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by elliotlarson 8y ago
This is great. I definitely feel like the front-end could use a more ORM-like, feature rich data layer. I generally use an ORM on the backend. When I get the data to the front-end, it's still relational in nature, and I still want s
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
But then you have to host it and maintain it. It's a slippery slope. How many 3rd party services do you in-house with hosted OS software. Pretty soon you're spending a huge chunk of your time doing ops work. And, where do you
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. GitHub has an enormous codebase where they've done a lot of work digging around in and modifying Rails under the hood. I think their situation calls for it and they h
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
I totally agree. One of the things that keeps me in Ruby land is the absolutely phenomenal debugging/repl environment provided by Pry and related gems. When I want to understand how something works, I drop a binding.pry, run the code
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
I've had the most problems with Linode Freemont historically. About 4 years ago I moved most of my stuff to Dallas and have been happy.
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Yeah, I was confused about that as well. I came to the comments hoping to find good suggestions for doing market research. Most of the comments (at least at this point) seem to be geared towards trading.
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Wait. You've made a choice to engage in unhealthy work habits. It may not seem like it, but this _is_ your choice. I've been working as a remote contractor for almost 20 years. If you want to remain sane and happy, you need to
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Yeah, I totally agree. I use VSCode and I'm happy with it. Electron apps are slower, but not to the extent that I won't use Electron based apps. Personally, I'm excited to try out Oni.
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Maybe I'm missing it, but I'm not seeing what the cost is for higher resolution maps. As I understand it, in addition to usage beyond what the free account allowed, a paid account used to also give you access to higher resolution
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Oh, cool. I'm glad to have turned you on to it. If you end up using it, I'd be interested in hearing what your experience is like.
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. MobX does look interesting. I recently watched Preethi Kasireddy's presentation comparing MobX and Redux ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76FRrbY18Bs ), which I'd recommend watching to anyon
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
My main smart component is several hundred lines long at this point. The methods in the component are largely event handlers used to manipulate the component's state object. The methods are passed down into the hierarchy of "dum
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by elliotlarson 8y ago
I've built a couple of applications with React. I've spent the last 6 weeks on a contract where I'm building a React based Google maps widget. I'm getting to the point where I'd like to break up a large "smar
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by elliotlarson 9y ago
I mean, Facebook is losing money right now, but I don't think they're going anywhere. But, for the sake of argument, let's say everyone deletes their account and Facebook goes away. React is open source. The people from Fac
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by elliotlarson 9y ago
No kidding. I'm so impressed with most of Go, but this is just silly. I feel like Rust started out with solid dependency management in place, at least it's been there from the early days. I work a bit with Node and Ruby too. B
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by elliotlarson 9y ago
I live in San Francisco. I don't take public transit regularly but I've lived in this area for 17 years and have personally witnessed several incidents on BART, Caltrain, and Muni. I also lived near Koln Germany for four years w
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by elliotlarson 9y ago
Oh, it looks like Bundler didn't make it into the standard library for the 2.5 release. The commit to bring it in was reverted just before the release, with very little explanation. I mean, it's not like `gem install bundler` is
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I literally thought, "This has to be a poorly executed April Fool's joke... but, no, Adobe wouldn't attempt an April Fools joke". So, I read the comments here to see what other people are thinking. I guess I'm not
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I agree with this. If you're augmenting a traditional request/html-response web app with some JavaScript functionality, a lighter weight view library fits the bill nicely. But, if you're developing a SPA that consumes an AP
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
So, I'm still a noob with this stuff, but it's my take that Elm is both a language and a front-end framework. It's a language that compiles down to JavaScript that also gives you a React-like toolset to develop front-end cod
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I was really excited about Elm after listening to The Changelog episode #218 ( https://changelog.com/podcast/218 ). Elm is in the style of React, but the flavor of Haskell. For my part, I had a hard time with the synta
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I'm mostly a backend Rails developer, but I've spent the last 3 months developing stuff with Vue, Elm, React, and Angular 2 in an effort to see which of the front-end frameworks I would like best (I messed with Ember a year ago bu
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I like how, in their README on GitHub, they mention that they're not interested in playing the benchmark game. That's great. For the most part, I don't care about benchmarks. I mostly just care about tooling that helps me
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Buffalo – a new Go web framework(gobuffalo.io)
2 points by elliotlarson 10y ago|1 comments
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
Oh, that's interesting. Thanks for the link!
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I'm really excited about the web version of this. I think Google is doing fantastic work, making material design available to and usable by the community. I'm sure their motives aren't entirely altruistic, but I appreciate
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
Yeah, right?! I had the exact same thought when I saw this. Okay, video... that's cool. But, we've been waiting for the ScreenHero purchase to turn into Slack screen sharing for ages.
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by elliotlarson 10y ago
I've been developing apps with Rails since it was announced. It's been an amazing tool/toolchain, providing a very useful level of abstraction that allows rapid development. Recently, I've been doing a lot of Go (Golang
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by elliotlarson 11y ago
I like the idea of SOA. The separation of concerns feels right to me on some level. But, every time I look at it being applied, it's clear to me how much more money and time is being spent implementing it. With SOA you incur the add
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by elliotlarson 11y ago
Ah, you're right! I wish they would have made this clearer.

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