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by pgambling 10y ago
So glad someone brought up this book. It a good read and full of sound advice.
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by pgambling 11y ago
Thanks for sparking this discussion! I'm a senior dev, but still relatively early in my career (~8 years). I've been thinking about your exact situation a lot lately as I have interviewed several candidates from various background
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How to Debug ClojureScript(github.com)
2 points by pgambling 12y ago|0 comments
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by pgambling 13y ago
I'm considering GitLab for use at work. How does it stack up against Atlassian Stash? ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/overview )
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by pgambling 13y ago
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by pgambling 13y ago
"it would be tricky to get all the rules of chess into a JS file" Check out chess.js, https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js , it does a pretty excellent job. The combination of chessboard.js and chess.js would re
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by pgambling 13y ago
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
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by pgambling 13y ago
I highly recommend "Functional JavaScript" by Michael Fogus (creator of Lemonad), http://www.amazon.com/Functional-JavaScript-Introducing-Prog...
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by pgambling 13y ago
I wouldn't test 50+ onclick functions. I'd used event delegation to assign the click handler to the appropriate parent element. I'm not experienced with Angular, but the last time I checked it didn't support event delegation :(
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by pgambling 13y ago
I tried it, but I didn't see "add telephone" in the hangout window. I also had to use my gmail address to start a hangout with myself.
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by pgambling 13y ago
I agree that animating the icons just for the sake of animation isn't useful. However, the precipitation rate of the rain and snow animations could change in response to the forecast.
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by pgambling 14y ago
Is "Breaker" in the title a Dark Tower reference?
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by pgambling 14y ago
I for one welcome our new supercomputer overlords.
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by pgambling 14y ago
It cracks me up every time I see a Microsoft+Linux headline. Are most Azure users running Linux rather than Windows servers?
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by pgambling 14y ago
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by pgambling 14y ago
This point really stuck with me: "Fourth, good intentions; best practices; professionalism; engineering – the seductions of process. You are chasing the same gold stars you got when you were eight years old. But how is the master craftsman
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by pgambling 14y ago
Coincidentally, I watched "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" this evening, and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it on the front page of HN. I was absolutely fascinated by Jiro, and I couldn't stop thinking about how his advice is applicable to honing yo
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by pgambling 14y ago
The creator of this remake gave a talk on it at the houston.js meetup this week. I was thoroughly impressed with how much effort and thought he's put into this project. He said that the Pac-Man dossier was his inspiration and seems to genui
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by pgambling 14y ago
Houston, TX | PROS | UI Software Engineer (Disclaimer: I just accepted a position with PROS, but I haven't started yet) PROS is looking for UI developers for our new, innovative cloud products. As a member of the PROS Product Development t
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by pgambling 14y ago
Excellent point.
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by pgambling 14y ago
Ditto. I feel the same way about HN. I love the submissions and find it all fascinating, but sometimes I just need to take a break from HN otherwise I get too down on myself. You have to remind yourself that people are showing off their acc
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by pgambling 14y ago
Wow HN readers, you're awesome! I didn't expect such a wealth of information when I posted this an hour ago. Keep it coming!
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Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?
147 points by pgambling 14y ago|50 comments
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by pgambling 14y ago
Comment 4 on the bug report cracked me up: "Obviously, google doesn't believe in deleting data."
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by pgambling 14y ago
I'm sure you didn't intend to insult autistic people with that comment, but autism != stupidity. Just wanted to point that as my sister is autistic.
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by pgambling 14y ago
Hangouts is nice, but why did they drop Messenger from the iPad app? I used it regularly on my iPad prior to the update.
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by pgambling 14y ago
Is it a public beta? I'd love to participate.
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by pgambling 14y ago
I started playing with Trello a week ago. It's beautiful and I see huge potential using it for my daily todo list. One thing I really want is a dead simple way to add new items to an "Inbox" list, which I sort later. (Thinking GTD) An Andro
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by pgambling 14y ago
Even though I recommended the book, I completely agree with you.
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by pgambling 14y ago
Here are a couple book recommendations for those of you looking to improve your JavaScript: "JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Douglas Crockford "JavaScript Patterns" by Stoyan Stefanov

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