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by danneu 14y ago
The newbie's statement sounds like a romantic platitude. You should've shown the newbie programmer that programming is the art of abstraction and that there was never a pre-modern era where "we" were all toiling away with omniscient domain
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by danneu 14y ago
> working at Starbucks while waiting for his band to > make it big, and the HN crowd won't relate much to that Replace "band making it big" with any other dream and replace "working at Starbucks" with any other routin
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by danneu 14y ago
Leaning on the code of other people is something you do very deliberately, and it's a mistake to think that it always saves you time. If you think you're saving yourself from reinventing wheels by adding Yet Another Gem into your gemfile, t
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by danneu 14y ago
Developers across history have gone through great length to remove pain. <div class="name">{{name}}</div> vs. .name= name That's not laziness. That's just sensible.
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by danneu 14y ago
Some people like different things than the things you like. I like `abstractions` instead of `tools that let me coexist with clunky things`.
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by danneu 14y ago
That's a good way of putting it. After half-heartedly learning Zen Coding (aka Emmet), I realized most of the reasons I wanted to learn it were obviated by Haml.
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by danneu 14y ago
Cool! Until I found easymotion.vim, I was sort of doing a poor man's vim-seek with `/` and two chars.
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by danneu 14y ago
You seem to be conflating Vim and Terminal. Vim is just one of the many things you can run in a terminal, and just one of the many things you can do with a terminal.
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by danneu 14y ago
I'm sure they mean `map fg <c-z>` in Vim so that `fg` from Vim lines up with `fg` from shell and you can repeat the same stroke to easily "toggle" Vim.
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by danneu 14y ago
I've had ; mapped to : forever. Is there a use for `;` I'm missing out on? `;` just seems to be for stuff like "`fp` -- Oh wait, I didn't see all the p's between my cursor and the p I wanted. ; ; ; ;." Now I use easymotion.vim which obviate
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by danneu 14y ago
I used NERDTree when I was starting Vim, but uninstalling and hating it were essential steps towards Vim nirvana. Because then I found out about ctrlp.vim and :E, two things that makes NERDTree completely useless to me.
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by danneu 14y ago
Lots of respect to Knockout for making an interactive tutorial one click from its homepage. http://learn.knockoutjs.com/ I didn't really get rolling with Ember until I started to piece it together at a high level looking at Discourse's
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by danneu 14y ago
One of the necessary features of a forum going forward is a notification system. I ported a vBulletin forum to a custom Rails app, and rolling a notification system is THE feature that inspired me. Meanwhile, on a conventional vBulletin for
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by danneu 14y ago
vBulletin is a PHP app. The three prevalent forum solutions are Invision, phpbb, and vB.
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by danneu 14y ago
The part that's missing is the part where you start your own projects so that you have something to apply the knowledge to. Else you're just reading about surfing and wondering why you don't feel ready to surf yet. Maybe just one more surfi
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by danneu 14y ago
> Isn't that the type of thing a new dev is very likely > to get wrong and get burned by? I doubt it. Hand-rolling your own authentication is trivial in Rails. There are plenty of good tutorials and blog posts about i
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by danneu 14y ago
Vim from Homebrew + YouCompleteMe works for me. * brew install vim * alias vim="/usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.3.632/bin/vim" * :BundleInstall 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe' * Make the ycm_build directory: cd ~ mkdir ycm_build cd ycm_build
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by danneu 14y ago
Because people enjoy making things. Your question makes it sound like there's a central planning authority on the state of CSS frameworks.
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by danneu 14y ago
And our discourse is further complicated when we try to describe ADHD and our vocabulary sounds like it was torn from the thesaurus page for the word "lazy". Work-shy, lethargic, idle. We spurn each other for lack of self-control and the au
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by danneu 14y ago
> “...when he was in elementary school he fidgeted, > daydreamed and got A’s. he has been an A-B student > until mid college when he became scattered and he > wandered while reading He never had to stud
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by danneu 14y ago
I checked out the self-published Object-Oriented Design Anthology that this Clay guy ostensibly wrote judging by the discourse in this thread. Instead, I found that he wrote from what I can tell the only book that introduces RubyMotion, p
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by danneu 14y ago
I think accumulating an initialized variable in an imperative #each loop is decidedly unidiomatic, just something we tend to do until we really embrace things like #map, #partition, #select, #reduce, etc. (And what a glorious day that is!)
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by danneu 14y ago
Jekyll == (Rails + page caching)
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by danneu 14y ago
Matting is essential, even if it's just some unfashionably padded shoes. Even working summer retail jobs as a teen it was evident that standing for long periods of time just hurts if you're not standing on something. You may notice that cas
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by danneu 14y ago
I used to believe that, but after a while I realized that it's a heuristic derived from code that's already split up into clear responsibilities. Large methods are only a symptom that this component of your system does too much and probably
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by danneu 14y ago
Oh, come on. You got hung up on an adjective used in a hero unit. http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html Filters, passing Ruby objects into it to generate classes, hell, even markup comments that don't show up in html.
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by danneu 14y ago
That shouldn't even be relevant. People shouldn't be punished for asking for feedback no matter how trivial, especially if it's in the pursuit of clarity to the end user, especially on HN.
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by danneu 14y ago
I remapped `;` to `:` (try it, it's fun!) and evolved my character jump usage into just using `/` + two characters of resolution. So many times I'd do an `f` search like `fs` only to realize the variable `she_sells_sea_shells_by_the_sea_sho
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by danneu 14y ago
You should remove the deprecating remarks from your readme/code/headline. Someone will tweet them for you.
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by danneu 14y ago
That's what you're taking from this? Really? As someone remarked elsewhere in these comments: > There is no "open source hivemind" so please don't > disparage the millions of open source coders who > will never m

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