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by zzaman 13y ago
I'm a little confused as to the need for Hack unless you have a code base in PHP and need to ship tighter code (which is a problem Facebook has and my team probably has as well). Adding lambdas makes PHP more Ruby-like and generics and
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by zzaman 14y ago
> we even had a Muslim fundamentalist who is very concerned about things in Pakistan. So, does having an interest in your homeland make you a fundamentalist all of a sudden? I'm Pakistani. I read and share stories about Pakistan all the
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by zzaman 14y ago
In my 6ish months of programming in Nodejs full-time, I have yet to run into a library that only runs on 0.4 only or requires my version of gcc to be patched and re-built. Which Node libraries were you trying to use?
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by zzaman 15y ago
Just took a look. Underscore.js looks very promising. Thanks for the tip!
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by zzaman 15y ago
One of the problems I have with articles like these is that they focus on Javascript's use in front-end development so the conversation settles on DOM tools examples of good Javascript. Using Node.js (i.e. non-DOM server side Javascript) my
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Fun Beats Fugly: Why Square Is Still Better Than PayPal(wired.com)
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by zzaman 15y ago
"We realized early on that what we were doing could be national in scope and we didn't want a name that tied us to one place." Personally I find that one of the most important reasons to think long and hard about a name. Most startups go th
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by zzaman 15y ago
Tried playing around and got stuck at the same level. The hint in this case is not very useful unfortunately: "These settings are config settings. You should run `git help config` if you are stuck"