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by asolove 15y ago
Was really hoping they had bought a literal cove in order to lure quality engineers to a vacation-quality work environment: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackscottimages/4461780264/ Now that would be an idea!
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by asolove 15y ago
This idea is the subject of Bret's essay "Up and down the ladder of abstraction" [1] which is a fantastic read. [1] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
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by asolove 15y ago
That's interesting because I happen to be something of a front-end guy :) I will have a look at it when I have a chance.
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by asolove 15y ago
I am certain Markus Spiering is a talented designer, and having not seen the final product or the research involved, I have no idea whether the new interface will better serve their customers. So I have no desire to attack this makeover as
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by asolove 15y ago
Very interesting, thank you. There is a big opportunity for someone to re-imagine the power of Lotus Improv with a more intuitive touch interface for tablets. Perhaps it will be me, but I'd rather it be you than that it not happen. Data ana
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by asolove 15y ago
These theories all miss the basic point. Yes, Rails is not a good way for a beginner to learn proper professional programming. The proper way to do that is to write nice, fairly-mathematical code in Scheme or Python until you understand rec
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by asolove 15y ago
Where Plan 9 (and Inferno) live on most visibly is in the non-OS space: - FUSE for file systems that are generated programmatically or exportable over a network. [ http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ ] - The approach to concurrency and networ
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by asolove 15y ago
Glad to see this milestone and some pretty helpful but not very breaky changes. What is the recommended method for dealing with the optimistic model events? If my view gets the "destroy" event but the sync fails, do I have to parse the resp
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by asolove 15y ago
The original quote is "When accessing object properties that are determined at run-time or which contain characters not compatible with dot notation, use square bracket notation." To which should be added: object properties that are reserve
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by asolove 15y ago
The parent post here is actually reasonable, not cynical. Think about most of the things that actually influence your daily well-being and the future of the country. We need good schools with good teachers. We need natural places for kids t
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by asolove 15y ago
Is the problem specific to rendering them with Backbone? If you always know the html/css solution, it's just a matter of picking one of the many js templating systems that works best. Of course, for very advanced manipulation, you can alway
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by asolove 15y ago
Keep in mind, the people who answer your calls are (likely unpaid) high school or college interns, not "staffers." They are not the people who research or discuss policy issues, they likely are not very aware of the candidate's legislative
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by asolove 15y ago
I strongly disagree. "Big problems" are the same as a misplaced "passion." To find happiness, learn what passion actually is. It's different from "interest." In my own life and many of my friends', "passion" is often mistakenly replaced by
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by asolove 15y ago
I would love to get one of these for my son to learn to program on. Ebay shows a number of them available for parts but none in working order. Does anybody know how to get a working one? I would be happy to pay someone for parts and time.
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by asolove 15y ago
Of course carpenters don't get this kind of nonsense, because you can buy cheap, mass-manufactured tables. If you go to a carpenter to get a table built, you must have a good reason and you know that a lot of time and money will be involved
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by asolove 15y ago
This is how I got hired. The manager talked with me for a while, and then looked me straight in the eye and said: in three years, you need to either be a technical lead or start your own company or you're going to be miserable. If you pick
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by asolove 15y ago
(This post is not defending the original article, just discussing this specific comment.) Having never read an HR for Dummies book, and as a pure technical interviewer, I still frequently ask this question. The point is to not think of it a
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by asolove 15y ago
No way this is right if CoffeeScript pros/cons isn't at the top of the list.
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by asolove 15y ago
I think the problem is not that one person can't have both of these skills, but that it is hard to play both roles on the same project unless you have a lot of discipline. The engineering mindset and the UX design mindset optimize for diffe
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by asolove 15y ago
All you have to do is list out all the things you want to say, and the answer becomes clear: "My photos" v. "Your photos": both seem to work "We weren't able to complete your request" v. "Someone else wasn't able to complete my request." "P
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by asolove 15y ago
Inline editing is quite nice. I wonder if I am missing something about this: it seems to only offer italic/bold/underline/strike-through and no structural options? Plug-and-play inline editing for various CMSs would be nice. If this had mor
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by asolove 15y ago
I am very glad to see the images available, and am sure that a lot of very good work was put into the scanning and transcription, much less the political fight that eventually allowed the rights to the expensive scans to be made public. Tha
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by asolove 15y ago
For the full story, see my comment at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248552 tl;dr: managed attributes and fine-grained model attribute events make life a lot easier and change the boundary between model and controller.
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by asolove 15y ago
I would like to strongly agree with your statement about idempotent DOM updates v. subcomponents. This question (re-render entire unit or manually sync model changes with individual jQuery dom changes) is one of the first things I try to th
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by asolove 15y ago
I know what you're thinking: great, another MVC library for Javascript. But wait: Yehuda knows what he's doing, it will be interesting to see what Amber includes. As I've discussed before [1], the current discussion about MVC frameworks in
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by asolove 15y ago
I very much agree, as a DC front-end dev who has worked both for gov't contractors and now for a legitimate b2b startup. Want to know why the federal government hasn't made much of a dent in the recession? Visit the DC exurbs and then visit
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by asolove 15y ago
I just started at my first startup job a few months ago, and agree with a lot of the sentiment in this post. The biggest difference I have noticed: at most companies, a new employee is a body to get done the same work, in the same way, as s
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by asolove 15y ago
I think this is exactly his point. Most web projects start out immediately in project management crunch mode, listing long sets of features that are "priorities" for various use cases or stakeholders. In project thinking, lots of things can
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by asolove 15y ago
Ah, this is the key misconception. If you think Charlie is the only thing going into his books that provides you value, think again. Good development editing, copyediting, fact-checking, typography, and illustrations all go into an excellen
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by asolove 15y ago
NB: It seems you have your DNS/subdomains set up incorrectly. githire.com returns nothing while www.githire.com works. Be sure to set one of them to the canonical url for seo purposes.

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