bthomas

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by bthomas 14y ago
The nature of programming is that any consensus solution can be automated. That's a good thing.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Do you think a higher % of first time visitors come in on mobile? I'd worry that you are losing an opportunity to make a great first impression. Some people see a great responsive site on mobile and think "yes, I love when sites work like t
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by bthomas 14y ago
Would love a detailed pg article on what ventures should be nonprofit vs forprofit. If this is a viable model, presumably some startups could go either way. (Open source software?) I think it would help to have more of a community consensus
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by bthomas 14y ago
Agree on phone, but a hackable ubuntu tablet could have a large market.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Look forward to seeing everybody there. Get in touch if any questions.
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by bthomas 14y ago
FWIW I majored in computer science at a major school, though admittedly I was a shitty student. I spent more time building things than going to class.
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by bthomas 14y ago
I use yield and generators regularly. They just make sense, but I never knew what a coroutine is in an academic sense
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by bthomas 14y ago
If you like this stuff, I can't recommend Thinking Fast and Slow enough
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by bthomas 14y ago
Agree directionally, but comparing professors to veterans is tough. People get mad that veterans can't get any jobs, or end up homeless with PTSD.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Hey guys/gals, I set up a Boston HN meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/hn-boston/ Join if interested. Want to meet at a bar after work the week of Dec 10th?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Great idea. Would love one in Boston/Cambridge, anybody else interested?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Don't forget ease of finding and/or training other developers to work on a project
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by bthomas 14y ago
Wouldn't you want to remove extraneous software eg. a compiler from a dedicated database host for security? (Yes, Python could be included in that as well)
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by bthomas 14y ago
Psychologically 10% free sounds more generous than one month free
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by bthomas 14y ago
Agree. This is just speculation, but JavaScript classes also seem like they could be easy to mess up, particularly for a beginner web developer. I think there's a lesson from C and C++: don't add complexity unless it's absolutely necessary.
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by bthomas 14y ago
What kind of apps would this help with? JS is never going to take over on the server for me until it can compete with Python's statistics support, I didn't see much in these slides that suggests it could.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Don't wait. First, no guarantee that stuff will actually get adopted, it's still quite abstract. Second, even if so, it will take a while for browsers to catch up, so people will be coding in current JS for a while. Third, much of the curre
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by bthomas 14y ago
Can this be used for large (100-500M) files? If not, is there a similar service that is good for that?
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by bthomas 14y ago
First time I looked I didn't realize you could zoom out...
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by bthomas 14y ago
If you are refactoring your app enough to need a different class of joins, you'll probably need schema and data migrations too. I think no-schema fits agile quite well. For rapid prototyping, I prefer Mongo to even sqlite.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Do the python3 print statements imply anything about whether it's compatible with python2? And what's the best way to quickly look and see which versions a package is compatible with?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Could they have used Firefox OS as an opportunity to bring another language to the browser, rather than javascript to native? ie. if you could write [Objective C/Java/C#/etc] libraries for Firefox OS and they could be compiled and served to
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by bthomas 14y ago
Do you have an example in mind?
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by bthomas 14y ago
In case you didn't see other article on the front page, Thurston died today
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by bthomas 14y ago
Not if you have different goals. Most web dev shops (and their consumers) just want to build things that don't break.
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by bthomas 14y ago
"People like you rated it..." is much better for users than two axes.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Is that really their official blog? I'm not usually one to care about a professional looking UI, but I feel like it matters here. A non tech boss is going to see this next to cloud.google and have a tremendous bias, regardless of what his/h
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by bthomas 14y ago
Taking time off kind of by definition increases your productivity per hour. I want to hear a case of time off actually increasing total output.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Is there an easy way to capture scroll activity on a mac app? I'd love to analyze a data dump of scroll activity and active window.
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by bthomas 14y ago
That's because fear of being labeled is a deterrent from writing anything critical. To argue that this isn't a problem, find examples of people being critical and not being labeled.

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