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More maintainable Gruntfiles(thomasboyt.com)
3 points by avolcano 13y ago|0 comments
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by avolcano 13y ago
Xtranormal was absolutely hilarious, hoping this reaches the same heights of unintentional comedy.
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by avolcano 13y ago
This is depressingly ill-informed. Require.js has an optimizer that does exactly what the author suggests: http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html The point is to build your application using AMD, using individual
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by avolcano 13y ago
During the last major (multi-day) S3 outage, a few sites did similar things. I remember reading articles from Giant Bomb ( http://giantbomb.com ) via Google Docs posted on Twitter by the writers. Obviously, video games aren't
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by avolcano 13y ago
"these guys" === people who use Ember, see that there's a new release on the front page of Hacker News, and upvote it :)
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by avolcano 13y ago
Some thought has definitely been put into this problem: https://gist.github.com/domenic/4748675 https://gist.github.com/wycats/51c96e3adcdb3a68cbc3#importin... (both of those are slightly out of d
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by avolcano 13y ago
Fair points, though I quite like the concept of a "variable containing a library" (or module). Personally, with JavaScript being the first language I seriously learned, it's intuitive for me to reason about. JavaScript is bui
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by avolcano 13y ago
> There will be no changes to the module system. None. It's finished. It's been finished for over a year. Any proposed changes must come with a clear reproducible bug that cannot be worked around or addressed with documentat
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by avolcano 13y ago
Really impressed by the progress bar built into the site - I don't know any sites besides YouTube that are doing that! For anyone else wondering, it looks like the app is powered by Backbone, D3, and Handlebars on the front-end.
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by avolcano 13y ago
The idea of getting more eyes on Amber Alerts is a fundamentally good one, I think we can all agree on that. I think a far superior option to these kinds of active, "HEY LOOK AT ME" alerts would be something that could fit in pass
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by avolcano 13y ago
> Almost all the sites I'll develop take advantage of progressively enhanced components or at minimum, widgets that are bootstrapped server side. Angular wants you to load everything via AJAX - that can get heavy very quickly. I&#x2
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by avolcano 13y ago
> Another option is to completely hide elements, or even your whole application, until Angular is ready. Angular provides ng-cloak to this end. My issue with this is that it doesn't solve the problem of binding to asynchronously-loa
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by avolcano 13y ago
Ah, thanks for the correction :)
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by avolcano 13y ago
Trusting the community to do the right thing is better than handicapping your users. Regardless, of course, people add metadata to JSON already - there's zero reason you can't "_type": "int". It's a comple
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by avolcano 13y ago
Can we all just agree, as a community, to add comment support to our JSON parsers? Hell, I'd do a PR on V8 if I knew C++. It's ridiculous that I can't document notes on dependencies in my NPM package.json, or add a little rem
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by avolcano 13y ago
I'd love to know this too, but the author doesn't seem interested in explaining it: https://github.com/guillermooo/Vintageous/issues/267 I installed it, and it works exactly the same, as far as I ca
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by avolcano 13y ago
Ember - or Backbone, for that matter - would be a bit trickier to write a plugin for. Neither really handles hierarchal data structures in an elegant way - both have a model layer that assumes a "flat" structure, similar to server
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by avolcano 13y ago
Massive feature missing: last updated date. I would NEVER buy a screencast, tutorial, or anything on web development without knowing EXACTLY when it was last updated. For example, the paid Ember screencasts claim to go over the Ember router
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by avolcano 13y ago
Why?
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Alpha transparency in Chrome video(updates.html5rocks.com)
2 points by avolcano 13y ago|0 comments
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by avolcano 13y ago
Would really like to see a comparison between this and Soulver ( http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/ ). Most obvious differences are the lack of a two-column view and support for Markdown, as well as support for function de
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by avolcano 13y ago
Glad to hear it! :)
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by avolcano 13y ago
And yet, no news on the OSX front, even though the Source Engine has worked on Mac even longer than it has on Linux. Really was hoping they'd have at least a Mac beta by the time they started the rolling launch of the Windows version :
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by avolcano 13y ago
Most people aren't writing HTTP requests by hand in a text editor.
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by avolcano 13y ago
I was editing JSHint - most of which is in a single 5000 line file - yesterday, with the same file open in split view, and was disappointed to see ST2 chugging a bit, with visible input lag. In ST3, no such problems.
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by avolcano 13y ago
Honestly, I think Tweetbot (and Tapbots' other products) are the greatest "heavy" UIs I've ever seen. They're basically the pinnacle of pre-7 iOS design, and I still think it's the most beautiful app on my phon
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by avolcano 13y ago
For what it's worth, I didn't have to whiteboard once during my several interviews. If you're interviewing with new SF or NYC startups, you'll find many of them care far more about practical* skills than pop quizzes. Thi
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by avolcano 13y ago
I'm 19, and just started as a software engineer at a startup in NYC. It's been absolutely incredible - I never thought I'd be here a year ago. I'll admit that my situation isn't universal - luckily, I could get my f
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by avolcano 13y ago
Thanks, fixed!
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by avolcano 13y ago
Changelog: https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/v1.0.0-rc.6/CHANGEL... Lots of cool stuff in this release, but the best of it is Alex Matchneer's excellent "Router facelift" patch, whi

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