Scraping webpages is extremely useful and this would seem to combat this. It's also extremely useful by... oh yes... Google. And I'm sure they would find a way to whitelist their scrapers to index pages, but archive.org? Oh you're SOL.
What's really amazing about this whole thing is that it's more a guide as to not give bad (nit-pickey, overly critical, discouraging) code reviews, than how to give good ones. I think that alone should give us an idea about the state of code reviews in our current industry as a whole.
Here's one question that's always bugged me - What's stopping a malicious user from sending an HTTP request from any API client like Postman, or even Curl from the CL? Something like a post with: {transferTo: myAccountId, amount: 1000000000}?
Obviously in any nontrivial web app it would fail because of authentication issues, but if a server doesn't do ANY sort of security checking, that should work, no? Does that mean that the onus is on the server developer of mybank.com? And if so, what would stop the malicious request from working on any server developed before the existence of CORS?
FYI, for all the jaded readers/commenters (everyone?) I think this is just a an op-ed piece in the vein of "Why X Is Better Than Y" That Lucky Peach has been doing.
FYI, for all the jaded readers/commenters (everyone?) I think this is just a an op-ed piece in the vein of "Why X Is Better Than Y" That Lucky Peach has been doing.
Agreed. As someone in the interview process once again, and being a bit more introspective this time, it's just really amazing how BS the entire whiteboard/share-scree "code this out for me" is. It seems to be a better indicator of how many of type X problems you've seen before, and employers seem to care more about if you know how to do something cold vs work through a problem to an adequate solution.
I took and completed Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1 (https://www.coursera.org/course/algo) for free, and it was 100% worth it. It was just the right amount of challenging, intellectually stimulating, and language agnostic so I think it actually made me a better JavaScript programmer in addition.
I made it a point to meet all the deadlines and assignments, which kept me honest and forced me to be timely. It was free when I did it, but I'm not sure if that's changed since looking at other courses I don't seem able to receive a certificate or weekly grades if not paying... Point being it may be worth it to pay just so you feel incentivized to finish the course with a passing grade :)
I was like this, to an extent, as well in my early twenties. What I realized was that I _didn't_ want to be like this, and like anything - it takes practice.
I consider myself smarter than the average Joe off the street, and you do too. Otherwise you wouldn't be reading HN :) So social cues, reading a crowd, and being engaging, it all takes practice. Yes, some people develop this naturally and don't need to consciously practice, but others don't. So just like programming, stop saying "No, I just don't get it", and instead reason why you don't and next time nail it.