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Nick's Scala Notes

Nick's Scala Notes Basics This section should be most of the things you need to get going. The goal is that you can read most scala code and write your own simple applications. (Also check out Intermediate and Advanced) The REPL (Scala playground) Scala has a REPL. Simply enter scala

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Notes from You Don't Know JavaScript

ALL of the falsy values: "" 0, -0, NaN null, undefined false The empty array is truthy. However, when loosely compared, it is coerced into an empty string, which is falsy. So, if ([]) { console.log('hey'); } // 'hey' but [] == false // true Array.toString() will simply list contents comma-delimited: [1,2,

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My .vimrc (Colemak Edition)

A vimrc for Colemak users, explained.

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How much do I really know about Web Security?

Today I moved onto the next game series on OverTheWire (are they really games?), Natas. Thanks to my friend, Sam, I realized that this was the reverse spelling of 'Satan'. More importantly, the series is about web security. I could not have been more excited this morning to realize that

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Blog[0] (Start Here)

I have recently come across a new addiction for myself. It's called OverTheWire and it's part of a large network of sites that provide something called Wargames. Let me explain. On OverTheWire, there are more than 10 sets of wargames that you can play. I first played a game called