mikermcneil

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by mikermcneil 11y ago
Never fear, our new project compiles Sails.js apps-- the core of what we're trying to solve is exactly that (the transition between using a more heavy-handed framework, and being able to customize/optimize/understand minutia
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by mikermcneil 11y ago
Definitely check out https://github.com/balderdashy/activity-overlord-2-preview
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Well done! I see requests for this sort of seed project constantly in IRC and GitHub issues.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
awesome
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
that's true-- for these guys it actually makes sense though based on what they're doing IMO
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
yeah that's truly incredible. If I'd spent the first two years of my university education learning from a tool like Platzi, I'd be in an incredible place. Can't wait for @freddier to redo the badass "intro to prog
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
CodeAcademy is a great way to build up some coding chops, but it doesn't give you the confidence that you'd get from hearing personal advice from the creator of a technology. CodeAcademy is GarageBand, Platzi is MTV
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Sorry if it's boring :( But I think it may be because the experience was such a surprise due to both the stats involved and the quality of the early adopters that came from Product Hunt. I hadn't even heard of the site before I
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Launching a Y Combinator-backed product(michaelmcneil.com)
6 points by mikermcneil 12y ago|3 comments
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but I must respectfully disagree. However I'll say one more thing in defense of our users: modern front-end developers do data manipulation all the time. The data munging that's happenin
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
We chose Sails because we built it :)
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Cool idea, will check it out!
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Free for open source- still working out pricing for private projects, but will be affordable for indie devs. Basically it will be something I could have afforded back in 2010 when I was in school.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Washing clothes is not hard, but yet we still buy expensive washing machines to save us time. Please take a closer look- would love to hear your feedback after trying the platform out.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
After building one of the largest backend frameworks for Node.js I completely understand where you're coming from. It's taken us a very long time to solve this problem, and I can say with complete intellectual honesty that I belie
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Definitely don't burn any money until you try the thing out :)
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Deployment system relies on sails deploy- Microsoft actually just contributed an open source deploy strategy for azure and Heroku expressed interest in contributing to theirs. AWS has also been very helpful. Will keep everyone updated as th
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Great question! Open source drag and drop functionality currently exists for things like sending emails (via mailgun or mandrill) payments (via stripe) sending SMS (via Twilio) social auth (via twitter, Facebook, or github) password encrypt
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Thanks for your patience! Working on it as fast as we can.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Machines can be triggered via kue, cron, or any other process of your choice (since they're effectively just augmented JavaScript functions)
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
You're absolutely right. Which is why we should make the backend even easier :)
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Agreed- the frontend is where the magic really happens. Our goal is to arm developers like us with a clean, transparent, and secure abstraction layer so we can focus on building awesome user experiences.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Great question :) code is recompiled in realtime as a node app you can deploy anywhere.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
if it's something higher level it's probably clay.io- haven't seen that sort of performance from anything else
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Back that up, please.
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Great point- I should change my tumblr theme
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Unfortunately, while Haskell monads can handle multi-exit logic, it is not enforced as a built-in primitive. I've read and re-read the first page of Google results about monads at least ten times, and I never really "got" i
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Frankly I just want to do it in JavaScript-- not because it's good, but because it's "good enough". Know what I mean?
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Outcome-Oriented Programming(michaelmcneil.com)
19 points by mikermcneil 12y ago|16 comments
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by mikermcneil 12y ago
Same here. Postman is the shit.

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