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by eric_bullington 11y ago
Are you using a commercial OpenVPN provider, or bootstrapping your own OpenVPN proxy like the grandparent poster? That may make a significant difference.
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
Oh, I avoid WP like the plague these days, and strictly use static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo. In any case, I'm referring less to specific plugins, and more to the critical importance of bootstrapping and fostering a thrivin
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
Out of curiosity, which platform is that? If they have a standard REST API, hooking it up to Zapier is pretty simple.
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
I think making Boost optional would be a big win for you and your project. For one, given the aversion of so many C++ devs to Boost, removing Boost would probably result in more contributors. But most importantly, it would make life much
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
The company that wins the battle to be WordPress's successor will be the one that builds the same type of thriving plugin/extension ecosystem that allowed WP to expand so rapidly.
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
I donated as well, and look forward to seeing these manuals digitized one day.
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
This is very well-done, with pleasing aesthetics. Did you experiment with a free tier? How many users do you have now, if you're open to sharing that information?
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Ask HN: Intermediate/Advanced books for web developers
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
> and how templates and code should be kept separate... But then I tried it, and I realized just how wrong I was. Indeed. In fact, experiments with different configurations have led me to start developing large React applications using
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by eric_bullington 11y ago
For younger kids, like preschool age, we had pretty good luck with games from Thup Games[1]. The sounds effects from the games will drive you nuts after a while (so headphones are handy), but I recall my kids learning a lot of reading skil
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Oh, this is very cool. I wonder how many CAT (Computer-Aided Translation) tools out there (many of which are notoriously slow) could be significantly sped up using this approach. I'd bet most of them, although they're almost all
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I've actually used some of the exercises from K&R when learning other languages, they're so good. This should be a lot of fun.
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I've not been a huge fan of Go (more of a Rust person). However, seeing these authors, I'm now itching to get my hands on a copy of this book and give Go another shot. I wish I didn't have to wait until the summer for it! Ed
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
It's a good point. But don't mistake Flux, GraphQL, cursors, etc. with React. React is just a great, fast way to interact with the DOM, with much less hoops than usual. I think the community is still converging toward the prope
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I agree that they're not terribly practical ways to program (I wouldn't use them in production). Still fun to play with.
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
> Every beta would cause a sea of red flags. I'd dread having to level-up when a new beta was dropped, but I figured, might as well get it over with than wait until the GM hits and have things really be in a terrible state! Hah, sou
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Very cool. Looks like it performs great from the comments. How was developing a game in Swift?
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Concrete Mathematics is outstanding, and I'm happy to think I'm getting an overview of TAOCP by (very slowly) working my way through Concrete Mathematics.
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
> The range of problems I could tackle as a programmer was limited by math. It turns out this was partly true. Would you mind expanding on this? I've often thought about going back to school for a math degree, or at least for the
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
If you tried remote, you'd get access to a whole lot of high caliber candidates at a significantly lower price. You'd be pretty surprised at how many awesome developers are available when you're recruiting from the entire na
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
This is true, but it's important to bear in mind that a relatively high-prestige publisher like O'Reilly can make or break someone's reputation as a high-price consultant. O'Reilly realizes this, and pays their authors
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
> Why we shouldn't? Because we (as in browser vendors) can't just break compatibility with all the websites that use strict mode today OK, fair enough. That was admittedly a glib comment on my part. However, if JS ever wants
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I've only started using ES6 in anger over the past few weeks, so I don't have anything public at this time. However, if you're familiar with d3 at all, then you know this pattern well: someSelection .attr("r
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Hah, I'm tempted to go through the Ocaml 99 problems (which was inspired by the Prolog version) using ES6 [1]. Turns out, with recursion and a head and tail function, you can do virtually anything with lists. I hope the popular JS eng
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated!
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
The Flux pattern contains too much boilerplate and indirection for small or quick one-of web apps. If Marty helps to abstract some of that out, it's more than welcome to me. Frankly, for small apps, I think you can get 90% of the bene
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Great comment and excellent intro to React for interested devs. I've been successfully using React for small and mid-sized apps, and agree that Marty looks like it's an elegant solution to the Flux pattern. (for application stat
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
Nice work, the Dropbox integration is probably a good idea (although I personally don't use Dropbox). One question though: is it not possible to click to the next question, when you're reviewing? Does this require signing in? Co
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I would be very cautious about using shuf for password generation, since it doesn't use a cryptographically-secure random number generator (I just checked the source). Edit: I see that shuf permits the use of custom seeds, so you can
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by eric_bullington 12y ago
I appreciate the idea, and that's a good list of broad topics (I'm currently working off a similar one[1]). But I'm actually talking about sub-topics within each of those broad topics. If you take a look at page 59 of the

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