exogen

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by exogen 14y ago
"Easy to build, fast, scalable." So which part of the test demonstrated that it was hard to build, slow, and/or not scalable? If you're not impressed that JavaScript reached 80% parity with a statically typed, compiled language – well, sorr
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by exogen 14y ago
Brutal honesty tends to work when you are performing a critique, not when you're addressing a complaint from someone who unwillingly made your business money.
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by exogen 14y ago
It can make it effectively higher-resolution than you can, but that doesn't mean it can make it prettier. It could still look end up looking worse (from the color bleeding effect, for instance).
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by exogen 14y ago
It's unfortunate, because from a technical and aesthetic standpoint, these icons are mostly rock solid, and they deserve some praise for that. But from a human/usability standpoint (what actually matters), I agree that they are indeed a fai
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by exogen 14y ago
I'm actually surprised it's only ~40% slower (in my Chrome anyway). Considering how much less code it is to maintain, that's totally worth it IMO. I'm sure there are a thousand other functions you'd want to optimize in a real app before thi
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by exogen 14y ago
For the DOM element, it seems like you could just create the element once and then keep it around for reuse. Should be safe since JavaScript is single-threaded.
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by exogen 15y ago
I thought this too, at first, but only because I didn't know Ruby very well. Now I realize it's heavily inspired by both, but actually more closely resembles Ruby, IMO.
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by exogen 15y ago
Ubiquity is one reason. Ultimately, the "horrible problems" and "strange bugs" just turned out to be "unfamiliar differences." Also, newer JavaScript runtimes (V8) tend to smoke other dynamic languages in speed tests: http://shootout.aliot
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by exogen 15y ago
He's saying it's FUD because the headline is misleading, not because he's trying to downplay the security issue. You and grandparent are likely in agreement with respect to your comment. (The headline is misleading because the issue affects
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by exogen 15y ago
I find Knockout interesting in this respect exactly because it's not monolithic. It exposes some primitives (observables, computed observables, and binding handlers) and you decide how the application is structured. I'm not against a more f
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by exogen 15y ago
I'm a developer at a "gamification" company, so take my criticism of this article for what it's worth. The argument made in this article isn't very strong, but from what I can tell it boils down to "games are for children, so gamification i
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by exogen 15y ago
A style guide becomes very important in a language like CoffeeScript where (a) there aren't established conventions for the language yet like Python's PEP-8 and (b) excluding unnecessary syntax is very, very tempting. No parens or braces ne
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by exogen 15y ago
The view could be rendered by running Ember with Node or another server-side JavaScript runtime. That actually isn't even the hard part. You're right about JavaScript generating the same controls in HTML that could be rendered on the server
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by exogen 15y ago
What about the current state of the browser market (assuming that's what you mean by client) leads you to believe we're moving toward a single terrible client that we can't fix? We have several good browsers and engines on the market, half
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by exogen 15y ago
If the Ember.js authors keep the library focused, I'm convinced this could be a very important project. Having tried the popular MVC frameworks out there, and having lots of experience with KnockoutJS, nothing out there is a clear winner ye
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by exogen 15y ago
It looks very nice. UX issue: I was confused that the slider widget scrolled the timeline. It doesn't look like a scroller and uses a widget that typically zooms (in most Mac apps) or increases/decreases some value.
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by exogen 15y ago
I used to use iTerm2 (or maybe it was still iTerm then), but eventually Terminal was just good enough. I think people who have used iTerm2 for a while might forget that Terminal improves with every new version of OS X; it's not just some st
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by exogen 15y ago
In addition to what the other replies said, there's another reason: effects like this reside purely in the presentation layer, and just like the argument for separating content from presentation, a good argument can be made for trying to se
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by exogen 15y ago
It is probably best to bundle all of your application code and plugins into one big JavaScript file, while loading jQuery itself from one of the CDNs (and excluding it from the bundle). I think it's only when this bundle file gets massive o
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by exogen 15y ago
BigDoor Seattle, WA http://www.bigdoor.com/ We're a gamification platform – we make it easy for anyone to add fun, relevant loyalty programs to their site or app, storing all their virtual economy data with us. Lots of people are focused
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by exogen 15y ago
Okay. Clone the Rails repo and do this: git log --grep thread
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by exogen 15y ago
Did you even read the line you quoted? He didn't say "emerging set of software capabilities." The programming conventions, philosophies, and values of the Node.js community are evolving. Your response doesn't make any sense.
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by exogen 15y ago
When is it going to stop being a bandwagon? Do we have to wait for you to start using it? James (the author) is probably the most prolific library author in the Node community and has a startup built on his libraries. Do you really think he
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by exogen 15y ago
Node is not a web framework. It's something one might use to build a web framework. So it's a bit silly to say that 'any web framework ever' already deals will this for you – well, duh, but the framework author certainly had to deal with th
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by exogen 15y ago
I use Knockout heavily at work and agree that it can become a mess. But most of the ugliness I've seen is when people try to be too clever, not really understanding what Knockout can already do (e.g. writing custom bindings to do lots of 'd
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by exogen 15y ago
Hmm, if you're binding every view in your app to a single view model, you're doing it wrong. You're "supposed" to have a model for each view/type/whatever and bind only the necessary markup — not bind the whole page to one big view.
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by exogen 15y ago
1. The browser plugin is just to launch the game, not render the pages. 2. The "massive JS framework" won't seem so massive once you browse a few pages – the payload savings will likely pay off pretty quickly. Notice that the AJAX data for
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by exogen 15y ago
Expensive food at all the Tom Douglas restaurants, maybe. But since you've left a dozen food trucks have come to the neighborhood: http://www.seattlefoodtruck.com/index.php/by-neighborhood-2/... – the variety is pretty good now!
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by exogen 15y ago
As for the startup scene, TechStars & Founder's Co-op are also in SLU, right next to Amazon. We (bigdoor.com) are also in the same building.
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by exogen 15y ago
Seattle, WA - BigDoor - http://www.bigdoor.com/ We're a gamification platform – we make it easy for anyone to add fun, relevant loyalty programs to their site or app. Lots of people are focused on badges and leaderboards – and we do that

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