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by avolcano 10y ago
Yup, this is my biggest issue with JavaScript's built-in functional utilities. It just totally ignores treating objects like dictionaries/maps. Even ES6 Maps/Sets lack functional features. There's a strawman proposal out
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Why I Quit Twitter and Left Behind 35,000 Followers(nytimes.com)
22 points by avolcano 10y ago|21 comments
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by avolcano 10y ago
There are two types of "web storage" that you could use for this, localStorage and sessionStorage. The former persists indefinitely, the latter is removed when the tab is closed. If you wanted user tokens to persist past the curre
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by avolcano 10y ago
I think you could allow cookies only for the initial request (you may even be able to simply only allow cookies for GET requests, as long as you're careful to ensure your GET endpoints don't have data-manipulating side effects) an
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by avolcano 10y ago
It's funny, I got started with web development relatively recently (2012 or so) and immediately started working on single-page/client-side applications, so I used localStorage from the start. It seemed easy enough to make a little
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by avolcano 10y ago
fwiw, TypeScript -> Babel is doable, if painful. I have it set up in my repo here: https://github.com/thomasboyt/manygolf I agree that Flow currently the superior type system (and, unlike TypeScript, not a complete
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Show HN: Manygolf, massively multiplayer Desert Golfing in a browser(manygolf.disco.zone)
7 points by avolcano 10y ago|3 comments
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by avolcano 10y ago
When I started using TypeScript a couple weeks ago I briefly tried out VS Code, but the VIM plugin was really, really bad (worse than Sublime's was when I used it a few years ago). Now I'm on Atom, which has the best VIM support I
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by avolcano 11y ago
Also seconding the confusion that other commenters have regarding the "three commits max" rule for automated deploys. Maybe engineers at Facebook are just big fans of rebasing, but I often make commits on feature branches that don
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by avolcano 11y ago
Spotify is down due to this, which is, uh, pretty hilarious https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
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by avolcano 11y ago
I still use Grunt for small, one-off tasks that I'd like to be able to configure declaratively. For example, it's useful to wrap Webpack to make simple static deploys: https://github.com/thomasboyt/monotron&#x
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by avolcano 11y ago
I wonder if there's a set of API hooks they could expose to allow third party applications to handle more advanced code review techniques? I would totally understand GitHub not wanting to implement a full Phabricator/Gerrit review
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by avolcano 11y ago
Oh, nothing on its own in that tiny example. In practice, it's just a component that could be used in a larger application and can be easily tied into the same rendering and state trees.
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by avolcano 11y ago
That looked interesting but I didn't need the most important functionality it provides (click/touch handling, fancy text rendering, etc) so I stuck with just using the Canvas API. It's pretty simple to do in React: https:&#x
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by avolcano 11y ago
I've been using React to make a 60fps music game, and this article covers basically all of the issues I ran into: - Originally, the game was rendered with SVG elements, so it was very important to use the shouldComponentUpdate hook to
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by avolcano 11y ago
To be fair, those exact same abandoned apps would just as easily stop working because their developer didn't upkeep their custom backend - or worse, those abandoned backends could fall behind on security updates and get hacked.
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by avolcano 11y ago
I don't listen to a lot of stoner/doom metal (Pallbearer's about the closest I get, really), but I absolutely adore this album. It's so extreme in concept, but very easy to digest. It's an absolute masterpiece of mu
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Rethinking Teaching, Learning, and Using React in 2016(medium.com)
2 points by avolcano 11y ago|0 comments
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by avolcano 11y ago
the full recording survives in mixed quality, but his performance of I Got You Babe with Marianne is relatively-well preserved. great hidden gem in his back catalogue :) https://youtu.be/EeBTz8n0vzw?t=2085
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by avolcano 11y ago
It's funny, these threads always devolve into comparisons to modern day pop stars, how none of them compare. And you're all right, of course, no one could ever compare. He was the best, period, in my mind, and while he may not be
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by avolcano 11y ago
> All your ideas are nice, but you obviously have never programmed a thing that other people use. This is an unnecessarily rude assumption. Even the most rudimentary glance at the author's Github page, linked at the bottom of their
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by avolcano 11y ago
Bloomberg has a lot of fascinating web design. Their homepage has been walked down from the height of its punk-rock-ness, but I've always appreciated how bright and lively their site is, especially for an incredibly boring business&#x2
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by avolcano 11y ago
This must be one of the largest open-sourced React codebases yet, very cool.
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by avolcano 11y ago
I don't think there's a lot of harm to having additional follow-up posts show up on the front page, especially for stories as big as this one is. With 30 items per page, and items not taking up a lot of real estate, it's not
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by avolcano 11y ago
This has had 30 upvotes in the past hour and yet is already on the second page. I don't usually go all tinfoil about HN votes, but it's pretty easy to assume is flagging this one down.
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by avolcano 11y ago
I'm somewhat optimistic that Facebook will fix this someday, and I didn't want to end on a recruitment blacklist or something in that case. Still, you're right, next time I get one I'll make it clear that this is the big
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by avolcano 11y ago
Good, I'm glad this is getting traction. Seems like every week I read about another trans person or someone who uses a psuedonym in day-to-day life getting "reported" by some asshole and getting locked out of their Facebook,
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by avolcano 11y ago
I've been using this for a few months, since for some reason my work Macbook really likes to crash when it goes into sleep mode (have a feeling it's related to our Vagrant/VMWare setup, but haven't had a chance to invest
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by avolcano 11y ago
Yep! It's a bit convoluted at the moment, and I should comment it better, but it basically just does the following: 1. Get a list of all posts and compute their URLs 2. Run each URL against the React app's react-router table ( htt
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by avolcano 11y ago
Cool stuff! In a somewhat similar vein, I've been working on a static site generator (like Jekyll) that uses React/Redux instead of a templating system: https://github.com/thomasboyt/peridot It actually is ve

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