EvilTrout

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Building Galley House(eviltrout.com)
2 points by EvilTrout 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 9mo ago
Blow and Muratori gained a following of engineers by bashing existing popular languages and engines, claiming they were all garbage. They both started this after the Witness came out, 10 years ago. Since then, guess how many games Muratori
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How The Roottrees are Dead ditched AI and became a hit(theverge.com)
2 points by EvilTrout 1y ago|0 comments
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How classic Sierra game graphics worked (and an attempt to upscale them)(youtube.com)
7 points by EvilTrout 4y ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 5y ago
Discourse | Full Stack Engineer | Remote | Full Time Discourse creates open source forum software in Ruby on Rails and Ember.js. We've always been 100% remote and are hiring for a few positions right now so please check out our web sit
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by EvilTrout 6y ago
In Toronto mortgages don't work this way. Fixed rate mortgages are typically 5 year terms. After the term is up they'll have to get the higher interest rate.
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My Sudden Trip to Hell(linkedin.com)
273 points by EvilTrout 7y ago|151 comments
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Candles, Programming and Archetypes(eviltrout.com)
1 points by EvilTrout 8y ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 8y ago
Once they found him they collected two more samples and matched it directly with their source sample.
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Why I left Shopfify(medium.com)
4 points by EvilTrout 9y ago|4 comments
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by EvilTrout 9y ago
Discourse co-founder here. I'm not sure about those stats you posted from 3 years ago since they aren't using the same `rake stats` numbers that are built in to Rails. Discourse's Rails app is currently 63k SLOC not including
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The value of a thousand little features(eviltrout.com)
2 points by EvilTrout 9y ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 9y ago
As a long time (5 years full time) Ember developer, this is quite interesting to me philosophically. I've spent a lot of time trying to tell people that all the stuff in Ember is there for a reason; for example, you're going to ne
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by EvilTrout 9y ago
Those are only the build tools, and trust me you want a great build pipeline when dealing with Javascript these days! In the screencast it shows that when you deploy you just get a javascript file for your components that should be super sm
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Ember-concurrency: the solution to so many problems you never knew you had(medium.com)
5 points by EvilTrout 11y ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 11y ago
It's perhaps not as custom as I made it sound. The code we have is a wrapper around the [virtual-dom]( https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom ) library which does most of the low level work. The "widget"
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by EvilTrout 11y ago
I just learned about your project today and it's fantastic! We must think alike.
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TIS-100: An emulator for a CPU that doesn't exist(eviltrout.com)
80 points by EvilTrout 11y ago|37 comments
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
I watched her video that featured Hitman Absolution as well and I don't recall her saying "this is integral" to the game. It was one of many examples. Also, to me that sounds like cherry picking -- out of literally dozens o
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
But MP4s will play using low power on virtually every touch device today. That is a huge advantage.
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One Month at Discourse(blog.techapj.com)
1 points by EvilTrout 12y ago|0 comments
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Wrapping a jQuery plugin in a Ember.js component (youtube.com)
1 points by EvilTrout 12y ago|0 comments
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Using Ember.js without Ember Data [Screencast] (24:25)(youtube.com)
2 points by EvilTrout 12y ago|0 comments
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Analyzing S3 and CloudFront access logs with AWS RedShift(techblog.thescore.com)
23 points by EvilTrout 12y ago|2 comments
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
What if them is `undefined`? You'll get an exception when usually you just want `undefined` as the answer. As a side note, Ember.js has a nice method for this built in, that works on plain old Javascript objects as well as the heavier
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The Refresh Test(eviltrout.com)
1 points by EvilTrout 12y ago|0 comments
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
> For maximum usability, why shouldn't the app support both infinite scroll and paginated, and let the USER choose (by url slug or GET param)? I've always thought we could do this as there is no technical reason why we couldn&#
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
Question: Why do you need to jump to page 20? In a long topic, what value does it give you? We have found that the vast majority of users either link to a single post or scroll downwards. For mega topics, we have a summarize option that sho
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
It actually was (and continues to be) a lot of work. It's the very first thing we started work on for Discourse and will likely never quite "end." However, browsing posts is the most core functionality we offer so it's w
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by EvilTrout 12y ago
It's really nice to be able to read something without interruption. In terms of engagement, a user is much more likely to bail every time you require them to perform an action like click "next page." On Discourse they can jus

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