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by pbowyer 12y ago
When Rails came along it became the one big thing in the web world (something I look back at and wish the fanbois hadn't put me off so much). And looking at the state of competing and ever-growing landscape of Javascript frameworks, I&
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Thanks, that's a really helpful answer. > Again, there's taste and opinion here, of course. Coding has become awfully fashion-driven, of late. I agree and that's a really enlightened view. But I'm quite glad - it mean
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Given some were touting Go as the next big language what - 12-18 months ago - can anyone enlighten me why Elixir would be different to Go. Or where Go didn't live up to its promises?
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US nuclear fears block Intel China supercomputer update(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I remember a comment on HN sometime in the last month [1] talking about how even an ACID-compliant RDBMS can be rendered non-ACID, through configuration or real-world usage (replication?). Do you agree? [1] Unfortunately, searching hasn&#x2
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Input, a flexible font for programming(djr.com)
9 points by pbowyer 12y ago|4 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> is this library meant for general, run-of-the-mill visualizations, e.g. bar charts and scatter plots, or is it intended for visualizations for a specific domain I'd say it's for a specific use-case: exploring problem domains
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HoloViews: build complex visualizations easily(ioam.github.io)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I disagree with you - "gem install rails" is setting up Rails, but not what I was talking about: hosting the result. I wonder if PaaS providers like Heroku would have taken off so quickly if Rails apps had been easy to set up the
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by pbowyer 12y ago
A pre-processor for PHP is a nice idea... like all the ES6 ones for JavaScript.
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> This is not true. Why is it easier than, say, Ruby I can set up hosting for a PHP website without thinking. With Ruby, unless something has changed in the last 6 months (I sure hope it has) it takes me a lot more effort. Ease of use is
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PHP7 Gains Scalar Type Hints(wiki.php.net)
150 points by pbowyer 12y ago|143 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
You're putting lots into the market this year then, I trust!
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by pbowyer 12y ago
British slang for passengers - "The train operating companies treat us like cattle". Actually, cattle may get treated better...
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> They have been working in the same job, with the same technologies, on the same product but when asked what makes you a senior developer, they answer “Because I have been coding for 5 years”. > The sad fact is that these people have
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by pbowyer 12y ago
It definitely would now, but back pre-2006..?
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by pbowyer 12y ago
If one wanted to be very mean, and using a premium rate UK number as an example: At £1.50/minute, you can put them into a holding queue with "All developers are currently occupied, please wait and your call will be answered shortl
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Upvoted for sheer cynical accuracy ;-)
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Expect More from Product Managers [2013](usersknow.blogspot.com)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Can anyone comment how Crashplan stacks up vs Backblaze here? I'm leaning towards it as it'll save the data for more than 30 days after deletion, and security's another factor in my choice.
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by pbowyer 12y ago
And I thought I was the only one who'd encountered that...
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The Poke's Brief History of Medicine(thepoke.co.uk)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Like Hemingway app, but for writing sales copy?
5 points by pbowyer 12y ago|1 comments
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Google’s Gary Illyes Q&A on Upcoming Mobile Ranking Change(thesempost.com)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Edward Tufte's whole set, and Stephen Few's online newsletters and articles.
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> Given that you've "come across" the two best resources in the field, I wonder if your lack of an "Aha!" moment is because you're not answering real questions with it. Nailed it I think. It's one thing
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Thoughts on Angular 2 after ng-conf 2015 (and some whisky)(medium.com)
4 points by pbowyer 12y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Designing Useful Dashboards
35 points by pbowyer 12y ago|18 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Simon Wardley has an alternative terminology for the same idea: Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners ( http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/06/pioneers-settlers-and-to... ). He also posits that as organisations evolve f
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Ractive's DBMonster response to EmberJS(github.com)
1 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments

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