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throwaway427on Happy Birthday, Ruby

Exactly. Use pluck, use exists, use count, use find_in_batches. Be thoughtful and have a culture of code reviews. Simple enough.

throwaway427on Happy Birthday, Ruby

    (1..100).map { |i| i.modulo(15).zero? && "FizzBuzz" || i.modulo(3).zero? && "Fizz" || i.modulo(5).zero? && "Buzz" || i }

throwaway427on Happy Birthday, Ruby

Sounds like PHP is perfect for you.

throwaway427on A Guide for Adults Going to College

How old were you when you did it?

throwaway427on WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality

Don't forget that Snap is a camera company.

throwaway427on The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)

Oh I forgot about Reason. Does it have a standard library that obviates the need for pulling in things like lodash, etc?

throwaway427on The melting pot of JavaScript (2017)

Let's say you'd like to write front-end code in a language that hides as much of the problems with JS as possible, preferably one that comes with a standard library, has elegant (or at least ergonomic) JS to <lang> interop and bridging, simplifies async code, and has a simple, integrated toolchain for targeting JS (all these amongst other things), what would you suggest? Basically what's the best language to write Javascript in : )

Dart? Elm? Clojurescript? Objective-J?

throwaway427on Apple’s Errors

What do you think business analysis should just disappear?

throwaway427on GNU ed 1.15

Possible this predates widespread rollout of SCP and the host didn't have RCP enabled.

throwaway427on Apple Had Five Ways to Fuel Earnings. Only One Still Works

I've had my 6S Plus now for 36 months and definitely don't need a change, though I do like the screens on the newer iPhones.

One interesting thing about the my phone is I managed to crack the screen on the 3 iPhones I had before, sometimes multiple times. I've put this one through hell and back and it just keeps going. I wonder if the build quality (not just features and performance) has been a factor in slowing upgrades...

throwaway427on My Name Is Daniel: He Could Have Been My Son. He Was Killed at 29

The reason you are puzzled is because you have made the error of survivorship bias.

throwaway427on V8 release v7.2

Another comment in this thread noted this is how Java works. I very much agree with you, but I guess there are different interpretations of how this should behave.

throwaway427on V8 release v7.2

This is not how Ruby and Python works, I believe. I guess it's debatable which paradigm JavaScript is more similar to.

throwaway427on V8 release v7.2

Huh, they just took all the issues with inheritance and made them more confusing!

There is nothing addressed here that can't be solved with composition. This seems like an odd step for an aspiring functional language to take...

throwaway427on V8 release v7.2

> then is the private field really private

What are some of the other languages that interpret "private" as never exposing the existence of that field to a public consumer? Most languages I've used don't expose the _value_ of the field...

throwaway427on V8 release v7.2

From the syntax proposal:

> Having a private field named x must not prevent there from being a public field named x, so accessing a private field can't just be a normal lookup.

Why do classes support public/private fields of the same name in the first place? This seems fraught by nature?

throwaway427on Google announces major expansion in New York City

And/or you have a lease started after 2016/17.

throwaway427on The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Knuth with the original "git gud".

throwaway427on Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory

Distributed Objects in Obj-c was all about this in the 90's I believe.

throwaway427on Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike

I finally gave up on the Political Gabfest. Mostly because I am fine with the cadence of the primary three hosts righteousness or overt partisan moments, but I have a hard time listening to the rotating fill-in hosts, which happens more frequently now and causes the show to take the shape of the rest of the Slate podcasts, which are past my irritation threshold.

Your comment doesn't deserve downvotes.

throwaway427on Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike

Oh the former is definitely more likely in the long run and I don't think anyone really minds.

In the short term I suspect they won't strike at all. NYC and DC rents are expensive.

throwaway427on Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push

Many of the people I grew up with in the southwest own their homes (for the sake of this discussion, finance == own). Almost none of my friends in NYC own their homes. I recently moved out of NYC to a new england state and most of the people in my office own their homes.

It's really not that uncommon for people outside of major cities to own their home?

throwaway427on The Making Of Dust (2003)

Wayyy back in the day there used to be a flashbang bug on dust where you could throw a bang as a CT over the central corridor and it would flash any Ts running towards it.

When I needed to make food or just run away from the PC, I would get a P90 and rush the corridor. It was suicide but you could absolutely wreak havoc with the high rate of fire.

throwaway427on The Making Of Dust (2003)

There are people to this day that will still grind on dust2 and office for days on end it seems. It's probably impossible to know but I am sure there are people who have played those maps 20 thousand times.

throwaway427on Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video]

For some reason our office manager will only order stuff off Amazon which leads to funny scenarios where we'll get 12 pack of soda that was ordered from Amazon but was shipped from Costco with the Amazon sellers name on the billing but our office as the shipping. Down at the local Kroger the 12 pack was probably 15% cheaper...

throwaway427on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say

> All of which is to support my original contention that this story has been decontextualized by surly commuters and the idea that a tourist couldn't rely on the subway to get to a concert is nonsense.

The L train?

throwaway427on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say

Numbers may not tell the whole story, obviously: https://outline.com/KLsxf3

throwaway427on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say

> If, like most concerts, it was starting a bit later, you'd very likely have experienced smooth service.

Unless it was on the weekend when there are a multitude of service interruptions and station closures.

throwaway427on Dead sperm whale found in Indonesia had ingested '6kg of plastic'

You would cull 6.5 billion people because they like fashion and video games and are wasteful?

When it happens I hope you aren't swept up since we are going to need people who have the answers to everything.