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Stop chasing the next framework, no more todomvc – build something interesting(medium.com)
2 points by wwalser 10y ago|0 comments
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by wwalser 10y ago
Brendan recently wished John Carmack best of luck with landing lisp in VR with his use of Racket for Oculus. Pretty cool seeing great engineers cheer each other on with common goals. Also interesting to see John, someone steeped in and supe
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by wwalser 10y ago
I had an offer from Uber and was given sufficient time to decide and turn them down. I had a whole host of reasons for turning them down many of which felt dirty/scammy/untrustworthy and nothing about this story surprises me but I
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by wwalser 10y ago
> There is no tax _difference_. No. The TechCrunch author may have a misunderstanding but you do as well. Assets which always trigger AMT can result in very different tax outcomes than assets which _may_ trigger AMT.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Common HN comments: "I could build/setup/run this myself" It's a SAAS tool and you could build it? Well hot damn, you must be a programmer! I'm stunned by how many refuse to learn from Gmail (mailserver), Dropb
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Re: Developers' Side Projects – Owning Side Projects Should Be Easy(medium.com)
3 points by wwalser 10y ago|0 comments
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by wwalser 10y ago
I use this often in vscode. It's good for finding files but ido-mode is everywhere.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Interesting when companies have different names in different countries. It's called Delivery Hero in Australia. I suspect it's a UK based company which eventually got large enough to buy a similar AU based company and just kept th
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by wwalser 10y ago
I like DoorDash and I hoped that they would end up winning in this space but it seems unlikely when their two competitors have other things that the supply side (delivery people) can do if food deliveries aren't needed. Amazon is likel
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by wwalser 10y ago
Is signing up for an Amazon service any different to opting into something like DoorDash or Seamless? Amazon is big/established and probably has the data necessary to understand exactly when they can screw you. They also have a large e
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by wwalser 10y ago
I came to the comments to point out that I didn't know what Apollo was. Most of your long term traffic will come from Google searches but early on while it's being shared around places like Hacker News, it's probably a good i
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by wwalser 10y ago
I'm aware. If you follow the thread, we're talking specifically about creating a new file using the command pallet. Also, I mentioned above that, while I'm aware of the ability to create a file using finder, I'd rather n
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by wwalser 10y ago
Didn't know this, will try!
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by wwalser 10y ago
It does for languages where you can find a mode that supports it. I never found one for Javascript. Honestly though, while I like the feature, I never notice that it's not there when I'm using Emacs. I can get around in a JS code
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by wwalser 10y ago
I didn't know this! I just created a few keyboard shortcuts that I commonly use manually. Not perfect but it's gotten me over the hump. I may check out the emacs bindings on a slow day.
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by wwalser 10y ago
I have unfortunately not done much C or C++ development since uni. I know that SLIME always seemed far and away the best lisp editing experience.
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by wwalser 10y ago
The command palette seems like the sort of thing that'll have more power than I'm currently giving it credit for. How do you create a file outside of the directory that you're currently editing?
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by wwalser 10y ago
I tried Flow but ended up using Typescript for my current project. If I were to go hard on Flow I'd probably be using Atom with Nuclide instead of VSCode. I actually like Flow slightly better but the community created type libs for Typ
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by wwalser 10y ago
I don't know why there are so many non-answers or flat out incorrect answers to your question. Yes, js devs use debuggers and have for years. Firebug was created and popularized for browser js 10 years ago[1]. Node.js was released 7 ye
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by wwalser 10y ago
Using awareness of how to use a debugger is a reasonable interview technique WRT javascript devs. In general, ignorance is not a pejorative but if a candidate walk into an interview claiming to be an expert and I find out that you debug in
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by wwalser 10y ago
I was responding to the claim that it console.log was the only way.
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by wwalser 10y ago
I recently moved from EMACS (after using it for ~10 years & ~6 languages) to VSCode. There are loads of things that I miss but overall it's been a fairly smooth transition. I'm moving because I spend most of my time writing ja
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by wwalser 10y ago
The Chrome based dev tools have been an option for years using node-inspector. Had all of the basics that you would expect from a debugging. Breakpoints, step into/out/over, variables available at that location in the stack, REPL
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by wwalser 10y ago
Cookies have several security features built in and if all you're storing is a session identifier they are generally better than a JWT from a size perspective. This does a better job that I'm going to try for in a HN comment: htt
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by wwalser 10y ago
Your comment is not a substantive addition to the discussion. It's generally understood that anyone on HN who doesn't take the time to click into this thread is likely to be either not in the target market or is otherwise unwillin
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by wwalser 10y ago
I plan on writing something up soon, getting my code bases in order right now. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155919
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by wwalser 10y ago
I'll be writing up my own experience building auth for askinline.com. I don't know how to keep you in the loop other than saying to follow me on Medium or Twitter. It's a React + Redux front end with Hapi + Sequelize backend.
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by wwalser 10y ago
I have used Jasmine+Karma. It's good stuff. It doesn't have the the "awesome stuff baked in" feel that Jest gives but it also doesn't give you a headache when something baked in doesn't work as expected :).
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by wwalser 10y ago
Thanks for the work you & the team have put into Jest. While I haven't used it recently, I'm glad that it's out there as an option. The _ability_ to mock easily was always super great.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Yeah, that's a fairly succinct summary. I suppose I put some effort into having a positive-by-default outlook on stuff others have created. I don't think those descriptions of PH are _bad_ things and even if they were bad, then I

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