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by tferris 14y ago
Absolutely love your stack and you should tell more about how you did and write a decent blog post. And I like and appreciate the idea of improving HN: we all love HN, are addicted and know that there is room for improvement. But did you ma
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by tferris 14y ago
This and nine more CoffeeScript derivates* from people who rather like to fragment a landscape with marginal improvements instead of supporting the leading pack are the reasons that CoffeScript hasn't reach critical mass and will fail as a
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by tferris 14y ago
Major flaw on all platforms: switching apps is cumbersome and slow We need ALT TAB on phones
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by tferris 14y ago
Nice, that pure tech ventures get high fundings of well known VCs but thinking a little bit more about Meteor I come to following conclusion: First, we do not really know the first payment/milestone, maybe it's just $1M. Meteor itself is an
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by tferris 14y ago
$9M, wow. Enough money to become the next Rails.
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by tferris 14y ago
'This June we’re trying something new'—I don't believe this. 37signals will always do the same: blogging. Instead of coming up with new products or groundbreaking tech 37signals still relies on one past success and heavy Marketing which is
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by tferris 14y ago
Thought about using some preprocessor? Jade?
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by tferris 14y ago
A high level and theoretic NoSQL debate doesn't help. We know all the strengths and limitations of both SQL and NoSQL. And we know when to use what. Moreover, NoSQL does not equal NoSQL—there're so huge differences between a Mongo, a Riak a
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by tferris 14y ago
hope it's the retina MBPs
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by tferris 14y ago
Really good observations about their posts: > passive-aggressive > recycled trash from popular business / personal wealth books
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by tferris 14y ago
> Basecamp and their suite of software scalable business? Basecamp is a scalable business considering what it is but I doubt that 37signals makes tons of $$ with Basecamp (check their Alexa traffic, it's an aged product and overrated, p
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by tferris 14y ago
Now, I understand DHH's resentment (or envy) against Pinterest, Instagram and Quora—everbody's raising money like shit while Sortfolio stays unsold for weeks. This shows one more time in which league 37signals actually plays. Doing scalable
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by tferris 14y ago
Great post and that's the usual counter-attack: use this situation as an opportunity to improve your business relationship—the other party wants something, great, so counter and ask what you can get if you give him this. Easy as cream-pie
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by tferris 14y ago
Where is his perspective useful? A disappointed guy telling the world in his Wordpress blog that 'there is nothing to negotiate about' instead of just confronting his client? Very useful and brave btw. Working as a contractor for clients IS
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by tferris 14y ago
Getting tired of simple-minded self-help advice in blog form. And this bitter post even doesn't give you any advice. When doing business you will face negotiation tactics every single day (like the OP described in his post). If you are long
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by tferris 14y ago
> Writing `exports = module.exports = ...` ensures they have the same value as you would expect. But where should they have the same value? I thought require returns just module.exports if it exists and ignores exports.
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by tferris 14y ago
So you reassigned module.exports to exports in order to get all objects assigned to both module.exports and exports otherwise objects assigned to module.exports would override those assigned to exports which would stay ignored, right? But:
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by tferris 14y ago
Slightly OT: does anyone have a good explanation for module.exports vs exports and for the expression 'exports = module.exports = someFunction' often found in modules?
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by tferris 14y ago
Please rename your project or take it down. People here gave you enough reasons.
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by tferris 14y ago
Go and read why Crockford designed JSON like it is. E.g.: He omitted comments on purpose in order to avoid that people used them for additional directives. Two or three "improvements" like quotes, comments don't legitimate a new standard. B
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by tferris 14y ago
Please explain
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by tferris 14y ago
Anyone looking for a CSS dialect beyond SCSS, SASS and LESS should try Stylus. Smallest footprint, highest flexibility.
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by tferris 14y ago
Social bloggers as Scoble are generally useless but this time he raised an interesting point: Twitter is the ghost town not G+ and he brought some impressive figures proving that. I don't know if he's right, I reduced time in all networks
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by tferris 14y ago
I agree, Ruby is slowly going the downward spiral, why: - RoR introduced groundbreaking concepts 7 years ago: strict MVC, a great ORM, migrations, generators and conventions over configuration and all features weren't optional, users were f
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by tferris 14y ago
> bias against ruby is astounding. There was no bias. Ruby on Rails is a mature production-level framework which gets things done. I've just said that it may not be the right tool for getting into programming. With Ruby on Rails too muc
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by tferris 14y ago
Awesome format, wrong language. EDIT to downvoters: with 'wrong' I don't mean bad, just a very niche language and it would have been nice to see such a format for a more popular or general purpose language
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by tferris 14y ago
Please help me understand: What is so special about a visible watermark which is gone anyway when I buy the image? Was it before that bad? Clueless.
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by tferris 14y ago
Responsive typography is no solution—the client side has to improve and it is improving already: Just use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased (which iA totally missed in their article) and fonts look again right in Chrome and Safari
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by tferris 14y ago
I'd start with a website. Important is that you give yourself small tasks, just learning from books and doing exercises is boring and you learn often too much which isn't relevant. I wouldn't do mobile development either: the learning curve
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Reddit has a Node.js section(reddit.com)
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