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by nemild 10y ago
I'm curious why you let the amount of typing dictate what you use? If five characters is such an impediment, why not just use a snippet letting you have less error prone code than currently (e.g., 'co ' expands to const).
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by nemild 10y ago
I totally agree, and it's great to hear the backstory of your process, which is typical of so many companies that start with Ruby/RoR and then grow (e.g., Twitter, Github). Here's a question that others might value for you: W
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by nemild 10y ago
Not as a slight to Javascript, but simply because it is an interpreted language like Ruby - though you're right that benchmarks show a large performance gap. (Javascript has significantly more investment in it, which is partially why i
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by nemild 10y ago
Are you surprised that static type/compiled languages like Go (or C or C++ or many others) are significantly faster than many dynamic type/interpreted languages like Ruby and Javascript? If performance alone is important to you (r
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by nemild 10y ago
You're partially citing some of Clayton Christensen's observations in the Innovator's Dilemma (which Andy Grove, Intel's former CEO, used to refer to): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s
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Especially since this preset is two lines long, referring to two other plugins
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Remember that performance with Babel transpiled code is still sometimes faster (in some cases, substantially so) than the native ES6 implementations, as optimizing continues on V8's end. And be sensible about how much transpilation you
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by nemild 10y ago
Would love to have you elaborate on that more. What problem domains will Elixir add substantial power for? What use cases do you think it will be a game changer for? Would you consider the difference in the future between Elixir and JS in t
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by nemild 10y ago
What do you recommend for how we could do it better?
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by nemild 11y ago
Is there a reason you can't just create some Exuberant CTags regexes?
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My father went to this talk, and speaks glowingly about Hamming.
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You seem to be optimizing size of download as the critical issue, when I think there are a few other optimization points that this controversy highlighted (e.g., quality of external codebase, security risk, maintainer risk, dependency manag
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by nemild 11y ago
Agreed, I think one issue is that great libraries for all use cases weren't available in the past so older libs built up these chain of dependencies, and this might be the wake up call that gets people to to a) create a few more unifie
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by nemild 11y ago
I think you're missing two major points (which the original 'left pad' post partially noted): 1. There should be one or several libraries (like lodash), where the maintainer provides a high level of quality across many core u
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by nemild 11y ago
I'm confused by your argument - you're right that most economists would agree that free trade provides holistic benefits, but most would also note that it imposes costs - and that the benefits are often widely dispersed, but the c
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by nemild 11y ago
Google's Testing on the Toilet for Bash talks about $, and is a great reference for those trying to improve their bash scripting: http://robertmuth.blogspot.com/2012/08/better-bash-scripting...
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by nemild 11y ago
The Babbage Engine was great, and has now moved on: http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids...
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And Ruby
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by nemild 11y ago
George, longtime iTerm 2 user here - thanks for all your hard work; I can't count how many hours of productivity I've saved by using iTerm. I've given a donation in the past - and anyone else interested can see the big donate
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by nemild 11y ago
You might enjoy this post from Stratechery that discusses how strategy related to startups and regulations might be different for a Zenefits compared to an Uber: https://stratechery.com/2016/zenefits-and-regulation&#x2F
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by nemild 11y ago
I think there are quite a few people who fit this bill, many of them on HN. You could reach out to some of the knowledgeable people in the HN threads related to Node/Angular, and ask if someone would be willing to have a look (same goe
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by nemild 11y ago
Why not a bounty amongst the industry for whoever takes a patent troll to court and wins? The way it works now is that most defendants want to settle because the legal costs are too high for the defendant, and the patent trolls know this. I
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The Challenger Explosion, 30 Years Later(nytimes.com)
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I'm all for that - but in this case the government was asleep at the wheel. If that happens, is one of the only ways to (empirically) fight back the kindness of a single professor? To keep this constructive, here are other options to h
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by nemild 11y ago
Why don't the car factories give some money to Virginia Tech then (or have commissioned the rigorous study themselves)? I'm assuming $150k is not a huge amount compared to shutting down an entire process at your factory (and espec
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by nemild 11y ago
Is anyone else saddened that it takes a personal mortgage by a passionate professor and his team to figure this out? And that even after they proved it, a GoFundMe campaign is the only way to recoup the funds? With the agencies involved dra
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by nemild 11y ago
Thanks! Which drugs are you thinking about? What goal do you think one could achieve for a few hundred thousand in incentives?
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Ask HN: What scientific/technical bounties with social impact would you support?
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Even as someone who uses the newer languages/frameworks, I wish I could upvote this statement multiple times: "It's not sexy, it gets the job done, and I know it'll run for at least 5-7 years with minimum hassle."
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by nemild 11y ago
There's a lot of debates about this. Here's a view by a partner at YCombinator in the context of new company: http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-r... I have a different gener

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