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What's wrong with their changes? You sound like a nutcase if you think that having to coordinate diagrams on where to stand, and discussing the required method for "running into the room", are fun whatsoever. Video games are not chess... except maybe video game versions of chess. Excluding 90% of the population from enjoying these areas of the game would be a horrible plan. When the amount of time and effort needed to play a game requires one to be unemployed and without any worldly responsibilities... that's just going too far. A game like WoW should not encourage people to drop out of school or lose their job because they need to spend 3 months of 18 hours a day trying to figure out how to defeat C'Thun.

What is with this? I thought Google announced in the past that sites serving different content to its crawlers than real members would have those results removed from their index. Is this some ridiculous loophole whereby it's ok if the link works with a google referrer but not directly? So stupid. If the link is not truly open, it should not appear in search results, simple as that.

The editor thing can be kind of important. People who stick with emacs or vim tend to be horrible with following coding standards and being able to review and navigate code efficiently. There's nothing like an editor from Jetbrains for tooling (Eclipse works too, but seriously the Jetbrains line is the best).

I have never used emacs, but vim is horribly limited in what it can truly do in terms of handling code. You can add all the nifty little plugins you want, but it just isn't efficient. The mistake people make moving to a full IDE is installing the vim plugin to add some familiarity. I've seen coworkers take literally 5 minutes to hammer out the vim keystrokes to refactor a block of code that can be done in 15-30 seconds with 2-3 native IDE keyboard shortcuts and a mouse click or two. It's important to know how to use vim or similar for remote command-line work. When developing though, the functionality and built-in tools provided by a full-fledged IDE are priceless.

There was a time I didn't judge new developers for using vim to edit code - and a long time ago I was one of them. I used to see these people as "true developers" for mastering an editor like vim. Now, after years of encountering developers with hampered productivity and ability to work on a team with coding standards, I see a vim/emacs person as someone who is stuck in their ways, refusing to even try to modernize their workflow.

Just a random example: in PHP projects, my teams use CodeSniffer for coding standards validation. The settings for common IDEs are committed to the VCS so they are automatically in place for new developers cloning the project. In any modern IDE, notices/warnings are instantly and unobtrusively made available as you type code. You can also run the inspection against the entire codebase or files you have modified since last VCS update to catch anything you missed.

What do Vim users do? They write code for hours or days at a time without validating what they are writing. When done, they either a) commit without running their code against CodeSniffer while egotistically proclaiming that their personal coding style is clean and doesn't need to match what the rest of the team abides by; or b) they spend hours running the command-line version manually, ridiculously trying to parse the output and hunt each problem down.

This is the real problem with vim/emacs users. Nearly none of them are capable of following the same coding practices as the rest of the team who are sharing a set of project settings in modern IDEs. The worst I've seen was a team that had once had amazing code quality completely abandon all forms of coding standards when two new senior developers were hired who both used vim. They refused to follow the standards because vim simply doesn't contain the necessary tooling. The entire codebase went from being beautifully clean to a complete mess, all because the new guys used vim. That was the job I walked away from so fast after fighting over the ridiculousness and then learning that both new developers were basically hired for the simple reason they went to the same university as the hiring manager.

tldr; Use vim/emacs if you want; but if you're not going to be as productive as, or match the code quality of, your teammates - that's a problem.

Whoa. You don't even have actual facebook or twitter integration requiring authentication. You just pull the photo by username, which means no identity validation. Facebook/twitter should show the username along with the photo to indicate a verified connection. Plus after picking someone else's account, I can't delete the photo due to an error. Oh, and then refreshing the page gives an nginx error. This service is far from ideal, sorry. And at this price? Another get-rich-quick personal project deployed by someone who hasn't managed to write a scaleable or truly useful service. Now that probably offends :/

I don't mean to overly offend, but something like this is not worth more than $5/month. Maybe $20/month for 1 million+ users. Your $19/month ($11/month if paid annually) is more than a lot of individuals and small businesses spend on VPS hosting. Your only target with this pricing would be medium-to-large companies, and yet your published pricing ends at an extremely meagre 100,000 users which would not begin to cover them.

By the way, your method of popping up the div overlay removes the scrollbar if present (at least in your demo), which makes centred layouts jump around. Raises a yellow flag regarding implementation quality.

The problem with shell scripting is that nearly nobody is very, very good at it. The Steam bug doing an rm -rf / is an example, but it's very common for shell scripts to have horrible error handling and checks for important things. The shell is just not suitable for extremely robust programs. I would bet that 80%+ of people who think they're good at shell scripting... aren't.

This has to be a joke. You cannot tell me a single person is actually interested in allowing a business to print their advertising on their keep-for-life pictures. If I opened my photo album from my childhood and found advertising on the back of each photo... what a joke.

Photo printing is already cheap. If you can't afford to print photos, you probably also can't afford to buy the camera or the memory card (or the film and development for you old-schoolers).

This is a sad world we live in. Advertising in every place imaginable. You want to know where I'd be okay with your visual spam? On toilet paper. Print your advertising on my free toilet paper so I can wipe my ass with it.

