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joeheymingon Try out my version of 1M checkboxes

It's a tribute to https://eieio.games 1 million checkboxes, but it uses a different backend. Let's see if it scales...

joeheymingon Diff So Fancy: make Git diffs look good

Came here for someone to shout-out magit. It's amazing

joeheymingon -2000 Lines of Code

Writing code is like playing jazz. It's not about the notes you are playing, its all about the notes you are not playing

joeheymingon Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input

This was my biggest hurdle to learning vim, I kept hitting Ctrl-S...

joeheymingon Functional Programming Patterns

I really like the content, but would like to see it extended to examples an many languages where functions are first class objects and map/reduce are readily available.

joeheymingon Always bet on text

This is why scripting/interpreted languages are vastly faster to produce than compiled programming languages.

joeheymingon Pair Programming Memes

the answer is: "yes"

joeheymingon Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? (1985) [pdf]

life before the internet was a thing

joeheymingon Show HN: Tool to turn your HTML into a collapsible tree

I thought this was very meta: http://htmltree.peterbe.com/?url=htmltree.peterbe.com

joeheymingon Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

yes, but why?

joeheymingon Show HN: put a text nyan cat in your emacs

or prank a co-worker, thats the real intent :-)

joeheymingon Show HN: put a text nyan cat in your emacs

yo dawg, I herd you like nyan cat, so I put a nyan cat in your emacs so you can nyan while you program

joeheymingon Email is Broken: People Sent 67 Trillion Emails in 2013

TLDR; This article has no content. It just spews statistics about Email, yet gives only one, non-thought-out, solution to dealing with lots of email.

Its just a sensational title, move on.

joeheymingon I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity

wait, wouldn't it be faster to write a small script to hit the facebook API foreach activity? I thought this was hacker news, not clueless article writer news

joeheymingon The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face

What I want to know is: when will w3c update their site?!

joeheymingon Animation to Explain CSS Triangles

I wish all CSS was described this way... Thanks!

joeheymingon MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)

I like to think that its not model view controller, but instead model-view-behavior (or the strategy pattern)

Events are a given. Models can fire/handle events, views can fire/handle events. The behavior/strategy pattern is just a bunch of singleton objects that know how to mediate between the view and the model. Sometimes the behavior pattern handles events (as a strategy), but it doesn't fire events (only the model and view can do that).

The model knows how to generate the behavior. The View contains the behavior and asks the behavior questions with the model.

This separates responsibilities nicely in my opinion.

joeheymingon "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

Maybe Firefox can replace it with a don't tender html checkbox </sarcasm>

joeheymingon Caps Lock Key Has No Place on a Modern Keyboard

I use the F keys all the time using emacs. They are super useful.

joeheymingon Caps Lock Key Has No Place on a Modern Keyboard

This person has obviously never programmed a day in his life. Caps lock is very useful for typing uppercase CONSTANTS.

This is not relevant for hacker news.