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Bolt | Peters joins Facebook(boltpeters.com)
2 points by n8agrin 14y ago|0 comments
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by n8agrin 15y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions that are unfounded. What you're suggesting is usually called progressive enhancement. Yeah it's great, but sadly when you are using a system like Spine, Backbone or Ember, it's not just a matter of "endles
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I don't fully understand your point. My quote you're using is meant to be rhetorical. So you're not Twitter... are you implying that you could build an all JS application and avoid all of the problems that Twitter ran into at Twitter's scal
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by n8agrin 15y ago
It's really easy to armchair-engineer and just declare bad design. What's harder is to actually build a system that scales well in the very unusual circumstance that sites like Twitter, Google and Facebook find themselves in. Let's take y
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I'm not making any assumptions, I'm telling a story about what I watched happen first hand. As you say, you can split up your assets, that does help significantly. You can also put stuff on CDNs, that helps significantly too. Believe me, Tw
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Good question. I should be clear and state that when I say 1-2s page load times I meant the time from when one requests the page to when one can see it. In general API requests are fast, what is slow is having to always deliver a large JS b
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Twitter didn't dump Rails, or Ruby.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Let's say you have a website and let's say that website serves a lot of traffic. Now let's say you relegate Rails to act as just your API because clients are fast now and you want to do some new cool stuff with Javascript also, you're convi
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by n8agrin 15y ago
It is a kite, made by Slingshot. See: http://i.imgur.com/3Fgct.jpg and http://ride.slingshotsports.com/kiteboarding/leading-edge-in...
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by n8agrin 15y ago
For obvious reasons I'm guessing Twitter or Square. Though I wouldn't be surprised by a Salesforce acquisition either.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Supposedly Nest is on Apple's blacklist. My source says any Apple employee caught even talking to a Nest employee is immediately fired. I can't verify whether or not this is true, but if it is, interesting that Apple feels that threatened.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
There is so much bombastic talk in this post. This has to be a troll.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Well, you're right and you're wrong. I'll be specific, since you are: Twitter is sending down the home timeline as HTML. In fact, what most people are looking for when they go to twitter.com is their home timeline so I'm correct, this is
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by n8agrin 15y ago
This is what they do.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Dan doesn't say anything about where the rendering will happen. Most sites these day (including Facebook, Gmail, etc) have to execute "a huge chuck of js" before displaying the page. I have been told by some people in the know that they hav
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by n8agrin 15y ago
One cold dark night in Javascript-land... A: Hey, remember when coding was fun? When it was an extension of yourself and you got to create things with it? Create things! B: No. We're not allowed to do anything except what the Good Book deem
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by n8agrin 15y ago
And if your good programming team can't figure out that they might need to edit a coworker's Javascript library to add in missing semicolons in order to cleanly minify their scripts, you have a different (bigger) problem.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I thought Mike was still part of CrunchFund: http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/crunchfund Regardless, great hustle. Love seeing people willing to stick their neck out.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
He's not wrong. I just want to learn more and to have others be able to learn more. Arrogant may be too strong a word, I'll edit that.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Your essay is well written, I agree with the premise of it and you clearly know a bit about biology. But I still think it's important that when we make these general claims of scientific fact we point to the giants whose shoulders we're sta
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I followed through the entire essay in complete agreement, but I wished the following paragraph had at least a reference pointing to its claim: The human body’s physical “fight or flight” response evolved to help it evade a dangerous situa
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Theories on Jobs' character aside, the Jobs biography is an utter mess. Some sentences feel like they were pulled from a 6th grade book report. It's riddled with obvious statements and reads like it should have been published in People maga
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by n8agrin 15y ago
Totally agree with the premise that user actions should provide responses instantly, I was building those kinds of responsive UIs 2 years ago. But, I have a problem believing that the future of web applications is based on serializing all a
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I left Twitter about a month ago and would say this is pretty accurate.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I think you're right about the stability, but that's a better question for William to answer. Wasn't aware of Sup, I've only seen him using Turnsole ( https://github.com/wmorgan/turnsole ) which apparently is derived from Sup.
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by n8agrin 15y ago
You should have a peek at what my former coworker William is doing with Heliotrope. Pretty nice email client that supports threading with incredibly fast searching. It's not exactly what you're looking for and it's still pretty raw, you hav
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by n8agrin 15y ago
I think this is great, if only because it shows you don't need to name your startup something that ends in -li, -ly, and -r.
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Amazon Announces Special Event; Tablet on Tap?(allthingsd.com)
3 points by n8agrin 15y ago|0 comments
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Windows Virtual PC for testing websites in different Internet Explorer versions(microsoft.com)
1 points by n8agrin 15y ago|1 comments
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by n8agrin 16y ago
If "conservation" means breeding wild animals in what is essentially captivity so that "rich westerners" can pay lots of money to go around and shoot them for the sake of shooting them, then you're absolutely right, I am going to be offende

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