mattdawson

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by mattdawson 9y ago
I honestly don't mean it as any kind of personal slight or insult. My apologies that I came across that way. (I'm tempted to edit the OP, but won't for clarity purposes.) For what it's worth, I acknowledge that many&#x
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by mattdawson 9y ago
Yeah, that'd be fine - if they worked for all people .
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by mattdawson 9y ago
The lack of even a nod to diversity issues (race, gender, class, etc.) that the tech industry is dealing (or not dealing with) is tone deaf and insulting to the extreme.
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by mattdawson 9y ago
I'll consider myself lucky if I get to work on a project that only creates 49 regressions in 4+ years (which appears to be how far this changelog currently goes back).
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by mattdawson 12y ago
> I can't imagine how I would construct a scene with a gold/white dress and then take a picture that looks like the one in the OP I can. To me, this initially looked like a situation where the background is lit with incandescen
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by mattdawson 12y ago
> With a ZNC bounce, a simple ircd server and 5 minutes you can avoid paying for communication and keep your company chat logs secure and on your own infrastructure. Having watched a coworker spend a solid week getting our company's
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by mattdawson 12y ago
I have, and I'd even be up for using it on a production project. I'd go so far to say I like it even. But the fact stands that the current project I'm working on has a Gruntfile that just flat out wouldn't work in Gulp -
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by mattdawson 12y ago
Yeah, but it's also trivially easy to wrap a 3rd party task in your own task and munge the config at run time. (I'll admit that that pattern didn't become apparent to me until after using Grunt for some months, but once I saw
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by mattdawson 12y ago
I practically live and die by the 5 Minute Rule, and as a counterpoint, I've always found Grunt intuitive, if verbose. In particular, I love that its files API is so flexible. I frequently find myself asking questions that look like &q
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by mattdawson 12y ago
"One of the reasons I wrote that post a year ago was that I had to own up to the fact that we looked better than we actually were." How very un-Internet-y of you. :)
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by mattdawson 13y ago
I think you underestimate the extent to which SXSW has gone mainstream. There are likely a lot of conservatives who deplore Snowden's actions participating in SXSW.
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by mattdawson 13y ago
Totally agree with the "might me good for maintenance mode" sentiment. I'm working on a pre-1.0 project. I'm thinking about the few commits where I was first implementing localStorage caching. Tons of files were effected
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by mattdawson 13y ago
This is most definitely not git flow. Git flow advocates explicit merges pretty much everywhere with no fast-forwards and definitely no rebasing.
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by mattdawson 13y ago
No, it actually does both - which is why I was so interested in it initially. from the above link: "generates code to be used to easily build RPC clients and servers" TBF, I haven't used it as a developer, but I did contrac
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by mattdawson 13y ago
http://thrift.apache.org/
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by mattdawson 13y ago
> Mediocre Javascript developers are easy to find FTFY. In all seriousness, though, I'm the lead developer on a web applications team at a medium-sized client services company and my experience has been that competent JavaScript dev
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by mattdawson 13y ago
>> Perhaps you mean the phenomenon of popular artists that are so big that they are household names across all demographics across the globe/nation. If so then your probably right. Probably we will see less new justin timberlakes
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by mattdawson 13y ago
FWIW, this is also the way O'Reilly's JS Pocket Reference explains it.
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by mattdawson 13y ago
Do you know of any tutorials that follow this "deep dive first" approach? That's exactly how I like to learn.
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by mattdawson 13y ago
Yep, me too - it's a known issue. https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/448
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by mattdawson 13y ago
The same is true in Python - in single inheritance cases. (The rules for Python's method resolution order are more complex where multiple inheritance are involved[1].) 1. http://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/06/method-resolution...
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by mattdawson 14y ago
Huh. Shocked that the install numbers for vim-nox are so low. That's always been my goto package.
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by mattdawson 14y ago
It's been over a year since I had to set this up, but I used HAProxy in a similar setup and still needed stunnel. In the whole of my DevOps career, getting SSL working with web sockets was one of the most frustrating.
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by mattdawson 14y ago
I've looked at Peewee (albeit before the rewrite mentioned here), and, more to the point, my first response was "why didn't he write this in SQLAlchemy." SQLAlchemy is a battle hardened toolkit that's both broad and deep. At its lowest le
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by mattdawson 14y ago
A little off topic, but forms are a big PITA using Flask and extensions, too. Forms are definitely not a solved problem in the python world.
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by mattdawson 14y ago
I don't care how simple a framework is. There are always dusty corners that are hard to understand. There will always be bugs. And the ability to get help from fellow users when you hit those is, in my experience, crucial.
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by mattdawson 14y ago
You're only addressing part of the problem. File size is a much easier thin to fix than refactoring DOM bound soup.
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by mattdawson 14y ago
> Backbone is all good and well for small projects, but I think it's be best to look elsewhere for larger projects. This is such ridiculous FUD, and I'm surprised every time I hear it. Compare the apps built with Backbone section of the
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by mattdawson 14y ago
I'm using Brunch[1] for a current project, and have used Backbone Boilerplate[2] in the past. Brunch is pretty great, though bbb is better hooked up with requirejs out of the box, if you're into that kind of thing. I really want Yeoman to t
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by mattdawson 14y ago
This toolset has a completely different use case from jQuery Mobile. jQM prescribes that your backend responds with typical HTML web pages. While it's conceptually possible to write an app that loads something like JSON into jQM, it's not

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