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by jpatte 12y ago
The third paragraph "Pourquoi est-ce plus compliqué que ce que l'on pense ?" ("Why is it more complicated than what you think?") refers to retroactivity of the law [1], claiming that you might have troubles later fo
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by jpatte 12y ago
We had a very similar experience with FeatureMap. Started off with RavenDB, got tired of all sorts of technical problems (migrations, map/reduce, transactions, deadlocks, ...), quickly rewrote the data layer to use good ol' Entity
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by jpatte 12y ago
That might be ok for technical people who are used to this kind of "machine speak", but for end users it's often not acceptable. Consider the difference between: Purchased credits: %d. Remaining credits: %d. Buy
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by jpatte 12y ago
There's even a typo in the first example: <html:a href="/cats">Cats</a> <html:a href="/dogs">Dogs</a> <html:a href="/rain">Rain</a>
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by jpatte 12y ago
> For any nullable, I can use a nullableVar.DefaultTo(defaultValue) to convert it to a non-nullable primitive type. What would be the difference with "nullableVar ?? defaultValue" ?
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by jpatte 12y ago
The same result could be achieved by introducing a smaller change to the language that doesn't completely redefine the way existing functions are evaluated. By using some specific signature (like adding a keyword to the first argument
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by jpatte 12y ago
Seems like Ubisoft is managing their employees just like every French consulting company is managing its consultants between projects. Why is it considered unorthodox? Is it because Ubisoft is a game editor and other editors never do that,
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by jpatte 12y ago
We use our own product FeatureMap [ https://www.featuremap.co ] to define the scope and track the progress of, well, FeatureMap. :) It's more oriented towards Story Mapping than towards Kanban but you certainly can manage Scr
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by jpatte 12y ago
As the border between mobile/portable devices and dektops/workstations keeps getting blurrier, this "on mobile" concept will probably just lose any sense in the near future.
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by jpatte 12y ago
"Fail fast, fail early, fail often!” they all chant, trying to put a positive spin on the most excruciating pain any founder could experience." Is it just an impression, or did she get this sentence the wrong way? The whole poin
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by jpatte 12y ago
Why would you want to put anything other than a string in a list of strings ? That's just looking for trouble IMHO.
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by jpatte 13y ago
Most programmers these days are quite astonished that anyone would actually still use Emacs. If they realized how much functionality it has, and how powerful its extensibility model is, they'd be ten times as astonished. It's got
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by jpatte 13y ago
The reading experience would have been even better in other languages if the translations weren't so bad. Not sure if it is the right place to put it, but here is a much better French translation for the demo: Bienvenue dans votre pre
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by jpatte 13y ago
As rymohr indicated, the author of the code given as example is actually the author of the article himself: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/commit/3d92f20966aa02dee82... Which means the OP genuinely thinks
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by jpatte 13y ago
From the article: A project’s history is its most valuable documentation. (...) The quality of this documentation, however, relies heavily on the diligence of the people involved while writing commit messages. Requiring such diligence w
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by jpatte 13y ago
The premise of the article is that you happen to stumble upon a messy piece of code and that the explanations related to it might be located into the source history. Yet the only reason why these explanations would actually be there is th
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by jpatte 13y ago
For 2014 I decided to build an open-source remake of Sid Meier's game Colonization (1994), in HTML5 (canvas) + TypeScript, with a special twist. :) I'll be blogging about it on GitHub.
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by jpatte 13y ago
But he is actually right: when dealing with obscure implementation details, the best thing to do is to encapsulate it properly, the minimum is to comment it clearly, and ideally detailed explanations should be written in the commit message.
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by jpatte 13y ago
According to your logic, the author of this code should write a detailed explanation in the commit message, except he probably won't. Shame isn't it?
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by jpatte 13y ago
Abstractions are meant to, well, abstract an implementation. You might very well want to abstract a native operation for a bunch of different reasons. You don't need to, but maybe you should. For example, $(el).hide() is qui
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by jpatte 13y ago
Or Win-X + letter on 8/8.1. For example opening the Disk Manager is Win-X + k, Event Viewer is Win-X + v etc.
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by jpatte 13y ago
What advanced features from Windows 7 would you miss on Windows 8.1? Because they are most likely still there.
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by jpatte 13y ago
It actually came out from a French (yes, them again) game studio before being opened to the community. ;) http://motion-twin.com/
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by jpatte 13y ago
It's not really about a choice of language. My point is that if Om claims to be superior to other JS MVC frameworks - as it is presented as "the future of MVC frameworks" - it needs to be good (if not superior) in many aspect
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by jpatte 13y ago
It may be because I'm not familiar with ClojureScript's syntax, but the whole sample application code seems like a real mess to me. It's full of boilerplate code and it is happily mixing application logic with DOM rendering.
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by jpatte 13y ago
As of this writing, Internet Explorer 11 is code-named Chrome and is being mirrored for download by Google at http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/ . Can't tell if the OP act
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by jpatte 13y ago
http://www.featuremap.co (although it's actually written in TypeScript :)) We make extensive use of Knockout and Backbone; the backend is ASP.NET MVC4/WebAPI.
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by jpatte 13y ago
I use HN as a kick in the butt. Whenever I feel down or demotivated I just browse to HN's home page, see what amazing work is being done in the tech world while I'm just sitting there, remember that I want to be a part of it, and
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Show HN: FeatureMap - Story Mapping meets Agile Management(featuremap.co)
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by jpatte 13y ago
Worst. Answer. Ever.

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