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by tbrock 11y ago
It's already well documented here https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10727
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by tbrock 11y ago
I'd agree with you but it misses packages at the top level entirely until I run install twice. I am saying install blah@x and it doesn't realize I need it until round 2.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Eh I'm not sure that is the same problem. We could reproduce this behavior on everything from MacBook Airs to honking i7s with fast SSDs as well as the cloud.
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by tbrock 11y ago
> npm is fantastic We must live on different planets. Our eng team and CI tool needs to run npm install multiple times to coerce this lumbering beast into writing all of our requirements into a directory. Every time it unreliably install
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by tbrock 11y ago
"During the next few weeks I filled notebooks with ideas for programs I was going to write, in some cases setting them down in code. I also strung the oaks and madrones with twelve hundred feet of electrical cord to power the machine.&
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by tbrock 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of shop is it?
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by tbrock 11y ago
Sound like a good read. I really enjoy nassim taleb's other books so I'll definitely give Antifragile a look.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Lighthouse keeper! Brilliant. If monkey brains could do gigabit for me there I'd be in heaven.
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by tbrock 11y ago
I always think it would be security guard of an extremely secure and remote facility. Something snowed in where it's warm inside and there is fast internet.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Somewhat related: I have this fantasy where I actually make a living working a non-technical job that is relatively simple to do but where I'm able to read and think about what I would build when I get back to the keyboard all day long
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by tbrock 11y ago
He's actually incorrect about the "Set Startup" option being removed. The author claims it was not replaced by "startup items" in the system folder but that is another thing entirely.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Oh my gosh, Austen was in my class in college. I didn't know he had passed away until reading this article.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Sometimes I think Steve Jobs' greatest contribution may have been killing flash. Today is a glorious day.
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by tbrock 11y ago
It's "simian army". A simbian army is like a herd of dildos to sit on. I doubt that would have helped github's services recover faster.
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by tbrock 11y ago
You must be joking.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Over the past two days I've seen people hocking ad platforms, database products, push services, pubsub thingers, etc... But obviously there is a gap because nobody has the full solution in the package that parse wrapped up. It's l
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by tbrock 11y ago
The value of Parse is entirely in the client SDKs that would take forever to build and not in the server (which is a simple rest API over MongoDB).
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by tbrock 11y ago
A little red padlock? It's a start... but why not refuse to load the page if it has a form tag but no https. That's how you solve this.
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by tbrock 11y ago
"You can’t open the application “Glider Pro.app” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." :(
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by tbrock 11y ago
Honestly, there are none, huge opportunity here.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Fosco, thank you for everything man.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Digital ocean!
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by tbrock 11y ago
We all buy computers and re-install the OS immediately but your mom doesn't, and neither does mine. That's the problem.
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by tbrock 11y ago
"For Windows" no surprises there.
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by tbrock 11y ago
What about Google domains?
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by tbrock 11y ago
> Once a new Meteor user starts to go beyond the basics and look into things like routing, pagination, subscription caching & management, server-side rendering, or database joins, they realize that the difficulty curve quickly ramps
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by tbrock 11y ago
The obvious choice would be mozilla's spider monkey.
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by tbrock 11y ago
This is awesome, but before anyone uses this for something real keep in mind that the way this works is that Microsoft has created a shim on top of Chakra that exposes a V8 API. If V8 changes its API drastically (which it frequently does) t
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by tbrock 11y ago
Mac OS X has been 64-but only for some time now. The last 32-bit Mac shipped almost a decade ago.
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by tbrock 11y ago
Or, you know, Apple's desktop trackpad which lets you do all these gestures.

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