htilford

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by htilford 1y ago
Interviews are a thing, no one is hiring people based on self reported claims
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by htilford 4y ago
> Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven't quite figured out how. Yeah, ditto but having been through these ruts many times in the past I can offer some advice ADHD makes you incapable of settling into easy You ha
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by htilford 5y ago
The fact that it most people think it's a well-defined operation is what makes it a useful question. A total newbie who doesn't know how to code will fumble. A junior engineer will get to the simple solution. A senior engineer w
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by htilford 6y ago
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.rss and https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history.json work as well.
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by htilford 6y ago
It's pull rather than push, but you can use the public API to get notified of incidents: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v2
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by htilford 11y ago
This was a long time coming. I remember some MS folks talking to Ryan Dahl about doing this back at nodeconf 2011.
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by htilford 11y ago
What was the inspiration to create yet another compile to JS language?
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by htilford 12y ago
The DOM is to slow on mobile issue is what spawned http://famo.us/ . They go beyond virtual DOM by creating their own layout engine that then outputs to optimized DOM (or canvas/WebGL).
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by htilford 12y ago
The typing notation of TypeScript is on it's way to becoming part of Javascript. See http://www.2ality.com/2014/10/typed-javascript.html Going forward does not mean abandoning Javascript, just abandoning ES5
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by htilford 12y ago
They left out the most obvious reason for them to switch. Their business is based on docker, coreOS etc . . . aka the Go ecosystem. In that context developing Go expertise just makes business sense regardless of technical merits.
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by htilford 12y ago
Me, I'm a Node.js guy, but that's in part because of my long history with JavaScript. I don't think I've ever been tempted to write anything in Dart, though there are some things I've written that would have been b
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by htilford 12y ago
You can build the same quality of web app in any of the above. The question is how much you'll have to fight against the platform's pain points. Will you be CPU bound? Will you be memory bound? IO bound? Will you need to scale? it
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by htilford 12y ago
The full blown node running on the JVM is called http://vertx.io/
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by htilford 12y ago
http://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/
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by htilford 12y ago
I know going home sucks. but I've been there, and my advice is to withdraw from your college, go home and maybe take some classes at your local junior college. your health is more important than a degree. and in time you'll eithe
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by htilford 12y ago
It really depends on your application. Each language, platform and framework has a niche. Depending on what you're doing none of the above might even be the answer. You might be better served a serverless solution like firebase.
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by htilford 13y ago
There is no shame in having a failed startup. There is no shame in being between things. You just need to get out and talk to people. Let inspiration find you.
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by htilford 13y ago
Docker is a useful tool that solves problems you likely don't have yet. It wouldn't hurt to learn docker, but I'd say don't worry about it.
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by htilford 13y ago
Very nice, I like how easy the signup flow is.
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by htilford 13y ago
Among my favorites is http://eloquentjavascript.net/ , which is a bit dated but still worth going through. The second edition is a work in progress which current to 2014 and could use your feedback since you're the tar
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by htilford 13y ago
Unless you really need the money, it's always best to find the position where you will grow more. What skills will you pick up at the consulting firm? What skills will you pick up at the startup?
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by htilford 13y ago
You can learn you some node with nodeschool http://nodeschool.io/
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by htilford 13y ago
I'd be game
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by htilford 13y ago
Skype but properly peer-to-peer was pretty much the theme of realtime conf this year take a look at this video: http://vimeo.com/77289728 They demo a federated video chat.
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by htilford 13y ago
I'm reminded more about their actual reality show that ended with a job http://penny-arcade.com/strip-search/
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by htilford 13y ago
It's Penny Arcade, he's concerned with getting too many applicants, not too few.
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by htilford 13y ago
They all solve slightly different problems, we use both bower and browserify
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by htilford 13y ago
news. YCOMBINATOR .com yc startups have always been able to post here like that.
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by htilford 13y ago
One I've found useful: http://markup.io/
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by htilford 13y ago
I think that even if [deck drop instance] is clearer than [dockerfile image container] it would be better to use [dockerfile image container] it's the standard set forth from docker, sticking to the standard makes interoperating easie

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