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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Here's my take on this as someone who loves both Go and PHP (yeah, I know!). I agree that startups can get entrenched in their legacy code, but I also think there is a false choice here: 1. Write with a system language from the start.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I'm sure this isn't real or just a fun joke. Please don't consider using a :checkered_flag: emoji to indicate you are fixing something on Windows, or any of these other icons. Or: Please consider using these emoji, but please
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I completely agree about Backbone. Backbone is a very simple tool. You can do a lot of damage if you're not yet a very good developer (or a very good Backbone developer), but if you care about your craft and the design of your applicat
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I really hope the JavaScript community (or especially a smaller universe within that, framework developers) would step back and focus on simplicity, small codebases, thoughtful patterns, tried and true methods. The good news is the JS commu
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
"God forbid you are looking at a language like Rust which makes Go look skinny in terms of features indeed." No disrespect meant to Rust, but it's hardly as simple as saying, "Go lacks Generics! Use Rust!" Rust is f
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I was disappointed by this article in the end. I was ready for a good old fashioned OOP bash, supported by strong opinions and examples. We should always remain open to new (or old, in this case!) patterns. Instead we get a "tie"
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
A humble approach and a curious nature are two components of every great engineer, so you seem to be doing fine!
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Just providing some useless ramblings here... You're a web developer, and you don't know what to do (in terms of how to spend your time) with a language geared toward systems. That makes a lot of sense! At a certain scale, they&#x
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Hope you reconsider and support Watsi. All payments are processed securely by Stripe. Both the Pay It Forward Bundle site and Stripe are on HTTPS, and Stripe is fully PCI compliant. Good of you to be on the lookout, though!
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
This is really great! You can also head over to the Pay It Forward Bundle https://payitforwardbundle.com 100% of the donations go to Watsi. We've nearly hit $100k in just about a week. Every bit helps!
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Wunderlist is really nice and Scribd too! Totally agree. Given that you can donate anything you want (minimum $2), it's hard to say this isn't a great value. :-) But much more importantly, it goes to a really great organization. I
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Watsi's doing really good work. Here's some more information from the front of the Pay It Forward Bundle homepage (no need to click through anywhere). Please consider donating. Even $2 makes a real impact. "Watsi enables anyo
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I don't read any mud-slinging in this post at all. What I read from it is someone (or a group of people) disappointed by Docker's current path and wanting to offer an alternative. Docker's received a lot of funding, and so it
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Really exciting to hear a focus on stability and performance improvements. The GC improvements are absolutely necessary first and before anything else, in my opinion. Go is new and it doesn't have the benefit of all the hard work and l
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
No.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I loved the original episode this series was born out of: the story of a doctor in North Carolina who takes over the practice of a convicted murderer [ http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/492&#x
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
An odd thing to slip in? He is, as far as I've gathered, a deeply religious gay man. If his point is to imply those things are not at odds, then I don't think this sentence's inclusion is odd at all.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
That project has been abandoned, it seems, and wouldn't work with 1.0.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
I'm doing a rebuild of a personal project over the holidays and I spent some time looking into binding together React, Airbnb's Rendr, and JSX through Browserify and Grunt. It's possible, but it's a nightmare. Meteor def
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
There's a lot to like about Meteor. Just compare setting up some kind of "dream team" of JavaScript: Rendr + React + Grunt + JSX = OMG WHERE DID MY FRIDAY NIGHT GO. Meter out of the box "just works," but it only wor
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Everything about this article is well-intentioned — and wrong. "much as a your email address or username identifies you, perhaps from a list." Your email address or username may identify you, but it also may not. Your fingerprin
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
So... can I please just use Touch ID? Awesome.
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They're notoriously good about this. If a phone's processor lacks a component necessary to make it function, it will be difficult to compensate for that through software. I'm sure Apple would've loved to get an extra 50m
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
You don't sound even minimally stupid. :) I wouldn't necessarily advocate any of those specific frameworks, but I do think there is life outside of JavaScript. I actually don't think JavaScript (particularly on the server) is
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
There are greater freedoms to protect and care for. :) What's happening here is not a company taking freedom from you. It's that old balance of convenience for the many, or customization for the few who care. For most people, this
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Insofar as pushing new Meteor code up to the server will trigger an update to connected clients, it's hot code push. That's _not_ the same, technically, as a web view displaying a webpage that will update on the next page refresh.
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
For what it's worth, folks with their own unfunded startup are free to use services from other places. For people in an accelerator or funded by a VC, this is a meaningful service that could extend their runway a bit. Of course, it als
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Meteor 0.9.1: Meteor developer organizations, solidified Blaze APIs(meteor.com)
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
Even aside from the specifics of ClojureScript, this is just a wonderful example of separating and planning for the requirements of an application. How is a piece defined and drawn? What control does the user have over a piece? Since two pi
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by mrcwinn 12y ago
JSX is optional, but I've come to really enjoy it. Here's why: 1. Right next to the logic of how a component is meant to function is the markup it will ultimately render with (or something pretty close to it). 2. I still avoid, fo

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