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by jpochtar 8y ago
This move will keep more tech in SF and not in NYC, beyond just Amazon. For every Amazon we lose, we lose 50 startups to the valley. I can't believe NY politicians let this happen.
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by jpochtar 8y ago
this comment, alone, made it all worth it :)
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by jpochtar 8y ago
As a new web developer: what can I do once I know how to config these things, that I don’t get as part of CRA?
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by jpochtar 8y ago
The Program Counter (PC) register is some of our most important state! Ever since Gotos were considered harmful, we've forgotten that it's just another register.
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by jpochtar 8y ago
In about 5 years, we're all going to be on inline styles in JSX (or equivalent), flabbergasted that we ever thought CSS was a good idea. Calling it now.
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Once you’ve learned programming, this book is maybe the perfect survey course to understand systems. It gave me a framework for understanding all the layers from CPU to ReactJS that 4+ years of college never could so concisely
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Can you help me understand the pullqoute? I didn’t understand what he’s talking about at all. Is it about not having to recompile?
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by jpochtar 8y ago
SF is just worse at running itself than NY, Tokyo, and every other major city in the world. If we could accept that, we could could learn from and copy them to fix the city. YIMBY is too incremental— turn SoMa into mini-Manhattan to jump S
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Most of the time we use json+http, we need an RPC mechanism, but are afraid to say it because the web people were duped into thinking REST is good.
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by jpochtar 8y ago
It's an incentives problem. We could solve it if we checked performance like we do unit tests, and held developers accountable to a literal performance budget set by the business. > Few teams I’ve encountered have actionable metrics
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by jpochtar 8y ago
why not just function baz(modifier) { let foo = do_a(); let bar = modifier(foo); return do_b(bar); } Example 1: baz((foo) => foo); Example 2: baz((foo) => do_z(foo)); Example 3: baz((foo) =&
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Pagedraw's working on it! First a UI builder where you draw in position:absolute and get clean flexbox React out, later an integrated platform with answers all the way to the backend
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Vue seems to have a lower learning curve for people with a background in webdev, because it's more relatable to the old school way of doing things. React seems better coming from other areas of programming, especially functional. Rea
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by jpochtar 8y ago
If your designers aren't programming, they probably don't need to write HTML/CSS either. Full disclosure: I'm a founder of Pagedraw, which lets designers make UIs as easily as they draw them in a design tool, but are pro
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by jpochtar 8y ago
yes, this is exactly what I meant. Thank you!
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Do note that you can use React with much less boilerplate! The nice thing about React is it's very easy to write abstractions on top of it, since it's just a small JS library. For example, instead of writing value/onChange&
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by jpochtar 8y ago
I shouldn't have used the word 'certified'— I just meant the package version should have an associated commit hash. There has to be a relationship between the hash and the published code in some way, unlike eg. the "hom
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Removing eval wouldn't help— you could always just write a tiny interpreter to do the same thing. This is a problem in any Turing complete programming language (with Reflection), although JS makes it easier.
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Each version of an npm package needs a certified git commit hash. Otherwise when vetting an npm package, you have no idea if the code you're reading on Github is actually what you're going to download or not. In scenarios like th
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by jpochtar 8y ago
Not trying to be snarky but... how is it cheaper to hire a freelance IT person to set up something for you, and help you when it breaks/changes, than $7/mo for Heroku?
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by jpochtar 8y ago
We're trying to solve exactly this problem with Pagedraw! Check out https://pagedraw.io/
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by jpochtar 8y ago
I believe the code presented would have benefited from a lambda-based API approach instead of an object-oriented one. In Javascript: // global, since the cached values were apparently global in the original let cache = {};
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by jpochtar 8y ago
It turns out it's really hard to get a UI Builder right with HTML/CSS. In particular, layout is tricky because DOM trees imply both bottom-up and top-down constraints. For example, text getting longer pushes down content beneath
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by jpochtar 9y ago
pagedraw.io is working on fixing html/css(/but not js) in a web browser by giving programmers a better tool, and compiling into html/css standards (since we're stuck with them)
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by jpochtar 9y ago
https://pagedraw.io/ — keeps me from ever having to write HTML and CSS for web apps again. Enables solo developers to do more by letting us design UIs in a visual tool and not have to re-code them later. Enables developer
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by jpochtar 9y ago
This is really amazing for the design tooling ecosystem. Sketch opened their file format, but Figma's APIs are actually a pleasure to work with. It was super easy for us to add a Figma importing to our design-to-React platform (Paged
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Pagedraw: automate Figma to React designer handoff(medium.com)
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by jpochtar 9y ago
Sales can use feature flags to enable secret features for a customer they’re talking to. For example to demo a not-yet-shipped feature. They can use a feature flag to mark a customer as “enterprise” so they get a different version of the p
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by jpochtar 9y ago
Have you checked out StackBlitz ( https://stackblitz.com/ )? They can get you a full, sharable React or Angular environment in one click. Full disclaimer, we're partnering with them to bring you some of Pagedraw, but I
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by jpochtar 9y ago
Love the recursive self-hosting! Where can I read more?

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