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New comment by chriserin in "How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)"

chriserin — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:48:26 +0000

This is accomplished with the zsh hash table I believe. `hash -d myproject=~/projects/myproject` will set up the same thing for ~/projects/myproject

$ cd ~myproject

$ pwd

~/projects/myproject

New comment by chriserin in "Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, Node.js, and Ruby"

chriserin — Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:04:27 +0000

I work with the author, the languages included came down purely to expertise available. Additional implementations have been submitted for Rust, Haskell and Ruby's event machine. A host of pull requests have been submitted to tweak the existing implementations as well.

It would be awesome to see implementations in python, c# and java. There are a number of ways to do each, I assume.

New comment by chriserin in "5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk"

chriserin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:12:54 +0000

UKers, just make sure you get ash bats, not maple. A shattered bat on the ball field is embarrassing. A shattered bat on the streets is dangerous. Likely there will be no bat boy to hand you a replacement.

New comment by chriserin in "Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA"

chriserin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:00:37 +0000

Its worth noting that some investors are thinking this is a liquidity event because someone got a margin call rather than concern about euro economic concerns. I'd think its both. But yeah, u.s. bonds are doing fine despite the downgrade.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-has-got-margin...

New comment by chriserin in "Moody’s: Why the U.S. Is Still AAA"

chriserin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:49:11 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_recognized_statistic...

Nobody can stop you, but nobody can legally use your ratings in regulatory filings.

New comment by chriserin in "9.2% Unemployment? Blame Microsoft."

chriserin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:48:36 +0000

This is an argument that the unemployment problem is structural rather than cyclical. Paul Krugman points out constantly that if the unemployment problem was structural, we'd see wages rising in areas where there is demand, but wages aren't rising for anybody that makes less than 400,000, though for those above they've increased 23% since 2008.

The structural unemployment argument is a trope to insist that the government can't do anything to encourage employment, because stupid people just can't do today's jobs. Its politics disguised as economics.

New comment by chriserin in "The Media’s Coverage Of LulzSec Has Been Cowardly and Pathetic"

chriserin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:01:49 +0000

Anytime there's such a tremendous gap in security it should be a story, script kiddie, government agent or other.

New comment by chriserin in "The Media’s Coverage Of LulzSec Has Been Cowardly and Pathetic"

chriserin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:53:31 +0000

I think that if you attack and damage entities seemingly at random then its a brand of terrorism. Its not al-queda and its not taking a plane from the sky and yeah terrorism is such a loaded term that we've grown to equate with real evil, but as a method? Its terrorism.

There are other -ism's that could apply as well.

New comment by chriserin in "Mozilla Executive: We're Not Interested In Enterprise Level Users"

chriserin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:33:41 +0000

In my experience, there are few departments that have automated tests that could assist in shortening the testing cycle. If there is a bug with a new version of firefox then it will take 3 months to fix it because of the long development and deployment cycles exacerbated by a heavy bureaucracy.

New comment by chriserin in "Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)"

chriserin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:23:32 +0000

> Please can we drop the IE6 nonsense now? The remaining market share is negligible and the arguments are academic outside of niche markets

When last I checked in with some former co-workers, JPMChase still used IE6. Its a relevant problem.

New comment by chriserin in "Poll: Have you moved from JavaScript to CoffeeScript?"

chriserin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:34:24 +0000

I love coffee script. With coffee script and backbone I've been able to take an extra step in creating manageable complexity on the client side. I was never the greatest javascript programmer, and coffeescript allows me to not worry about all the things that tripped me up (prototypical inheritance and all the different ways to implement classes/inheritance) and concentrate on the problems I'm trying to solve with a clear set of rules.

Coffeescript curates the good parts of javascript for you and adds the syntactic sugar that cleans up the gnarliness of javascript.

New comment by chriserin in "Great People Are Overrated"

chriserin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:56:27 +0000

As another developer that definitely isn't in the 100x category, those are some nice sentiments to hear.

New comment by chriserin in "CSS Nyan Cat"

chriserin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:42:50 +0000

One of many many fails was:

Don't use IDs in selectors. #nyanCat {

What's the thinking behind disallowing ids in selectors?

New comment by chriserin in "LulzSec: Why we do what we do"

chriserin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:04:39 +0000

Might that be another advantage of cloud computing? To spread the cost of DDoS defense infrastructure across many websites?

New comment by chriserin in "LulzSec: Why we do what we do"

chriserin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:01:19 +0000

Or maybe that Anonymous idealism was a fraud and lulz, as peers, could see the hypocrisy much clearer, as everybody in their community likely do what they do because of the thrills and ignoring the pain caused. Lulz admitting it is likely taking the high road? or is that too tortured as twist.

New comment by chriserin in "Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. I’m With You."

chriserin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:01:26 +0000

The current European financial crisis has many more causes than immigration. In general, the causes fall in line with the US economic crisis causes: the housing bubble, an extended period of cheap money, no regulation of newly conceived financial instruments, etc.

Immigration may have exacerbated these issues, but not more so than the monetary union.

New comment by chriserin in "Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. I’m With You."

chriserin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:55:11 +0000

That's a nice resource but I don't think it shows what you intended it to show. From that timeline all I gather is that the United States has always wavered between xenophobia and the need for labor.

New comment by chriserin in "How Hackers Stole 200,000 Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL"

chriserin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:46:13 +0000

The NYTimes story is the 2nd crime, because they're white washing Citicorp's responsibility. With all the hacking that's been going on recently, the NYT needs a full time cyber security reporter.

New comment by chriserin in "WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you."

chriserin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:23 +0000

This happens with all languages and frameworks too. There are ASP.NET 1.1 apps at the last place I worked because when we did a test upgrade to 2.0 things started failing.... and there were no automated tests (yet a requirement of bugless releases :) so henceforth nobody wanted to invest in upgrading.

Its the nature of the software beast that upgrading a large and complex application to a new version of the language or framework is difficult and maybe prohibitively difficult. Once something is written and it works it often times stays as is... sometimes for decades.

New comment by chriserin in "WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you."

chriserin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:40:09 +0000

This was my experience as well. I invested in following Hartl's tutorial and by the end I was capable of creating webapps that did cool things.