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by bnorton 12d ago
You’re closer to this than I am but do you find it odd that helmets are almost never included? Biking is almost always accompanied by helmets
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by bnorton 2y ago
Chameleon | Fullstack Engineer (Ruby) | Remote before it was cool | $120k - $180k | Full-time | https://chameleon.io Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the
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by bnorton 2y ago
Chameleon | Frontend Engineer (React) + Fullstack Engineer (Ruby) | Remote before it was cool | $120k - $180k | Full-time | https://chameleon.io Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really want
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by bnorton 3y ago
i can only see the screenshot for "Example 1"
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by bnorton 3y ago
How you do you solve for, or imagine solving for the hiding of potentially important UI without running to risk users not finding what they are looking for and not realizing it is "just hidden". Without having to first know that t
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by bnorton 3y ago
yes and now it looks like you need a product tour
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by bnorton 5y ago
Chameleon | Frontend Engineer (React) | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Product team
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by bnorton 5y ago
Chameleon | Full Stack Rails Engineer + React | Remote before it was cool | Full-time | https://trychameleon.com Remember those modals, tooltips and checklists you have built but never really wanted to?! with Chameleon, the Prod
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by bnorton 7y ago
Netflix would have not become Netflix if Blockbuster had purchased them. This notion of a missed opportunity is flawed
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by bnorton 10y ago
Client side JS is Backbone + HTMLbars Node.js Rails AWS Lambda MongoDB & Postgres We have some interesting requirements that we must conform to in order to be part of our customer's web applications. We'd love to explore those
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by bnorton 10y ago
We've all built and [not] maintained product tours, now its time to pass the torch to our business compatriots. Chameleon enables them to show off the product without developers as the linchpin for the whims of late-night copy changes.
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Backbone Mixpanel - Log all Backbone.View#events to Mixpanel(github.com)
1 points by bnorton 14y ago|0 comments
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by bnorton 14y ago
the magic is here: https://github.com/bnorton/tap_if/blob/master/lib/tap_if.rb
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by bnorton 14y ago
Instead of assigning a variable or bloating the length of your statements, use this method to to return the caller and only execute the block if the condition passes. User.where(:email => email).first.tap_if(:present?) {|user| user.se
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#tap_if - a new type of conditional for Ruby(github.com)
2 points by bnorton 14y ago|2 comments
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by bnorton 14y ago
multiple file uploads. :)
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by bnorton 14y ago
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/involver/ind...
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by bnorton 14y ago
This is good information, but could you explain why you think that everyone should use caching? You don't mention testing in this article so is it safe to say that you don't? Do you have performance tests that show that the caching actualy
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by bnorton 14y ago
what is paper?
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by bnorton 14y ago
http://blog.involver.com/2012/01/26/testing-backbone-js-best...
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by bnorton 14y ago
This is the point I was getting at. Not that this style is bad or good (I think it is good) but that these aren't tests that span modules. It is common practice (and a good one) to mock the server from the JS perspective as to isolate it, b
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by bnorton 14y ago
How about the people that don't like or dont have time for said hackfests, how else would one meet someone like this? I feel that hackfests/days are not really all that enjoyable but am just as likely to be prime co-founder material...
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by bnorton 14y ago
It still seems more like unit tests.. For example this line states that if you are given 20 records that 20 make it into the view. expect(view.$('.persons li').length).toEqual(20); This mocks out the server to give 20 results back and simpl