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by ffn 11y ago
lol the null / undefined issue in javascript is further exacerbated by the fact there is no int type and everything is just a "number".... yet the number 0 is still treated the same as null/undefined by js special forms
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by ffn 11y ago
Agreed. One of the many things that makes Phoenix/Elixir great for us rails/ruby refugees is that it's built by other rails/ruby refugees. In many ways, we have all the good things that our old masters DHH trailblazed wi
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by ffn 11y ago
This is awesome! I've been working with Phoenix for a bit now, and aside from the fact hex/phoenix doesn't yet have all the libraries that rubygems/rails have, Phoenix has blown my expectations out of the water. For such
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by ffn 11y ago
No, you can use phoenix without any javascript, it'll serve up regular html pages just fine. You only need the js if you plan on using sockets to connect to Phoenix's endpoints.
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by ffn 11y ago
Why is this a bad thing designers must be "guilty of"? Most websites are built around providing some sort of commercial service / product, so the number 1 goal of design is to get out of the way of the user paying money and r
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by ffn 11y ago
The same way you deal with getting older in any other profession, you learn to accept that there will always be people better, faster, and younger than you, embrace the fact that you suck, but still persevere in pushing forward at your own
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by ffn 11y ago
>Erlang is not good for Glue-together style web application Granted Elixir's Phoenix framework is not Rails level yet, it's system of plugs and heavy inspiration from rails actually makes it quite useable as a replacement for r
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by ffn 11y ago
Lying about your progress and metrics is extremely rampant in the startup world of SV... but IMO SV's biggest lie is that you need to be in SV and you need SV money to build a successful company. This flat out isn't true, especial
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by ffn 11y ago
Thanks for writing it out, but you've actually illustrated exactly my complaint. When you call oldMethod console.warn will spit out the line number of the wherever in your framework you have the var deprecated = function(fn) {
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by ffn 11y ago
Not gonna lie, classes, destructing, TCO, and all these "engineering optimizations" are great... but what JS really, really, really needs is some sort of way to declare decorator macros. A great use case for these macros (especial
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by ffn 11y ago
It's actually kind of amazing, the modern day media has lifted shamelessly the exact attitude of intolerance and hostility that used to be targeted strictly at people of color in the 60s, and now are targeting people of opinions today.
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by ffn 11y ago
At The Mountain View of Madness Cool Airbnb The Tweet of Cthulhu
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by ffn 11y ago
We're supposedly starting to do this in LA, in particular, there is a lot of talk about tearing up the LA river so that whatever rain water we get can be restored to ground water.
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by ffn 11y ago
>How slow is too slow? That depends entirely on your financial structure, your product, and your own lifespan. If you never on-board investors and never depend on a loss-leader strategy for capturing market, you can small-business yourse
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by ffn 11y ago
I usually believe emphasis on diversity is a bunch of PC shit that distracts from the core tenants of building a good business (i.e. shipping a product, having ethics, making sustainable profit, etc.), but you really should hire women. That
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by ffn 11y ago
Historically, didn't we use things like hippo fat and secretions of various flowering plants to ward off the mosquito? I wonder how those things compare with this mutant bacteria approach.
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by ffn 11y ago
Love the language, I've been using it (phoenix) to build a more real-time version of my current rails app. But I have a concern with Elixir core's Enum. In particular, the Enumerable protocol has us implementing Enum.reduce for ou
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by ffn 11y ago
Tax, immigration/emigration, and will/inheritance reasons. For one thing, the government gives you a tax break if you marry; this was particularly useful because, in the old days, women didn't work so it made sense to not tax
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by ffn 11y ago
Speaking of this, just how did Elixir's Jose Valim (who I assume is Polish) wind up working at the Brazilian Plataformatec? Last I checked, Brazil is a quite a bit more than a stone's throw away from Poland, and I would imagine ev
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by ffn 11y ago
Well, good design is obvious once you know it. But before you know it, it's as opaque and obtuse as anything else. It's just that design has this strange property with us humans in that, when done right, it feels so natural and em
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by ffn 11y ago
I don't know how much truth there is to this, but from the point of view of the several hundred Chinese netizens I know, a lot of China's current international policy decisions are arising out of desperation. For the past couple o
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by ffn 11y ago
I, for one, am glad Ember is still going strong. And, as a heavy emberjs user, most of these changes feel like a step in the right direction. But after reading through the change log blog, I have several questions (not complaints) for the c
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by ffn 11y ago
Surprisingly enough, China still has a huge number of (as they put it) "left-over" women. This is likely because the population of there is well aware of the 60M+ fact going in their favor and, in truly amazing display of classica
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by ffn 11y ago
So... top management at reddit literally allows loud and vocal groups to deny even the right to exist for other groups whose opinions they don't agree with. I don't condone hating on fat people (or any group of people), but all th
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by ffn 11y ago
Anything that's not a bad github profile would be a good profile. Ideally, I would want someone who has done a lot of open source pull requests, or has some interesting projects, or has contributed to some big-name existing project. Bu
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by ffn 11y ago
If backend programming was epic fiction, then right now, the world is divided into the following countries: The Kingdom of Java, The United Languages of .Net, and the Confederacy of the Scripting Tongue (where racial tensions are crackle un
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by ffn 11y ago
I don't know about you, but in the field of selecting new frameworks I tend to essentially just (mindless) follow celebrities. Some people call me a sheep, but so far, I've found following wycats (rails, emberjs) and his cronies a
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by ffn 11y ago
>If one prefers A over B when comparing just A and B, then one should also prefer A over B when an additional option C is offered That assumption seems fishy to me if in a real life application, in particular because we assume offering n
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by ffn 11y ago
I agree that it's fun to imagine, but the realities of longevity is probably a lot more prosaic. Granted Jeanna Clement can spoke for 100 years and be fine, but that doesn't mean the rest of us won't get lung cancer 10 years
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by ffn 11y ago
Holy shit, tip number 5, "Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.", is so absolutely true here in the world of software development (replace charac

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