Arnor

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by Arnor 13y ago
I agree completely. This is particularly prescient for me because I finally made the leap from PHP to Ruby with a job I started 2/5/2014 (hold your applause :P). There's a lot to learn, but I actually find myself more happy a
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by Arnor 13y ago
Thank you! Reading some of these posts, I was worried that it was some law of providence that when you've been writing software for some number of years (15-20?) you magically stop wanting to learn about new tools. As a new tools junky
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by Arnor 13y ago
That's exactly why it's useful to get familiar with multiple toolchains. If you are pretty comfortable with Ruby and move to Python, you'll have a pretty good idea about what pitfalls you'll encounter in a dynamically ty
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by Arnor 13y ago
Better than absurdly pompous...
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by Arnor 13y ago
Aren't "interviewing skills" essential to founders? Isn't a YC interview basically a chance to pitch your company and answer probing questions about your plan? Seems like a pretty fair qualification to me...
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by Arnor 13y ago
I can't believe I read this whole thread... I need to go take a shower now...
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by Arnor 13y ago
I was on that same wave length for a long time. But I gave it a year then rounded up the usual suspects (xfce, gnome, kde) and was surprised to see how much I missed unity.
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by Arnor 13y ago
Which libraries do you recommend?
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by Arnor 13y ago
I don't understand why so many comments here seem to have skipped over the word "might" and the entire introduction. The point isn't stop using jQuery. The point isn't even don't ever use jQuery for plugins. It
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by Arnor 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the "-" vs "None" meant that there wasn't a truthy alternative to None. More accurate would have been "N/A" vs "None". Not clear on the __nonzero__/__bool__ stuff..
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by Arnor 13y ago
True, but I find commented out code really distracting while I read a file. It's really easy to use the comment method to excess and end up with a file full of old trash code. As far as Ember's issue, we didn't see the actual
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by Arnor 13y ago
> ...TDD's primary benefit is to improve the design of our code, they were caught entirely off guard. And when I told them that any regression safety gained by TDD is at best secondary and at worst illusory... Thank you! Details of
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by Arnor 13y ago
A quick search gave me this list: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/blog/2005/12/fuzzers-ultimat... is there a notable fuzzer missing? It's a pretty long list, does anyone know which of these tools are rea
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by Arnor 13y ago
You're right. That was snide and disingenuous. Unfortunately, I've lost my edit link or I'd remove it. Sorry.
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by Arnor 13y ago
TL;DR Straw men and fuzzy math. Lots of absurd assumptions in here. Many of them were acknowledged, but the author seems to think that this `millions of lines of spaghetti code` with `little use of existing libraries` will be rewritten as m
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by Arnor 13y ago
My first Rails project was 2.3 -> 3.2 (with intermediary steps if I recall). It took me a couple weeks, and I ascribed most of that to how unfamiliar I was with the stack at the time. Since then, I've become rather candid in my opin
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by Arnor 13y ago
That's a good point. However, it's till tempered by the fact that I haven't added ~40kb to the app to get it.
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by Arnor 13y ago
Yeah, I hate when my language forces me to write pristine code...
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by Arnor 13y ago
In my current project I have 20 listeners in the ready function. I can see how it would get pretty nasty if I got up to the 100+ range. I think that would be settled by tacking on a listeners method to each of the models: ... $(do
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by Arnor 13y ago
I've used Backbone for a couple projects. Then I used Angular because I liked the two way binding and easy access to history. Still, I generally find that these frameworks get in the way for most of my projects. I tend to use the follo
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by Arnor 13y ago
I fail to see where the article proselytized against JS frameworks for anyone. They highlighted their specific needs and explained why each of the big 3 JS frameworks didn't fill that need. Can you point out where I missed this "a
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by Arnor 13y ago
I was in a similar situation a few months ago. The worst part was there were two office whistlers. One had a Vice President role so you couldn't really kick him in the shins...
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by Arnor 13y ago
I'd love to see an introductory course using Haskell on an open courseware channel.
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by Arnor 13y ago
Mostly speculation: Successful CS students are by nature inquisitive. They tend to ask the questions "how does this work." They aren't humanoid computers that need every concept spoon fed to them. Semester one doesn't ne
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by Arnor 13y ago
rgb(218, 218, 218) on rgb(237, 173, 45) makes my eyes hurt.
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by Arnor 13y ago
Wooowee, did I ever strike a nerve :)
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by Arnor 13y ago
cough Irony cough
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by Arnor 13y ago
Hmm... TL;DR?
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by Arnor 13y ago
Thank you. Links for reference: http://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Design-Beyond-Human-Comput... http://www.aculei.net/~ams/textbooks/Interaction%20Design.pd... http://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by Arnor 13y ago
How do you feel about native vs HTML5 for applications that need to do a lot of timing? From my perspective setInterval and setTimeout seem pretty kludgy. Also, I'm really interested in what you mean by "the dozens of prototypes t

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