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by barnaby 15y ago
Agreed. My net total for LOC written in the past year is probably -700, because I've refactored so much verbose code. I don't know how to count unit tests in such a metric though... because I took a code base from 2% code coverage to 70% an
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by barnaby 15y ago
I use qUnit all the time because I wrote lots of jQuery plugins for everything that we do at my small startup. Then we have a QA team in India that are always clicking through the site and finding new bugs (they also have extensive selenium
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by barnaby 15y ago
I've paid once and then just copied/pasted/modified ever since. There should be a corresponding survey for where lawyers got their TOS/Privacy page text from. In my experience there are only 3 or 4 boilerplate pages and then some light cust
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by barnaby 15y ago
That's a good thought experiment. I imagine we would very suddenly see an explosion of automation solutions for making engineers accomplish more with less time. We would also see an almost perfect eradication of most time-sinks in software
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by barnaby 15y ago
You couldn't pay me enough to _maintain_ that mess. Not even a unit test in sight if something breaks.
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by barnaby 15y ago
You're forgetting that when several thousand people access a site per second, even a 1kb difference means thousands of dollars of bandwidth cost and fractions of a second of download speed.... let alone 70KB of difference which would bankru
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by barnaby 15y ago
Fantastic! Thanks for doing this because some of our devs barely use SVN in my office and it would be great if they became more aware of the benefits of version control. I've used git on previous projects and love the distributed model, hop
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by barnaby 15y ago
I just got the CoffeeScript book in the mail an hour or two ago. It looks awesome! Can't wait to dive into some of these examples and play around!
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by barnaby 15y ago
WOO! Just came in the mail! Can't wait to read through it!
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by barnaby 15y ago
Not sure why someone would downvote that... but yes, there are also lots of Javascript answers that seem to follow the same trend.
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by barnaby 15y ago
I really like this trend of in-depth Stack-Overflow explanations... especially about Python because it helps me a lot. Keep up the good work.
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by barnaby 15y ago
Like many 'random Polish web apps' this one was among the top in its class. Poland has world-class software talent, please don't downplay it.
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by barnaby 15y ago
Moving to SF/NYC/Boston is really good advice. I moved to San Francisco from Rochester NY after running my own company there for a while. I had NO MONEY left, in fact I was way deep in debt. Surely people thought I was crazy but you know wh
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by barnaby 15y ago
Just ordered it because I used coffeescript on a project with good results. But by the time I get it, read it, and write a review on Hacker news this post will no longer be on the front page. :'-( sad
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by barnaby 15y ago
Agreed. It's well worth ones time to learn various different deployment tools. Everybody on a team should either contribute to making the build process better, or at least be familiar with how it works because their code has to go through t
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by barnaby 15y ago
Enough of a community that Google chose to let Django on App Engine, not Rails.
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by barnaby 15y ago
I disagree. Her writing style seemed to appeal to a lot of people even before she wrote about her crazy ideas. I hate Ayn Rand because her ideology is unrealistic and dangerous. It leads many to the delusion that moochers are the poor and t
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by barnaby 15y ago
I like the sounds of this service. Is it ready to use in at least a crude form before you hire a CTO? Keep up the good work! I'm sure that despite the odd comments here you'll find someone to help :)
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by barnaby 15y ago
In a perfect world you would be correct. But answer me this: How many Java backend engineers know how to unit test javascript, how to make modular templates (e.g. writing their own tags, or nesting/tiling their JSP's), how to systematicall
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by barnaby 15y ago
+1 because once you remove all the embarrassingly bad syntax from javascript, and use only the good parts, the way coffeescript does, then you have one of the best languages on the market (minus step debugging and tooling support... but tho
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by barnaby 15y ago
I started using it last month, on production code. I work as a Javascript programmer in an otherwise all-Java software shop. I come from a Python background. I really love it. I have Vim all set up to auto-complete it, to syntax highlight,
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by barnaby 15y ago
Cool! Wordpress are becoming part of the solution.
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by barnaby 15y ago
There's some good general observations in here. I remember tutoring a student who was really good (I'm sure that by now he's a better programmer than me) but who felt inadequate (enough so to get a tutor) because other people in the class w
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by barnaby 15y ago
Yeah, was in the middle of a design review here at the Apixio offices in San Mateo. It's an interesting feeling for sure.
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by barnaby 16y ago
I'm going to have to try this after work today because I've been thinking about doing something with geoNoSql.
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by barnaby 16y ago
Let me answer this as someone who writes non-brittle Javascript code on a 1 year old web app (e.g. I have more unit tests per LOC in my Javascript than most of the Java code that's in the underlying app. AND I run my test suite on all major
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by barnaby 16y ago
Mozilla actually run the unit tests of most major libraries as part of their regular test suite to make sure that the Internet will by-and-large still work on any new release. So I think the author has a valid point here, new browsers shoul
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by barnaby 16y ago
True. But what's even worse for your career is when you learn programming languages that don't need DI frameworks because that kind of clean separation is baked in (like Python) but then most jobs out there are Java :-(
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by barnaby 16y ago
It's a good book. Your library probably has it for free (SF library does, and the waiting list for it generally isn't too bad).
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by barnaby 16y ago
Wow, This was a pleaſure to read! This is the quinteſsential obſcure but captivating topic that nerds like us love . I'm impreſsed by the level of detail that was put into this.

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