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by rpeden 9y ago
I think it's a bit slow because it appears to load a file (names.txt) containing all of the names of every article in the wiki every time you load a page. If you click a link to load a new article, it loads all of the names again.
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by rpeden 9y ago
It's an old problem. There's a neat book, Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet , published by the EFF back in 1990. There's a quote from it[1] that comes to mind when I see people vehemently disagreeing online: Somet
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by rpeden 9y ago
To each their own, I guess. I'm inclined to buy it because of the name . I appreciate a company with a good sense of humor. That, and every time I see a Soylent ad on Facebook, I usually get a good 10+ minutes of amusement from readin
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by rpeden 9y ago
http://stories.rpeden.com I used to spend a bunch of time bouncing between HN and Reddit looking at headlines. So I built myself a tiny aggregator with React and socket.io that auto refreshes so I can glance at it throughout the
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by rpeden 9y ago
15/15, not that it matters. I guess all those years of reading about languages on HN and trying out languages even when I had no real use for them was good for something , at least. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
It definitely happens in lots of other types of jobs, too. It's not just programming. I'm interested in why it happens to some people, but not others. You'll see people who are set in their ways by their mid to late 20s, and
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Fyre Festival founder arrested, charged with wire fraud(engadget.com)
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by rpeden 9y ago
It should be, but people often forget whether we're currently in standard or DST. I usually just hedge my bets and write Eastern. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
Hey, thanks. So many times I've read a post on HN or Reddit that I thought was spot-on, and then looked up and saw that you wrote it. Nice to see that the agreement goes in the other direction - or did on this occasion, at least. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
There was a great Bad Astronomy post a few years back on the 50th anniversary of Starfish Prime: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/09/th...
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by rpeden 9y ago
I totally get that. I just meant that the presence of the PATENTS file is sufficient to cause doubt in the minds of decision makers at certain types of bigcorps. These projects are never going to release their code under any license. They&#
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by rpeden 9y ago
I don't mind this one because at least it is clear that it's an opinion piece. Reminds me of the good old days of blogging where writing what you think was what it was all about. I mostly dislike posts that try to pass off opinion
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by rpeden 9y ago
If it's anything like the bigcorps where some of my friends work, or even medium sized companies where I've worked in the past: The patent clause is the React license probably isn't a problem. Probably . But in a conservativ
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by rpeden 9y ago
I mean, I disagree with the authors' conclusions about Angular and React, but he wrote one negative sentence about each and then moved on. I can live with that.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I like this post's optimism. And I like that the author picked some favorite frameworks and tools without disparaging the alternatives too much. I disagree with his conclusions about Angular and React, but he didn't get hung on up
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by rpeden 9y ago
Even worse.... IntelliJ, Visual Studio, and sometimes even Atom. I imagine that probably makes me seem like a glutton for punishment who loves development environments that require the power of a 90s supercomputer just to display a flashing
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by rpeden 9y ago
The transition to Angular 2+ felt like a slow-motion train wreck at first. To their credit, though, I find the Angular development experience to be quite good now. I like that there's interest in the Angular community around generating
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by rpeden 9y ago
You're absolutely right that it's neither fair nor productive to dismiss any crituque out of hand. I just found this article to be on dogmatic side of the spectrum. It doesn't seem that the author has enough experience with A
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by rpeden 9y ago
I agree, and expanded on it in my reply to Analemma_. Hiring has become too framework specific - if someone has built an application using a component oriented framework, I don't think they'd have much trouble moving between them.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I think part of the problem is that much of the job market is language/platform/framework oriented. So there's some value in defending the tools you know and use, because your value on the labor market depends on the market v
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by rpeden 9y ago
Re-post of what I wrote about this yesterday on Reddit: I think Alan Kay was right: computing, at this point, is pop culture. Articles like this are are kind of like identity politics for programmers. I don't say that that to disparage
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by rpeden 9y ago
Works for me. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
That's a reasonable way to look at it, and I think we mostly agree. I personally don't call it anything other than Clojure. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
The way I usually read Clojure, (1 2 3) isn't the printed representation of a list. It's just the printed representation of a sequence, which could be a list, a lazy seq, or others. I'm not a Clojure expert, but when
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by rpeden 9y ago
I'm a big fan of looking at open data sets published by towns and cities, and then coming up with creative ways to make that information easily accessible online. I've seen towns and cities that aren't big enough to have the
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by rpeden 9y ago
GWT definitely deserves a better reputation than it has. I use and enjoy tools like React, Webpack, and friends. They make for a pleasant development experience. I do find it mildly amusing when people get excited about things like code s
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by rpeden 9y ago
A decently clever candidate could sneak out of that first one without a loop. Something like numbers.reduce((a,b) => Math.min(a,b)) would do it in JavaScript. In general, if a candidate realizes they can use reduce for that purp
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by rpeden 9y ago
Maybe partner up with someone who does have full stack web development skills? I think there are plenty of good side businesses where data analytics combined with a great interactive web front end to visualize the data could be profitable.
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by rpeden 9y ago
If you write the web version of your app using AngularDart, you could probably share a fair amount of code between the two.
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by rpeden 9y ago
You're welcome. I also just noticed that your resume says you started university in 20011. I'm guessing you're either a time traveller, or you meant to write 2011. :)

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