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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the whiteboard coding(blog.indextank.com)
3 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Will look into it in detail shortly, but would it make more sense to treat the links I upvote as the ones I "liked" rather than the ones I open? Or, is this how it already works?
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by karterk 15y ago
Slightly tangential to the post, but Mocha produces really awesome test coverage report too: http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/18175682663/mocha-test-coverag...
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Whether it's one hundred or one billion users, we should all recognize success(the-pastry-box-project.net)
1 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Actually, node is also a web framework. It's just not a web framework to build CRUD apps like Rails is tailored for. So, it all depends on how you define what web is.
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by karterk 15y ago
As far as Node goes, there is still no "holy grail" framework that can help one build a web app seamlessly across both client and server side. The momentum will definitely shift heavily towards Node if and when that happens. Right now, ther
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A peek at the all new Basecamp calendar(37signals.com)
35 points by karterk 15y ago|6 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
I think what you are trying to say invariably translates to people learning to enjoy the process and journey rather than the destination. You have to do things because you really like doing them and hence you somewhat abstract yourself away
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by karterk 15y ago
There is a better way to do the mixins in JS. See this awesome post by Angus Croll: http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/a-fresh-loo... `this` in JS generally incurs a lot of wrath, but this is one cool hack with `this`.
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by karterk 15y ago
Yes, that's actually a very powerful "feature". I tried that approach for a simple app I wrote: http://scribble.wreally.com/ It works totally offline, and if and when you are ready to sync, it takes the locally stored stuff online. For bo
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Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die(codinghorror.com)
219 points by karterk 15y ago|85 comments
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Javascript, node.js and for loops(blog.mixu.net)
3 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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If I were an architect(exampler.com)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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Measure Anything, Measure Everything(codeascraft.etsy.com)
3 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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Mobile users don’t do that(stephanierieger.com)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Minor nitpick - FF has had let scoping for a long time. WeakMap has been around since FF 6[1]. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
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by karterk 15y ago
I don't really know his intentions. It might just have been a way to learn adwords. From Google's point of view, if he really did learn and get good results, then it's likely he will use adwords for another project, and this time paying out
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by karterk 15y ago
To me, programming has always been about building stuff. This rule governs all decisions I make with respect to software. Programming language? Pick what's suited to the problem. Database? Pick what will be elegant to model your problem. A
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Real men don't attack straw men (2007)(lwn.net)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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Rules of a Zen programmer(grobmeier.de)
264 points by karterk 15y ago|42 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
> but code written in CoffeeScript is easier to read than code written in JavaScript. To be fair, that's a personal preference as well. For e.g. some people prefer reading code with symbols (&&, ||) than English keywords (and, o
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GetUserMedia - access a user’s camera and microphone via JavaScript(html5doctor.com)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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Plans for Isolates in Node.js dropped(groups.google.com)
2 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
The disruption is not about whether the paradigm is old or new. The fact is - today if you are building a small app and need some form of real-time features, your best bet is Node.js. Right from etherpad lite to socket.io you have the tools
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by karterk 15y ago
Yes, I am aware of requirejs. I was talking about native module support.
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by karterk 15y ago
Ok, as someone who has been actually building apps on Node for about 1 year AND working with a largish Scala codebase for the last six months: > Not to mention the fact that its balls-ass slower than some straight un-optimized Scala. I
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by karterk 15y ago
I can see where you are coming from, but ruling something out because another thing is doing it's job (in your opinion) is parochial. Unless you try new things out, you can never improve your existing workflow. You don't know what you don't
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Thoughts on Socket.IO(kishorelive.com)
1 points by karterk 15y ago|0 comments
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by karterk 15y ago
Very curious - are they actually effective? Do people use them? What's the "click-through" rate like?
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by karterk 15y ago
Launch is not an event, it's a process. One of the apps that I wrote for fun, which I did not even try to market or promote randomly got picked up by a medium sized blog and brings a steady stream of visitors now. Of course, it will be grea

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