wwalser

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by wwalser 10y ago
Well, if you can look someone's portfolio up online then, by default, they have a portfolio. What you're not getting from that type of search is the thousands of people who don't have a portfolio online. Here's my github
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by wwalser 10y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Mid Front end Devs". Do you mean not Jr and not Sr? I guess I wouldn't be quite sure how to express that either :| I've interviewed tons of front end devs, all for product compan
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by wwalser 10y ago
The difference in taste between HN and PH was on display in the thread about the AngelList's acquisition of PH. I found it really bizarre. A gathering of people who build stuff just completely deriding something built by a small team f
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by wwalser 10y ago
I haven't looked at the proxy spec since playing with it several years back after it was first implemented in FF so my knowledge of how it works probably has gaps but I have a question: Using a get returns an object which has a ._promi
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by wwalser 10y ago
I have a strange history with JS test libraries. Of the 4 that I've used, I've fixed bugs in 3 of them within a week of first picking it up. QUnit, Sinon and Jest. This isn't commentary on the quality of Jest. After turning o
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by wwalser 10y ago
I always used the option to turn it off by default. What you're left with (instead of having to unmock loads of stuff) is a parallel test runner with and a utility that is capable of mocking most anything upon command. They recently ch
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by wwalser 10y ago
If your goal is to eventually make money from the project then sure. There is value in shipping things only that they get used, open source comes to mind.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Fun concept. I'd second the multiple block movements. One critical element of game design for most games that become fast paced is that the user must always feel like a failure of death was their fault. Example are pixel perfect collis
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by wwalser 10y ago
I'm a software engineer turned self-funded founder. The amount of stuff that's critical to early success and has absolutely nothing to do with technology really puts decisions like what stack to use into perspective. Rewriting usi
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by wwalser 10y ago
Can you build something that'll make your customers happy? Then your stack is good enough.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Is it crazy to think that a website with 2.8MM uniques/month could make could make $280,000/month? I honestly don't know the numbers for a media companies, referral programs or direct resellers. There's also some obvious
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by wwalser 10y ago
The top comment in this tread says: "Why can't businesses get free services off the fat of VC capital?" Perhaps an explanation of Zenefits' business model is in order. The explanation of it's software being free is
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by wwalser 10y ago
Congrats on going full time. Don't sweat the salty comments.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Again I don't disagree. I acknowledge the very likely truth in the claims. I get why it pisses people off. I'm a founder, I want distribution as much as the next person and being bootstrapped I know it's less likely for me th
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by wwalser 10y ago
You could be correct but I'd assume they are making reasonable money on referral programs and direct sales. I know for a fact that direct sales are a thing (or were at one point)[0]. Basically the "get it" button becomes a ch
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by wwalser 10y ago
Sorry I didn't say this before but: Thank you for creating this. Though I don't completely know what I'm looking at it may push me to learn more about my own setup and consider alternatives. Good stuff.
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by wwalser 10y ago
The price is going to be some multiple on their revenue, I'd guess somewhere in the 4-6x range. $20MM is enough to get investors ($7MM invested) off your back and let the acquisition go forward and there is plenty of opportunity for ba
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by wwalser 10y ago
I don't disagree with your assertions and in fact I think you're pointing out something that's important for people to generally understand. However, It's important to understand that this is more of a _rule_ than an exc
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by wwalser 10y ago
EMACS is my standard editor but I don't know what several of these things do. I'm open to my environment being improved but I'm not so into installing something when I don't know what it does. The site doesn't do mu
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by wwalser 10y ago
Given the popularity of various photo/video manipulation applications on mobile, I'm surprised by Facebook's decision here. If Prisma had gotten a bump in traction with this, every other video/photo app would be immediat
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by wwalser 10y ago
I agree completely but that's not what happened in this case. Sending live video to Facebook is just one feature that was recently added to the already popular photo manipulation app, Prisma[1]. 1. http://prisma-ai.com/
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by wwalser 10y ago
As a user, I'd much rather Eran hold on to control until he finds 3-4 people that he absolutely trusts. Saying no to the 90% of bad ideas and non-issues is one of most difficult and disciplined tasks of maintainership of this type of p
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by wwalser 10y ago
The minified version of this library is about 1MB but loading individual modules is possible. I haven't checked my own net tab but I presume the site uses chunking in order to avoid downloading the entire library on the initial load. T
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by wwalser 10y ago
I believe they meant desktop-feel as opposed to mobile first (mostly because some consider Material to be a mobile-first decision). Additional Note: Blueprint doesn't go out of it's way to degrade nicely for mobile screen sizes fo
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by wwalser 10y ago
I too hate when desktop websites hide all of their navigation behind a burger menu. I also generally hate all mystery meat navigation. The way that it's used here though it seems reasonable. All of the important navigation is along the
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by wwalser 10y ago
Facebook isn't "everyone". As I noted in the comment to which you're replying, there are people building and using Web Components. Nothing about Facebook creating React prevents browser vendors from implementing Web Comp
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It's content marketing. The podcast is the heartfelt advertisement.
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by wwalser 10y ago
Similar to this, I'd love to know how YC feels about it's founders who have an exit big enough to be a personal success but aren't successful from a VC perspective. I know, for example, that most investors are probably not ha
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by wwalser 10y ago
I didn't mean "done better" as an absolutist statement, but I can understand why it would be read that way. I meant it more as a brand statement, obviously the React team, contributors and users are likely to believe it'
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by wwalser 10y ago
I've been keeping an eye out for a project on which to use Ember. Unfortunately, I've been in that exact mode for literally years. I already trust that it's solid stuff from having learned a load about software development fr

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