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by Smudge 10y ago
Zach's advocacy of GitHub was one of the reasons I became such a fan over the years. Ever since they fired him, things haven't quite felt the same... I don't know the exact circumstances around his departure, but I do know th
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by Smudge 10y ago
The warning may not have been official but it did come from IBM -- the linked issue's creator is an IBM employee.
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by Smudge 10y ago
They got a friendly warning from IBM telling them that they were infringing on the "Lotus" trademark. https://github.com/hanami/hanami/issues/445
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by Smudge 10y ago
Reminds me a bit of how New York's MTA handled realtime arrival information for their bus system[1]. Rather than bringing on an external company with a (typically) large contract, they hired a small team of tech-savvy MIT grads full-ti
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by Smudge 10y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. One prominent example is GitHub. As far as I know they still take pjax/turbolinks to an extreme, in favor of a true client-side template/view framework.
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by Smudge 10y ago
sigh I guess my overall point here was that you can build a sufficiently interactive webapp without a bloated, client-side, MVC, virtualDOM, JS monstrosity. And that there are widely varying degrees of complexity to these implementations.
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by Smudge 10y ago
One thing I'm not sure I made entirely clear. Whenever my JS library intercepts a link or button click, it will update the URL bar with whatever the link or form would've brought you to, so that at any time if you refresh the page
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by Smudge 10y ago
For a while I worked on and made use of a very lightweight JS framework that would essentially do two things: * Intercept link clicks and form submissions and perform the exact same request asynchronously (AJAX) * Wait for the server to res
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by Smudge 10y ago
Thankfully I haven't had many reasons to enter a U.S. hospital, but the few interactions I had were extremely worrisome. For example, when my grandmother fell ill, my family spent a lot of time visiting her. My mother, in particular, s
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by Smudge 10y ago
Arguably there are benefits to developing in-house expertise, and no better way to develop expertise than to architect and build a solution end-to-end. Twitter now has several domain experts on staff who can continue maintaining Distributed
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Bitly is using Let's Encrypt to support SSL on branded short domains(webmasters.stackexchange.com)
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by Smudge 11y ago
Any data might need horizontal scaling regardless of the type of content. It all comes down to how much data and how often it is accessed. So, sure, if you're building the website for a single restaurant, don't use UUIDs, because
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by Smudge 11y ago
I don't disagree, but there is a case to be made for using UUID over sequential integer ids, and that is for horizontal scaling. When inserting records with UUID primary keys, you don't have to have your db cluster synchronized ar
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by Smudge 11y ago
The product design section of Kickstarter is basically the new "as seen on TV." Except half the time they can't even deliver the product they're pitching. Kickstarter does a lot of great things, but it seems that the hig
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by Smudge 11y ago
Burnout is the western equivalent of "fan death," really? I don't buy it. I appreciate the argument that burnout is more like depression, and should be approached with the same mindset. (i.e. simply taking time off of work mi
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by Smudge 11y ago
Zach Holman has an interesting writeup on focusing on maintaining that streak, and how it (among other factors) eventually led to burnout: https://zachholman.com/posts/streaks/ Personally, I find the contribution
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by Smudge 11y ago
It's not just a separate shell. Each command can be enabled globally. It just might not be desirable for everyone who wants to use these.
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by Smudge 11y ago
Simpler is better. Cygwin is overkill unless you are trying to mimic your exact non-Windows environment, and it doesn't mix well with Windows' vanilla CMD environment. For those of us who want to be working with more Windows than
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by Smudge 11y ago
I used to share office space with a different Cover (paywithcover.com), and they were occasionally confused for any one of several other Cover brands (coverscreen.com, madewithcover.com, readcover.com, etc). Seems like the "Cover"
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by Smudge 11y ago
7 years ago, I took a computer networking class in college, and it came with $100 in AWS credit. This class, and those credits, were some of the most career-impacting things that I took away from my 4 years. Here's why. As a poor, unem
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by Smudge 11y ago
> actually implement things that made use of the "algorithm stuff." Part of the problem is that the overlap between "concepts used in technical interviews" and "practical things I would actually implement" i
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by Smudge 11y ago
In addition to keeping the permanent URLs live, why not pledge to release the source code? Seems to me that this would be the easiest way for users to take control of both the data and the platform, in the event the company becomes financ
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by Smudge 11y ago
We built it for iOS, but I expect Android would have been a similar experience (albeit with much more cross-device testing required). Hard to say how much of it was platform-specific, since we only targeted 1 platform (for now). But the lar
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by Smudge 11y ago
> Learn once, write anywhere What's most amazing to me about React Native was how quickly we were able to go from idea to product (~3 months working only part-time) using our existing knowledge as web developers. We did have to writ
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by Smudge 11y ago
Wasn't a very useful comment, but what I think he/she meant was that Apple doesn't actually use Swift much in its own apps: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/apple-making-spars...
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by Smudge 11y ago
It does sound like stereotyping. It also sounds very hostile to new ideas. You're essentially telling "javascript developers" to get off of your lawn. I do actually agree with your point about compliance. It would be really c
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by Smudge 11y ago
Utility trumps compliance. That's not to say that standards are bad and shouldn't be followed. Just that, sometimes, you really don't need a 250 page committee-designed specification to get some basic shit done.
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by Smudge 11y ago
There's a survivorship bias in what you describe. How many others in your position, who perhaps thought they knew what they could handle, did end up losing their houses, and/or racked up years and years of debt on a gamble that
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by Smudge 11y ago
> By prioritizing the content and votes cast by highly reputed users, as opposed to anonymous new arrivals whom no one knows or trusts, Caucus is better able to figure out which content is most trustworthy. How do you avoid the "P
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by Smudge 11y ago
> Small file size. Only 1.5KB minified and gzipped! Well I guess everything is relative...

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