rnbwd

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by rnbwd 12y ago
I had no idea what a Symbol even was until I stumbled upon alt - https://github.com/goatslacker/alt It's a small and simple code base, and much easier way to grok the concept than reading a book.
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by rnbwd 12y ago
Honestly I think FB put the flux pattern out before that idea had become fully developed looking for feedback from the community. The flux repo explicitly states that none of the examples are used by facebook or even resemble facebook (clie
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by rnbwd 12y ago
I discovered React after using Om, and I believe that Mercury comes with a lot of good practices enabled by default. But it's technically possible to achieve the exact same 'decoupled-state-pure-shallow-etc' using React. It&#
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by rnbwd 12y ago
> The way you express your opinions is enormously important. It could easily be the difference between getting a raise and getting fired. How is this relevant to the conversation? This isn't a letter to his boss, it's a blog po
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by rnbwd 12y ago
I began programming in September of last year. For loops were trivially easy to understand (took me about a day), 1-2 weeks to become proficient. I started with php, moved to 'jquery', and then rails. Rails pisses me off. I said f
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by rnbwd 12y ago
d3 is very powerful, has an amazing api, and it's incredible library. but my processor goes insane running trivial d3 animations (macbook pro core-2-duo 2009). with css 3d, webgl, I don't have processor issues, but god-damn the d3
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by rnbwd 12y ago
>the nature of JS means libraries move slower than other languages. prior to node and npm maybe. The JS npm ecosystem is actually growing faster than any other language's module/library system, it's on the cusp of becoming