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by stevejohnson 7y ago
I am a former Yelp engineer. I think the thing this story describes is dumb and bad and they should stop doing it. Inserting yourself as a useless middleman is a classic shitty startup move. Here are some great reasons for current and forme
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by stevejohnson 7y ago
I found Nim to have a small but active and supportive community. The library ecosystem, while a little thin, has a lot of activity, and I was able to find what I needed or create wrappers for C libraries. One difference between the Swift an
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Ninetyfive: React.js components for a faithful Windows 95 aesthetic(github.com)
1 points by stevejohnson 8y ago|0 comments
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by stevejohnson 8y ago
Because I'm on a Mac and wouldn't be able to test it. :-D Patches accepted here: https://github.com/irskep/keplverse I also blogged about the algorithm, if that's of interest: https://blog.ste
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by stevejohnson 8y ago
I really like the commitment to retro aesthetics. Last weekend I made an "imaginary astronomy" web app with nearly pixel-perfect Windows 95 theming. :-) http://steveasleep.com/keplverse/ Forth still seems lik
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Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems(blog.steveasleep.com)
2 points by stevejohnson 8y ago|0 comments
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by stevejohnson 8y ago
At a startup that folded, $0. (Failing is an exit!) At a startup acquired by a larger company, about $20k. Neither made up for the delta vs market rate salary.
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by stevejohnson 8y ago
http://steveasleep.com still going strong!
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by stevejohnson 8y ago
I got the same itch and ran with it for a game jam a while back. It's fun! http://steveasleep.com/jumbogrove/
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Cool! This is a superset of some things people misuse Literally Canvas[1] for. I look forward to pointing people toward it when they ask about these kinds of features. [1] http://literallycanvas.com
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
The default sans-serif font in Firefox for Mac is Helvetica, but the default font for macOS is San Francisco. If you want to have your page use a system-looking font, particularly if you're building an Electron app like Slack, you migh
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
We switched to Slack the day Hipchat went down for several hours.
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
As an experienced hobbyist game developer, I find Unity to be an incomprehensible airplane cockpit of bad UI. For the kind of game presented in the article, Gamemaker Studio would be more reasonable. Unity has a lot you don't need, whi
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Having done a lot of work using both the old os.path library and new pathlib, the ergonomics of pathlib are much, much better. The behavior of the overloaded operator is well-defined, unsurprising, and otherwise intuitive.
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
If the project is maintained in someone's spare time, then the cost to monetize it, in time and effort, might exceed what they are willing to put into it. In my own case, I have a silly JS library with 4,000 hits per month to the docs,
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The Design and Implementation of Rogue Basement(steveasleep.com)
2 points by stevejohnson 9y ago|0 comments
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Well, assuming the small coffee shops are well-managed, then we still have to ask ourselves which is more important, the cheap good coffee or a living wage for the workers?
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Speaking as someone working in a large Redux codebase, I agree with you 100%. The amount of boilerplate required to do almost anything is staggering.
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Whether the substance of this is true or not, it seems unwise to have posted it. It probably felt good to write, but now there's a real risk that future employers will perceive it as a negative signal. ("If we hire this guy, will
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by stevejohnson 9y ago
Summertunes, a usable web interface for playing a beets music library: https://github.com/irskep/summertunes This year I switched from streaming to MP3s for at-home listening, and I got fed up messing with 3.5mm audio
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
Hipmunk | San Francisco | ONSITE Looking for Site Reliability, Full-Stack, and Machine Learning engineers. http://www.hipmunk.com/jobs Travel is a huge industry and we're shaking it up. We consistently lead the pack in
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
I took a shot at using Markdown for a docutils/Sphinx "competitor" just to see if it could be done. My solution for extensions that don't require parser modifications was just to use custom HTML tags. Existing parsers kn
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
Unfortunately it breaks command-click to open links in a new tab, and instead navigates within the same page.
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
I believe this person is referring to the Republican-controlled US federal government and Trump presidency. (I'm just explaining, not making any value judgements.)
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
This would make an excellent character set for a roguelike.
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
Missed opportunity to call the platform forum the "GitHub PlatForum."
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Taming Hipmunk's iOS code(hipmunk.github.io)
5 points by stevejohnson 10y ago|0 comments
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
I wrote MSPaint-as-JavaScript library, Literally Canvas ( http://literallycanvas.com ). People sometimes want to pay good rates for work done on it. I'm always looking for someone to take over most of those requests, since I
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
It looks like I was incorrect, and ChristianBach is right. I'm sorry for spreading misinformation. I misread their pricing info.
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by stevejohnson 10y ago
For you folks keeping track at home, Netlify is $108/yr for the lowest tier that lets you use a custom domain, while grandparent's advice is about $7/yr ($6/yr for Route 53 + "negligible" hosting and bandwidth)

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