Actually, many dictionaries specifically label "mathematics" as plural, but concede that the singular form is far more popular in practice.

I tend to find only one use case where I find a plural form simply appears more natural: prefixing it with "the", as in "The mathematics necessary to explain the universe are complex." Replacing the "are" with "is" just does not sound right. Funnily enough, the natural pattern with the North American "math" becomes "The math necessary to explain the universe is complex.".

Damn you, strange collective noun.

At my elementary school this was actually encouraged for students excelling in maths[1]. It was offered - but not stressed as important whatsoever - that if you completed the official book of problems ahead of time, you could begin working on the extra book(s) named "Mathimagination". If my memory serves me, there was no extra credit afforded for taking this route; rather, it was purely to keep students interested in and progressing with a subject they enjoyed and in which they excelled. I credit my teacher that year for getting me excited about mathematics, which carried on for many years.

On a related note, my high school had an Advanced Placement English class offered to students selected by previous semesters' English teachers. This option came with an unfortunate snag for all students enrolled in the French immersion track: both the AP English class and a required French class occupied the same period. We were frankly offered the choice to stick with the French immersion we'd been part of for more than 10 years (having started in kindergarten), or to convert to the English track by dropping all French-language classes entirely.

Yeah, the AP class that year was quite small with not a single person dropping the French track. It turns out that people enrolled in the French track are much more likely to land placement in AP English, as being fluent in more than one language steers a person into understanding and appreciating languages more than someone immersed in a single language. Such a ridiculous scheduling blunder by the administration; just the memory of not being part of that class more than 10 years ago makes me sad.

[1] Having grown up in North America where it is common to refer to mathematics as the singular "math", it is still weird to type "maths" even after having picked up the habit a few years ago.

One thing that is true that makes no sense is that tips are designed to be based on the dollar amount of the bill. Why should a 45 minute service of a $100 meal mandate a larger tip than the same 45 minute service of a $50 meal? The staff has put in the same amount of time and effort to serve both meals... yet the more expensive meal expects a larger tip. This aspect makes no sense whatsoever. A tip should be based on the number of clients served at a table + the time spent in the restaurant + perhaps additional money for special requests or complex meals.

If anything, you'd think the cheaper meal should have a larger tip since you're occupying a spot for a cheap meal when they could have had a client sit down and spend 3x as much as you. It's all backwards, the fact that the tip is based on the dollar amount of the meal...

Other reasons that solution puts me off a little:

1. You have a dangling check for empty string at the end to set to the current number if the string is empty after the Fizz/Buzz conditions. An "else" clause disguised as an "if" clause.

2. It's just messier to understand. "If % 3, append Fizz; if % 5, append Buzz" has four different outcomes: neither matches, first matches, second matches, both match. A newcomer to the code has to mentally separate out all possibilities (which basically requires re-scanning the same code four times). Whereas the "if, elseif, elseif, else" can be read over and understood with a single scan.

I forgot to mention the variation where you start with an empty string, and % 3 to append 'Fizz' then % 5 to append 'Buzz'. This is also an instant pass in my book (two modulus, no calculation variables), though I don't personally care for the "coincidence" that for this specific problem the two conditions combined happen to provide the end result.

Then again it is FizzBuzz and not FizzBuzzMozz, where numbers divisible by both 3 and 5 produce a string that cannot be concatenated by the individual 3 and 5. So to be fair, this solution is perfectly valid. :p

The main thing I look for with FizzBuzz solutions in general is how many modulus operators are used. The junior end of the spectrum tends to use four (% 5 && % 3; % 5; % 3), while intermediate/seasoned developers will either use three (% 15; % 5; % 3), or two (storing % 5 and % 3 in variables, then comparing the combinations).

My personal preference in terms of demonstrating maintainable code is using two modulus operations with variables. However, I fully understand the argument that an additional % 15 is preferable compared to the overhead of storing two variables on each iteration. Both are valid approaches IMO, and the debate can roar on for eternity. Micro-optimizations and whatnot.

I just don't like to see four modulus operations, which IMO shows a lack of basic willingness or ability to refactor while coding. It's fine to initially write the four modulus operations, but if someone doesn't immediately catch the duplication and do something about it, it screams "I write code until it works and then move on without cleaning anything up."

Strangely enough, only once have I seen someone use the % 15 optimization and add a short comment along the lines of "// least common multiple, divisible by both 3 and 5". Spotting the optimization is nice; placing a short comment explaining why % 15 when the test is about % 5 and % 3 is a nice touch. Explains something that might not be immediately obvious to the next person coming to the code.

Aside: it astounds me how many people, when asked to write a short snippet of code during an interview, have basic formatting problems and inconsistent code style. I've seen two lines of code inside an if() block indented at different levels, with no excuse for "different opinions on formatting". Not a wrapped line continued on the next, but just two simple statements inexcusably indented at say 8 and 12 spaces. Don't call us, we'll call you...