Xavi | 8 years ago | on: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
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Xavi | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Inspect questionable scripts before piping them to sh or bash
Well a package manager does much more than verify downloads, but sure you can think of it as a single featured package manager.
Xavi | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Inspect questionable scripts before piping them to sh or bash
Just brain storming... could another possible solution be to create a public list of hashes of well known scripts, and then write a small `sh` wrapper that verifies that hash of the script it's about to execute?
Xavi | 11 years ago | on: Jq: A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
Why is having node as a dependency such a bad thing? No snark. Genuinely curious.
Xavi | 12 years ago | on: How well do you know HTML?
Neither did I, though I still enjoyed it. Really opened my eyes to aspects of web development I never considered.
Xavi | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website
Are you paying any money to the original author?
Xavi | 13 years ago | on: A programmer’s guide to healing RSI
When I used to work on windows I created a little AutoHotKey script that remapped my keyboard when ever the capslock key was on:
https://github.com/xavi-/Keyboard-Remapper
It mapped I,J,K,L to the arrow keys, U to the home key, O to the end key, N to backspace, M into the del, and etc... Did wonders for my wrists.
Xavi | 13 years ago | on: Inbox Pause - A pause button for incoming mail in Gmail [Chrome extension]
There's an option to turn on/off the auto responder. Checkout the second image in the slide show: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/illgajkjilbddcllil...
Xavi | 14 years ago | on: Facebook machine learning technology improves; Redditors alaramed.
BTW, Google seems to be pretty open with what they know about you. Here are two links where they display an explicit list: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Xavi | 14 years ago | on: JQuery Performance Tips Cheat Sheet
I understand in principle this is true, but in reality what kind of performance hit are you looking at?
I've never seen any real stats.
Xavi | 14 years ago | on: LiveReload: Reflect CSS Changes Instantly, with No Browser Reload
Quickly switching of themes is one reason why you would want to make it easy to change css: http://xavi.co/articles/jquery-ui-css-themes-hosted-on-cdn
I can also be quite useful during development. One cool trick to achieve something similar is to add a contentEditable attribute to a style tag: http://css-tricks.com/8618-show-and-edit-style-element/
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: What happens when a Social Game - is run with Bots?
Out of curiosity, how do you make sure only real people are playing?
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: Simply Lift
Presumably the code snippets are meant for beginners who need/appreciate more verbose comments.
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: JavaScript Interview Question
Oops, that's a type-o. The capitalize doesn't need to change.
Thanks for the heads up.
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: JavaScript Interview Question
Yep, that is exactly the solution I would be looking for.
I would be blown a way if someone came up with solution that could handle arbitrary function returns. My friend actually wrote an interesting article on the subject. Here's the link if you're interested: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/scriptjunkie/gg575560.aspx
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: JavaScript Interview Question
Many interviewees, when presented with `say("hello")("world")`, understood that `say` was a function that returned a function, but few were able to actually implement `say`.
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: JavaScript Interview Question
A while back a couple of colleagues sat down and came up with our own set of JS interview questions. Here's what we came up with:
Can the interviewee code: https://gist.github.com/633341
Can the interviewee read/debug code: https://gist.github.com/633087
I used these questions during a couple of interviews. They seemed to work well.
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: RAPT: A physics-intensive HTML5 Platformer
The performance is quite good. Is the source (the unminified version) available anywhere?
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: HTML5 introduces a new attribute on the script tag called async
The async and defer attributes are great. Don't forget to added them to your disqus script as well.
Xavi | 15 years ago | on: Request HN: Please all update contact info in your profile
I'd argue that "cute obfuscation" techniques aren't needed anymore... gmail's spam filter is pretty good...
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