cryptica

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JavaScript Promises and Error Handling(hackernoon.com)
2 points by cryptica 9y ago|0 comments
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by cryptica 9y ago
Thought leadership these days is almost always about pushing a corporate agenda. It's not true thinking, it's marketing. That reminds me of the time when Mark Zuckerberg announced that his favorite book was "The end of power&
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by cryptica 9y ago
I've been programming for 13 years. I started when I was 14 years old and studied software engineering at university. These days, when I take on well-paid contract work, sometimes I find myself working alongside people who only started
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by cryptica 9y ago
Yeah but a negligible one. As a long time Yahoo mail user, I was very disappointed with Yahoo under Mayer. Firstly they did a terrible job with the Yahoo mail web client; it became slow and clunky and inherited the worst parts of Gmail and
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by cryptica 10y ago
Well, we're made up of DNA. Scientists unanimously agree that DNA is responsible for all of our characteristics. If you search the internet, you should be able to find plenty of papers and evidence which document the effects of specifi
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by cryptica 10y ago
I can see three contenders: 1. CRDTs/sync solutions (like Firebase) 2. GraphQL with real-time subscriptions 3. A variant of REST over WebSockets with real-time subscriptions I don't think #1 will be able to cover all necessary use
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by cryptica 10y ago
This is exactly the problem with this industry - Blanket statements and buzzwords. An engineer can get things done quickly but that doesn't mean it's done correctly and won't break (and someone else will have to fix it). To c
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by cryptica 10y ago
I had my own office once for a contract role I did. It was great. It makes employees feel more valued and reduces stress levels. I find that when you're constantly around people, you are less reflective/creative and more prone to
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by cryptica 10y ago
I dislike all compile-to-JavaScript languages. The compilation step is a massive overhead and it becomes a major pain in the neck once your project reaches a certain size. Whatever shortcomings of JavaScript these languages claim to solve a
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by cryptica 10y ago
I fully agree about the developer tools space being very difficult. I have a popular open source project but was never able to monetize it (and I've had plenty of time and tried a few different things). I can fully relate to this artic
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by cryptica 10y ago
I'm surprised by how many of my non-US friends are calling Americans 'Stupid' right now on social media for voting for Trump. I think that the Trump victory actually shows the opposite; that Americans are smart enough to thin
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by cryptica 10y ago
Meditation does nothing for me. It's ironic that the people I know who are into meditation tend to be completely out of touch with themselves and meditation doesn't seem to actually change anything about them.
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by cryptica 10y ago
I used to love dogs when I was a kid, now I'm definitely a cat person. I find dogs superficial and too simple-minded. If you feed them often enough, they will like you (guaranteed) - I find this kind of relationship unsatisfying - You
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by cryptica 11y ago
I have read so many articles which incentivize switching from Node.js to Go and every single one of them (this one included) blabber on about the Node.js event loop becoming congested - This is completely misguided - It only shows that the
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by cryptica 11y ago
I'm a Gen Y living in Sydney - I've been planning to leave for a while because of the adverse conditions for young people here. Rent is very high, everything is expensive, you get fines all the time for silly stuff like parking y
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by cryptica 11y ago
If anyone opened the console and noticed the socket timing out earlier - That was because I upgraded to a bigger 4-CPU core Amazon instance and in the process, I accidentally installed a newer version of the SC server (which caused a protoc
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by cryptica 11y ago
I'm the main author of SC. Your system does sound similar to SC - It seems to be a pretty standard realtime architecture - Those who started building their realtime systems with Socket.io (as you did) often end up with something simila
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Show HN: SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub(socketcluster.io)
217 points by cryptica 11y ago|39 comments
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by cryptica 11y ago
It's good to see hard data on this. I hope more people will publish similar research in the future. I've done a lot of work with both statically and dynamically typed languages and I've always known that dynamically languages
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by cryptica 11y ago
If an employee is so valuable that it hurts when they leave, maybe they should have been given more incentives to stay. You can't say that an employee is selfish when they're the ones doing all the hard, laborious technical work a
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by cryptica 11y ago
I agree with this article but I think it should be noted that advertising is much more powerful/effective today than it ever was before. Modern advertising is capable of messing with people's lives in extreme ways. Advertising is
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by cryptica 11y ago
I personally couldn't succeed with this approach. It's only suitable for polygamists. I'm more of a one codebase kind of guy. I know how to treat my codebase right.