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by joneil 9y ago
I'm the same. Been using since Phoenix 0.3 and am stoked about these changes, and the thought that Rust, and the major perf and safety improvements that come with it, are beginning to find their way into Gecko. Amazing work from a te
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by joneil 9y ago
This is an interesting way to encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia. The "get out and explore your city" motivation reminds me of Pokemon Go... but this time you're sharing what you find with the world via Wikipedia. I
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500 Startups Is Coming “Down Under” with LaunchVic Partnership(500.co)
2 points by joneil 10y ago|0 comments
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by joneil 10y ago
I just confirmed this is working with iiNet (2nd or 3rd biggest broadband provider in Aus). The block screen looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/Tuz7KrZ.jpg So it is being blocked at ISP level, and it's up to them how
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by joneil 10y ago
Does Semver's spec take into account integer overflows?
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by joneil 10y ago
The title "Angular 4 will be the next version of Angular" had me ready to believe they were announcing another breaking change as big as Angular 1 -> Angular 2. (The blog post's title is "Ok... let me explain: it&#x2
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by joneil 10y ago
I also loved his follow up book, "Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things". One of the best design books I've ever read.
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by joneil 10y ago
Really similar to http://pledge1percent.org/ (with Marc Benioff of Salesforce and Scott Farquhar of Atlassian backing it). As well as pledging a percentage of your equity, they're also pushing making room to donate 1%
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by joneil 10y ago
> for the concept of religion to remain a useful cross-cultural category it must be shorn of its Abrahamic assumptions and understood to refer to a range of concepts and traditions that not only cluster around supernatural beliefs, but a
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by joneil 10y ago
You are right that the difference is syntax, but the thing is, JS syntax will always be different from Haxe syntax. You'll never be able to use "jQuery.js" as valid Haxe code, but it is valid TypeScript code. There might be s
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by joneil 10y ago
It is easy enough to expose your classes and types from Haxe into the global namespace [0]. And it's easy enough to require() external JS code and use it seamlessly in your Haxe code. What's not easy yet is using Haxe to generate
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by joneil 10y ago
I've used Haxe in several production projects, and if I'm starting a new code-base from scratch I would pick it again. (I prefer type system, the cross-compilation options, and the meta programming) But if you're migrating an
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by joneil 10y ago
This reminds me of Derek Siver's post about memorizing a programming language[0]. If I start working in a new language or new framework full time, I find it really helpful to be deliberate about learning the things I'll use regula
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by joneil 10y ago
That made my day! Any programming language that has a Beer class ( http://nitlanguage.org/doc/stdlib/class_benitlux__src__benit... ) in the standard library must be doing something right. In fairness, dependency man
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by joneil 10y ago
I know the Haxe compiler is written in Ocaml, and that's a decent size open source project. I believe Facebook uses it for a number of their programming language related tools too. It seems to gave a sweet spot for writing language par
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by joneil 11y ago
I have reason to be optimistic. Over the last few weeks I've been attending "TeachMeets" [1], where teachers, in their own free time, meet up and share 7 minute talks about things they're trying in the classroom. The num
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by joneil 11y ago
I like this! I just signed up to take a look. These were my questions before signing up, so I guess you'd say it's feedback on your landing page: The website is really clear about how it works and looks for end users (and it look
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by joneil 11y ago
As somebody building my first react-native app at the moment, and planning to submit to the app store this week - thank you! 2 questions: 1. If you don't ask the user to update immediately after it is downloaded, when will the update a
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by joneil 11y ago
Wow that CloudFlare link is pretty damning. It's interesting contrasting that to both sides of politics trying to talk up the "innovation economy". To your credit, I'm in Melbourne too and have always thought Fastmail wa
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by joneil 11y ago
The post is from April, I'm reposting this because it's even more relevant now, with Australia's data retention due to take effect next week. As a founder of an Australian startup that facilitates communication it's inte
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FastMail is not required to implement the Australian metadata retention laws(blog.fastmail.com)
173 points by joneil 11y ago|59 comments
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by joneil 11y ago
The first result suggests announcing your move, and following through, gambling that most people think you are lying. In the last 10 years I've only ever played scissors, and I usually tell people ahead of time, and I still win about h
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by joneil 11y ago
Thanks for the links! Both really interesting projects. I think I'll try dpxdt out first.
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by joneil 11y ago
This looks pretty great. I'm guessing it's abandoned because they're using something better now? Does anyone have recommendations on a similar tool?
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by joneil 11y ago
For me personally, it's being able to focus on one language, and one standard library, and be able to re-use that skill-set everywhere. Whether I'm working on a server-side web app, a client side JS framework, a CLI tool or a mob
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by joneil 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I'm glad you see the value in it. It'll be free for schools worldwide. If we get enough interest in a particular region we'll look for a local organisation to partner with, like RAC has here in Aust
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by joneil 11y ago
Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate the detail you've given. I'll take some time to more carefully test the copy with people not already familiar with the product.
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by joneil 11y ago
Maybe the landing page isn't obvious enough. It's a 60 second update per class, not per child. There's the option for teachers to send an individual message to a specific family, which of course will take some more time, but
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Show HN: Today We Learned(todaywelearned.co)
16 points by joneil 11y ago|10 comments
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by joneil 12y ago
I think this is great - it's an attempted solution to an important, difficult problem, and they've got a number of interesting angles. In particular I think the branching of proposals, and hopefully being able to diff / blam

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