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by jefftchan 10y ago
For context, "Names/blames me for account deletes" is probably related to: http://www.complex.com/life/2017/02/uber-users-deleting-app-... https://twitter.com/FamousCeleb/s
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Comparison of JavaScript Engines on Android(quizlet.com)
3 points by jefftchan 10y ago|0 comments
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Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman(mitadmissions.org)
52 points by jefftchan 10y ago|9 comments
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Hot Reloading for React Native(facebook.github.io)
3 points by jefftchan 10y ago|0 comments
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by jefftchan 11y ago
Relatedly, I wanted to highlight that Dan Abramov is currently working on a refactor of ReactPerf [1] which will make the performance measurements more accurate. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/60
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by jefftchan 11y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/ethics/ > Some examples of ethical behavior we expect from founders are: > ... > - Not using misleading, illegal or dishonest sales tactics. > ... Does this mean Parker is no lon
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Falcon 9 stage 1 rocket lands successfully(twitter.com)
13 points by jefftchan 11y ago|0 comments
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Quizlet raises $12m from USV and Costanoa after bootstrapping for 10 years(avc.com)
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Quizlet(avc.com)
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by jefftchan 11y ago
Great post! I found Fenwick trees particularly useful when I was implementing layout / view recycling. The problem is that you need to keep track of a large number of vertically stacked elements with dynamic & varying heights, and
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by jefftchan 11y ago
Totally agree. See Facebook's messenger.com for a similar thing, done much better.
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by jefftchan 11y ago
What about Ripple.js [1] [2], which Segment also released ~1 year ago? Is that dead now? [1] https://ripplejs.github.io [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609816
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by jefftchan 11y ago
This is great. Can't wait for the actual release. One question I have is how GraphQL/Relay works for writing/modifying data on the server?
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Chromium is already on Github. https://github.com/chromium
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by jefftchan 12y ago
For me, the part of Flux that's difficult to understand is how server data flows into the cycle (left-hand side of the diagram). The Flux docs only recommends that server interactions should be done from the Action Creators. However, t
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by jefftchan 12y ago
I'd like to see scoping added so it's possible to easily switch keyboard bindings based on the feature/context. https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster does an OK job with this, and too bad it's not b
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Any recommendations for software to manage workspaces on OS X?
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by jefftchan 12y ago
MIT's distributed systems class is also taught in Go - http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/schedule.html
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Here's an open source alternative: https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol/
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Point #2 is especially spot on. Right now TransitionGroup clones every child [1] to preserve children for unmounting, but it's incredibly inefficient, especially if you have thousands of elements. Not to mention, as a side-effect, it r
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Can we now use Stripe + Apple Pay to circumvent 30% revenue cut?
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by jefftchan 12y ago
The page width awkwardly jumps when toggling between unified and split diff. Is this a glitch, or intentional?
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Announcing UberPool(blog.uber.com)
430 points by jefftchan 12y ago|155 comments
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by jefftchan 12y ago
Yes, a chain of actions (for example, a sequence of AJAX requests that need to be fired)
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by jefftchan 12y ago
It's great to see Facebook releasing code for Flux. Hope to see more in the future. Here are some other implementations of Flux for anyone who's interested: https://github.com/BinaryMuse/fluxxor https:/
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by jefftchan 12y ago
In China, it's called "circle a" (圈a), "flowery a" (花a), or "little mouse" (小老鼠). In Taiwan, it's most commonly called "little mouse"
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by jefftchan 12y ago
It seems like they're detecting browser user agent (and possibly IP)
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by jefftchan 12y ago
How does this work in the case of namespace collision? Will we have squatters on the uri schemes?
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by jefftchan 12y ago
I think doing all-hands support in a way that's efficient (not taking too much out of engineer's time) and scalable requires a well-designed system to support it. Quizlet, where I've worked before, does a good job of this. Se
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by jefftchan 13y ago
Relevant: Facebook migrated from git to hg awhile back. Here's a blog post on how they are scaling hg for their monolithic repos https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

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