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by garthk 12y ago
I miss the automated refactoring I enjoyed writing a hundred thousand lines of C#, but it's all feels. I'll never miss the time I spent fighting the type system when it got in my way. Covariance and contravariance in generics, dou
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by garthk 12y ago
I worked for a clever, clever, stupid bastard like that once. He could have made legitimate millions but chose instead to cook the books, embezzle a few hundred thousand, set up patsy directors to take the blame, flee the state with his wif
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by garthk 12y ago
It's so common, large companies have entire teams dedicated to running Black Duck scans of their software to hunt down the paste-ins lest their software become open source or their patents cross-licensed by accident. That scenario migh
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by garthk 12y ago
I think you might be attributing stronger emotional intent than is present. They disagree about whether it's worth fundamentally changing npm's search method to avoid some ../.. paths in your argument to require. require asid
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by garthk 12y ago
All the pain and exhaustion is a sign you're fighting your way uphill instead of downhill. Node works brilliantly if you publish lots of tiny modules in public, @substack style. Unfortunately, some of us need to live uphill. I find the
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by garthk 12y ago
I'm not. To the degree famo.us is wonderful, its about page gives a misleadingly bad impression on my default mobile browser. On my landscape iPad Air, the hamburger menu on the first link flapped state during scrolling and selection.
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by garthk 13y ago
I'm glad to see the sparklines. I'm worried that the CPU sparklines in particular are likely to mislead due to the lack of a common vertical axis scale. I suspect Tufte might advise two graphs: one with a fixed 0…100 axis scale, o
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by garthk 13y ago
As an alternative to checking in your dependencies: have your build server 'npm install' your module for testing, then archive the directory tree. Deploy from the archive.
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by garthk 13y ago
Nice, and crazy comprehensive. I especially love redefining the wrapper using eval to match the signature of the original.
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by garthk 13y ago
Docker doesn't prevent use of ZFS. It's common and easy to mount your host FS into the container, putting mutating data where you can take full advantage of the superior architecture and ops capabilities of whichever FS you prefe