thekingshorses

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by thekingshorses 12y ago
If your site is going to rely on search engines like google, and bing, you should think twice before committing to angular or client only app. - JS only site won't rank higher on search engines. - Facebook share/Open graph won&#x2
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
I know google is experimenting but I have never seen any JS rendered page in the google search result. My mobile hacker news client http://hn.premii.com/ ranks top on Google but not because of the content. Content is not in
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
> it would be interesting to learn what lead to over 400,000 lines of CSS in over 2000 files for an actually not that complex site in the first place This is so common. Lot of time, they use CSS to change the design of the module, which
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
I like the direction author is going. I have used similar methodology designing my applications (for mobile), simple, micro libraries, one way data binding. http://hn.premii.com/ http://reddit.premii.com/ *
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Whatever architecture you use, it all depends on your requirements. Example: If SEO is important, build server side rendering. Period. Just make sure you provide best user experience possible. Author claims Bustle is one of the good JS rend
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Did you ever compare gzipped JSON that you are sending vs gzipped rendered HTML using the same JSON blob? You will be surprised that difference between the two will be less than 1%.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
:shame:
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Where exactly one uses nth-selector other than to style first/last and even/odd items? We are using nth-selector to style icon for nav items, which IMO is a wrong way of styling nav items. There are some good CSS <del>select
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
There is no API to login/comment. I have web client http://hn.premii.com/ that uses new APIs (No login). iOS client https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 where you c
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Try http://hn.premii.com/ or download ios/android client http://hn.premii.com/about/
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
try http://hn.premii.com/ - Even though it relies on 3rd party for data (backend), it loads quickly. If you have a control over backend, you can optimize it further.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
http://hn.premii.com/ - You can collapse threads (children and parents). - Use keyboard shortcuts (j-next / k-prev / x-collapse+next) - Light/Dark Theme
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
This will be updated soon - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn Its ready, but update will remove upvoting. So trying to figure out how to keep upvoting with the new API.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
I added upvoting stories and comments feature to my ios/android app few weeks ago. And thinking about adding commenting. http://hn.premii.com/about Now I will have to remove that. Please keep current version of the YC
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Even though I have implemented http://hn.premii.com/ , I think current YC is much better. It should be more mobile friendly and remove tables for better accessibility. And also provide APIs so people don't have to scrap
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
Cached: http://hn.premii.com/#/article/7993426/first-they-came-for-t...
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
I started working on this but no time. http://dn.premii.com/ - Designer News For mobile. Lot of animations and works on Android, Safari on iOS and IE10+ on WP8.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
User's don't care if you use native or HTML5 as long as you get them what they need. One of the major problem with HTML5 is not HTML5/JS but how you we are trying to use those. We want to use all the libraries and frameworks.
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
This reduces size after uglifying. (function(window, $, otherGlobal) { $ = window.jQuery; otherGlobal = window.otherGlobal; //code here })(window);
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
That's not true at all. My app is mostly HTML5 and it is in the iOS app store and Android play store. http://hn.premii.com/about/ > Did you know that only a year ago it was possible tu create a native app with
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by thekingshorses 12y ago
You can try it out my hacker news web app for mobile. http://hn.premii.com Source code at http://github.com/premii/hn Or This is another awesome HN app. Scroll down to bottom for source code. http:/&
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
I use it at http://hn.premii.com/ I can't believe they didn't tested orientation change with minimal-ui. Also, in landscape mode, you loose top ~30px area. If you tap there, it will show safari chrome, and your ap
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
Nice. I have been thinking about building a web app similar to sketch ( http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ ). This is pretty good.
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
IE browser on the wp8 is good, but wp8 as a platform sucks. So many features are not supported or has issues when rendering HTML5 app on wp8 platform. My HN mobile client works fine on WP8/IE, but so many hacks required to work as an H
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
This guy hired me based on my FE skills even though I didn't had any development experience. It was my first job as a FE engineer. I won't be able to get a job based on algorithm/standard CS interview questions.
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
Bolivia
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
Why do you want to include a huge library if only use is to check if page is ready? Extra HTTP request has more overhead then few inline bytes. if you put that code at bottom, you won't need jQuery to know if page is ready, and won&#x2
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
You shouldn't use jQuery, inline CSS and inline JS right before closing </body> tag.
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
Hacker news mobile client: http://hn.premii.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.
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by thekingshorses 13y ago
Amazon ported chromium browser to kindle fire and allowing developers to submit webapps. It will act like native app. User can download webapps from app store just like native apps. Webapps will use chromium instead of android browser. htt

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