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Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP(posteriorscience.net)
478 points by brunoc 10y ago|232 comments
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by brunoc 11y ago
I'm just about to start a course that uses OCaml for teaching. Any book or website recommendations? The textbooks are "OCaml from the very beginning" and "More OCaml: Algorithms, Methods & Diversions"
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by brunoc 11y ago
Another thing that may change this in the future is proxies and "method not found" type of functionality in JS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... But if people are
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by brunoc 11y ago
For those of you like me who spat their coffee reading this, you can find additional information about this anecdote here. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by brunoc 12y ago
Or for those more fond of sport analogies, practicing 3-pointers over and over again. It's a very small part of the whole game and you need to excel at all the other skills required to be a great player. But I disagree with the blanket
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by brunoc 13y ago
I love TDD, but that's classic No True Scotsman.
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by brunoc 13y ago
Turning ads into a micropayment mechanism is a pretty clever idea.
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Flash is evil (1999)(dack.com)
2 points by brunoc 13y ago|0 comments
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by brunoc 13y ago
That may be true, but Todo MVC is a minuscule "application"! It can be used as a way to compare libraries and frameworks in a very superficial way but when you're writing a large web application with many screens, a lot of st
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by brunoc 13y ago
Toronto, Waterloo, Vancouver, Montreal In Montreal: Founder Fuel http://founderfuel.com/en/
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by brunoc 13y ago
Why? It's a silly comment on ExtJS. It's a huge framework but in the right context, it can be exactly the right tool for the job.
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by brunoc 14y ago
I recommend anyone getting into building web apps (regardless of framework) to read Mixu's "Single page apps in depth" http://singlepageappbook.com/single-page.html It's a short read, it's opinionated and will make you think, especially i
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My View: X Internet (2000)(web.archive.org)
1 points by brunoc 14y ago|0 comments
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by brunoc 14y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I'm a musician and while I think the idea is great, I think the mechanics in the demo are too limiting for most remixing work. Typically if I'm working on a remix I would change the tempo, change the song structure,
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by brunoc 14y ago
MoMA posted this a few days ago - they've acquired 14 games: http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2012/11/29/video-game... tldr: • Pac-Man (1980) • Tetris (1984) • Another World (1991) • Myst (1993) • SimCity 2000 (1994) • vib-ribbon (1
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How Teenagers Listen To Music, In 1 Chart(npr.org)
1 points by brunoc 14y ago|0 comments
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by brunoc 14y ago
Backbone.Marionette is a nice set of view classes (and a few other things) solving a lot of the typical use cases for Backbone in medium to large application. Amongst other things it provides a Layout view with a simple region manager to t
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by brunoc 14y ago
No doubt - That's just good OOP. Looks like this gem will help people achieve that.
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by brunoc 14y ago
I don't get why these models get bloated. If there's a language that makes it east break up classes into any number of components, surely that's Ruby! Mixins, open classes, modules, etc..
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by brunoc 15y ago
Strings can work fine for event names, I think op is overstating the string hell factor. But say you wanted to eliminate them you could do something like: var firstTouchBehaviour = { touchCount: 0, events: { firstTouch: 'F
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by brunoc 15y ago
Is this not the perfect use case for a torrent?
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by brunoc 15y ago
Not with Rails, afaik. Assuming the routes are consistent, you simply add a 'respond' for JSON and send the relevant chunk of the model. Easy as pie.
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by brunoc 15y ago
If you like Node for system level scripting, you're gonna love this: http://www.jsdb.org/ Don't let the name fool you, it's not only for databases. I would say that it's probably more suitable for general purpose scripts than Node, thoug
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by brunoc 15y ago
Perhaps it implies that you've extracted those names into some kind of constant or configuration object or view model that you're using throughout the system; if they change, you change them in one place and the square bracket version keeps
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by brunoc 15y ago
Github does this perfectly. You get a VM, fire it up and you're good to go.
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by brunoc 15y ago
Take some time to think about this: > I've worked hard. I haven't had a vacation or day off in years. (...) My life is wake up, code, sleep. > When she's done with her day, she goes to play cards with her other friends. In order of
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by brunoc 15y ago
The beautiful thing about Sinatra is that it is ridiculously easy to pick up and go. With even a small amount of Ruby knowledge you're up and running in no time.
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by brunoc 15y ago
There are ways around that. One of the easy ways is to simply in-line your JSON model when you generate the initial page. So essentially your webpage contains the html structure you need, followed by something like <script>
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by brunoc 15y ago
I'm working on a CLI right now that's rather "complex" in Ruby and i'm seeing the other extreme: CLI frameworks and DSLs. I don't know about other languages but in Ruby your library options range from the minimal (DIY with OptsParser, Troll
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by brunoc 15y ago
Is there any way to play "quant dev" with representative mock data (or historical data even) with similar constraint, etc? I doubt I have the constitution to do this for real but it would surely be a fun game.

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