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by bshimmin 11y ago
My objections are around the rate of change and the fact that JavaScript is growing into a large, complex language that people are becoming really uncertain how to use.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
About halfway through the README, after some examples of the new bind syntax, it says "But why stop there?" Actually, please can we stop here? Just for a bit? This continual, persistent mangling of JavaScript's syntax real
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Did Michael Jordan count as a professional basketball and baseball player?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I asked it to finish all my client work this week so I could spend more time with my family and also work on my neglected side projects. Looking in git, there are zero new commits, so I'm assuming this didn't work (or the fairies
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I've been known to print out the more objectionable emails from my clients and eat them... OK, great, you deliver food. If your AngelList profile is your main publicly visible page at this point, you should - in my humble opinion - ma
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Pandora delivers music that you can listen to; unless your startup delivers food that I can eat, I don't really see how the two are all that similar - unless you're suggesting people print out the emails and then eat them. But hey
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by bshimmin 11y ago
That article does little to justify the "X for Y" meme. The reason for it is that "X" is famous and successful already and people are trying to capitalise on that, and because a three word summary is pithy and easy to r
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This is a really interesting (and not a little disquieting) thought. In the case of the Sistene Chapel ceiling - the scale and artistry of which really is difficult to comprehend if you haven't seen it firsthand (truly, pictures do no
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I absolutely love these "$EXISTING_BUSINESS for $TOTALLY_RANDOM_THING" startups, and this might just be my favourite. What does "Pandora for Lunch" even mean? Is it Pandora the streaming radio service or Pandora the je
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It's 1920x1080, though, right? The U2515H is 2560x1440. That difference is far more important to me than a few milliseconds of latency (I don't play games).
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I just recently bought a couple of Dell U2515H monitors (and will probably buy another), and, given you can buy three of them for the cost of one of Apple's Thunderbolt displays, they really are a great deal - same resolution, higher P
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Some people also feel quite strongly about Minion: http://practicaltypography.com/minion-alternatives.html Fonts are so divisive!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I was actually poking fun at the misspelling of "altar" - seemed quite amusing given the context!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'll be honest: "the alter of pedantic technical accuracy" made me snigger a little.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
OK, I'll bite: what does De Stijl ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl ) have to do with any of this?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
They should totally do a "J For Dummies" book.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Do people really think HN's denizens are abusive? I remember usenet from the mid-nineties. It was really, really bad. People would routinely post very graphic messages about killing other people (and worse), and sometimes there&#x27
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Perhaps this is right - and I don't professionally taste wine, so your man should know better than I do - but from my own experience of sometimes drinking very good and very expensive wine, there really is a demonstrably worthwhile dif
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This just seems like an ill-informed piece written by someone who is determined not to enjoy wine. If cheap wine tastes okay to you, buy cheap wine. If you can detect and appreciate a difference in more expensive wine - that's you ,
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by bshimmin 11y ago
`.bind(this)` or an ES6 fat arrow solves the `this` problem in your jQuery example. As to why... well, it makes more sense with jQuery's event listeners (`$(this)` being much shorter than `$(event.currentTarget)` and usually being what
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by bshimmin 11y ago
You're quite right, I meant to add `values_at` in the hash example! And the syntax is still not so nice: irb(main):005:0> a, b = {:a => 1, :b => 2}.values_at(:a, :b) => [1, 2] Or: irb(main):006:0> a, b = (h
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Fear not. I delivered a project for a client a few weeks ago which featured plain HTML, CSS, and "vanilla" JavaScript, with no libraries apart from the venerable jQuery, and not a pre- or post-processor in sight. It was quite li
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Webpack is so last year, man. Surely everyone is using jspm now!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Looking at the source, I noticed this uses RequireJS, which provoked in me a slight feeling of nostalgia. That's rather telling, since it's probably less than three years since RequireJS was absolutely the first choice as far as
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Other languages have this too, eg. Ruby: a, b = [1, 2] a, b = {:a => 1, :b => 2} Similarly in Python, at least for the array example (there's probably some way of destructuring a dictionary in Python, but I don't kn
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"The most scalable MQTT Message Broker. Powering IoT, M2M, Mobile, and Web Applications." Warning, abbreviation overload! I don't know if it's because of Game of Thrones (which I don't even watch) but I find "
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think it probably depends massively on the skills and experience of the person attending the bootcamp. If the extent of their technical skills is being able to make a good-looking Powerpoint, then I'd be astonished if 12 weeks were
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I take that back: http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Rob Pike, maybe?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Absolutely fair points. Another one: the general weariness with which new JS frameworks are greeted has increased massively in the 433 days since Mithril was posted here.

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