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by cliftonk 14y ago
Congrats on 2 million! We hit 1 million a few months ago and we had a great party.
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by cliftonk 14y ago
These tests are only JavaScript benchmarks and don't reflect real-world usage well. Chrome for iOS has a custom network stack and (like someone else said) page prefetching among other things.
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by cliftonk 14y ago
I grew up down there. It's very poor and uneducated area (though has one of the very best magnet high schools in the nation, where I was fortunate enough to go). That area badly needs the economic stimulus, but I'd say it needs some inspira
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by cliftonk 14y ago
Contrarian take on the issue: I wrote a Quake 3 mod in C++ (directional damage modification, server/client magazine+reload, and a few other things not-so-difficult things) in high school around age 17. I then did a CS undergrad at a top 6 u
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by cliftonk 14y ago
Tip to make the stack traces better in javascript: name all of your anonymous functions. For example, request.on('data', function requestReceivedData() { ... });
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by cliftonk 15y ago
It was my pull request. It was spurred by a compatibility break that took all of two seconds to fix in our app, but the principle of the matter is what irked me. And it wasn't from passing it to JavaScript, it was from parameterization from
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Prototype something in Ember.js first. Is there anything you would change? If there is, you should remember that Ember.js is a very convention-over-configuration heavy framework. Ember.js will do work for you, and if you agree with how it d
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[rails-core] request.xhr? returns 0 or nil instead of boolean(github.com)
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Yeah, Go has a really great implementation of this. I write a lot of Ruby, and it does feel awkward that Ruby wouldn't have this construct.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
My favorites: - Ruby for an imperative scripting language - Go for an imperative systems language (previously C) - Clojure as a functional language
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Well, to be fair, he does say that you need to take a novel (and niche) angle on doing such a thing (not to say your company doesn’t). To secure the investment on any extremely ambitious idea you would also need to be very effective in pers
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Carbohydrates produce insulin, insulin causes us to store fat. It's not complicated. There have been scientific studies out since the 30's entirely dismissing calorie counting as being effective. Good Calories, Bad Calories: http://www.ama
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by cliftonk 15y ago
https://github.com/rails/journey is the code for his router Great talk, also.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
> Risk Management in Software Talent Investment Stopped reading one paragraph into that section.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Congrats Gowalla!
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Dallas, TX - OrgSync -- Full time http://www.orgsync.com/careers We're a Rails shop that boostrapped out of a house in Austin 4 years ago and have been growing explosively since we moved to an office in Dallas ~ 18 months ago. We're looki
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Those games do not even come close to the competitive levels of CS for team-based FPS and Quake3 for dueling. Not by a long shot.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Modern day first person shooters provide an immersive, story-driven single player experience, but have gameplay that cannot make for a decent competitive platform.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
I played with and against him for years. His old teammate n0it was chatting with me on facebook for a while about my start-up-turned-company as he uses our software on his campus. I had not talked to either of them for a few years at minimu
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by cliftonk 15y ago
It usually means that you're spending most of your 9-5 sending/receiving email, on the phone and in meetings. Then you go home and look at the commit log to see what's changed, check the issue tracker and push some commits yourself.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
I'm curious if there's anyone around that codes more than Chris Wanstrath [1] (Github's CEO). He's a beast. And someone we should all look up to. [1] https://github.com/defunkt
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Dallas, TX - OrgSync - http://www.orgsync.com/careers We were founded in 2007, have over 200 universities as clients and are growing rapidly to reach our goal of working with the 4,000+ colleges and universities across the United States a
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by cliftonk 15y ago
It's just latency to the server + the server not being designed for concurrent traffic. Ruby is inherently slower than many interpreted languages, but its combination of power and readability sets it apart, IMHO. λ time ruby -e0 real 0m0.00
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Same numbers here on my macbook pro. Another important stat is that when our laptops wake up, we re-establish wifi connections in ~100 ms, compared to the average of 10 seconds on PCs.
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Dallas, TX Looking for Frontend + Backend Developers Backend is Rails, MySQL, NodeJS and Redis http://www.orgsync.com/careers
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OrgSync is Hiring(orgsync.com)
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by cliftonk 15y ago
Dallas, TX Operations Engineer - OrgSync, Inc. We’re looking for a log-hugging performance enthusiast to take charge of the OrgSync cloud-based infrastructure. You will have a great degree of freedom in designing an architecture that will f