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by bphogan 11y ago
I looked at Go a couple years ago now and haven't gone back for a bit because I could never wrap my mind around how to get started. Every Go developer I know just replied with "It's easy. Duh. Just read Effective Go." So
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Yours is the third post I see that amounts to "you're doing it wrong." But if the docs are bad, and there are pitfalls that experienced Angular devs know to avoid, how can we distill that down into common knowledge that begin
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> Dependency Injection: Are you kidding me? He's not even using the array notation for proper DI with minification. Can I just say that this is the single thing that really irritates me about Angular? This has been the "gotcha&
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It's simple to write a password-based auth system. Then you must clear session appropriately. Then you must create the login page. Then the controller for authenticating. And then you need to ensure that the flow works with a test. The
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I did. I love Rails. Love it. Love Ruby. I've been writing code for over 25 years this year, and I've been doing Ruby for 10. And I hit a big brick wall with a very websocket-heavy app I'm building. I switched to Elixir and P
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Everyone seems to be missing this bit - it is about those fundamentals first. The end goal is eliminating repetition. But it takes repetition to get to that point because that's how the human brain works. I observe this with students w
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You do it as many times as it takes to become muscle memory. That's a lot of times for some people. I suspect many on this thread have forgotten what it was like the first time they did command line stuff. I teach this stuff in a clas
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Just putting this out there - as a teacher, I have seen the importance of repetition. My students would benefit from the repetition at the end of this. Whether they know they'd benefit or not. Like scales on a piano.
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I expected something much different. I transitioned into teaching higher education a few years ago and I would love to partner with places to send my students after they complete their two-year associates degree. I think if I bootstrapped p
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I disagree. Lots of programming work out there is "boring" enterprise work. Keeping systems running. There are a lot of people on here who are innovating. But for most of the programmers I know, they're just writing code that
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I built a shooter with limited bullets with his. It was fun. I now encourage students to use this library. See my silly game at http://escape.bphogan.com . It should work with a mouse or keyboard.
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I hate meetings. But even I think this article is ridiculous. I like the idea of asynchronous collaboration, but I'm bothered by the other 80% of this article. The main thesis, buried in the paper, is that meetings steal the spotlight
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I have taught JS in higher education to complete beginners for three years now and have been very successful doing so. The secret is that you teach how to program, not how to JavaScript. How to program is entirely different. It involves bre
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OSX has always worked as Windows 8.1 and below did with browsers - the browser pops up and asks if it can be the default and you say either "yes" or "leave me alone." Windows 10 has made that a multi-step process, where
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Exactly why people hate them. You want to get people to come back? Make it easy for them to accomplish something. Don't add an extra step where I have to switch contexts and download your app over a slow connection after I've alre
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Isn't it interesting how 3 years is such a long time to support things now?
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The Techcrunch article linked in this article has a lot more details, including statements that sound a lot like "your Ouya console will be useless in 12 months - go get a Razer Forge box after that."
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The biggest thing is that people don't want to install an app to do a single thing. That''s where the mobile web excels, when done right. Apps are great if you are a repeat user. But if I just want to get some quick informati
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But there are many places out there that will swap out MySQL or PG for MSQL because it's Microsoft and they all know C#. I had, and have, a really hard time with people who only know the MS way of doing things. I have always taken issu
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Lots of downvotes, but I can relate to what you are saying. 10 years of working in a pro Microsoft organization trying to do PHP and Ruby development showed me that developers and managers alike bought into Microsoft's ideas at the tim
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People are disabling zooming because it causes a delay, which is in turn caused by developers trying to make HTML act like native apps. Articles on the web should not be JavaScript heavy. HTML is responsive and zoomable by default. It takes
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When the Ducktales Remaster came out there were so many younger reviewers that were giving the game low scores because it was hard. And it is hard. But then, let's see these kids play the NES version of the Ninja Turtles game. You know
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Exactly. I can't see the enemy because my thumb is covering him with my virtual joystick. Give me a crosspad and two buttons. And then get off my lawn.
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Of course, I'd like to see secure communications be the norm. So I'm not saying you're wrong. I am just saying that I'm not worried too much about this. Let's look at the secure channels when I visit the clinic. Lik
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It's easy if you stick with vanilla Rails. Where it gets complicated is if your team decides to use a different view language, a decorator gem, a factory framework, and a different testing framework. The more deviations from Rails prop
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I agree with this so much. Would you be willing to share some examples of how you leverage Angular with Rails? I'd really like to see something that does this that isn't a toy. I'll even sign an NDA. I just would like to lear
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I know lots of people who are happy to pay $49 a month instead of the $2000 that Adobe Master Collection was.
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Before Photoshop went subscription-based, I assumed they would have gone the IAP route. For example, need a blur tool? Add it for 1.99. Or buy the Retouching Pack for $25.
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I'm trying not to hijack the thread with my own advertisement. But also, the title isn't finalized.
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It's only a problem if you choose a language that requires a large build environment. I have a very effective programming fundamentals class. y students perform very well, and every project we do is done from scratch. But I teach it in

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