masukomi

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by masukomi 7y ago
sure, if you're going to be lazy and only do one do text. HOWEVER advocating for the lazy path amongst fellow practitioners is not a great strategy to promote quality output. Documentation is hard. Good documentation is harder. There a
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by masukomi 7y ago
in addition to how difficult costing cloud services is, what if you get it perfect but underestimate the success of your product? great, "it would have been good except we were too popular" do you then cut off your popular product
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by masukomi 7y ago
it's been a successful language because the web is effing amazing and it's literally your only choice if you want any functionality in a web page. If the original Scheme-like plan for JS had of been used then you'd be saying
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by masukomi 7y ago
i think you may have just broken sourceforge with this link... > SourceForge project websites are currently experiencing abnormally high levels of traffic. Our support staff has been notified. Please check back in a few minutes. We thank
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by masukomi 7y ago
got any links about this? I'm not sure what the right search incantation is. Too much talk in Racket about new / experimental syntax. ;)
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by masukomi 7y ago
speaking as someone who's interviewed a LOT of bootcamp "graduates" i'd also say it's a terrible waste of money and human resources. Let the bootcamps do it. There are way to many people who go through them who aren
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by masukomi 7y ago
check out the numbers on SQLite. It's incredibly fast and beats PostgreSQL on a number of benchmarks.
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by masukomi 7y ago
and then it takes over, does whatever it wants, and now you've got IE6 again. open source is our insurance policy against the next IE6. One may come again, but we can head it off at the pass before it dominates the market.
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by masukomi 7y ago
never make false deadlines. If you do you may get called on it. "oh, sorry. We can't get back to you by ____. Good luck with the other position." you can't say "oh actually there aren't other offers i was lying
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by masukomi 7y ago
_most_ developers live where their companies are and _most_ software companies are in big cities and _most_ big cities in 1st world countries are somewhere on the continuum of expensive to freaking expensive unless you want to live in the s
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by masukomi 7y ago
feedback: overall i like what you're building. I like that you've put personality into the marketing material, but i think you've pushed that a bit too far. It feels hostile towards other services. While i don't disagree
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by masukomi 7y ago
Am i right in thinking this thing is NOT open source? With SO many great open source tools that do this why would i choose a proprietary one that may go away at any point?
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by masukomi 7y ago
Commonmark wasn't trying to be a "useful" or "good" version of Markdown. Commonmark was trying to nail down the specification of a _particular existing version_ of Markdown because devs weren't handling the edg
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by masukomi 7y ago
wow. thanks for that. It's _really_ impressive.
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by masukomi 7y ago
to be clear "+" addresses aren't a Gmail thing. they work on all mail servers. they're part of the spec for how you define an email address. Any server that doesn't support them is, by definition, broken. http:&#x2
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by masukomi 7y ago
i agree but would add that there are a number of reasons why your browser as the client is a better long term strategy that minimizes maintenance. Unless you want a really generic geeky bare-bones UI. Native UI toolkits don't have a lo
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by masukomi 7y ago
what do you do when you've saturated the market? one-time fee only works if you have a constant stream of new customers into your niche that is sufficient to pay your salary. with upgrades or subscriptions you can have a group of users
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by masukomi 7y ago
> Maintaining a self-hosted solution is an enormous cost, which most people forget about. You need to create, document, maintain and support an entirely different version of your software (single-user, no billing/invoicing, differen
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by masukomi 7y ago
> But no user testing? Not changing the design? We just recently drastically changed the design of a new product we are developing because it failed initial user testing (with clients of us who came in for user testing using a paper prot
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by masukomi 7y ago
SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)[1] has solved all of these problems except the encryption of data using the same key forever. The apps all currently use one identity per device but it's not actually hard to use the same identity on two device
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by masukomi 7y ago
I don't get it. It's a markdown editor, of which there are a bajillion. I don't see anything that's obviously resume specific about it besides the stuff you happened to type into it. what am i missing?
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by masukomi 7y ago
what does it DO? Like... you can't tell unless you sign up. All i know is that it generates SVGs and somehow this is related to creating prototypes.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Thanks, Visually nomnoml is pretty sweet. That being said, syntax-wise the class diagrams from Mermaid seem way easier to read.
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by masukomi 7y ago
I love monodraw, but i don't know if it counts as "modern looking" Yes, the rendered versions of the output look reasonably good, but there are still some rough edges, like trying to create a "diamond" shape to put
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by masukomi 7y ago
OmniGraffle is freaking amazing. If you're on a mac then RUN (don't walk) to grab a copy and try it out. it's also SO much more than just UML. I have found SO many uses for it.
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by masukomi 7y ago
total load of FUD. you prevent apps from using private APIs because those APIs aren't guaranteed be around tomorrow and you don't want to have to maintain internal mechanisms that aren't stable or robust enough to have outsid
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by masukomi 7y ago
are you a touch typist? because lifting your hand, and repositioning it onto a grid of undifferentiated keys is MUCH harder when you can't feel the shape of the inverted T and can't see it (because you're not looking at the k
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by masukomi 7y ago
i think you're absolutely in violation of > Policy #: III.F.1.a (YouTube Look and Feel) API Client must not change or interfere with user interfaces in YouTube Applications unless you have obtained YouTube's prior written appro
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by masukomi 7y ago
While it may be true that "95% of real business problems are not simple CRUD apps" it doesn't mean that 95% of webapps can't be implemented _well_ as CRUD apps. I've been doing this for a long time. The Vast VAST ma
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by masukomi 7y ago
while i absolutely agree about that being a good stack, the ask was for SIMPLE * Sinatra, is orders of magnitude simpler than Rails * The command line interface of MySQL is orders of magnitude simpler than PostgreSQL (think "SHOW TABLE

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