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Building a Serverless Slack Slash Command(tonicdev.com)
2 points by tolmasky 11y ago|0 comments
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FauxNew: Recreating the “new” operator(tonicdev.com)
2 points by tolmasky 11y ago|0 comments
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First Wolfram Programming Lab Lesson Ported to JavaScript(tonicdev.com)
3 points by tolmasky 11y ago|0 comments
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by tolmasky 11y ago
If you'd like a similar experience without being tied to a proprietary language and where the skills you develop can later be applied to other fields, I'd like to recommend our https://tonicdev.com . It uses JavaScript
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Node 5 Support in Tonic(blog.tonicdev.com)
1 points by tolmasky 11y ago|0 comments
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I guess the perspective difference comes from having run and worked in open source myself in the past: its a better strategy to try to understand the pain point the user is facing regardless of how "analytical" the assessment is.
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Maybe its because I'm a JavaScript dev, but I seem to clearly understand the critique (vs maybe if you are a Ruby dev it just sounds like "I don't like it"): too many built-in methods, lots of magic behavior, and an over
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Seems like a reasonable critique in a thread exalting the amazing success of Y. I'm sure the developers of Y care about a newbie perspective of Y, and a comparison often serves as a good tool to show why something is confusing.
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by tolmasky 11y ago
We're working on http://tonicdev.com . You can read a bit about it here http://blog.tonicdev.com/2015/09/10/time-traveling-in-node.j... or just try it yourself. Some guiding principles: 1. So
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> There's a great deal of difference between science and markets--using failure rates in one to justify the other is sloppy thinking. Its not sloppy thinking at all, it is very clear thinking: it shows that that fact ALONE is not
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Not sure what point is being tried to be made here: 1. A startup that fails doesn't mean it has built crap. Sometimes things fail for unrelated reasons, whether ahead of their time or because the economy took a downturn, etc etc. SOMET
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I just filed a bug: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10999 I guess I'm not sure what level of non-determinism they expect, but on this page: https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm
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by tolmasky 11y ago
The nice thing about Twitter apps is you can actually say "I'm pretty sure if just one person who cared got put on it, it could be WAY better than what we have today", because unlike other apps that we all "couch archite
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Best Buy will also match Amazon prices. Also they have a really nice buy online, pick up at store system. I actually do like Amazon Prime TV though.
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Is this what its like to be old, to first think this is going to be a link to an archived message from 2002 about the Phoenix browser? Also, to starting worrying whether they're going to have to rename this thing just like Firefox had
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by tolmasky 11y ago
There are a number of really good (separate) points here: 1. Shrink-wrapping: yes, of course. Semver ranges never made sense to me. All changes are breaking changes. The idea that we could safely auto-upgrade a project is insane. A semver r
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by tolmasky 11y ago
What I don't understand is believing in ghosts and not being scared all the time. I think if I ever saw a ghost, that would be it right? I'd be done, I'd be scared all the time after that, because they can go through walls
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Sure, but that necessarily means that the "middle" will always be muddled. Only the edges can ever clearly offer unique value. This wouldn't be that big a concern if it wasn't for the fact that apples most valuable produ
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by tolmasky 11y ago
So Schiller's explanation was really just making explicit the problem described: he more or less states that the goal of each product is to bring into question the necessity of the next. If every product you make, is by design, meant t
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Well as long as he doesn't use half of it to start a bunch of wars in the middle east, we'll probably end up ahead of what would have happened if it would have gone to taxes. As you said, if Gates' leadership is followed, I t
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I imagine you are referencing this comment "One could make WeakSet implementations that are iterable, but those can lead to non-deterministic algorithms (depending on GC behaviour) if used in the wrong way, and therefore the ES committ
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by tolmasky 11y ago
If they were iterable, then they couldn't be weak, because you've effectively given an API to reach references unconditionally, thus meaning they are always reachable, thus meaning none of them can ever be GC'ed. for (x of my
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by tolmasky 11y ago
UUID v4 seems to be based on random numbers, so should be "as good" as whatever scheme they were trying to hand roll here. Additionally, the uuid npm library uses crypto.randomBytes, which is cryptographically secure. https:&#x2F
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by tolmasky 11y ago
"if you do this then I'll give you this campaign donation", is that the kind of explanation it would provide? Otherwise I don't see it getting very far.
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by tolmasky 11y ago
> The MacBook is smaller, thinner, and lighter than the MBA, and has a higher quality screen. I just find it hard to say that its a higher quality screen when you have a worse graphics card, and thus the stuff that will actually be on
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by tolmasky 11y ago
This reads more like a bad review of the new Macbook than a great review of the new iPad Pro. Of course, this was already the case before, the new Macbook has always been kind of a head-scratcher: 1. Despite the amazing battery advancements
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I want to know if it is at the expense of retweets. I'll say what I thought before: Like vs. Retweet is now confusing (and I think detrimental to what Twitter probably wants which is retweets since those increase engagement). They shou
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by tolmasky 11y ago
Twitter should have been bold and merged retweet and favorite into heart. Instead it's now more confusing which you should do. On other social networks hearts are kind of the redispersal mechanism, whereas I think what Twitter wants is
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by tolmasky 11y ago
I have no interest in returning to any programming model that fundamentally revolves around complex sync-up code (also, yes we "tried" this aplenty long before KVO/bindings). As I mentioned in my previous post, I felt KVO was
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by tolmasky 11y ago
This was one of the big reasons we made https://tonicdev.com . We found so many stackoverflow questions were just about installing packages or asking how to get node running on their computer. We wanted a way to be able to try j

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