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Synchronization Algorithm Exploration(github.com)
1 points by bleonard 6y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 7y ago
This seems to use this: https://cloudvyzor.com/downloads.html Is it only on Windows?
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Simulating Cohorts(grouparoo.com)
4 points by bleonard 7y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 9y ago
FWIW, They are actually called "Taskers" https://www.taskrabbit.com/become-a-tasker
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by bleonard 9y ago
Not likely a direct cause ;-) but React Native does add to our velocity. We are now definitely hiring if you want to be part of the ongoing React Native success story... Feel free to hit me up: brian at taskrabbit.com
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by bleonard 9y ago
Ha! There is plenty to work on and they have skills for other apps and the platform. They are not-laid off or anything. This tech change was about leverage to spend our time wisely.
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by bleonard 9y ago
Switching to React Native allowed our team of 6 to become a team of 2 and still go twice as quickly. It's not just the cross-platform capabilities - React is also just really great.
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TaskRabbit Quadruples Its Business, Says It Will Turn Profitable in 2016(inc.com)
2 points by bleonard 11y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 11y ago
Congrats to the team. We've been really happy trying it out. It's a drop-in replacement for the standard flux pattern.
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V2 – Retrospective(tech.taskrabbit.com)
1 points by bleonard 11y ago|0 comments
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React Native Example App: Navigation(tech.taskrabbit.com)
14 points by bleonard 11y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 11y ago
Follow-up: Does anyone know how to best host this site? a) with less than 50 users all-time b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old c) is approximately free Wordpress with her custom theme seems to fail C. Github pages / J
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Resque Bus renamed and now works with Sidekiq(tech.taskrabbit.com)
5 points by bleonard 12y ago|0 comments
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Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native(nuclide.io)
275 points by bleonard 12y ago|93 comments
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Apple TV Dashboard(tech.taskrabbit.com)
6 points by bleonard 12y ago|0 comments
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Translating Rails fields(tech.taskrabbit.com)
2 points by bleonard 12y ago|0 comments
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Rails Stats(bleonard.com)
4 points by bleonard 12y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 13y ago
Yes maybe, but I've been a ruby/js guy for a while now and grown to love the proc/function.
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iOS Authentication Blocks(bleonard.com)
7 points by bleonard 13y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: iPhone app for parents to help play in the real world(cakewalkapp.com)
2 points by bleonard 13y ago|1 comments
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by bleonard 13y ago
We've found this to be the great spot in between. https://github.com/rdy/fixture_builder You use factories to build your fixtures and it regenerates if needed. I used it in a sample app recently here: https:&#x2F
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Jekyll Slides(bleonard.com)
11 points by bleonard 13y ago|0 comments
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by bleonard 13y ago
Probably towards the end (not that it's necessarily the goal). Make a normal Rails app, and see that grow and the joys and pains that follow. Then see if something like this would make the next one better.
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by bleonard 13y ago
Yeah!
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by bleonard 13y ago
This is basically our finding as well.
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by bleonard 13y ago
I would love to read it. I noted and am worried about the dependency thing, though I think that would still happen anytime they were all in the app/bundler regardless of engine use or not. For "knowing what's enabled" we
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by bleonard 13y ago
We had a very similar path at TaskRabbit. As we made all those other Rails and/or sinatra and/or node apps, we ran into the issues noted in the "Versus Many Apps" section. Basically: testing, coordination, and deployment
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by bleonard 13y ago
Yes, there's some fancy business for point release semantic versioning, but something I left out was that the backend API engines all have EVEN MORE directories: apps/account/controllers/account/v3/something_co
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by bleonard 13y ago
That is close. Thanks for the link. The Consumer mixin is almost the same as the Subscriber one that I came up with. Is there a way to subscribe on more than just the topic type? For example, to anything published that has { action: 'r
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by bleonard 13y ago
Resque Bus uses resque-retry and resque-scheduler to do exponential backoff. That is, it will retry immediately, 2 seconds later, 4 seconds later, and so on up to several hours. It was a little tricky to make sure it ended back in the right

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