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by ian1321 2y ago
You can use [ratchet]( https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet ) to manage your GH action pointers.
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by ian1321 2y ago
When I was a CS undergrad, I used to love to write string libraries.
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by ian1321 5y ago
The amazing part to me is that SPAs are so much harder to do right compared to old-school server-side rendered HTML. One could be forgiven if they think a "simple" SPA is a good starter project, but they'd be very wrong. Asyn
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by ian1321 7y ago
Yeah. I feel like this is some sort of social experiment.
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by ian1321 7y ago
Java is statically typed. Clojure is not. To me, this is the biggest difference and the reason to choose Java.
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by ian1321 8y ago
As an expat living in Zurich, I can say that it is difficult to explain to American's what they're missing.
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by ian1321 8y ago
You are correct from one point of view. But, the point I was making was that the class definitions for bg color can be contained within a single file in your application. Using `style` is completely different in that anything is possible. T
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by ian1321 8y ago
There's a big difference between class="u-bg-red" and style="background: red;". The big difference being that the class make it so that it is first-class application idea. And I think that may be one of the larger p
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by ian1321 8y ago
I used this technique in my previous startup. I even had shell scripts that generated my LESS files. One of the driving philosophies was that when one saw a CSS class, they should easily be able to find it's definition in the source. A
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by ian1321 8y ago
I generally agree with all of this.
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by ian1321 8y ago
As a software engineer, you should be building a platform on which the product can exist. I rarely, if ever see this done. Probably because it takes a big risk as an engineer to actually do it.
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by ian1321 8y ago
I don't have a problem with future-proofing. I do have a problem with half-solutions (which is mainly what I see in the industry). E.g. if you need to run some code before or after a transaction, make a generic way to make this happen.
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by ian1321 8y ago
Honest question. What is so annoying about that code? It's handling (in an application-specific manner) the special case of dividing by zero (which the `/` operator doesn't handle). I'm not sure of any other way to handl
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by ian1321 8y ago
I know nothing about pony, but if it does have an optional type, this would be a much better choice. You lose information by returning 0. Returning "none" would keep the information that you tried to divide by 0. Of course, this m
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by ian1321 8y ago
I've lived in Zurich for two years now. It would be very difficult to explain to an American who only lives in America how nice real public transit is. Or a good education system. Or the ability to let your kids walk 500m to a park on
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by ian1321 8y ago
I live in Zürich and just met a gentleman who goes to Sweden and Russia every winter to skate on frozen lakes. I had never heard of this, but was fascinated by his videos, pictures, and stories.
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by ian1321 8y ago
I've worked at a couple of the top tech companies and have been co-founder of a startup with a successful exit. Pros: * Low stress. I find the most stressful thing at work is trying to figure out what my boss wants. (Small) Startups ar
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by ian1321 8y ago
Tough to answer w/o more info. FWIW, I've used Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch and have ended up settling on Lucene being the best interface for me.
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by ian1321 8y ago
This seems pretty simple to me. You can either use null, and force checks before any reference to a nullable value (of course, these checks are usually skipped). Or, you can not use null and use something like Option/Maybe to encode a
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by ian1321 8y ago
Do you still feel the same way if you consider the option type a container type.
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Ask HN: Easiest way to process payments (starting witho a business entity)
2 points by ian1321 8y ago|1 comments