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Oh, yeah, the Steam and iTunes stores are both abysmal! Slow loading, no tabbed browsing, poorly designed views -- it all gets in the way of spending money. That said, I do quite like the iTunes album cover view.
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HN doesn't support Markdown. You'll need to prefix each line with >= 2 spaces for it to be treated as code. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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http://jquery.com/browser-support/ jQuery 2.x dropped support for <= IE8.
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A little napkin math for anyone else doing comparisons: 28.9 hours * 52 weeks ~= 1500 hours --- 37.5 hours * 48 weeks ~= 1800 hours 37.5 hours * 47 weeks ~= 1760 hours 37.5 hours * 46 weeks ~= 1725 hours 37.5 hours * 40 weeks ~= 1500 hours
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For React, you should be comparing React + Flux to Angular. The biggest problem with Angular is that it has a very steep learning curve, and writing bad Angular code is worse than writing bad jQuery soup. - Using watchers/observers a
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I should have been a little more explicit: the string interpolation, though not the focus of the article, is part of what interests me w.r.t. readability.
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const description = (nameAndOccupation) => { const [[first, last], occupation] = nameAndOccupation; return `${first} is a ${occupation}`; } description([["Reginald", "Braithwaite"], "programmer
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Yeah, we're definitely interested in seeing what's possible with isomorphic Ember or React code. We don't necessarily require Javascript developers to come in with Node.js knowledge, but they should be interested in learning
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Good catch! I said "front-end developer" but really we're just looking for smart full-stack developers or Javascript developers who are comfortable working across the stack. I've updated my post to reflect that.
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Boston, MA (Washington Square in Brookline) - Full-Time Society of Grownups https://www.societyofgrownups.com/ Want a chance to build financial education software from the ground-up? Society of Grownups offers in-person and
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It depends on how you want to handle message passing. Would your architecture be simpler if you could decouple your sender and receiver? It can make it harder to track errors (as in, where the message came from, determining who is listening
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* I sense that what you work on has a lot to do with how much you learn. If true, how do you end up in an environment where you're learning a lot? Ask during your interview! If a company has a culture of learning, they'll
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I love walk-and-talk meetings. They're the only ones where I feel like I can really speak freely. That, and it's quite nice to take 20 minutes to grab an iced tea on a mellow 70* day.
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Why would I take a screencast of myself reading HackerNews?
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What format would you prefer instead? YAML?
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I think you're hugely overestimating how many US companies support remote working.
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As someone who has interviewed 50+ developers in the past six months: that code sample would absolutely get you an in-person interview. Your code is fine and the company was probably just giving you a cop-out answer for whatever reason. Don
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If you just want to read the questions/responses: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/2rh6si/table_iama_i_...
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From an interviewer's perspective, they just want to see that you can use GitHub and write some code that looks well-formatted and well-reasoned. Nothing is more disheartening than opening up someone's GitHub profile and seeing 70
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If they've already answered all of your questions, let them know what you were intending to ask, and what your take on their answer was. It shows that you did have questions, were intersted in the answers, and that they did a solid job
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I've experienced a similar issue with my 2012 iMac: after waking from sleep, I find that all of my terminal tabs are in a "Restored" state, so the history is correct, but anything running ends up detached. It's frustrati
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Something that might be relatable: show a few screenshots of Angry Birds, and talk about the different roles that went in to making it, such as UI programmers, physics programmers, project managers, designers, etc. That also gives you a gre
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Using commas is a little bit nicer if you tend to log objects frequently.
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Brainfuck relies on pointer arithmetic, while this is using bit shifting. Brainfuck commands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck#Commands Bit shifting: http://stackoverflow.com/a/141873/58
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The cool thing is that jQuery/Sizzle can use normal DOM selectors on an XML document, so there is a little flexibility there, and like you said, MutationObserver is pretty excellent. Getting rid of the noise is my biggest concern. Idea
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I'm very interested in working on a Javascript framework where you work directly with XML (for data and event binding) and let XSLT handle transforming it to HTML -- imagine React, except you work with XML instead, and treat it as an i
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Does GitHub need to do anything beyond hosting git repos, though?
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Nice! I'd recommend changing from keyup to keydown -- it'll make everything feel snappier.
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Consider server administration to have the same learning curve as picking up a new language: everything will feel unfamiliar at first, but once you get used to it, you'll start recognizing patterns and similarities between each tool th

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