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by ffn 11y ago
Hey OP, have you tried the other "future" languages like go or Elixir? If so, how does it compare with your experiences in rust?
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by ffn 11y ago
var [wtf] = NaN; console.log(wtf); // undefined I don't know about you, but this sensibly gives a TypeError when I did it in my console on Firefox 38. Please let this article be more dated than my firefox browser, because mak
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by ffn 11y ago
Yeah, I was really interested too. From what I can get from playing around in the console, they (probably jashkenas and his cronies) they're using d3 to do the rendering. Since d3 has convenient map / filter / reduce chains,
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by ffn 11y ago
If we can finally cure aging, then, at long last, we will finally be able feasibly tackle inter-galatic travel and planet-level terraforming.
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by ffn 11y ago
Really cool idea, especially if you guys are going to build github for SVGs... but it looks like you guys have a bug in your process. Consider the workflow I attempted to do: 1. sign up 2. go through the little tutorial 3. get prompted to n
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by ffn 11y ago
Yes, but these bears have very cleverly evolved the ability to seem irresistibly cute to the current master species of this planet. From personal observations, they seem to emit some sort of aura that induce people (in particular post-puber
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by ffn 11y ago
Cool service, OP, where/how are you hosting this, btw? I ask because some years ago I built a ruby-based service very much like it for personal use, but the monthly aws costs started getting to me (it was costing me about $40 a month t
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by ffn 11y ago
Looks great, I can't wait for 2.0... In case anyone from the core team is looking through these comments, why did you guys change up Ember's initializer API? I mean even new addon projects freshly generated by ember-cli are now hi
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by ffn 11y ago
Coffeescript is a dialect for (mostly) people who don't like brackets (also cool but controversial features like null swallowing with ?, implicit function calls, etc.), while babel is a transpiler to take es6 down to es5. Saying one is
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by ffn 11y ago
The author makes some good points about hiring and working, but what's with this fixation on diversity? If you're a small start up (i.e. 5 or 10 people in his words), your goal should be to build a product and get it to market. An
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by ffn 11y ago
Can someone please explain why one prefers unit testing to integration / acceptance testing when you're a seed stage company? I mean, your primary objective as an early stage company should be getting an operational product out to
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by ffn 11y ago
Please don't generalize one dude's experience / article to all of America's universities. Plenty of professors across plenty of fields enjoy "triggering" student's visceral reactions to shocking events, ne
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by ffn 11y ago
Hiring managers, big companies, and schools aside, how do you tell for yourself if you yourself are a good engineer or not? For all the metrics such as load times, conversion rates, income, bounces, etc. to measure our machines, what metric
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by ffn 11y ago
[feature request] What about the inability to selectively serialize memory and put it into sperm / egg? I mean, I get human long term memory is probably relatively new and gene serialization is as old as time, but it would be incredibl
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by ffn 11y ago
The dude is 71 years old according to the article, it could be a negotiation tactic, but more likely it's just retirement.
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by ffn 11y ago
Great talk OP, phoenix will probably become my go to alternative to my current hybrid rails+nodejs stack as I learn more about Elixir. But because Elixir (and Phoenix) is still rapidly changing, I find tons of stuff I've written even s
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by ffn 11y ago
I think my mileage experience with uberman is on the crappy end. I did it for 2 weeks, and toward the end, I felt I was unable to focus on anything for more than 30 seconds, and ultimately had to stop when I started seeing blood in the toil
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by ffn 11y ago
Yes, totally this. Moreover, I'd like to add anonymously down-voting / reporting someone's opinion just because it's not yours is just as mean-spirited as calling someone names. Every internet message board has its own c
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by ffn 11y ago
Yes, if your goal is to get into YC, but I would argue that, as a startup founder, your goal should be building your process and getting it to market. YC, for all positive hype they get, will not help you build your product, design your pro
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by ffn 11y ago
I like how the first three or so anti-patterns are in the exact opposite direction as the last three or so. The art of being a programmer is literally "don't waste time over-thinking things, but also don't ship under-thought
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by ffn 11y ago
The term feminisation as used in the article title is actually not what you think it is. I'm not in your head, but I would guess you're associating feminisation with being nicer, less aggressive, less violent, less hateful, more l
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by ffn 11y ago
Whoa, the closure-based circular reference memory leak thing, is that just an IE issue or is that a language level (anti) feature? I need to know because I've very often done something like: el$ = $('#whatever'); el$.click( f
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by ffn 11y ago
This is literally throwing the baby out with the bath water. If we couldn't depend on other products to make our own product, then the computer industry is pretty much dead and we'll all have to go back to farming the land (and, i
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by ffn 11y ago
I'm not married, but I take dance lessons at a local community college. There are literally tons of young girls there (especially if you can man-up and do ballet). And, because it's a community college, they're generally in t
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by ffn 11y ago
Because folks feel there is a need for them, and it's a really good way to get one's feet wet in the compiler pound. Besides, a programming language (dialect) is to a programmer what different size wenches, pipes, or hoes are to a
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by ffn 11y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find work to only suck when there is a long commute time and it's 2015 and our stupid company is still running Ruby 1.8 on rails 2.3, there is no automated testing, the javascript is an unreadable pile or
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by ffn 11y ago
>Good programming is an art Exactly this (though OP's article touches on this too). All the BS about category theory, lambdas calculus, and "logic" aside, DHH was absolutely right when he said building large software syste
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by ffn 11y ago
So what about when you're just starting out, OP? When you haven't quite reached the Torvaldian heights of subject expertise in a niche, but you are somewhat competent with everything. What's the best strategy for finding &#x2
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by ffn 11y ago
Yes, absolutely this. And I'd like to add that one should also practice sickness prevention in addition to health problem fixing. Just like you'd like to avoid writing imperative spaghetti code in programming, it's also a goo
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by ffn 11y ago
Actually, the finance sector has this figured out better than most other sectors imo (just consider how much bonus they pay even their lowly analysts after working them to death). A good boss / company there ought to be more about earn

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