AlwaysBCoding

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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Hm, I guess that's a valid point. I normally think of web apps as a frontend to a database, but could see why that's not the only use case. If you don't have a database associated with the service, can't you just use AWS
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Yeah exactly, for building UI's less is more and the Clojurescript approach works really well. For building web apps, I really don't care how storing sessions, or configuring your web server or parsing HTTP requests is done, I jus
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I don't think Datomic takes that long to wrap your head around, but it does take a long time to actually use. There's no inherent equivalent of Model.all or Model.where(x = y), so chances are that you'll have to write your ow
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
My $0.02 on the state of Clojure - For building stateful UI's Clojurescript + Reagent beats anything else out there. For data science and algorithms Clojure beats anything else I've used. For backend web development Rails is still
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
My $0.02 React is a rendering engine, it's covers the final piece of your web app (rendering a data structure into DOM). But whatever you do to create the data structure that gets passed to React is up to you. This keeps most of your d
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
There's another one I came across recently also https://getsiphon.com/
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
To the people thinking 10,000 characters means suddenly everyone will write blog posts instead of tweets... Have you ever tried blogging? Writing blog posts is insanely hard and time consuming. You'd be an outlier if you could write on
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
And the publish/subscribe model being a possibly superior alternative to a two-way opt-in friendship model, is probably the reason for twitter's success not the 140 characters. So by keeping the subscription model but allowing for
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
The character limit is a massive problem though. Tweetstorms, replying to yourself, and posting images of text are all ridiculous hacks for a basic use case.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Also you don't really need to use a flux library or Redux if you're using Reagent, it's pretty much all set up for you. I've been using ClojureScript/Reagent for about a year now and all this JS tooling talk goes wa
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Kind of crazy to think how different Pokemon Red/Blue would have been if they were developed in the current age. Buy a rare candy for $1. Pay 10 cents to heal the PokeCenter. You're only allowed 20 battles in a day unless you invi
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Here's a better idea. Stop publically calling Edward Snowden a traitor, stop trying to pass nonsensical cybersecurity legislation through congress, remove the ridiculous ban on working for an intelligence agency if you've smoked M
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
It's in that Thumbtack/Shyp category of billion dollar companies where the only time you hear them mentioned is from VC's and TechCrunch not actual users
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I actually think we're at the point where it's an irresponsible business decision to build an iOS app in Swift over Javascript in most cases. React Native can target both iOS + Android with a much better development workflow than
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Um... Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the DNC, was the co-chair of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. It's no secret she wants Hillary to win the nomination. It's actually a pretty fucked up system. The rules for qualifi
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
It's probably this. I've livestreamed on Twitch + LiveCoding and have no clue why you would ever use LiveCoding. Twitch and Youtube seem like they're better in every capacity.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Also, Prohibition was enacted via a constitutional amendment, yet a large portion of people simply ignored it. It always gets understated what a massive crisis this ended up being for the integrity of the US Constitution. If one amendment w
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
yeah like a five person team who's CEO spends 70% of time fundraising is probably fine. But an ENTIRE team that spends 70% of their time fundraising perpetually would be about as effective as Congress actually is.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
The "limit" on campaign donations is a complete farce though. Let's look at Jeb Bush. Jeb stated multiple times that he wasn't running for president in 2016, and instead started a Super PAC that let him raise uncapped ca
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
The thing is though, Lessig is completely right. Members of Congress spend 70% of their time raising money. They're not lawmakers, they're professional fundraisers. Think of a startup whose founders spent 70% of their time raising
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
It's become impossible to ignore how terrible the NFL's decision making has been in the past few years, and I'm starting to wonder if a FIFA situation where every top executive is simultaneously removed is the only logical en
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Thresholds of Violence: How School Shootings Catch On(newyorker.com)
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
This is just one of many scandals for DFS in the past weeks. DraftKings had to refund all MMA bets on Saturday because of a "data error" -- it was sketchy as hell.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
This is awesome (and was seemingly inevitable now that React Native is in play), and it will be really interesting to see what Apple eventually does about this. If they change the terms of service to prevent hot loading app updates via Java
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I mean, this isn't like a kickstarter project where you have a nice video from some random person and nothing but blind optimism it can actually deliver. This is Facebook open-sourcing a library that has been in their production codeba
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Well the whole idea of Relay is to couple together the rendering logic of a UI component with the data fetching requirement of the component. So if you change the rendering logic of the component, the data that is fetched from the server wi
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I'm totally cool with Facebook mining my data if their open source keeps up this pace. GraphQL + Relay are total game changers for structuring web + mobile applications. Code bases get cleaner and more reliable. Less data gets sent ove
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Just use a tab bar where the right most tab is "more" and that brings up more navigation options. Can still have more than 5 nav links and avoids the hamburger menu, you can thank me later.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
All those hours and millions of dollars into perfecting their recommendation system, and Popcorn Time still has a better UI for viewing movies than Netflix does. Just show me all the top movies and let me pick one, why partition them into d
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
This is awesome. I'm really curious to see if the Ruby community will ever fully embrace something like Opal. Having used ClojureScript a bunch it's pretty nice to compile whatever backend programming language you're using to

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