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by elsbree 3y ago
Rafting on HN, never thought I'd see the day! For anyone looking for more on the subject of multi-day wilderness rafting trips, my parents wrote a blog post on a similar trip we did in Alaska (more remote and logistically complicated,
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by elsbree 5y ago
Had the opposite experience recently as an EM. Spent a few months trying to find a staff-level engineer. Found a great candidate who worked for a FAANG, worked to get our budget up to his expectations, sold him on the team, and he accepted
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by elsbree 9y ago
Looks like they hit the daily request limit on the Google Maps API (you'll see the error message if you hit Cmd-Option-J in Chrome).
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by elsbree 11y ago
If you're familiar with node.js' "require" syntax, Browserify is a good place to start: https://github.com/substack/node-browserify#usage . An up-and-coming alternative is Webpack: http://
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by elsbree 12y ago
I was impressed by how easy it was to integrate Clef into my existing auth system- by far the best two-factor authentication system I've used.
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by elsbree 12y ago
From http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spotlight-Odd-Looking-Scuba-M... , "Designer Jeabyun Yeon's odd-looking and quite innovative concept scuba mask works by turning people into fish". No indication that t
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by elsbree 12y ago
browser compatibility is hard :). in all seriousness though, we're working to support every browser we can. hopefully we'll have some fixes for Linux users in the next couple of days
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by elsbree 12y ago
We should mention this on the site, but the visualizer currently only works in Chrome due to some idiosyncrasies with the way other browsers handle (or don't handle) getting waveform data from audio tags. We're working on it thoug
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Show HN: A Customizable SoundCloud Player Built on the Web Audio API and d3(toneden.io)
93 points by elsbree 12y ago|62 comments
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by elsbree 13y ago
Yes, we're using Express.js. QUnit looks interesting, I think I'll start with it. Is it pretty standard to just have an HTML file that runs all your client-side tests?
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by elsbree 13y ago
This looks awesome, thanks! Definitely what I was looking for.
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by elsbree 13y ago
Wow, looks really helpful. I'm definitely going to try out their trial. Thanks!
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by elsbree 13y ago
Thanks! Our backend is built on Node, but I'll see if I can glean some general concepts from this.
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by elsbree 13y ago
Does anybody have recommendations for where/how to start learning best practices for TDD? As (nominally) top nerd at a tiny startup (2 engineers), I feel like I should set a precedent sooner rather than later for testing. This is curre
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by elsbree 13y ago
Agreed, the current state of software tools for biology is sad- the tools are written by scientists, for scientists, and tend to have messy source code and incomplete/difficult to read documentation. I don't mean to insult the peo