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by rodw 14y ago
To be candid I don't know the details of what is changed in ES6. Is there a specific aspect of ES6 you're thinking of? But the new features of ES6 aren't features of CoffeeScript. Why would we expect them to be? It's like noting that Java
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by rodw 14y ago
CoffeeScript can't target ES6 while maintaining backwards compatibility Is that really true? I mean, it is not as if JavaScript is a subset of CoffeeScript. [1] It seems to me that the worst case scenario here (for CoffeeScript) isn't
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by rodw 14y ago
"I don’t know what language engineers will use in the future, but I know they’ll call it Fortran." (A famous quote, but a quick Google doesn't yield a definitive attribution for it.) Yes, Algol was what I meant as the odd one out. Your poi
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by rodw 14y ago
Note that Lisp, COBOL, Fortran and Algol were all invented more then 50 years ago (incidently, 3 of the 4 are still moderately common). A programmer working in the 1970s or 1980s could easily have a child 20 to 30 years old now. I can't re
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by rodw 14y ago
I wouldn't say I use them often (and when I do, it's usually some form of business process modeling rather than software control flow) but I don't think it's quite fair to assert that flowcharts became obsolete with punch-cards. At they ve
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by rodw 14y ago
Good point. It seems like there is a variation on Poe's Law here, but I can't quite put my finger on it. It works as a honeypot either way. On a more practical note, Derek Siver's advice at [1] to ask bidders to post a "magic phrase" of som
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by rodw 14y ago
For anyone who's not seeing it: When you mouse-over the "I'm feeling lucky" button (on capable browsers) the button text spins (like a slot machine) and changes to one of several alternatives like "I'm feeling trendy", "I'm feeling hungry",
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by rodw 14y ago
I'm not sure the part you like most is counter to Beck's incremental degradation process. Presumably you'd want to have a general idea of where you're going before you start tearing things down. Take his single-server, multi-server example
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by rodw 14y ago
If you install pandoc [1] you can write in Markdown (or any of a number of formats) and publish in LaTeX, PDF, RTF, HTML etc. It's the bee's knees. (You may want to tweak the default template (some examples are linked at [2]) to improve the
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by rodw 14y ago
Also, for what it's worth the author was very open and explicit about the provenance. In the footer: "This is a copy of the Pandoc README file, modified to suit Docverter's manifest format." I'm confused though. In another comment [1] zra
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by rodw 14y ago
For various reasons, iOS users are empirically more willing to pay for apps and services. There are more Android users than iOS users, but iOS apps still generate the lion's share of mobile revenue. Some sources for this (based on a quick
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by rodw 14y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you're doing server-side JavaScript/Node, there is https://npmjs.org/ or simply `npm search` from the command line.
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by rodw 14y ago
I'm not so naive to think that people aren't already doing this all the time, but how is that the SaaS products mentioned in other comments are able to (and/or confident they will continue to be able to) avoid getting a C&D letter from
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by rodw 14y ago
Amaya was a "standard browser" in the sense that it was intended to showcase web standards: "Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to p
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by rodw 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCERS - Alexandria VA / Washington DC - REMOTE Workers Welcome - Prefer full time, but we're flexible. SHRM is hiring local or remote freelancers to help us build Sherman, our next generation content management system / integr
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by rodw 14y ago
A "member since" date is available on the "Account & Settings" page. Choose "settings" in the drop down that appears when you hover over your (account) name in the upper right corner of any LinkedIn page.
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by rodw 14y ago
I have ADHD, so maybe this is one of the ways ADHD folks are different from attention surplus folks, but I gotta say prioritization is a big factor of success for me. It's common and easy for me to sit down and work on one thing for two hou
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by rodw 14y ago
I think this sounds interesting in a lot of ways, but I question your assumption that a team of professional lawyers will agree that you "don't have to read the legalese to understand what your contracts are saying". Presumably the lawyers
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by rodw 14y ago
For what it's worth, here's one counter-example: I've recently been working with a team that is developing a content management system for which the display side of things (responsible for routing requests to models and views, fetching mode
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by rodw 14y ago
Can you elaborate? I feel that I've written tests for controllers with Mocha several times without much hassle. Maybe you and I are using the word "controller" slightly differently, or are controlling different things?
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by rodw 14y ago
You're not seriously asserting that "nobody is ever going to care, or probably know, that you don't have a degree", are you? Literally nobody? Because the "FUD" I'm spreading is simply stating that somebody, somewhere, will both know and c
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by rodw 14y ago
"If you're an engineer, and you drop out and you work for 4-6 years, nobody is ever going to care, or probably know, that you don't have a degree." That's simply not true. Your co-workers and colleagues may not know or care. Your boss and h
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by rodw 14y ago
Possibly I'm an old fart about this (though I'm not really that old) but I'd discourage anyone from dropping out absent remarkable circumstances. Here's the thing: Personally, as an employer, hiring manager and co-worker not having a degree
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by rodw 14y ago
OK. I took a stab at this. Happy Friday. I'm not an expert at English grammar or at ad copy (and I don't know anything about your product beyond the copy on the homepage) but sticking more or less to your original positioning, I'd re-write
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by rodw 15y ago
Hi Chethan, Here's some hopefully constructive feedback for you: - The alturl link under "news" leads to a broken page. - An example "fun motiviational message" might be helpul. As it stands the reader doesn't really know what they are sign
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by rodw 15y ago
It's not start-up-y, but via my day job I might be able to hook you up with a programming internship at a very large professional member association. This spring/summer we're building out a client-side-templating-oriented CMS framework, lik
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by rodw 15y ago
HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Version 5 of the HTML specification (colloquially known as HTML5) has a number of new features that support Flash-like interactive multimedia content. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5 and http://en.wikipedia.
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by rodw 15y ago
I'll admit to only having skimmed much of this article, but that's a lot of words to say this: "It turns out that the MRI Ruby 1.9 interpreter is optimized to handle strings containing 23 characters or less more quickly than longer strings.
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by rodw 15y ago
Ah. Much better. I had the same problem as other posters--this presentation more or less breaks scrolling (it still works, but is very awkward). Using the left/right arrow keys to navigate the presentation works quite well. To bad that navi
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Uzbl: Web Interface Tools Which Adhere to the Unix Philosophy(uzbl.org)
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