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by rpeden 10y ago
The best part will be when we're all standardized on ES2015 modules instead of commonJS modules. I agree with you that CommonJS requires are nice to use, but since they're not statically analyzable the way ES2015 imports are, opti
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by rpeden 10y ago
Did GWT or XAML really try to unify things? Back in 2009, I worked on a complex SPA using GWT. With GWT, you could pretend to know nothing about HTML/CSS by just using the ugly build in components, but none of the GWT users I met did
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by rpeden 10y ago
Not trying to be pedantic, just posting to set the record straight: - WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET etc. etc. are all officially part of the .NET Framework. - WPF doesn't do much (or any) direct interaction with Win32. It uses Direct
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by rpeden 10y ago
It wouldn't even need to be a stupid person. Just a person who probably won't get in trouble for erring on the side of caution, but could face serious consequences for failing to enforce Facebook's policies. That's usual
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by rpeden 10y ago
The short, trite, unsatisfying answer: keep improving the quality of tiny sensors. Due to size constraints, we can't shove massive sensors into smartphones. But we can keep improving what small sensors are capable of, and we can probab
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by rpeden 10y ago
You can probably pursue your interests with a lot less than a billion dollars! YMMV depending on your interests, of course. If, for example, you were able to build a business that could bring in $300k-$500k net annually without requiring y
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by rpeden 10y ago
I used to feel the same way; my first dev job came through someone I met at a tech meetup. I've since found a couple of good ones by cold applying. What helped the most was reading a couple of books about sales. Essentially, when you&#
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by rpeden 10y ago
It might be, but I try to read comments like this one a little more charitably. People tend to see things through the lens of their own thoughts and experiences. The author of the post in question is probably just trying to provide advice b
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by rpeden 10y ago
It's not just what you know. I see a good network as a force multiplier. If you have useful skills and can use them to get things done, knowing the right people can provide a lot of leverage. If you know nothing, well...a force multi
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by rpeden 10y ago
If it's any consolation, the same is true for the best jobs in just about every industry.
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by rpeden 10y ago
Hey, it's not as if he'll be slaving away in an Agile sweatshop with an evil Scrum Master looking over his shoulder and cracking the whip. :) Joining a larger organization can provide the opportunity to accomplish things that woul
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by rpeden 10y ago
The catch is that usually, the JavaScript is on a page because it interacts with the page in some way. So without a DOM, executing the page's JS likely won't work. Having said that: if you just want a headless V8 VM, Node.js is wh
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by rpeden 10y ago
I agree that tests like that can be a great way to determine how effective a candidate might be. I think the same principle applies - if possible, giving everyone the same work sample tests provides a good basis for comparison between candi
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by rpeden 10y ago
In the corporate world, I've worked in both accounting and software development, and what you wrote describes good manager in both fields. Although I don't have much evidence (yet, but I'm doing some research), I suspect that
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by rpeden 10y ago
Not being allowed to ask technical questions sounds like a big problem. Asking everyone exactly the questions at least seems like an attempt to ensure a level playing field for all candidates and eliminate bias that interviewers might not e
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by rpeden 10y ago
The best developers I've worked with are the ones who realize that while passion is helpful, it often fails you at the times when you need it most. As an example, if I'm in the middle of a 3 a.m. debugging session because someone
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Git Deploying a Basic PHP App to Azure(azureinformer.com)
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by rpeden 10y ago
There are times when toxicity is situational. It could be that you're not toxic in general, but the conditions in your work environment are such that your responses comes across as toxic to those you work with. There are some changes y
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by rpeden 10y ago
I've generally had good luck with Rails just working as expected on Windows, as long as you install the Ruby DevKit. JRuby works well too, as long as you're not using any gems with C extensions. As an alternative, I've run Ra
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by rpeden 11y ago
Oh man, I forgot about sprites and resources! Those were so nice to deal with. I hear that the current dev builds of GWT support Java 8 syntax, and last I checked I saw quite a few Google developers still working on to to add some much impr
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by rpeden 11y ago
No kidding. I've done a ton of professional development in Angular, and a fair amount recently in React. I've enjoyed them both a lot. When I think deeply about it though, I'm not sure that any of it is better than what I exp
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by rpeden 11y ago
It's not quite a desktop app, but the web version of Keep stays in sync with notes you makes while mobile: https://keep.google.com/ . There's also a Chrome app that wraps the site, which almost makes it feel like a
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by rpeden 11y ago
I'll second this recommendation. I picked up the 4th edition a few months ago. It's a great book, but also a very long read. As a developer who is interested in developing usable apps, but not in being a full-time UX designer, I&#
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by rpeden 11y ago
Although it won't help when using other people's libraries/code, when you're building your own code then you'll probably enjoy Python 3.5's type hints on function parameters. They negate the need for doing hack
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by rpeden 11y ago
C interop is quite easy from .NET languages. Here's a simple example in F#: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd393785.aspx That example is a bit Windows specific, but it works similarly with Mono on L
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by rpeden 12y ago
It might get brought up because before the first atomic bomb was detonated, one of the physicists who worked on it (Edward Teller) suggested the possibility that detonating the bomb would ignite Earth's atmosphere. There's a bit m
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by rpeden 12y ago
It's actually interesting how similar a pure Windows API app for Windows 8 looks to one created for Windows 1.0. A fun example of this is Charles Petzold's birthday cake app: http://charlespetzold.com/etc/Wind
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by rpeden 12y ago
Given the details they decided to leave out, I'm not certain that the sentimental navel gazing they posted on their site does much other than make them look bad. What would have been better than what they wrote? More honesty. A lie of
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by rpeden 12y ago
He's a smart guy, a Haskell programmer, and co-author of a pretty great Haskell book. I don't think he's a troll; it just seems that his opinion of Ruby is influenced by experience in other languages.
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by rpeden 12y ago
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