timruffles

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by timruffles 13y ago
Nice. Would be good to contribute it to Traceur, as teams wanting to early-adopt ES6 will be using that!
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by timruffles 13y ago
That's an overly negative interpretation. An app can can be worth a lot more than a cup of coffee to someone, but if there's a free alternative, why would they pay? The business impact is the same under either interpretation of co
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by timruffles 13y ago
I'm happy to go head to head with this link baiter on who knows Javascript better :). I'm not going to take "you might even learn something about Javascript" from someone who says that a simple transpiler is a "blac
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by timruffles 13y ago
Have you been to a software conference outside of the US? Certainly in Europe it's Mac dominated.
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by timruffles 13y ago
Congrats! What a shame that you're off to the states :(
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by timruffles 13y ago
Yup. Also I doubt anyone who sets out to "augment the human condition" will: most founder of big cos set out to do something small, & and grew from there when it worked well. If Google started with the goal of being where it i
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by timruffles 13y ago
This type of post often uses the Goldilocks fallacy to appear like it offers advice when it's actually restating the actual problem: the way to achieve Y is with just the right amount of X. "A successful startup is easy: simply bu
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by timruffles 13y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. As you said: the list contains great, tough advice, but some of it is wrong as it's personal preference or pompous. "augmenting the human condition" sounds like it'd be better ac
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by timruffles 13y ago
"advocating accessing private internals of 3rd party tools in new open-source projects": no - I didn't advocate that as it's obviously insane :) I said advise your users and trust they won't do insane things. This a
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Enforced privacy is rude: advise instead(sidekicksrc.com)
34 points by timruffles 13y ago|21 comments
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by timruffles 13y ago
Congrats! Can't wait to see what you do next, London's loss is SF's gain :)
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by timruffles 13y ago
Good round up of things that make me unreasonably annoyed about APIs I've used. ESPECIALLY 200 codes for errors, which means your error handlers won't fire.
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by timruffles 13y ago
I'd guess you're more likely to fail building a product for 'everyone' than for a niche. Therefore I'm not sure it's productive to worry about the size of niches unless you really are only interested in building a huge company (which seems
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Offer HN: Javascript code-read(sidekicksrc.com)
2 points by timruffles 13y ago|0 comments
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by timruffles 13y ago
I used Berkshelf and it works nicely! The only confusion comes when actually deploying via Chef solo and I forget to ensure the cookbooks are actually present. Haven't tried Librarian - only because I saw Berkshelf first and it integrated n
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If you love automation, why is your development environment manual?(sidekicksrc.com)
137 points by timruffles 13y ago|113 comments
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by timruffles 13y ago
Why? Open Source just means the source is open. There's nothing to say it can't be paid for up front, or even that the binaries are free.
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by timruffles 14y ago
Because a single project in a language has Mac only development instructions the language and ecosystem is Mac only? What leads you to think the discourse devs would have documented x-platform if using node?
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by timruffles 14y ago
Sorry but that's total FUD and has a very obvious agenda. Ruby is preinstalled on most Linux distros, and thus Rails is a gem install away. In production, people only run Ruby on Linux. I, and a heck of a lot of people, do all Ruby or Rai
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by timruffles 14y ago
No way - even if it was the sole performance bottleneck in your application (which as I've commented above is absurd, and a sign you're doing it so very, very wrong). Even if your application was: var i = 100; while(i--) els[i].addEventList
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by timruffles 14y ago
In case anyone reading doesn't realise* - that's not the kind of thing you'd be doing to get a speed up. I can't think of how addEventListener could lead to a 1.001x speedup of an app, let alone a 100x. You don't ever need to create listene
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by timruffles 14y ago
I'd like to offer the same service free to anyone would like a Code Read but Jeremy's rate is too high/he doesn't have time. I'd get a lot out of it as I'm building a Javascript static analysis tool - exposure to lots of production code w
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by timruffles 14y ago
EuroPython conference - Googling I get mentions back to 2001. I'm sure you could get in touch with the organisers for promo material etc http://mail.python.org/pipermail/europython/2001-November/00...
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by timruffles 14y ago
I think > A class makes that simpler because each of the methods are extension points you can override. is a strong argument in favour of classes. They're more extensible even if the author doesn't consider it. However - as soon as your
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by timruffles 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of Nassim Taleb's focus on payoff/cost (expected outcomes) vs probability. If the possible costs are high enough, it makes a lot of sense to take precautions. Hardly rocket science - seat-belts, hand-rails, smoking etc.
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Ask HN: Can I visit your startup in Berlin?
8 points by timruffles 14y ago|3 comments
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by timruffles 14y ago
FUD. I've had several developers over several teams pick up Backbone significantly faster than 1-2 months. I'd strongly recommend over generalising from personal experience, and perhaps considering why Backbone has so many devs using, and c
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by timruffles 14y ago
I loved 500px's terms and conditions page, but it's designed as a terms and conditions page. It's still enormously wordy. Additionally, all I saw in the ad or landing page were pleas for help - I was never sold the benefits. I'm no copywrit
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by timruffles 14y ago
I can't see how the compiled code for Type is supposed to work? If you deference a JS function from an object, you lose the context of `this`. So in Ruby.prototype.cut = function () { this.shape(); this.polish(); }; var
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by timruffles 14y ago
I agree, it's been a long time coming. Might be a pain for Stripe but competition is great for everyone else.

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