BMorearty

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by BMorearty 11mo ago
I’m in the same boat, unsure if this is outdated. I left Airbnb five years ago and haven’t followed up to ask anyone what the current state of the tech is.
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by BMorearty 11mo ago
I’m not trying to follow the latest Ruby dustup and don’t have a stake in it but as an Airbnb alum I did find this part particularly identifiable: “Yet, Ruby and Rails remain the default stack at Shopify, and the only reason for that is the
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by BMorearty 1y ago
Sure, Google is making sure app vendors comply with regulations in specialized industries. /s
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by BMorearty 2y ago
A website like this is not required. It's just nice to have. Somehow we've managed to use email without this website it for the decades that email has supported HTML. Caniuse exists too, does that mean HTML and CSS are broken? Nah
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by BMorearty 2y ago
hee hee
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by BMorearty 3y ago
Got it! Thank you for the explanation.
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by BMorearty 3y ago
Thanks, I know I could do it in the console or the original source. But I was referring to the fact that the sentence in the post says to convert it to a getter "either in the original source code or using a conditional breakpoint.&quo
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by BMorearty 3y ago
Under the section "Debugging Property Reads": how would you convert `{configOption: true}` to `{get configOption() { debugger; return true; }}` using a conditional breakpoint?
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by BMorearty 3y ago
I know Ruby != Rails but the example wasn’t mine. It was from the paragraph I quoted from the post, which conflates the two. It may be true in Python--I don’t use it much--but I know Ruby well. It was my primary language for 13 years, at mu
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by BMorearty 3y ago
> In Ruby it's common to use exceptions for control flow. I think this is just plain incorrect. The example given later in this paragraph is the Rails `update` method--but the approach used in all canonical Rails examples and genera
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by BMorearty 3y ago
I've worked as an employee and as a contractor in Silicon Valley (never at Google). While it was nice to be treated like an employee by some companies, my attitude was that it's just understood that as a contractor I'm not as
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by BMorearty 3y ago
Thank you. That is a much more lucid and complete explanation than was given in the article.
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by BMorearty 3y ago
I'm confused by this article. It says "New evidence adds to work showing people made these prints [in New Mexico] sometime between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago." It supposedly contradicts experts' belief for decades that
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by BMorearty 3y ago
One of my favorite bug stories to tell people.
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by BMorearty 3y ago
I followed my left-leaning parents' advice to get paid for doing something I love. But luckily for me I love coding.
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by BMorearty 3y ago
This unexpectedly reminded me of what East Berlin looked like in 1988. It looked gray and dull compared to West Berlin. I've told this story for years without realizing that lack of outdoor advertising made the difference.
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by BMorearty 3y ago
This article asked me to click to accept cookies. :P
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by BMorearty 3y ago
I missed the search and maps improvements. What did they say?
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by BMorearty 4y ago
It took me ten years to get back into using an RSS reader. Over that time, I found individual blog posts to read via links from Twitter. And there were a few that I subscribed to over email. But now with the whole Twitter debacle, a month a
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Even if your old one does start to go bad, I discovered it can be more effective to repair than replace for a multifunction printer/scanner. My old Brother was on the fritz a year ago. After being shocked by prices for new ones, I foun
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Seems like you're changing the subject.
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Oh like Google Docs.
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Software is only for real when you can run it on your home computer? Google isn't for real yet?
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Nice. A few more ideas: consolidate small functions into one huge function; change await to callback hell in JS; goto!
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by BMorearty 4y ago
> I’ll never forgive myself for what I put my family through. How is your family now? Is it intact? Have they been able to forgive you? Glad you seem to be doing better.
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by BMorearty 4y ago
What's ridiculous about tipping on a receipt?
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by BMorearty 4y ago
So, 13 months ago [0] you said on HN that you were making $120k/month with 3000 users. How come you're still making the same amount but with 18x more users than you had more than a year ago? What's the disconnect? [0] https:
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by BMorearty 4y ago
`cat` aliased to `bat`, nice. :) I really like bat.
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by BMorearty 4y ago
I would like to...but when I want to buy some random product and the first thing I need to do is find a store that sells it, and then I add the product to my cart on that store and check out, and then it shows me a shipping price that'
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by BMorearty 4y ago
Okay I’ve been trying out your suggestion for a week. I think I will keep it.

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