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by wwweston 15y ago
"At points it devolves into 'This is confusing/non-intuitive if you don't know CS' and 'This is not the way I like to do things'." Sure. Most of the arguments for CoffeeScript itself pretty much boil down to "JS is confusing/non-intuitive i
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by wwweston 15y ago
(You know, the funny thing with downvotes is that you never know if you just made someone uncomfortable, or if there's a credible argument against what you just said. Though one tends to assume that if the later were true it would have been
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by wwweston 15y ago
Funny, my experience is that learning to read the idioms (and write the most convenient idioms) of the language is an upfront penalty, and once you've made the investment things start moving smoothly. Of course, it's everyone's privilege to
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by wwweston 15y ago
Well, I'm off to write a library called Umber.js.
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by wwweston 15y ago
"Analyzing fiction is a guessing game at best" You might be confusing the process of analyzing fiction and producing an analysis that demonstrates whatever a given English lit professor is looking for. Though you might be also happy to know
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by wwweston 15y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that for all the worthiness of the principle of separation of concerns, it's impossible to completely decouple presentation and logic -- you're going to either end up having some degree of model-related logic bub
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by wwweston 15y ago
With good markup semantics and some conversion tools, you probably could generate PDF, CSV, XLS, and ODS from HTML. Some of the more powerful document transformation engines do feats like this. I don't know, though. I tend to think that t
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by wwweston 15y ago
I've been thinking about some of the ideas in this rant for a while now. I might not have put it in quite such an opinionated manner (templating systems aren't usually my biggest problem), but I pretty much agree with a few things: 1) Fragm
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by wwweston 15y ago
I actually once worked for a place that didn't have this exact process, but they had a heavy process I'm sure nobody would describe as agile. And it worked pretty darn well. They designed educational games for early elementary education.
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by wwweston 15y ago
It's good proof of all those things. Whether or not it was successful in the market or made Michael Arrington a lot of money, though, it also seems to be proof not only of the idea that the general appearance of the iPad was likely to be ar
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by wwweston 15y ago
"Since the iPad came out we all have a preconceived notion of what a tablet should look like but had the iPad been designed differently...we'd live in an alternate universe where everything is the same including the court cases and me-too t
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by wwweston 15y ago
Was there any standardized feature out there that canvas displaced? Heck, given that Flash didn't do generated bitmaps and Java applets were largely dead by the time canvas hit, was there anything that it displaced? Or even a similar comp
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by wwweston 15y ago
It would probably help if the introduction to the project ("stop writing themes like it's 1998") could manage to be a little more matter-of-fact about the advantages it might have to offer and maybe a bit less opinionated.
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by wwweston 15y ago
Shades of datelance.com: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/600150311/Friends-post-bi...
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by wwweston 15y ago
Lots of negative reactions here, some of which might be coming from extrapolation. I'm reading his main points as: 1) Enthusiasm can be as important to productivity as adherence to "best practices." Doing something fun/interesting feeds ent
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by wwweston 15y ago
Can't see the phpBB-esque forum, so I'll have to take your word for it, but I'm interested in hearing what elements of their current homepage seem amateurish and what you think they're missing that would inspire trust.
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by wwweston 15y ago
with($('.class')) { find('.sub').remove() with(find('.stuff')) { addClass('other') find('.more_stuff').removeClass('things') } filter('li').appendTo('#my_list') }
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by wwweston 15y ago
Amen. The part about data flow is insightful. The idea of overloading it into whitespace is insane. There has to be a better way, and SmallTalk's might be it. Blocks delimited by whitespace work because they rely on a familiar set of conven