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kremlinon Have you pressed the button?

(i know i'm just responding to myself over and over again but) apparently its the opinion of quite a few that the experiment doesn't have any rule that states that you can't make a script for it. that's fully in line with the parameters of the experiment, the parameters just being 'here's a button and a timer; do what thou whilst'.

kremlinon Have you pressed the button?

apparently the naive solution for a script is to press the button when the desired second hits, but because the timer doesn't reset immediately, the button is pressed many times automatically. The server can tell that the button was pressed more times than a human would do it, so can mark that person as a cheater.

kremlinon Have you pressed the button?

I just read somewhere that they have something that detects cheaters. how does that work?

kremlinon Have you pressed the button?

is it cheating to just put some javascript into the console to check the button timer and automatically click it when you want it to click?

kremlinon A re-introduction to JavaScript

the problem with using it even when you don't have falsy values is that, eventually, you're going to forget that you can't use it when you do have falsy values. You're going to get too comfortable with it, and it's not general-purpose enough.

Can't wait for ES6 to no longer be 'experimental', as I'd much prefer to use 'for..of' loops

kremlinon A re-introduction to JavaScript

The article mentions an idiom for iterating over an array. It says 'an even nicer idiom is...' and then it shows it.

I just wanted to say that the behaviour of this 'nicer' idiom may not be what's expected - it stops iterating once it hits the first falsy value. I was quite excited actually when I first saw them idiom, until I quickly realized its limitations

kremlinon Helping the People Who Don’t Get Hired

also it likely disproportionately selects for people who do well in those kinds of situations, which may be completely orthogonal to the position they're being hired for.

That being said, I also really like the idea.

kremlinon Unison: a next-generation programming platform

this...sounds...beautiful

I really enjoyed reading about functions being identified by their hashes, and what advantages that could have.

kremlinon Creative computing with Clojure

yes you're right

kremlinon Creative computing with Clojure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfsnlbd-4xQ

Great, great talk linked to in the article, about using Clojure to abstract and live-code music.

It actually helped me to more appreciate a funny episode in Star Trek: Next Generation where the hologram doctor becomes an esteemed musician among a species that previously didn't have music, because they saw it as an amazing mathematical feat.

kremlinon Java Mutation Testing

Yes, writing tests is easy; however writing rigorous tests ... seems like one of those things that you can't really trust yourself not to say, 'Eh, it's rigorous enough'.

kremlinon Java Mutation Testing

That's an interesting concept - testing the tests themselves.

kremlinon Io.js 2.0.0 Released

Yes, I think so.

kremlinon Talking About Money

But the question is explicitly about lying about previous salary.

kremlinon Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it

That was extremely funny. Especially the bit about putting the north on the bottom. "But you can't do that."

kremlinon Scientists Perturbed by Loss of Stat Tool to Sift Research Fudge from Fact

Your explanation worked really well for me. I now understand what it is bayesians don't like about p value reliance.

kremlinon A significant amount of programming is done by superstition

Though as the author himself implies, it's not always appropriate to allocate the time necessary to do anything but corner-cutting.

"If you say that you don't take this relatively fast road for Linux init scripts, I'll raise my eyebrows a lot. You've really read the LSB specification for init scripts and your distribution's distro-specific documentation?"

kremlinon “So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary”

In my current employment, the environment provided me doesn't exactly feed commitment, but it at least marginally allows for it. We are soon moving office and the new environment is definitely one of those "the best you can hope for its compliance" type environments. But I have a hard time trying to tell my boss that without incriminating myself.

kremlinon Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit

Calling it "pass by value" without qualifying that, for objects, it passes the reference by value, is very confusing.

kremlinon When in Go, do as Gophers do

I'm on Chrome on Mac and it's not entirely obvious how to navigate these slides. Going to the link only shows me the first 3 slides by scrolling right.

Playing around a bit, I discovered that the arrow keys bring you to the next slides. Perhaps there could be a way to make that more obvious, or provide buttons onscreen.

kremlinon The world's smallest self-replicating program

That tradition goes back a long, long way. When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken.

A great tradition.

kremlinon Sailor – A Lua MVC framework

Viewing this on Chrome on Android. Being built with bootstrap, it's a bit surprising that the responsiveness of the site is so poor. Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/nnG3zgg.png

kremlinon Show HN: Building a Game with a 6-Year-Old

He also didn't mention giving him time to go to the bathroom.

kremlinon The world's smallest self-replicating program

lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.

kremlinon How Lazy Evaluation Works in Haskell

sorry, OT --

at smaller screen sizes something in your formatting is breaking words apart. I first noticed on Chrome Android, and then I checked on Chrome on my MBP, and yes, when the window is too narrow, the words get broken but not hyphenated.

"How does lazy Ev" new line "aluation work?"

kremlinon Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

feature request (hopefully this doesn't sound crazily absurd - also hopefully doesn't come across as rude) -- the ability to string saved tracks together. Run TrackA 4 times, TrackB 2, TrackC 1, TrackD 1, TrackA 4 again, etc. And even perhaps the ability to loop over and reuse arrangements of multiple tracks.

kremlinon Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

1up that 'toddler resistant' mode; just got this for my girl's ipad, going to have lots of fun with it and it will be more fun if the music doesn't stop every five seconds because she hit the one button she wasn't supposed to hit again.

kremlinon Show HN: Disco Fingers – Easily create funny beats

just paid for full features; i've always loved stuff like this. There's a web app I always liked that was just a grid with one instrument only, just a reverby mallet-sounding instrument (looks like they added drums now) http://tonematrix.audiotool.com/

When you're restricted to just a scale rather than all 12 notes in the full octave available to you, it's just so surprisingly easy to come up with little riffs that sound good.

kremlinon APIs.io – The API search engine

me too

kremlinon Apple Store Redesign

'text over a high contrast photo' - rule applies when the text is over a high-contrast PART of the photo. The rule is there for legibility - black text over a flat, white (or just off white) part of a photo that also, in a separate part, has some high-contrast elements, is perfectly fine for legibility.

The only unreadable type on that page is actually the white type over the high contrast photo at the very top of the page. "From one gift come many" - on my MBP, that looks really poor. My eyes are nearly in pain trying to read that.

All in all, I do think it's a bad job of a redesign. Very trendy, but quite obnoxious navigationally. Bad UX. I'm fine with big images and minimal text, but I think it needs to be shrunk quite a lot -- the entire Beats by Dre section should fit, top to bottom, on my 1440x900px screen. As it is, it's a full 2.5x screen heights (estimated).