badman_ting

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by badman_ting 12y ago
Oh, whoever did this is gonna be in big trouble. Heads are gonna roll . …Hmm? What do you mean "they meant to do that"?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
“Why go to Facebook and do PHP when you can go to PayPal and do Node.js” Why choose the company you work for based on technology when you can choose the company you work for based on the company you will be working for?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Where I work, what began as a studiously followed Scrum process (where teams decided which parts were important and which weren't) has devolved into "we put a bunch of stuff in Trello and take it off as if we are short order cooks
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I recently watched a presentation about React's approach (I think from a recent JSConf) and it sold me, at least enough to try. The approach makes total sense to me, and I agree with many of its criticisms of Angular in particular. I r
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Not for nothing but it's easier to be kind to your coworkers when they're not fucking up their work. Or even worse, yours. Of course in those times you have bigger problems than kindness. Or perhaps better put, empathy and kindnes
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I moved away from C# and .NET about 4 years ago, and use all those things too. The recent developments are great, but I view them more as a cool glass of water for people in a hot place (not hell, far from it). I don't like how .NET as
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by badman_ting 12y ago
In my experience there are times when using the same element in all the different layouts becomes unwieldy, and it becomes much easier to have two versions of it which are hidden and shown with media queries, then altered for the specific l
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I fought this for a while, then gave in and spruced it up a bit (I mostly commit to private repos not on Github). The argument "If you don't have open repos you don't write code in your free time and are therefore probably no
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yes, I know this is not a "true", in-place quicksort. But those are performance considerations that I don't intend to expose here. Beware, beware.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Why the hell did they bother acquiring it, then? I don't get it.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Coming up with things other people should do is easy.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Totally, I use it all the time now. Here's a pretty great writeup on git grep that was on HN recently: http://travisjeffery.com/b/2012/02/search-a-git-repo-like-a-...
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yes, great advice, and I'm running into this pretty hard as well. For any given event I'd rather just do whatever by myself, but add that up over time and it gets kinda ugly. You have to force yourself to interact with others whic
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I've been doing it for about four years now, and highly prefer it. I agree with everything that's here, I've made most of these discoveries myself. However, while I do have a dedicated office, I found it more comfortable to w
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Oh, for sure. They're doomed! Everybody knows that.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Ever heard the phrase "the buck stops here"?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Man. I know Lispers hate hearing about it, but I was so on board with this until the sample ClojureScript code and all the parens. I just… don't wanna write code like that.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I have coworkers who did little hacky stuff on the Web 10-15 years ago and think their knowledge is still relevant, so I respect Frank's honesty in admitting the web dev world has passed him by, or vice versa if you like. I use all the
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I can see why we need providers, and either services or factories, but not both. I prefer not to use 'this' in JS where possible, so factory it is.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Everpix charged. It's not a guarantee of survival.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I don't see the connection.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yes, it's true. My solution was to find a job programming at an excellent place to work, so that I can make sure I do valuable things and still be done with my day around 1-2pm most days. Take my dog for a walk, read, learn, whatever a
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Honestly, it seems to me like if you don't understand category theory and type theory well, using Haskell will be either hard or impossible. That's what people who are into Haskell are into, and they seem to be a relatively rare b
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by badman_ting 12y ago
"A type class defines a set of functions which must be implemented for a type to be considered in that type class. Other functions can then be written which operate not on one specific type, but on any type which is in its given class
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I kind of can't believe he called Angular easy to learn. One of the most common things you hear about it is the steep learning curve, which is not helped by the docs (the skimpiness of which is another frequent lament). In my experienc
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by badman_ting 12y ago
JS engines are getting smarter about this, but you can't really rely on it. I suggest naming your functions if don't want them to be anonymous.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
The sad thing is how many tech-savvy employers still ask for it during the hiring process. I am concerned that not being on LinkedIn is unusual looking from a potential employer's perspective, like maybe I am hiding something. But, if
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I recommend named functions, because a stack trace 12 deep of all anonymous functions is a real bummer.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I really identify with some of the points he's making, they're observations I've made myself so it's nice to see someone with his clout bringing them up. I wonder about the design thing though - our code is in some ways
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Nice! Paying a premium for this was a bummer, but it does still work better than all of Skype's competitors, in my opinion. The primary problem of Hangouts and whatever else is out there is audio echo. I don't know if that problem

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