vcarl

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by vcarl 10y ago
Great questions, great answers. Sam's comments on Meetups mirror my experiences, though I'm not in a tech hub area. It depends really heavily on the person organizing and what kind of outreach they've done to people, existing
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by vcarl 10y ago
> in a HandBrake-based video transcoding task, Ryzen scored a narrow win [against a stock i7-6900k] Man, if that holds true in more benchmarks, that's fantastic news. AMD chugged along by "competing" further and further do
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by vcarl 10y ago
Clients can use it to request exactly what they need. Since it's a graph, you can just keep grabbing nodes to get the fields you need in the shape that works for your client. GitHub added a GraphQL endpoint for their API, the improveme
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by vcarl 10y ago
> large, open questions on basic stuff. I've commented on this subject before[0], I think the past few years of web development has largely been about answering basic questions. Now there are well tested answers to those questions.
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by vcarl 10y ago
The best I've found is reddit.com/r/neutralpolitics. It's strictly moderated, with minimum comment lengths and required source links when making factual claims.
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by vcarl 10y ago
I'm happy to see particularly interesting pieces that deal with politics here, but I've seen far too much "breaking" political news here for my tastes. I'd much prefer if HN's politics were more deep and analyt
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by vcarl 10y ago
Did you do the driving class, Octane Academy? It's not well publicized, but the ST comes with a free driving class in Utah (you pay for travel and accommodations), but it's only valid within a year of buying it.
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by vcarl 10y ago
I recently purchased a Fiesta ST, which (along with the Focus ST) bucks this trend. The Fiesta is a cheap car, but the highest trim package, ST, is exclusively available as a manual and adds 70 HP. The Focus ST is the same, with an even big
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by vcarl 10y ago
There's a fantastic, massively upvoted StackOverflow post that can also provide some insight here. This may be a little more accessible, since it's such a significant runtime difference with very simple source code. http:/&#
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by vcarl 10y ago
I have very little formal education in CS, I've had no problems getting a career going. Especially at smaller companies that have less experience hiring, it's not difficult to get in the door with some networking and proof of your
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by vcarl 10y ago
There's a website, polyfill.io, that does browser sniffing and sends a minimal polyfill. The source is available under the MIT license[1], it shouldn't be a tremendous amount of work to set up a bunch of different builds for diffe
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by vcarl 10y ago
I don't think the past few years will be representative of web development in the future. The community has had a lot of churn because basic questions (How do I ensure my code has what it needs to run? How do I include dependencies? Ho
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by vcarl 10y ago
Yeah, from the outside I can understand the "everything keeps changing!!" complaint, but having been involved in JS for a few years, every single tool that got replaced was replaced for completely valid reasons, that couldn't
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by vcarl 10y ago
My biggest complaint on most of those sorts of sites are: * Tight line spacing * Full window width lines * Small fonts * Sometimes, font choice When I'm reading something lengthy on a site like those named, I'
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by vcarl 10y ago
I believe that you're getting that number, but there might be something wrong with your install. I just installed all of those packages and ended up at 6MB.
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by vcarl 10y ago
It caught those! doing `du -ch ./babel` says it's only 20k, babel-core is 148k, and babel-cli is 104k.
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by vcarl 10y ago
Doing du -ch ./babel* from my `node_modules` directory yields 3.2M total so I'm gonna need a citation on that 600MB claim.
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by vcarl 10y ago
JSX is actually a generic transformation of XML like structures to function calls. Since it's mostly used with React, that's the default, but you can use any function you like. It's the "pragma" option in the config
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by vcarl 10y ago
It definitely makes sense to have a technical person sit in on later stage product discussions to point out when minor tweaks will have significant impact on the implementation, but there are discussions that don't need technical input
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by vcarl 10y ago
It's certainly a little bit painful, but that's only because these things are brand new. These tools let you create applications most comparable to native apps, and could you imagine developing for iOS or Android without a Xcode o
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by vcarl 10y ago
This is the typical "hatred of the web" that I usually ignore. ES2015 brought a ton of huge language improvements that are still filtering out into usage, Babel means you can use them all now without waiting for browsers to implem
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by vcarl 10y ago
> We're professionals, after all, and TypeScript and React were not build by some teenage hackers. On the other hand, Babel was :) He did a great writeup of his life during babel's explosion of popularity. https://me
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by vcarl 10y ago
> One thing I have noticed over the years is that the front end community is becoming more and more a "let me google how to do it" kind of community. Odd, I have the opposite impression. I view a lot of web developers as the se
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by vcarl 10y ago
My only complaint with Leaflet is that they haven't done anything to support older versions. At an old workplace, we were stuck on an older version for a while due to incompatibilities, and having never used Leaflet before I needed to
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by vcarl 10y ago
In our case, the goalposts for what the product should be kept moving every 3 months, which was probably the largest single problem, it caused most of the friction imo. It didn't help that we were a hardware startup, so changes couldn&
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by vcarl 10y ago
I absolutely relate to Klara's response. I joined as a "founding employee" of a startup, and over the next 3 years the team's biggest problem was being meddled with by the founder (just one, the second founder ducked out
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by vcarl 10y ago
But this isn't a post written by a women nor is it part of a walled garden, it's a question posed to several women, with their longform responses. If it were titled "Ask an engineer" and all the people asked were women,
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by vcarl 10y ago
On the other hand, Flow is removed from the code transformation, so it doesn't have to bother with keeping up with the spec. That's a pretty strong point in Flow's favor in my opinion, single responsibility principle and all
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by vcarl 10y ago
Good call, that's a very different chart. https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel-core&package=...
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by vcarl 10y ago
I love these posts. I don't properly understand the majority of what's being done, but a step by step of somebody solving a difficult problem in a space I know nothing about is so fascinating.

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