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by tommyd 11y ago
In an ideal world I'm sure a lot of us would love to work with Elm, but the reality in a commercial situation is often that the choice of language is driven by factors like: how widely used/well known it is, what the availability
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by tommyd 11y ago
I guess the point is that with Babel you can enable so called "stage 0" language features, which aren't in the spec yet but someone has created a Babel plugin for (e.g. decorators). With Typescript, you can't do this, be
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by tommyd 11y ago
How are you finding Nuclide? When I tried it a few months ago it seemed pretty slow and unstable, and eventually ended up consistently using all my CPU after a while. There wasn't a great deal of documentation/help setting it up a
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by tommyd 11y ago
You may or not be right, but Typescript seems to be gaining a reasonable amount of attention and traction outside Microsoft, so I suspect its type system may be "good enough" to add a decent degree of type safety while still stayi
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by tommyd 11y ago
Found this site really useful when I was working with Scala. In particular I remember the descriptions of Option/Either/Try were very clear.
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by tommyd 11y ago
Although focussed on the Secure Enclave, this may be of interest: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-02-19-what-is-...
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by tommyd 11y ago
Play Music does match and does get it wrong, as I've found out with a few continuous albums where tracks have got swapped out for unmixed versions. You can manually tell it not to but only on a per-track basis (e.g. see https:&#x2
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by tommyd 11y ago
Afraid not, as it doesn't mount as a disk drive :(
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by tommyd 11y ago
Search on meetup.com for a topic you are interested in, there are loads of tech meetups in London (usually with beer and food provided) and it's easy to get chatting to people so I wouldn't worry if you are going to one on your ow
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by tommyd 11y ago
I don't have one yet, this will be the inaugural post! But I am on twitter @tomduncalf, so if you want you can follow me and I will tweet you when it's out. This is good, it puts pressure on me to actually write it ;)
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by tommyd 11y ago
It is a shame that so few React-based libraries are on DefinitelyTyped. As the project I've been building had quite a short timeline, I've just been creating "any" type definitions for libraries which don't have def
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by tommyd 11y ago
I've been working on a TS/React/Redux app for the last couple of months, trying to make use of the "latest and greatest" tools and best practices, and hope to write up a blog post over Christmas describing my experi
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by tommyd 11y ago
Just to add my experience here, I evaluated Flow and Typescript recently for a new project and found that while Typescript was more effort to get going with than Flow (things like needing .d.ts files for third party libraries which may not
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by tommyd 11y ago
Absolutely agree, I have just started a new project which is the first time I have used React beyond a "toy" project (along with Typescript and Redux), and have found by far the best approach is to start off with just the basics (
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by tommyd 11y ago
Beamer.app is excellent and well worth the money. Simple but effective, just put it in the dock and drop media files onto it and watch them play. Makes my Apple TV3 useful basically! Edit: regarding DNS, try these instructions: https:&#x2F
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by tommyd 11y ago
I agree with you about React being the lightweight (perhaps even overall) champion - although there's undoubtedly some confirmation bias going on on my behalf (e.g. most of the JS people I follow on Twitter are React fans, so I mostly
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by tommyd 11y ago
Have you tried "Verbatim" mode? It's under the Search Tools drop down along the top menu bar (where News, Images etc. are), then under "All results", and basically seems to minimise the amount of clever business Goo
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by tommyd 11y ago
This is a great tip, thanks! Using it to store this snippet which invokes the debugger when something tries to redirect you from the page, allowing you to inspect the state and any network requests (last time I checked, "preserve log o
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by tommyd 11y ago
I don't usually object to recruiters and haven't had any major issues with them (one saying "I notice you have Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP experience... what about LAMP, do you have any experience with that?" did make m
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by tommyd 11y ago
Full credit for coming on here and resolving the issue Mike, thanks!
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by tommyd 11y ago
Wow that's a ridiculous amount of advertising on page load, can't actually see a word of content! http://s10.postimg.org/mwea5sruh/Screen_Shot_2015_10_15_at_1... Can't really blame people for using ad bl
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by tommyd 11y ago
There's a great BBC documentary on the synthesizer and it's role in the rise of electronic music (in Britain particularly) in the 70s/80s called Synth Britannia, worth a watch if you like this sort of thing! https:/&#x2
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by tommyd 11y ago
I guess it is because on the Macbook, the "Taptic Engine" (i.e. vibration motor) is directly under the glass of the trackpad, so it's actually gently moving the glass, which feels a bit like you've pressed it. On the iPh
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by tommyd 11y ago
Looks great - in all honesty I probably won't use it day to day as I waste enough time checking HN, although perhaps it would be a less distracting way to check it. Source code looks nice and clean, look forward to digging into it!
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by tommyd 11y ago
How come your HN looks like that - is there a new UI I'm not seeing? Mine is still orange(? - colourblind!) background
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by tommyd 11y ago
Beautiful - in my opinion, a great example of fancy interactive graphics enhancing both the appearance and the ease of understanding an article. Great work!
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by tommyd 11y ago
I wonder if there are interesting applications of being able to capture images at this kind of speed at high resolution. For example, using image analysis between frames to get some kind of depth map, based on subtle differences between eac
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by tommyd 11y ago
I've found that Weather Underground[0] seems to be more accurate than most - not sure if this is actually the case or it's just a perception thing though (I believe they "crowd-source" the sensors somewhat, in that peopl
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Supermarket LED lights talk to smartphone app for indoor positioning(bbc.co.uk)
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by tommyd 11y ago
Random, but I've discovered that "Buff" headwear (or equivalent, the fabric "loops" designed for outdoor sports etc: http://www.buffwear.co.uk/ ) over the eyes to be loads more comfortable than any e

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