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by aseemk 4y ago
.babelrc uses JSON5. ;) https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/b1e73d6f961065c56427ffa8...
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Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5(aseemk.substack.com)
233 points by aseemk 4y ago|200 comments
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by aseemk 5y ago
I'm biased here since I know Ray, but I thought this post was super informative & helpful! I love how short & sweet it is yet so chock full of meaningful points. Thanks Ray!
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“Anti-perks”: what our startup doesn't want in our office(blog.even.com)
82 points by aseemk 9y ago|115 comments
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by aseemk 11y ago
FiftyThree / NYC & Seattle / Engineers We're the company behind: - Paper, an award-winning iPad app for capturing freeform ideas; - Pencil, the best-selling Bluetooth stylus for thinking with your hands; - Mix, our fast-g
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by aseemk 12y ago
Seattle, New York City. (Remote potentially okay, but we also offer relo. Visa transfers okay.) FiftyThree - http://www.fiftythree.com/ Backend web engineers, devops engineers - http://www.fiftythree.com/job
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Load Testing: An Unexpected Journey(making.fiftythree.com)
5 points by aseemk 13y ago|0 comments
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by aseemk 13y ago
Indeed! I have much respect for Max and company. We use and love Streamline.js ourselves -- works great with CoffeeScript. https://github.com/Sage/streamlinejs I'd love to talk on or write about Streamline at some
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by aseemk 13y ago
Thanks for the great feedback. I think you're totally right. I didn't intend to come across as so preachy in my post. I was just writing freely without (too) much worry. Live and learn. =)
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by aseemk 13y ago
(I didn't downvote you.) It's great that you tried CoffeeScript and prefer JS. Your opinion is well-formed. With my statement, I was referring to the many developers I've encountered who haven't tried it, yet actively
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by aseemk 13y ago
Thanks for the compliment! The viewer doesn't quite look and feel right on the iPhone, but glad you didn't think so. =) I don't know what your stack is, but FYI on Node we use Connect/Express middleware that automaticall
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by aseemk 13y ago
I don't know Rails personally. Both at FiftyThree and with Thingdom, we use CoffeeScript with Node, both on the server-side and client-side.
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Intro to CoffeeScript(aseemk.com)
121 points by aseemk 13y ago|89 comments
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A Closer Look at Zoom - Making FiftyThree(making.fiftythree.com)
4 points by aseemk 13y ago|0 comments
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Paper. Simplified.(blog.fiftythree.com)
2 points by aseemk 13y ago|0 comments
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by aseemk 14y ago
Not that I'm biased or anything ;), but I can confirm this is an awesome place to work! We're building some really great stuff, our vision is nothing short of enabling people to create more effectively, and our team of engineers and designe
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by aseemk 14y ago
Great, glad. Out of curiosity, did you automatically think to swipe on the iPad? Or did you try to tap the left/right buttons first?
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by aseemk 14y ago
Author here. These are the slides and transcript of a talk I've given detailing my experiences building a startup on Neo4j, a graph database. Hope you guys find it educational. Technical note: the presentation is built with Hakim El Hattab'
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Betting the Company on a Graph Database(aseemk.com)
2 points by aseemk 14y ago|3 comments
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by aseemk 14y ago
New York, NY - {iOS, Frontend, Backend, DevOps} Engineers http://www.fiftythree.com/ Hello, we are FiftyThree. We're the startup behind Paper, an iPad app for freeform writing/sketching/drawing. Paper has done well so far. Among other thi
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by aseemk 14y ago
New York, NY - {Backend || DevOps} Engineers - Node.js, Neo4j, Heroku, EC2 ---- About us ---- Hello, we are FiftyThree ( http://www.fiftythree.com/ ). We're the company behind Paper, an iPad app for freeform writing/sketching/drawing. Paper
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by aseemk 14y ago
This is amazingly and impressively thorough. He cites relevant caselaw left and right; the two that particularly struck me were: - "FunnyJunk also alleges The Oatmeal's statements constitute false advertising under the Lanham Act. However,
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by aseemk 14y ago
Came here to mention this exact issue. (And related, e.g. cmd+clicking.) Mislav wrote a great post on how to do this robustly: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/2011/03/click-hijack/ Hope that helps!
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by aseemk 14y ago
Great idea. I'm having trouble getting it to work ( https://github.com/vdemedes/joconut/issues/5 ), but I'm looking forward to trying it out! One thought came to mind for a potential leaky abstraction: unlike HTML and CSS that can be "und
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by aseemk 14y ago
Thanks for stating so eloquently what I've been struggling to communicate. The heart of the matter to me really does boil down to the fact that JSON is meant for humans, too, not just machines. You nailed this sentiment. (As a friend pointe
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by aseemk 14y ago
Haha, I actually found that hilarious. Nice work.
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by aseemk 14y ago
I'd love to understand what benefits this removes and what drawbacks this introduces, aside from the chicken-and-egg problem of having any new format. Apologies if I've missed that in the discussion so far. You're definitely right that some
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by aseemk 14y ago
Certainly. I'm not advocating for a change to JSON -- this is explicitly a new format. (The test cases use a .json5 extension to illustrate this.) FWIW, I'm not adding any new data types or functionality, just making the syntax more human-f
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by aseemk 14y ago
This was indeed a problem in the IE6 days. Every browser today (and ES5) supports reserved keywords as unquoted object keys. There are thus no reserved keywords for object keys in ES5, and by extension, JSON5.
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by aseemk 14y ago
You seem to be implying that making an effort to seek change in the format that npm uses is a bad idea. I'm not sure I understand why that is. Surely the status quo isn't always perfect? In the software world in general, and in Node/npm lan

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