TrevorBurnham

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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
The thesis of this piece is that Steve Jobs was less controlling after he returned to Apple than before, and that the iPhone "is far more open than the Mac ever was..." I am guessing that James Surowiecki does not read Hacker News. Would an
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How Steve Jobs Changed (James Surowiecki)(newyorker.com)
3 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|2 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I appreciated this generous interpretation of a blackboard reading "1+1=2": > This is clearly an extremely advanced level mathematical course, focusing on the Peano axioms for the natural numbers which formalised mathematics in the late
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
What the hell? Since when is posting a pull request telling someone they should kill themselves funny or cool? Why is this being upvoted on HN? Shameful.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Zappa is an excellent web framework that builds on Express to provide a more Rails-like "convention over configuration" experience for Node.js. And this is its fancy new website.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
> Save yourself the headache and make a <script> tag with an id That's not always efficient. Suppose you want the same lengthy template to be available across several pages which share the same JavaScript. Then it makes a lot mo
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
It looks weird at first, but it's great when used like so: return x unless err return y if condition ... return z Keeping all of your "return"s at the start of the line makes it much easier to see, at a glance, what the
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Excellent! Thanks.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Love it. Someone please write a Node.js library for generating these.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Hit ctrl+r (on a Mac) to toggle between the code and the visualization. Really cool, though a two-pane approach (code on the left, visualization on the right) would probably be more useful.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Good to know. I've gotta say, the jQuery UI Datepicker is just perfect. If I use jQuery UI on a site, it's almost certainly just for the Datepicker.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
It appears to be more oriented toward enterprises, who'd be happy to license this just for internal web apps. You've got Grid and Chart widgets (must-haves for internal sites that show business data), but no Datepicker (a must-have for cons
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
That link just takes me to an error page. The FAQ says "Kendo UI is dual-licensed, Commercial and Open Source (GPLv2)"—and furthermore, that "During the Beta phase, no commercial license is available." [Edit: Updated link did work. Yeah, th
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I'd seriously consider using this, just because of the stagnancy of jQuery UI. It's a massive project with hundreds of long-open tickets (despite thousands of dollars spent on incentivizing developers over the summer through http://rewardj
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Despite its linkbait title, this is one of the more thoughtful pieces on CoffeeScript that I've seen in a while. The behavior of nested list comprehensions in CoffeeScript has been the subject of much debate, and the excellent Coco fork ado
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Ha, your comment made me wonder momentarily if the essay was a work of post-modern art, subversively advertising the benefits of CoffeeScript through an implausible flourish of logorrhoea. If so: Well done, sir.
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
At one point, the author writes: > OK im done ranting at invisible Brendan Eich now (as if hes going to read this) :-) Write a more cogent piece, and he will. I'm amazed at how generous Brendan is with his time. He responds to tweets, a
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Mazery: a map generation visualizer (HTML5 canvas + CoffeeScript)(mazery.sjackson.net)
46 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|11 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Source is at https://github.com/jamesgpearce/foxjs
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Really unbelievably cool. And that last example has me thinking that it's practical enough for real-world applications—the diagram is just so much more self-documenting than CSS or a series of jQuery calls could ever be.
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Fox.js: Create HTML tables from ASCII art(jamesgpearce.github.com)
2 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|2 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
The article is a bit complicated, centering on an array of tax provisions that favor EA, but there are some fascinating tidbits: > In 1981, as Americans worried that Japan’s growing dominance in the auto business would be followed by a
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
> I worry the compression, while cute, could start to get a little extreme after a while Not my experience. I love how short my code is. http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html > there seems to be some interesting inconsistencies Yea
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
I think JavaScript gets many things right, but has an overly verbose syntax. So CoffeeScript hits a sweet spot by adding syntactic sugar while hewing close to the underlying language. You and Alanis Morissette may call that ironic. I'd call
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
The slap at Brendan Eich is very tongue-in-cheek. Much is made of his lack of beard, but the caption "Beard Myth Busted!" appears a few slides later.
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CoffeeScript: JavaScript without the Fail (slides)(bodil.github.com)
131 points by TrevorBurnham 15y ago|74 comments
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
> CoffeeScript can work alongside Node.js but can't access the filesystem. Um. Node.js gives you access to the filesystem... http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html And anything you can do in Node, you can do from CoffeeScript code
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Well, there was a related inconsistency which was certainly a bug. And it's now fixed: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1669
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
This is a particularly big disappointment for me: Not only was I scheduled to speak at the London event, but there were to be talks on CoffeeScript in all four locations. While CoffeeScript talks have become de rigeur at Ruby/Rails events,
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by TrevorBurnham 15y ago
Wow, this is really cool. (Click the "Test it out" button.) If I understand correctly, the idea is that you could set this up on a Rails project so that your team's copywriter would be able to edit your site's content directly on the page,

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