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by nathansobo 14y ago
Of course it's a systemic problem. But individuals are components of that system. If you don't punish people who engage in fraud, you remove a valuable disincentive against fraud. So while the system as a whole needs to be reformed, making
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by nathansobo 14y ago
Cool to read this. I've actually built a library in CoffeeScript that enables a lot of the "relational programming" ideas expressed in this paper. http://github.com/nathansobo/monarch
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by nathansobo 14y ago
This post doesn't make much sense to me either. JavaScript encourages an object-oriented style, but with prototype-inheritance and flexible method binding (where `this` in a function is determined by the caller). CoffeeScript's features emb
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by nathansobo 14y ago
It's so ridiculous that people always want QA testers to be programmers. My fiance is a fantastic QA tester but has no interest in programming. She interviewed at Twitter, which at the time did not have a single manual QA tester keeping an
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by nathansobo 15y ago
There's a long road ahead. It's way too soon to pick a winner. Many people will have lots of opportunities to engage with Google's offerings for many years to come. And they'll have lots of time to refine their products. I think Google+ was
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by nathansobo 15y ago
I have a prettier implementation: https://github.com/nathansobo/space-pen
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Kids, Google + And The Increasing Speed Of Innovation(towriteistothink.com)
4 points by nathansobo 15y ago|0 comments
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by nathansobo 15y ago
Agreed. I prefer writing UI code on the client. But you need quality abstractions because it is more complex than doing everything on the server where all your data is at arm's length. I've written two frameworks that make it easier... Spac
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by nathansobo 15y ago
TDD with Jasmine will help you maintain control as your codebases get larger.
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by nathansobo 15y ago
I've spent far more programming hours pair-programming than working alone. It works for me. This fall I decided I wanted to learn Cocoa, so I called up Pivotal Labs and asked if they had any iOS projects I could work on. They paired me with
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by nathansobo 15y ago
The story is told by a self-described Apple fanboy, but he does explain that Foxconn isn't only making products for Apple.
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by nathansobo 15y ago
Does anyone know of a browser plugin or anything that allows you to write files, too?
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by nathansobo 15y ago
Jasmine.js FTW.
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by nathansobo 15y ago
I want to use Vim, but there are a few specific limitations I can't get past, in order of importance: NerdTree is hard to use. Other editors I've used (TextMate, IntelliJ, RubyMine) have a simple "project drawer" that doesn't think it's a t
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by nathansobo 15y ago
What are some other software companies that share a similar philosophy?
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by nathansobo 15y ago
Gorgeous! I will definitely give it a try when I need to build a static site for the library I'm working on. I like the scrolling effect with the links on the documentation site.
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by nathansobo 15y ago
"It was a long journey in those days from Monticello to Philadelphia, where the Congress was held. Part of the road ran through the wilderness, and it took more than a week to get there." http://all-biographies.com/presidents/thomas_jeffer
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Hyperarchy: Democracy for the Digital Era(blog.hyperarchy.com)
60 points by nathansobo 15y ago|49 comments
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by nathansobo 15y ago
Hey, thanks for checking it out. I'm the founder of the site. I myself have had some qualms about the low-brow nature of some of the discussions. I think as the site's interface evolves it's becoming easier to discuss deeper ideas. Here's a
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by nathansobo 16y ago
Please. I for one am using the fragment hack to build a richer user experience on a widely available platform. The interactions I am building wouldn't be possible without it (or the HTML 5 pushState replaceState equivalents). Rendering my c
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by nathansobo 16y ago
JavaScript needs coroutines. They would solve a lot of problems.
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by nathansobo 16y ago
This is silly.
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by nathansobo 16y ago
I interpret your comments as coming from a concern that I'm putting the cart before the horse in worrying about such details too far in advance of a product. I assure you that I'm not a douchebag with an idea that's setting up a company aro
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by nathansobo 16y ago
Well, in the example terms of service that I've read, they discuss a legal agreement between two parties, the user and a corporate entity operating the site. Otherwise the agreement is between what... the user and me personally? Seems not s
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Ask HN: How messy is it to re-incorporate an LLC into a C-Corp later?
7 points by nathansobo 16y ago|9 comments
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by nathansobo 16y ago
Google should add "native" apps to Chrome OS by adding javascript-based APIs for controlling processes, accessing the file system, etc. Essentially pitch the browser as a GUI layer on top of linux, much as Cocoa sits atop Darwin. You could
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by nathansobo 16y ago
I've tried css-dryer, which is similar in concept to server side LESS and SASS. I found it to be problematic on a large project because even though the CSS was compact in its source form, what actually got compiled ended up getting huge. It