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by coltonv 9y ago
This is an extremely short sighted article. It points out potential weaknesses of frameworks and then concludes unilaterally that they should never be used. This doesn't help anyone. Without the Rails framework my job would be signific
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Ask HN: Is AWS S3 down?
38 points by coltonv 9y ago|29 comments
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by coltonv 9y ago
Yeah, in my opinion that's an important skill to have when learning a language. I already know how to write quicksort, writing it in Elixir will give me some sense of understanding of the language, but knowing how to find it in the sta
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by coltonv 9y ago
It's important to be able to look at a problem and think "i bet I could find a function in the standard library that could help me solve this problem" or "I should just solve this from scratch with the basic functions I
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by coltonv 9y ago
I think the parent would have drawn the same criticism if the exclusively marketed towards men. I think his point was simply that their marketing misses 50% of the market. His point is not that it's wrong to only market towards women,
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by coltonv 9y ago
This is a neat idea, hadn't thought of this but it could definitely help me bring new developers into the immutable style more easily. The only issue with it is, of course, the fact that Proxies are ES6 and everyone still has to deal w
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by coltonv 9y ago
I remember this. Also, if I remember correctly, seamlessly integrating search and address bar was the thing that really made Chrome take off. Sure, it was an all around better product than IE/Safari, but to get people to actually downl
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by coltonv 9y ago
Funny that we live in a world where one renewable energy source is powerful enough to (literally) blow away another.
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by coltonv 9y ago
This is generally called corruption, when a politician uses their political influence to give favors and influence to family and friends. This kind of corruption is not necessarily illegal if you do it right, but it's looked down upon
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by coltonv 9y ago
Say you're creating a programming language and you know everyone is going to love it and use it. You add some nice features like if statements, switch statements, and for loops which allow the people that use your language to decide wh
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by coltonv 9y ago
Lobbyists already have enormous power. I think one thing we've learned over the past 20 years is that career politicians are just as susceptible to bribes as everyone else. Though I do agree, this concept is pointless beyond a thought
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by coltonv 9y ago
1. This doesn't require developer talent, or any real expense at all, social media marketing interns will do the job at barely any cost. 2. They've had plenty of money from investments though, their dev team is reasonably sized. 3
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by coltonv 9y ago
Mongo really isn't about storing JSON. At least that shouldn't be it's selling point. The selling point that is since it's basically just a glorified key value store it's very replicable and distributable. Postgres
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by coltonv 9y ago
It's not because they want to annoy environmentalists, the republican party just receives a massive amount of campaign funding and lobbying from the oil industry. They do stuff like this and deny climate change because if they don&#x27
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by coltonv 9y ago
Ah okay, makes sense.
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Tulip Mania(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by coltonv 9y ago|0 comments
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by coltonv 9y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean?
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by coltonv 9y ago
After working with React/Inferno and some of the other virtual dom frameworks, I simply can never go back to templating languages baked into HTML. While this seems like a nice idea, I don't think I could use it for that reason. It
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by coltonv 9y ago
Mimir (YC S15) | Indianapolis, IN | Onsite | Full-time | Full stack Engineer and Frontend Engineer Mimir (YC S15) is a venture backed startup working on bringing CS education into the 21st century with automated grading and plagiarism detec
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by coltonv 9y ago
So recalculating the virtual DOM is fast, but it does have a cost. The easy way to combat this cost is to realize that if you're doing things right and using pure functions, you'll get the exact same UI if you're state hasn&#
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by coltonv 10y ago
I could see the plugin system working, but we're years away from that. So saying JS/TS will be deprecated soon is still pretty incorrect.
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by coltonv 10y ago
To run python on WebAssembly you would have to compile the entire CPython executable, and every single dependency it has, into WebAssembly, then ship that giant executable with every page so you could then run Python code with it. You would
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Mimir (YC S15) is hiring across all teams to build the future of CS education(mimirhq.com)
1 points by coltonv 10y ago
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by coltonv 10y ago
Yeah, one person flying to your wedding would do much more than all the paper invites combined.
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by coltonv 10y ago
This article mentions that had the US not entered World War I the likelihood of World War II happening was much lower. I'd like to propose the idea that World War II, in all it's horrificness, saved us from much worse. In a rather
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by coltonv 10y ago
Mimir (YC S15) | Indianapolis, IN | Onsite | Full-time | Full stack Engineer and Frontend Engineer Mimir (YC S15) is a venture backed startup working on bringing CS education into the 21st century with automated grading and plagiarism detec
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Mimir (YC S15) is hiring across all teams to build the future of CS education(mimirhq.com)
1 points by coltonv 10y ago
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by coltonv 10y ago
Well of course, I was more just asking what his ideal process is to funnel out candidates up til that point. Whiteboard interviews? Take home interviews? What's your strategy?
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by coltonv 10y ago
So in the case of trial jobs how do you narrow down the candidate pool to the point that you have few enough candidates that you can bring them in office and let them work for a day without the office just becoming an unmanageable Fiesta?
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Ask HN: Whiteboard interviews don't work, what's your ideal technical interview?
22 points by coltonv 10y ago|20 comments

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