AlwaysBCoding

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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I've been using the Reagent library for all my web UI's and it's simply incredible. I desparately want to translate this same workflow to iOS. I'm a huge fan of React Native, but it's just not the same writing it in
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Yeah I agree, I saw a round of layoffs go by at a company I worked at that caught me by surprise. It always felt extremely disrespectful to me that I wasn't alerted beforehand. A simple heads up the night before would have done wonders
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I've always thought that Apple's horrific App Store approval process was the single biggest threat to the Apple empire. Glad to hear someone else speak out about this. It's seriously absurd that there's an arbitrarily en
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I think it's terrible. Parsing a JSON response into a Swift object takes a full-day to figure out when it's literally just JSON.parse(response) in any other language. You can't pass immutable structures (structs) into NSNotif
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Swift is awful to use in practice. It once took me 24 hours to parse a JSON response into a Swift object. In ruby you can get a ruby object from JSON by calling JSON.parse(data)... that's it. It takes one second. In Swift it's a n
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
JS->iOS is the way of the future, beacuse increasingly you can get to Javascript from any language. So for example, if your backend data system is built in Clojure you can get to Javascript via ClojureScript which is a Clojure->Javasc
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
I built my first mobile app this year (iOS) and I was appalled at how bad the tooling and development workflow for mobile was. Swift is a disaster, the app store approval process feels like going back 10 years in a time machine, debugging X
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Good concept, I hate games with timers though. You should have an option to turn it off, I like enjoying strategy games + taking my time
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Yes, It's Good: Initial Thoughts on the Apple Watch(medium.com)
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Yeah I agree, for basic DOM manipulation it's easier to just call out to the google closure functions than worrying about including jQuery... HOWEVA, there are a lot of useful libraries (highcharts, jqueryUI etc...) that are built on t
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Yes, you can use any JS library you normally would from ClojureScript. Pretty much the only JS "framework" that feels natural to use from ClojureScript is React, but things like jQuery, Highcharts, etc... all work just like they w
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
You can write Ember/Angular/Knockout etc... in ClojureScript (I've done it before) but it comes out feeling weird and unnatural. You always feel like you're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. The preferred sol
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
Having used both Rails + Clojure here's my take. As a general comparison, when it comes to building server-side web apps Rails is preferable to Clojure. But for the web stacks / ecosystems as a whole Clojure wins by about 10x. The
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
At this point I'm just going to pause my inbox with http://inboxpause.com/ and open it in the morning, see everyone on the other side.
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by AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
This is unbelievable if true. Why has nobody thought of tweeting from prison before? It's genius. Is there anything the government can legally do to prevent this from happening? Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
AFAIK the Apple Watch doesn't support video of any sort, so if you want to get moving pictures on your watch the gif is the only way. Gif is about to make a comeback if anything.
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
No, it's different. 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 keep
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
You're 100% right. Once you're in Angular-land you are completely tied to the framework. You don't think about "how can I make X in my domain happen?" you think about "how do I make X in Angular happen". T
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Better idea, make a script that can spin up Azure instances and mine Bitcoins on them. Then build a web app on top of it that will liquidate Azure credits to cash as a service. When someone dumps their credentials into your site you spin up
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Just wondering, can the scraper record video of the site it's on? I feel like that's something I have a lot of use cases for. Even if it's not possible is there some hack you could do by taking a snapshot every 1/30th o
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Very short sighted mentality. It assumes that people are cogs and the measurable effect of working with someone is the amount of tangible output. Working with extremely talented developers can fundamentally change your perspective about how
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Semantic UI is really good as well. http://semantic-ui.com/
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
I agree 100% with this post. Reagent is the best UI library that I've ever worked with. It's powerful, just works, and it's easy to understand what's going on under the hood. I was able to teach a data scientist on our t
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Perfect example is r/nfl censoring the Bill Simmons story last week.
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
+1 for Reagent. Best UI library that I've ever used. Om is really confusing to me and requires too much configuration to make it usable. Reagent works out of the box and just makes so much sense. It never feels like you're using a
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
That was one of my favorite features. I've always wished there was some sort of one bit communication for "want to get a drink?" or "want to go for a bike ride?" or "want to watch the redskins game?" How c
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
This is really awesome. Can see this becoming very useful as more sites go jQuery-less. Also great job with the documentation. Simple, expressive and to the point. Wish more documentation looked like that.
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
+1 for Datomic, seems to be right in the wheelhouse for this problem.
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
Doesn't really matter for winning the narrative. The US enacted a 21-year old drinking age in 1984. It has been an absolute train wreck. One of the most backwards and out of touch with reality national policies that we have. The only r
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by AlwaysBCoding 12y ago
This is a pretty big deal. As short-sighted and destined to fail as the current backlash against Uber is (see the cease-and-desist order issued in Virginia this week), it becomes a different narrative altogether if you can show that Uber sa

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