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by stevejohnson 10y ago
> If you want a custom domain don't bother with the pro account go business when you sign up. I have the Enhanced plan (not business) and a custom domain. Works great.
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
In my case, I wrote a JavaScript library that was just good enough to be useful, and well-documented, but not incredibly full-featured. People need changes and additions from time to time. Since I have a full time job, I turn down a lot of
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
One issue here is there's no exact test case. As a result, all variants seem to use slightly different timing curves. Maybe that's irrelevant, but it's at least annoying to look at. (Not to say I don't appreciate this pa
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
While you're here, I should say: first, thanks for your work, and second, it would be nice if the compiler could log the timing data in a consolidated form so my script wouldn't be necessary. :-) Regex-parsing and aggregating a bu
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
I recently wrote a tool to report Swift block compile times, since this kind of thing can be unpredictable. At Hipmunk we run it every night to find out how we can make our builds faster. Another common culprit of slow compile times is usag
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
In case anyone's curious, what happened was that Dave (@davidmarin) and I (@irskep), the mrjob maintainers, left Yelp within about a month of each other. (There's no story there, just coincidence.) There was never any momentum wit
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
No, the Yelp business model is to sell ads.
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
Yes. Also, it will build faster and the configuration will probably be simpler. That's been my experience having used Browserify with Gulp and Grunt for 2 years and then switching.
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
I'd guess there was some kind of missing API. I've done a lot of work on the API over the past six months, so you might find it to be a lot better these days.
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
I love the spirit of this, and I've been waiting for someone to make it for years, if I didn't get to it first! If anyone wants to make a similar web app, I maintain an open source library whose sole purpose is putting JavaScript
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
You'll see a pull request from me soon. I'd much rather contribute than write my own from scratch, as I had planned to do before I saw this. Edit: to elaborate, the layouts are generally fine, you just need fatter sliders and more
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
I've tried half a dozen libraries to solve this problem for Literally Canvas ( http://literallycanvas.com ). They all have one or more dealbreakers. In this case, it's superficially that the controls are too close togeth
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
(1) It was a different person every time, and (2) all booking is done online, with SMS interactions piped through Twilio.
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
For a house with 4 roommates, this service worked great as a solution to the "tragedy of the common [space]" problem. We've been using them for a year or more now and I'll be sad to see them go. I hope they follow throug
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
Just to clarify, I was explaining acgourley's position. This particular project is high quality.
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by stevejohnson 11y ago
People keep reimplementing the same thing to the same "80%" completion level so they look good to employers, but the software is abandoned quickly once it has served its purpose as a personal branding tool.
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
"Klein did get a professor at Binghamton to help him try [the machine] out twice in Ithaca, with assistance from a Binghamton graduate student, and it was not a success. Corvid experts who have since been interviewed have said that Kle
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
This has been asked a few times over the years. Look over the HN search results for some ideas. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+do+you+find+freelance#!/story/... (This is not to say it's not a question worth as
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
It's a satire piece that suggests that authors who pretend to write translations of fictional books (such as Tolkien with LotR and Goldman with The Princess Bride) may actually be opening up their stories to plagiarists who claim to be
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
Fair enough. I do think there's a middle ground between "actively seeks to write new patents" and "full RMS." It's not typically realistic to avoid working at places that hold software patents, but in my (limit
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
You make a really good point. I didn't sufficiently consider the subversive nature of the actual patent.
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
Clearly he/she has a different opinion. I'm asking for clarification. For example, one possible valid response is "I helped write this patent because I believe it isn't actually harmful and serves my personal interests.&
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
> My employment contract said I was to make reasonable effort to assist in the creation of patent applications that resulted from my work. While this is true, you must also be aware of the damage that software patents are doing to the in
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
I often forget the exact name of the fallacy this type of question embodies, so for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question The common analogue being, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco bay area or remote I provide one very specific service: implementing custom tools, features, and integrations for Literally Canvas[1], my open source HTML5 drawing widget. If you need a drawing feature in your w
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
I downvoted you because of the unnecessary one-upsmanship and trivialization of the grandparent. You might have your own idea, but you don't need to dump on his.
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
I used this for a small app (drawplz.com) and liked it quite a bit. Thanks for your work.
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
Thanks for the bug report. I've saved it in the GitHub issue tracker. Pretty weird behavior, definitely fixable.
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
I'm surprised they didn't try mrjob (Python framework), which both has a more concise interface and handles shipping their dependencies to EMR, which seemed to be their primary complaint. Probably would have been easier than rewri
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by stevejohnson 12y ago
Literally Canvas uses React for its GUI: http://literallycanvas.com It isn't using JSX yet because CoffeeScript integration didn't exist until recently, but it was still a joy to use.

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