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Comment · 4 years ago
If I "walk along the train while riding it", as the author suggests, I can get from any station to any other station. Taking the tube from Moorgate to Barbican is not the same thing as walking underground, so this article is somewhat misleading.
Comment · 4 years ago
I would strongly argue against this. Not only TODO is easily searchable as others have also pointed out, but also in some IDEs you can open a TODOs window which will aggregate all of these so that you can easily keep track of them (e.g. Visual Studio).
Comment · 4 years ago
I recently went through the same process for a director of engineering position and it was OK up to the point where a VP thought that asking me low-level detail questions specific to his particular project which I had zero knowledge of was the appropriate way of assessing the potential of a candidate applying for a position spanning the company's entire product portfolio; needless to say, I didn't do that great. The peer-review stage is a tricky one because if a single person on one of the 12-ish interviews doesn't like you then that's the end of it, and you might have the luck of running into some uninspiring automaton with a military background like I did.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I dislike emails that end in "Thank You In Advance" with such a passion. It's so presumptiout to assume that I will agree to whatever the request is; OK, I might, but don't thank me for something I haven't yet agreed to do, you're just implying that I have no option but to agree. These emails have the lowest reply rate in my mailbox.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm very curious to find out how it compares to Playwright.
Comment · 5 years ago
While I normally argue in the favour of privacy, in this particular case I'm leaning towards thinking that web content accountability is a step in the right direction.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I've just given this a try, and it's a fantastic bit of software. I'll definitely be switching over to it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Very good counter-argument to the non-sensical punctuation mark redundancy argument.
Comment · 5 years ago
Exactly, both approaches in the article are wrong, and this is the only way to write the sentence correctly. Each sentence needs to end in a punctuation mark, regardless of whether it's between quotes or not.
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't agree that a transformation which takes an int[] and outputs a string[] is an endofunctor. Yes they are both arrays, but they are different types.

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