Esailija

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2d	comment	Reason for return statement in recursive function call Because you need to return the value that is returned by the function
Jun 14	comment	Which design patterns would I use for this algorithm? He is asking if that flexibility is worth the tradeoffs you are making. Unless the requirements are going to change weekly, or something, it is not. You can also write 30 classes for the task of printing hello world, there is no end to accidental complexity you can add.
Jun 4	comment	How do you demo software with No UI in the Sprint Review? No you didn :-D
Jun 2	comment	How to get started with computer science research Here's an overview of the areas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
Jun 2	comment	Is Node.js correct choice for JSON parsing and IO driven What do you mean extremely fast? It is general purpose textual format, it's going to be much, much slower than custom binary formats usually used in database<->application comm.
Jun 2	comment	Is Node.js correct choice for JSON parsing and IO driven I don't see how Javascript has a distinct advantage in parsing JSON. First of all, JSON is not technically a subset in that line and paragraph separators (\u2028, u2029) are illegal in Javascript string literals but not in JSON string literals. Secondly, even if it was, I still don't see how the syntactic similarity could possibly affect performance. If it's because javascript has direct equivalents of JSON values, then, so do many other languages but it's still unrelated to syntactic similarity.
May 25	comment	The rationale behind Falsy values @Inaimathi yes, `==` or `!=` in Javascript is a different game altogether, `if ( a == false )` is not the same as `if ( !a )` or other plain boolean conversions like in `a \|\| b` or `a && b`.
May 25	comment	The rationale behind Falsy values @JeroenDeDauw yes, it's basically the good old "The code should protect the programmer from themselves" vs "the programmer is a responsible adult" :P Depending on situation, either one can be the right approach.
May 25	comment	The rationale behind Falsy values @JeroenDeDauw it should be a null, undefined, or string. If it's not, it's the callers fault - this is how we think in Javascript culture anyway.
May 25	comment	When to store values in constants/finals `COLOR_SELECTED` doesn't read like a constant at first glance (sounds like a variable I.E. what is the currently selected color or something)... maybe you should rename it to `SELECTED_TEXT_COLOR` or whatever it really means.
May 25	comment	Video about Java hashmap with arrayList as values Do you really need a video for every type of thing as a key? They are all the same.
May 25	comment	Why are there so many numeric types (bit, int, float, double, long)? Javascript only has one number type on the surface.
May 15	comment	Why is the use of constructors discouraged when creating prototypes? @CaseyChu not at all. And I mentioned it because in the linked post someone said "`Object.create` doesn't work in IE8" - which is just useless comment when you can implement it for this use case in 2 seconds on any browser.
May 15	comment	Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript. Is there life without it? @deceze well you do lose inheritance, generic methods and the ability to have a program that creates a lot of objects. That's a lot when you can just use underscore prefix/suffix.
May 15	comment	Is it poor programming practice to pass parameters as Objects? In Java the direct equivalent would be `dialog( Map<String, ?> options )`, not `dialog( Object options )` so this is not what OP's code was trying to do.
May 14	comment	What attributes of PHP make it insecure? I don't think you are talking about the same thing, I meant that serialized input coming to PHP is not handled beyond putting it in arrays. Regardless of how stupid and random the rules for `==` are, they are deterministic and documented. If both of the values are strings, as they will be in the case of directly comparing to unprocessed input, they will be compared as strings. That didn't return `true` for me in 32-bit system either - they are both strings which will just do string comparison. Use `var_dump` to see what types you are dealing with for sure, because there is no "sometimes".
May 14	comment	What attributes of PHP make it insecure? Are you saying that PHP used to inspect the contents of every input to see if they can be parsed to more sophisticated types than strings? Doesn't sound very PHP to me :P
May 14	comment	What attributes of PHP make it insecure? `"secret_pass" == "0"` evaluates to `false` for me. You cannot pass `0` in a `$_REQUEST` - the input data is not automatically parsed to integer types and so on. Not defending on PHP but this really sucks the credibility of your post down for me.
May 10	comment	regular, average programmer - scared of geeks and their skills Starting at 20 is earlier than me :P Anyway, it's not really about raw time spent at all but taking those painful steps outside of your comfort zone. People who started programming at 12 and sticked to it were very likely to expand their comfort zone all the time rather than writing getters and setters for 8 years. Otherwise the 8 years meant nothing - "1 year's experience 8 times".
Apr 22	comment	Structure vs. programming How is following a never-ending trail of indirection ("treasure hunt"), that will inevitably result from this insanity, easy to understand? That's just going from one extremity to another, and is probably far worse than the extremity you started with. Each method contains at most 2 statements - are you serious?