philip_roberts

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by philip_roberts 4y ago
Thanks for the shout out! I'm still amazed how well that talk struck a nerve and it's a real kick seeing people getting something out of it 8 (!) years later.
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by philip_roberts 10y ago
Not the poster, but the creator: if anyone has suggestions on how to package this up for windows, or wants to suggest the best instuctions/test on linux(es) do let me know! Also keen to hear suggestions for improving the security secti
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Curious: is this intended to be a paid product or just a free catalog of videos?
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
I'll add, most of my understanding was done this way: somewhat experimentally. Come up with a hypothesis of how things might work, figure out a way to prove it, and see if I was right.
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Great question, and one i am not totally sure of myself. I guess the question is: if an event doesn't have any handlers listening for it, does it get queued and processed regardless? This is something I've often wondered about mys
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Sure, I wasn't expecting you to copy edit if you don't want to, just pointing you to the source. > I appreciate the use of semver, but... Oh, we aren't breaking things _that_ quickly! ampersand-state for example has been
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
That works for native types but gets trickier for custom datatypes, and ones where you want to specify custom getters and setters for example, and then specifying some as strings and some as constructors gets messy. We do need to do some mo
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Did you see ampersandjs.com? Perhaps we don't link to that clearly enough. Though yes, a better overview would be useful.
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
> You might be excited about the motivation behind your project but nobody cares, really. Yes we'll try and improve the content on the homepage to make it more focussed. Though I guarantee if we didn't talk about the motivation
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Sorry, we just wanted to give the background to the project and why in the post, rather than focussing too heavily on code. There's plenty of API docs for the core components in http://ampersandjs.com And the clientside cod
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Ampersand has evolved out of the client and product work we've done at &yet over the years. So there are a number of client projects with various evolutions of it in production, as well as our own products: http://andban
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
That's true, although many of the core backbone components have been significantly modified/basically completely rewritten, keeping a fair amount of similarity with the backbone APIs but extending them too, for example: * Views ha
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Funny, I hadn't even thought of that. It comes from &yet ( http://andyet.com ) :)
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
It's not made clear from my post, because I felt it was entirely irrelevant to the context of the post itself (which was merely intended as an interesting meander through the thought process and experiments my mind went through over ti
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Except the question was b==1 && b===2
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by philip_roberts 12y ago
Arguably the thing that tripped me up for the majority of the time was latching on to the fact that == and === are different, and trying to _always_ satisfy the two conditions, rather than just spotting that I can change the reference to b
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Nerdsniping: A glimpse into a stubborn mind(blog.andyet.com)
145 points by philip_roberts 12y ago|92 comments
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by philip_roberts 13y ago
Ooh, I forgot all about prolog! I worked through the 7 languages in 7 weeks book, and solving a sudoku with prolog blew my mind. I think the first "real" programming I did was a sudoku solver in Excel and VBScript (yeuch).
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Imperative vs. Declarative(latentflip.com)
66 points by philip_roberts 13y ago|51 comments
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LiveCode, helps anyone build apps, goes open source(kickstarter.com)
2 points by philip_roberts 14y ago|0 comments
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
...free for up to 5 documents.
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Show HN: I spoke about d3.js and synced the visualisation to the video(latentflip.github.com)
4 points by philip_roberts 14y ago|0 comments
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
True! Didn't even think of that.
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
Exactly. The key challenges for us now are: - Expand to more platforms, to increase the total market we can hit. - Improve the product to make it easier for the general market to understand. We are hitting early adopter types pretty well, b
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
We are listed here: http://www.freeagent.com/developers/goodies which drives some traffic our way. FreeAgent and our customers have mentioned us on twitter/blogged about us sporadically over the last couple of years. Don't just wait. We a
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
Somebody else just emailed me asking basically the same question, and looking for my advice. My immediate thoughts were: - Do you need a cofounder immediately, or can you just try and do less. I know that's easier said than done, but scale
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
That's a good idea, we are using Prefinery to collect the form data, and there's limitations on what it can do, but I'll see what I can come up with.
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
It's not been easy. It took me a long time to get up the courage to leave my job, and fear of running out of money still paralyses me from time to time. Fortunately my wife is amazingly supportive, and my cofounder is less paralysed by litt
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
Fair play sir, fair play.
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by philip_roberts 14y ago
Hi everyone, I didn't post this, but I am the author. Thanks for all the kind words on the post. As far as Float goes, it currently only works with www.freeagent.com, so if you are a FreeAgent user, feel free to sign up. I am (as we speak)

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