DougWebb

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by DougWebb 9y ago
I had the same experience learning French in school as a child. I did really well at reading and writing, but could never understand what the teacher was saying. A couple of years later, in a different school, my classmates were all Hatians
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Disclaimer: I'm about to promote my own company, Surround Technologies[1] Reading through all of the comments so far, I'm seeing solutions that give you a CRUD web app... and nothing else. If that's all you really need, then
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I've noticed the missing reply button; my impression is that it won't appear right away after a post is submitted, which is probably intended to reduce flamewars.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Maybe you should add "There's an FAQ" as an often-unrecognized feature.
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Ok, that definitely works, assuming you set your process up that way. In my mind, "deploy" starts with build and targets a single environment. Eg: deploy to staging, deploy to production. I've been working with too many clien
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by DougWebb 9y ago
If you aren't currently struggling to manage a large pool of servers / services, then you don't need Kubernetes. Not yet, at least. It's over-complicated overkill if you don't need it yet. So are containers, actua
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by DougWebb 9y ago
How does "It auto-updates every time you deploy" fit with "The difference between my local, staging, and production is tiny" ? It sounds like you have little control over your dependencies, and the differences between
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I'm guessing that "90% population reduction" doesn't go along with "live comfortably".
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by DougWebb 9y ago
up to mischief could mean broken or disabled javascript. As-in, maybe something else on your page (third-party ads) loads javascript with an error that stops execution, but your form is still submitable because you've coded it proper
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by DougWebb 9y ago
The drawback to validating the model in one place only, as shown, is that there is only one response for validation errors. Sure, it's got the details of the error that will vary, but it's ALWAYS sending a 400 error. Even the exam
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I'd use Regex.IsMatch() with an option for case-insensitive if I had to do that check. But I coded in Perl for 13 years, so regular expressions come naturally to me.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
There's something different about cut & paste vs drag & drop, though it won't impact most people. If you're using RDP and copying files from the host computer to the remote computer, it's natural to cut/copy
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I kind of think it is rocket science, since so many people have tried to write their own variant of it. We don't really do that for version control, IDEs, compilers, email clients, browsers, or the myriad other tools software develop
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by DougWebb 9y ago
The last thing I want from an external supplier of something I depend on is to have them driving my development and release cycle. I'll expend the resources to upgrade to your latest version when it's worth my time and cost.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I agree, and I prefer jQuery over native. It's still better, and does more. My point was that people say we don't need it anymore because the features it introduced are native now, and I think that's going to be said about Re
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by DougWebb 9y ago
The problem isn't learning the frameworks; the problem is creating code that relies on them and has to be supported for years, which may or may not be longer than the active lifespan of the framework.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That used to be the same argument for using jQuery instead of native JS and DOM, but now much of jQuery's goodness is native. I predict the same thing will happen with React. Like jQuery it will still be useful and will probably be som
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by DougWebb 9y ago
It might be useful to get it running on headless Chrome, so it can run completely server-side. There's probably better ways to do that, but it could be fun.
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I wouldn't recommend this. You want your device to look innocuous and normal . Nobody carries around an unused phone, so having one would be a red flag. Your phone will be examined for hidden partitions, and you'll be detained fo
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Author here. I read Hacker News pretty much every day, usually on my phone, and the interface has always been a problem. So over the years I've written a number of wrappers to provide my own interface, first using screen-scraping and n
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Yikes, what is it about node/npm/javascript that makes it feel like a house of cards? I think the (short) answer is "node, npm, and javascript". The longer answer has something to do with the automatic installation of
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by DougWebb 9y ago
It's not just cheating a little. Just moving the mouse around the page causes lots of data to be downloaded behind the scenes; you could end up loading every story on HN without ever leaving the Top list. That's not friendly to us
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I tried to apply via AngelList, and kept getting timeouts trying to submit the multiple pages of forms that need to be filled out in order to apply. You should revisit your Analyzing a Hiring Process blog; 100% of your candidates probably a
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Second and third paragraphs, with some minor editing: HTML is close to this ideal. If you haven't encountered it yet, I strongly recommend going through the tutorials at https://www.w3schools
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by DougWebb 9y ago
My ex-wife had intense skin itching. We didn't realize that her transplanted liver had started failing. A neighbor happened to notice her scratching, and happened to know about the liver disease connection, and happened to mention it.
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by DougWebb 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - North NJ - Remote preferred I've been a professional software engineer for the past 20 years. I consider myself a tool-maker, someone who creates tools that make work (and life) easier for others. Let me know the problem
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Sarcastic, or do you have some reason to believe that'll actually happen this time?
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by DougWebb 9y ago
I just finished my latest Hacker News reader. I usually read HN on my phone, so over the years I've written several wrappers to improve the layout on mobile devices, and also to test out new tech. This version uses Bootstrap 4 for the
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by DougWebb 9y ago
If you browse around the github repository, you can find csv files for all of the tables, which you might be able to work with. Also, search Google Images for "AdventureWorks Schema" to get an idea of how complex the database is.

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