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by philbo 12y ago
I'd really love to hear more details about what your company did and how they did it: * What size is the company? * Who proposed the change? * Were people resistant to the idea? Which people? How were they persuaded otherwise? * What d
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by philbo 12y ago
This was a Show HN, last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652042
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by philbo 12y ago
I had a look at this page in WebPageTest to identify the root cause(s). The entire payload including all of the assets is less than a megabyte. The median result from my tests took 2.5 seconds before the page started to render, due to block
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Trsst: a secure and distributed blog platform for the open web(trsst.com)
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Is mystery Russian spacecraft a satellite-killer?(newscientist.com)
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by philbo 12y ago
To answer the question in the title directly, I think modules are to aid reading and discovery. The fact that it is difficult to decide which module a function belongs in doesn't make them pointless. People who have to read or debug yo
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by philbo 12y ago
This is a similar to an idea that David Schnepper talked about at Velocity Ignite this year. It's only a five minute presentation but it blew me away and I'm keen to give it a try for real at some point. Video here: https:/&
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by philbo 12y ago
Anecdotally, I've found that disabling syntax highlighting encourages me to pay more attention to how I structure my code as I'm writing it. I feel more aware of sections of code that may be getting messier as I work. I still turn
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by philbo 12y ago
There are actually a few implementations of this for JS, it is an approach that Crockford has championed quite a bit (e.g https://plus.google.com/+DouglasCrockfordEsq/posts/XXkzgJEoE... ). Some implementations that
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by philbo 12y ago
I have no experience of pitching anything, I'm just a dev but... Laughs?? Why are laughs even in the script? This is a business deal right? One day I'd like to start something myself, and I guess I hoped that shrewdness, business
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by philbo 12y ago
Not necessarily. Google search is one application for metadata, definitely, but it is by no means the only one and nor is it the most interesting imho. The same page also points out that microformats and RDFa are supported by Google too. I
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by philbo 12y ago
I recently started using Giraffe as a dashboard for RUM performance data in my job. Good job man, thanks.
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GitHubReminder(githubreminder.org)
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RUM waterfall charts with the W3C Resource Timing API(cruft.io)
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by philbo 12y ago
If angular or ember make it difficult to follow best practices, are they the best tool for the job? Less trollishly, although I have no experience with angular or ember, I have built a progressively enhanced application with knockout and I
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by philbo 12y ago
If you're building JavaScript-heavy/single-page applications, you should be applying the principle of progressive enhancement anyway, there is no reason not to do so. Progressive enhancement brings a number of benefits, of which f
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by philbo 12y ago
London, Remote, Full Time Stack: Clojure, Node.js Resume: https://github.com/philbooth Contact: pmbooth at gmail I'm looking for 100% remote working opportunities that will enable me to leave the UK and fulfil my dream
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by philbo 13y ago
No, clearly. The KKK was literally a lynch mob. They murdered and tortured and terrorised people and communities.
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by philbo 13y ago
The job of one man doesn't even begin to compare to the civil rights of so many. While this is true, I think comparing a political donation to a witch hunt and a lynch mob is a stretch. It's not really clear to me how the rights
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by philbo 13y ago
To be fair, they do conclude the final installment with: "...we need something better. I hope to share some thoughts soon on what such a solution might look like. However, based on feedback in the comments, we’ll need to discuss JavaSc
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Introducing boomcatch(cruft.io)
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by philbo 13y ago
Amen. Speaking as someone who has suffered in a similar way and subsequently gone on to interview developers myself, may I state: interview / test conditions will invalidate everything that you think you can discover about a candidate.
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by philbo 13y ago
A typical reason to avoid intelligence in view templates is that it is more difficult to test that logic when it is stored inside the template. Separation of the two improves testability. What are the testing options like for XSLT, are you
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Mark Cavendish primed to regain sprint supremacy in 2014(bbc.co.uk)
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by philbo 13y ago
You looking over someone's shoulder or them looking over yours is definitely not pair programming though. It is exhausting though, I agree with that part.
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by philbo 13y ago
As much as I agree with the sentiment behind this, I think the implementation is slightly misdirected. Neither page popularity or query popularity are necessarily proportional to domain popularity (eg, *.github.com). Ruling out the most pop
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by philbo 13y ago
Not sure if it counts as a pragmatic use-case, but here's my example. I recently built a little webapp [1] to send email reminders about repositories that you've starred on GitHub. The motivation for it being that I have hundreds
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by philbo 13y ago
I've contributed to a little JS lib [1] that takes a similar approach, but expands all of its predicates with two modifiers: a `maybe` modifier that tolerates null and undefined; and a `verify` modifier that throws if the predicate ret
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by philbo 13y ago
I couldn't disagree with this sentiment more. Of course, it depends on your definition of quality, but for the sake of argument I'm assuming that we're including things like test coverage, code complexity, code cleanliness&#x
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by philbo 13y ago
Yeah I should, you're right. I'm working through a huge to-do list on that and CoffeeComplexity right now, but I'll add that on the pile too. :) There is no storage on the back-end, it just calls a little node library that I

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