Pewpewarrows

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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
If my salary depended on the Twitter API right now I'd be scared shitless.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I have yet to see a single viable example of a Knockout app that's been progressively enhanced. Until then, I'm not even going to consider touching it.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I absolutely _love_ developing sites JavaScript-free on the first pass. It really makes you realize how much of a crutch it's been that you've depended on, and how much you can get away with these days without i
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
As someone who works in the security industry, I can tell you that we really get a kick out of every coffeeshop Rails or JavaScript developer who throws together a quick demo over a weekend and calls it "hacking." I'm well aware of the hist
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Very good summary of what to look out for. Here are a few others that I ran into back when I was still entertaining the idea of using Mongo in production: 1. The keys in Mongo documents get repeated over and over again for every record in y
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I don't care what the argument is about: this is not the way to get people to take your "side" seriously or to consider the points you're attempting to make.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I'm a Python/Django guy so I'm not intimately familiar, but is that really the case? I was under the assumption that the handler wouldn't pass any POST vars not in attr_accessible to the model. In which case additional, unexpected ones woul
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I hope you realize that this is the identical argument PHP developers made whenever someone brought up how insecure the base language, libraries, and configuration were. Users of a framework should have to go out of their way to make themse
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Blanket accepting POST data to insert into your database is a terrible idea. Rails gives you attr_accessible and attr_protected to alleviate this problem. Protip: the one from those two that you suggested to use is just as terrible an idea
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
The point isn't to have exact same gender ratios in the tech industry. There are women out there who would make great programmers / sysadmins / etc, but never finish the process of becoming one, are dissuaded from ever starting, or flat-out
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
It's typically faster than any Wifi I can connect to. So yeah, absolutely.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Not to bring up the idiotic semicolon debate again: but if you write your JavaScript without semicolons, you're forcing everyone else that wants to use your library to conform to your style guide's rule if they want their code to work: ht
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Except that, once you're done developing a hybrid app, you now have a giant chunk of reusable code. Facebook simultaneously supports several different platforms (normal website, mobile website, iOS app, Android app, Windows Phone app, Black
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
As others have been pointing out feverishly on Twitter: the problem wasn't them betting too much on HTML5. Their problem was developing piece of shit apps that happened to use HTML5. They tasked amateurs who didn't know what they were doing
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Just to play Devil's Advocate, this is what I'd imagine the average Libertarian response to this would be: In a free market the consumers hold the power. An ISP that didn't restrict Internet usage or tier what it offered would become in-dem
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
His HN profile immediately talks about running Reddit's servers. And he's using the same recognizable username. I don't know how more obvious it could have been.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
If you're going to write an article going after Jeff Atwood for criticizing PHP, you probably shouldn't host it on a poorly-written PHP website that can't establish a database connection. You're not helping your case.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Besides the blatant sexism that's ripe throughout this woman's interaction with various staff members at E3: there's another underlying problem. You shouldn't have to hold someone's hand through a game demo. And you certainly shouldn't need
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
And again, you're completely missing the point. One user's UI clutter is another user's essential UI component. Doing actual UX studies on your interface is essential (which I assume Disqus has done thoroughly). Your original comments claim
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I've found that the best solution is to _not_ make your website "just another client" of your API. On the initial page load, render the page normally using your server-side templating. Then have your JavaScript introspect the existing DOM a
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Now you're just jumping through hoops to avoid linking to anything concrete. It's a shame, I was looking forward to hearing real arguments from you, instead of a fabricated "common sense."
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
How is formal UX research out of the picture? I asked you for some, you refused. If you're not going to even bother backing up your claim I'm not going to bother discussing it any more.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
If it's not a community then it shouldn't have usernames, a comments section, or trackable karma. Just reduce it to submitting and voting on links.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I really hope you see the irony at some point that you're complaining about social elements in an inherently social page element: the comments section. And I didn't downvote your original comment, so I have no idea what you're talking about
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
> By the common-sense criteria. Stopped reading right here. Either provide UX research to back up your claims, or stop pretending that they apply to your mythical invention of "the user."
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Self-destruct codes and patching up the hole you came in through are both pretty par for the course when it comes to non-trivial malware.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
As a Python guy I never had any reason to need to learn Ruby. And even now that I'm playing around with it it's purely out of professional curiosity.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
People tend to conveniently forget that it's the consumers in an economy who define a monopoly. There's nothing inherently wrong with it. If a monopoly occurs because the majority of consumers are giving that product/service their money, th
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
To be fair, you need to know the entire left-hand side of that graphic with PHP. The bottom-right quadrant is stuff you _should_ be doing (formalized methodology, version control, and testing). And the top-right quadrant is language-specifi
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
It's no use debating with someone that absolutely refuses to admit the possibility that their tools are sub-par. If your feelings get hurt: good. Maybe if it happens enough times you'll move on to better tools and technologies, you'll have

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