modarts

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by modarts 12y ago
I've wondered the same.. I actually subscribed to see what the hype was about; after using it for a few weeks I found it hard to justify the cost for such a simple and relatively featureless webapp
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by modarts 12y ago
Exactly, you don't want a guy with his kind of intellectual firepower headed to your competitor.
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by modarts 12y ago
I'm pretty sure this line of thinking led to us having horribly misguided features like ASI (automatic semicolon insertion) in javascript today
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by modarts 12y ago
Or just use some semblance of static typing and completely eliminate this class of bug.
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by modarts 12y ago
It's amazing the kind of crap you can produce in the enterprise space and get away with it to the tune of multi hundred million dollar acquisitions.
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by modarts 12y ago
Pretty sad to see HN become a parody of itself on a near constant basis: half of the comments attacked the article as "link bait" without even addressing the actual content. I've been watching OpenGov closely for the last ye
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by modarts 12y ago
How is that different from progressing as a software developer? I learned 90% of what I know today from hands on experimentarikn
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by modarts 12y ago
I think merge sort finally 'clicked' for me after watching that animation. This is an incredible learning tool.
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by modarts 12y ago
My completely unfounded theory: Clojurescript is starting to get a lot of traction because of David Nolen's Om which has caused a surge of interest based on its excellent performance characteristics and clean and easy to reason about
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by modarts 12y ago
This place does get an unfair level of criticism given the quality of the content and discussion around it.
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by modarts 12y ago
Couldn't help but think of this site while looking over the readme http://www.timecube.com/
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by modarts 12y ago
Where can I check out the macros for persistent data structures? That sounds awesome
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by modarts 12y ago
Hate to come off as a Luddite, but why should I care about this when we have a really nice solution in the form of CommonJS + Browserify?
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by modarts 12y ago
Why would I use bower over npm with browserify? Seems like a large step back.
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by modarts 12y ago
"Small number of dependencies" being the operative phrase. Try managing a complex single page app with deep dependency graphs and each node in that graph versioning up independently. Not sure how your approach would scale there.
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by modarts 12y ago
https://m.imgur.com/49k1UbP
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by modarts 12y ago
It seems like the problems expressed by you and the parent comments really come down to the unsuitability of open plan offices for development work that seem to have become popular in many startup environments. Giving people access to offi
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by modarts 12y ago
Do you have a background in art history? How do you know that wasn't the case?
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by modarts 12y ago
How does this compare to OpenGov's offering?
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by modarts 12y ago
Very nice; any plans for a public data api?
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by modarts 12y ago
https://github.com/codeparty/racer
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by modarts 12y ago
How is OnOff better than just the standard EventEmitter?
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by modarts 12y ago
Not sure how that could be misinterpreted as such, given the context
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by modarts 12y ago
Either that or work at a company that provides you a rich enough set of problems where you can apply your disjointed knowledge since it'll force you to synthesize it into a working solution.
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by modarts 12y ago
You can break the living hell out of the back button with server-centric solutions (hello asp.net, and POST's for everything)
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by modarts 12y ago
React is a library, plain and simple. It has literally no opinions on even basic stuff like routing, or how to manage application data. It takes your data as an input and by some mechanism lays out a visual representation of it defined by
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by modarts 12y ago
There's really nothing to 'master' about react, that's the beauty of it really. You just learn about react's view of how data flows through an app with props and state; and that's pretty much it.
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by modarts 12y ago
You'll find a surprising amount of it will simply disappear. I'm at the point where I removed my models and collections directories entirely; since the only feature they provide me at this point are getting data from the server (
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by modarts 12y ago
Commence outraged comments by PETA supporters over your strained analogy
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by modarts 12y ago
Same here: i'm not seeing the value of the additional indirection.

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