mncaudill

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by mncaudill 17y ago
How important are the UI design skills? I can build about anything you could imagine, but, probably like most engineers, my design skills leave something to be desired.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I just realized that my email address wasn't public and only my personal website was. My email address is nolan at nolancaudill.com. Sorry about that and please email away!
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Application in! And congratulations to you on your new position.
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Ask HN: Who's hiring?
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by mncaudill 17y ago
In my experience, local news sources always list the ages, and often even list the home addresses of the people involved in a car accident.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
That's true for people that don't need alternate browsers. It's like, "why build wheelchair ramps outside of businesses when 99.99% of people are able to walk up steps?" http://www.section508.gov/
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by mncaudill 17y ago
That would work, but with the downside of lowering the accessibility of your site. Not everyone has JavaScript enabled, and so dynamic insertion of text wouldn't be accommodating to them.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Wow, a little harsh for a funny little app, don't you think?
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I think it is worse than that. I typed in "facebook login" clicked the first link (which wasn't RWW at the time) and here's what I got: http://tinyurl.com/ylapbnu 17 comments and not a Facebook logo in sight.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Exactly -- commonly called selection bias.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
1690?
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I'd say PHP is more sane from a business and coding standpoint. Need to find a PHP developer? No problem. Want a PHP IDE? No problem. A large community to handle bugs and any future development? Yes. It's obvious that wasabi has been good t
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Speaking for myself, yes and yes. It's a fairly interesting view from someone just starting out in a company that has an almost mystical appeal.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Just resent to the email address you have listed on your HN profile. Thanks!
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by mncaudill 17y ago
tptacek, I wrote you an email a few days ago about a similar topic. Did you receive it?
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I stand corrected. The ads are still strange though.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I'm not sure that this is a WordPress/Automattic release. I couldn't find any indication of who actually is behind this, and the annoying hover ads are a weird touch.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
What I'm saying is that if "else" and "elseif" were both in the grammar (and "elsif" didn't exist), you could have typed "else if" when you meant to type "elseif" and vice-versa and the mistake could easily be overlooked as your code would
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Your Ruby example is to help the developer. Let's say you are skimming your code. Are you going to quickly and easily see the difference between "elseif" and "else if"? Creating a new word, while superficially unwieldly, keeps you from wast
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by mncaudill 17y ago
The big point of emphasis for me from your post was that, usually, the front-end is the performance sink. A lot of web developers don't seem to get that, and will spend their time optimizing PHP loops (assuming they are not hitting the disk
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by mncaudill 17y ago
It's legacy in the sense that there is a piece of software called "fmt," but I think this is the Go guys basically saying, "Here's our version of that."
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I'd say download Firebug, YSlow, and Google's PageSpeed and let that be your guide, as these suggestions are helpful, but just the tip of the iceberg. A YSlow feature that is new (at least to me) is its JavaScript tab. It's not related to p
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by mncaudill 17y ago
His blog gets linked to a lot, for better or worse. That's a blow.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
It seems you know how to program and how the web works, but want to know how it all fits together (testing, deployment, scaling etc). I think you will find Jacob Kaplan-Moss's presentation of all the pieces of building a web application. It
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Netflix did an awesome presentation on front-end performance and put up the full slides here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14205366/High-Performance-Web-Page... . One of the slides has their code-ready Apache configuration for gzip.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
On point 11, the language has closures.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
It keeps the grammar simple, for one.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Not sure, but it might be that as a public company, they have to release the price as it is public information anyway.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
I didn't offer my opinion one way or the other. I was summarizing Jacob's point for the person I replied to that subtly missed it.
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by mncaudill 17y ago
Jacob didn't bring money into the equation. His point was that the quality of open-source software tends to go up, while major closed-source projects' declines. Profit margin and quality don't always correlate, especially in software.

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