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SWE JavaScript/TypeScript, C, Java, Creating Programming Languages.
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kizer··on E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus
https://imgur.com/a/i9rWJbb
kizer··on E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus
https://imgur.com/a/i9rWJbb
kizer··on E-Cigarette Maker Juul Just Gave Its Employees an Average 1.3M Bonus
Are you speaking of completely irrelevant topics? Is astroturfing for “Juul” (what a stupid fucking name) more important than making a meaningful contribution to the present discussion?
kizer··on Ask HN: Which (if any) content feed(s) do you “digest” aside from HN?
I visit reddit out of habit, but I'm looking to cut down since the new experience is so... commercialized I guess.
kizer··on IAMSKILLED – The next level of IT-interviews
Good luck with your business!
kizer··on IAMSKILLED – The next level of IT-interviews
You should double-check the grammar and writing on your site; have a native English professional do the writing. Also, the screenshot shows an "I'MSKILLED" logo (vs IAMSKILLED). My opinion (remember, _opinion_): the name is silly, which won't resonate with your target audience.

Also, what on the homepage tells me what the product is? "next level", "simple", "functional", "platform", "automatically", "easily", "next generation"; remove all of those and replace with the features of the product.

kizer··on 25 years ago today, NCSA Mosaic 1.0 was released
Was there frequently while finishing up school last year.

Today, I assume we'd need to fill every office in that building with a talented engineer to produce a competitive browser from scratch.

kizer··on Ask HN: What single/simple omission from the JS spec would yield big perf gains?
For example, if all objects' properties were immutable after instantiation, could this fact be relied upon to engineer higher performance in JS engines?

Just curious.

kizer··on Music industry hails passage of the Music Modernization Act
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt confused and underwhelmed after reading this piece! I wanted the details.
kizer··on Why Patterns Failed and Why You Should Care
Design patterns are derived from practice and experience. The linked talk described them as being harvested.

It’s easy to note reappearing patterns. It’s difficult to consider a task, identify a worthy pattern, and then “apply” it as if it were a recipe and not not a general postulate that seems to work well in a class of situations.

kizer··on Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows
Mind sharing the statistic in that last link?
kizer··on Ask HN: Given the sophistication of modern search engines, can this be my site?
Assuming content is rendered quickly and ARIA is somehow employed? I’m asking about totally “pure js” single page applications, and their affordance to SEO and accessibility.
kizer··on GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL
I wonder why we're still programming primarily in text - we ought to see more visual editors that operate on top of a source file, where changes to file sync immediately to editor, and vice-versa.

Also, that's the sexiest README I've ever seen.

kizer··on What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
They’re not chatbots - the replies are too specific and organic in some of the tweets I read. I’m guessing Amazon told these workers that someone would convey their general sentiments on their behalf. That or this is satire, I hope.
kizer··on Leonardo Da Vinci's to Do List (Circa 1490)
He said “how to square a triangle”.
kizer··on Show HN: WASM Binary Structure
Also, the code rotating the labels is broken. Please feel free to cleanup!
kizer··on Show HN: WASM Binary Structure
Please fork/modify the fiddle as you wish. I created this because I like visuals.
kizer··on Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students
I just graduated. My favorite form of course, and the one that was seemed to be preferred in discussions with friends and peers, was something like the following: - Homework is between 10/20% of the grade. Collaboration must be allowed. Even allow copying, and allow one or two drops instead of accepting late assignments. - Weekly quizzes account for ~20% of the grade in total. At my university, we have a computer based testing facility where students can schedule quizzes at times best for them. Plus, the grading is automatic :). Quizzes should be a little more difficult than the homework, and maybe more expansive/general. - The rest is exams. Exams should test conceptual knowledge over practical problem solving or particular algorithms/definitions, in my opinion. Also, as I'm sure you're aware, try to avoid subjective or ambiguous questions. Unfortunately, I had my fair share of both. - Having students write out code on an exam is probably the only way to make sure they understand how to program what is taught. Many people will cheat on homeworks or programming assignments. If you don't have a secure testing facility, they will do anything in their power to cheat on quizzes and tests, too. I worked as a TA and saw some of their techniques first hand.

With that out of the way, try to make homework online & automatically graded. PLEASE, record your lectures and allow students to watch. A auxiliary youtube channel with videos explaining the concepts is a huge plus. Please, try to recommend texts instead of requiring them UNLESS the text is actually used in the course. It has to be used substantially to warrant requiring it. However, please have a few texts listed regardless. It will help supplement what you teach. Maybe link to some good sites or references if you know of any.

Our generation isn't all that different; perhaps we prefer more things online!

Competitive programming assignments were very enjoyable for me, by the way.

Thank you for reading my rambling post. Good luck.

kizer··on European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill
Can we just block Europe? Like, partition the internet or something... /s
kizer··on OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack
...you pass in a pointer to the first character. Arrays in C are simply contiguous spans of memory.
kizer··on OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack
A character array seems like a natural way to me to represent a string of characters. But Unicode though...
kizer··on OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite – Web App stack
I may be young and dumb, but C programming seems very simple and straightforward to me. With abstraction comes lack of knowledge of implementation in favor of ease of use; but in C you can build your own abstractions quickly and reach a level close to even JS (opaque types, function pointers). At least in C you know exactly what is going on.

Can someone briefly summarize the security issues in C? If you manage memory properly and take a conservative approach to handling input, where is the risk?

Like I said, I'm young and have only be programming in C for ~3 years.

kizer··on Web Framework Benchmarks
Thank you
kizer··on Web Framework Benchmarks
Is 'Fortunes' a test involving the quote generating program? Also, is the difference between 'Single Query' and 'Multiple Queries' concurrency? I always look at these but I have trouble understanding the test cases.
kizer··on Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?
I support this. Just integrate typescript into the Ecma standard, add browser support, and create a true improvement to JS.
kizer··on Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?
Also, similar to enema...

Poor ECMA having an unfortunate starting acronym.

kizer··on Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?
Maybe they could change "Ecmascript" to "ES" (forgetting that it stood for Ecmascript). Like how SciFi --> SyFy, I guess.
kizer··on Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?
My suggestion is actually ES6. It clarifies that you're referring to "modern" JS. Also, it will change with every year.

Most people are using ES6 as the name anyways - you don't hear "ES6 JavaScript" but only "ES6".

kizer··on Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
Thanks.
kizer··on Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
Why wouldn't it be 3^n? Edit: wait, it's because bitstring -> strategy is a function, right?
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