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by asolove 14y ago
This is a great first project, and I wish you luck. I have a decent amount of experience with rails and backbone, feel free to email me if you ever have questions or want code reviewed: asolove@gmail.com
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by asolove 14y ago
This is a great first app. I assume you are looking for ideas of things to think about and work on next, otherwise I wouldn't criticize. So here are a few ideas: - Right now you have to click directly on the checkboxes and radio buttons, wh
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by asolove 14y ago
I very much agree. I am reading his post on cognitive therapy now, as it sounded interesting, but I wonder if he could describe some of what he has done to survive/heal this particular pattern. I'm curious about the cognitive habits behind
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by asolove 14y ago
You know that "Racket" is the former "PLT Scheme", right? Some boutique consultants use it, notably Untyped: http://untyped.com/
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by asolove 14y ago
There are two answers here. If your page is a content page, you should follow the pattern that YUI's MVC uses, which is to hydrate your model objects by scraping the html on the page. So you need templates shared (or similar) on back-end an
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by asolove 14y ago
I came here to post the same quote, but my interest is the reverse: think of all the interesting data currently stuck in Word and Excel that could be interfacing with web services! The ability to sell subscriptions to Word plugins written o
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by asolove 14y ago
Hey guys, congratulations on the release and the cool interface! I worked as an intern at TG back in 2005 and fondly remember playing around with this data to see where the connections were.
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by asolove 14y ago
See the excellent discussion of Go's declaration syntax [1] and compare with "The Spiral Rule" for C [2]. [1] http://golang.org/doc/articles/gos_declaration_syntax.html [2] http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
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by asolove 14y ago
So as one data point in this comparison, I have a pretty good version of a scrolling grid plugin that swaps in and out existing row dom elements as needed and loads that data dynamically from a backend. It's not totally done and not ready t
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by asolove 14y ago
This scrolling trickery is absolutely doable in html/js. A friend of mine wrote an infinite-scroll table that will handily display tables of tens of thousands of rows. It carefully only requests the right data from the server (with lots of
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by asolove 14y ago
The original MVC architecture was for GUI interfaces in Smalltalk. It was so helpful a design pattern it was borrowed for use in request/response web application, where naturally the use of each part was very different. If you really want t
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by asolove 14y ago
Most people with the title "Software engineer" are not software engineers. I don't know that this is any more prevalent among web programmers than, say, Java programmers.
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by asolove 14y ago
I think this boils down to the basic rule: don't disrespect your audience. I keep going to meetings where people suggest using QR codes to advertise a product. And I ask the obvious question: when have you ever scanned a QR code and learned
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by asolove 14y ago
I love the web, but let's be serious here. As a user when I install an app, I want to be able to give it access to a selection of: - Program storage, to a limit - Whether it is permanently available or downloaded or cached for
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by asolove 14y ago
Have you ever met a sysadmin? This actually looks like the exact office most of the ones I know would want.
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by asolove 14y ago
I agree that the 'divide' is overstated. But the author does mention one frequent problem: when you begin a project in an ORM, you may begin to depend on validation or update callbacks that get triggered by the ORM. Later, if you discover q
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by asolove 14y ago
I never thought I would be able to upvote someone on HN for a reference to Bernhard Karlgren. I spent many fond years with GSR and Wang Li's dictionary in the stacks of UW's Asian Library. Good times, though programming is perhaps better as
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by asolove 14y ago
I think I might have explained myself poorly. I'm suggesting using separate var statements for each assignment, e.g.: var a = 2; var b = 4; var c = { blah: "whatever" }; Leaving out a semicolon has no effect. They can be copied without any
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by asolove 14y ago
Why does nobody ever mention the obvious solution? Separate var statements. They're always correct, they copy without any editing, and the "var"s line up to show that it's a block of assignments the same as commas or whitespace.
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by asolove 15y ago
Does not appear David agreed to participate or actually made this account, looks like it was made for him. In which case, I hope Askolo was deliberately planning to get a lot of bad press. David has specifically complained about other compa
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by asolove 15y ago
Thanks for both the small note and the big suggestion. What did the debugger have that made it "well integrated"? In JavaScript, we have fairly good graphical tools in Chrome. One headache is debugging asynchronous code, and a good debugger
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by asolove 15y ago
This should really be "Why every developer should learn Smalltalk." Dan Ingalls gave a keynote at jsconf demoing Lively Kernel, a SmallTalk-like, image-based, in-browser IDE written in JavaScript. His demo received a standing ovation and wa
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by asolove 15y ago
The problem is, if your definition of engineering is solving problems where all the context is fully provided, then 99% of what is interesting on HN isn't engineering. It's apparently bullshit. Changing the rules and picking a different con
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by asolove 15y ago
You may know the architect Christopher Alexander from "A Pattern Language" and his influence on design patterns/agile. Later in life he studied the organizing principles of nature and well-man-made artifacts and discussed the common pattern
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by asolove 15y ago
No, that is the institutional scar tissue representing why we need better school administrators and more reasonable parents.
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by asolove 15y ago
Alright folks, tell me about how great this whole "computer" thing is when you throw out your pen and paper. Maybe I'll get on the internet after you all stop talking to people face-to-face. Doesn't follow. The question is how technology is
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by asolove 15y ago
I don't at all disagree. But it isn't these people's fault for thinking so, they spent twenty years of their lives working "hard" (for the wrong definition of hard) and being told this lie.
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by asolove 15y ago
It's hard to point blame in one specific direction. Yes, you are right they should take responsibility. But these are people who grew up doing the "responsible" thing and listening to the advice of teachers and parents. They made good grade
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by asolove 15y ago
Thank you for this review. It helped me decide not to read the article, both because it doesn't have content and because I have been deliberately avoiding knowing _why's "real" name.
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by asolove 15y ago
With the way people use browsers these days, load time has become even more important. As I tell my clients and bosses: "It's never a choice between two seconds and five seconds. It's a choice between two seconds and whenever the hell they

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