the console.

You can also just open a node repl and load the JSON into memory. node lets you auto complete property names by pressing tab, this is great for inspecting some unknown object.

Pretty cool.

However, how can you call it 17 LOC and then put in a link to a "readable" version with 67 LOC on the same page.

At first I thought it was some employer gone crazy.

Halfway down, I realize it's just like any other big company tactics. Some upper management suggest all employees practice positive thinking, offering a course on how do deal with stress, forced laughter, etc.

Then I wondered how common this practice was for a company to offer this to their employees in the same way a company would offer free massages or therapy.

Seems to be a common, even competitive business in Korea.

Now I'm not sure how I feel about it. It could be some big new spiritual trend, but it could also be some shady business taking advantage of the depressed.

This is funny. Suppose there was a giant fight taking place, would it take millions of years before we notice the first punch?

btw here is a size comparison of various mecha, guess which one is the biggest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbeVosPszo

I came across this post a few years ago, reminds me of the javascript games written 15+ years ago. For a lot of use cases, This technique is simple and has good enough performance. http://buildnewgames.com/dom-sprites/

Also,take a look at http://createjs.com/. It is pretty familiar if you come from a flash background. The latest version of adobe flash/animate exports to createjs so you can keep using your old flash authoring skills for your assets.

However, If time is your major constraint, unity might not be as overkill as you might think.

I wonder if multiple native app is still cheaper than maintaining multiple different web builds.

Reminds me of this library I stumbled across.

http://www.zebkit.com/

People either respond with this is cool or your going against the web when I told them about it.

Google is too useful to not use it, But you shouldn't have to do a google search because you don't remember a command or basic functionality of a language or library. That information should be rapidly available by the documentation. Google should be used for troubleshooting or researching a new concept.

http://devdocs.io/offline is a great resource if you want to code offline.

This could be really horrible, especially if you use a password manager and copy and paste your password......

A lot of corporate companies have a mitm or some form of network monitoring in place. There are a ton of products out there to do this, for example Microsoft forefront TMG. I never access personal stuff on corporate internet at work for this reason.

When I was in school, there was always some acceptable use policy for accessing the internet. While it didn't prevent some people from watching porn on the network, etc, It was implied that you should only use it for educational purpose and I doubt there is much urgency to fix something that is not school related.

If I were in your shoes, The best way to get it fix is simply raise an issue to someone in IT that you can't access a certain website/app and ask them to fix it. Bonus points if you can find a website/app that you need for school.

If there is a mitm in place, I doubt you can get them to remove it. However maybe you can get them to whitelist gmail, banking sites, etc.

This is really cool,though I really wish I didn't look at the source code.

When I first got into promises, they were annoying for certain tasks. Something as simple as download a list of 1000 files was hard to do since you didn't want all the calls to fire off at once. After a long journey with various techniques, I found out Bluebird map had a concurrency parameter.

return Promise.map(arrayOfUrlsToDownload,downloadAndParseFunction,{concurrency:1})

One line for all your basic scraping/parsing needs.

Ask yourself this question. Where are you now?

Where will you be tomorrow?

Where will you be in a month?

Where will you be in a year?

Now as yourself where you will be if you made the choice to spend an hour a day on task X. Where will you be?

Repeat every time you decide to open a new browser tab. It is a very slippery slope every time you unconsciously go to youtube, forums, etc. The first step is to become conscious of the time sucking activities.

To expand, I don't see anything wrong with the joke question, I just think they both fall in the same category.

The user created the question and answered it immediately with a link to his goto library.

The issue is not answering your own question, but more about posting your own question to answer.

Suppose everyone who creates a startup, posts a question & answer to advertise their own project.

Reminds me of this post. Poster created a question and immediately answered it with his own link.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9751207/how-can-i-use-got...

Lets break this down.

sms, not encrypted.

pin messages/BBM, "scrambled"

BBM protect, encrypted

BES (corporate device), encrypted with a key that BlackBerry is not suppose to be able to access.

Originally bb devices could send messages to other bb if you knew their pin. The data was compressed and encrypted, but a moot point since all bb devices had the same key. Pin messages,BBM and their bis infrastructure was never really considered secured, their main offering was BES with offered end to end security.

I used the term scrambled since that was the term everyone was using years ago since people get confused between encrypted, vs encrypted with shared key, vs not encrypted, etc. It quickly becomes a pointless conversation.

As far as I'm concerned, This isn't really surprising if you think about it. BlackBerry's only claim to security was BES for end to end communication.

The initial goal is reduction, It is unrealistic to get rid of the call centre right away. I'm not trying to compete with phone, but existing online solutions such as email, faq, knowledge base and forums.

Most customers would rather speak to an agent who knows what they are doing. For this situation, we can help the tier one agent troubleshoot much faster. Call centres save money by reducing training time. Small companies can scale up by outsourcing the technical support to call centres with the confidence that they will not lose out quality.

There is a group of users who are frustrated with going through all the levels to get an issue fixed. They realize that the person doesn't know more then the manual and they are wasting their time. They only call in when self serve is not sufficient. Over time, more people who would bypass the phones when they can use the same system directly.

Instructions are like a side scroller, This is a more visual tool that lets people bypass the linear troubleshooting scripts we see too often. Not everyone has to start at the beginning.

Ipad pro vs tablets is basically pen vs pencil.

I'm a developer who can't draw. I've used palm, wacom tablets, samsung pen and a window "tablet" from 2008. I've used it to draw stick figures, notes and maybe a math equation or two.

I've played around with an Ipad pro and watched a ux designer use one.

Assuming you can actually draw, Ipad pro seems to be much better. It has a different feel than a regular stylus, it seems easier to shade and sketch than a regular stylus.

While it seems nice, it seems to be a niche devices.

I like this idea. To be fair, You need five computers to communicate with each other. It will be a huge mark for ai if they can actually learn to communicate with effectively for achieving the goals. Vary the performance of each ai and allow them to swear at each other could get very interesting. I wonder if ai can emulate the toxic side of gamers......