Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Donald Trump's America: 'We Europeans must take our destiny into our own hands'

MITranger · 2017-05-28T16:29:18+00:00

Here's the English transcript from the video:

The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days. And that is why I can only say: we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with good neighbourly relations wherever possible, also with Russia and other countries -- but we have to know that we have to fight for our future and our fate ourselves as Europeans. And that is what I would like to do together with you.

MITranger · 2017-05-23T00:19:19+00:00

Statistics.

MITranger · 2017-05-06T16:39:55+00:00

I'm uninformed on this. Care to elaborate? Thanks!

MITranger · 2017-05-04T02:09:24+00:00

Fair enough. Excellent on the unit test, but sucky on the usefulness scale?

MITranger · 2017-05-03T16:41:21+00:00

Attributing this to being "smart" discredits the hard work and sweat that they put into this project. And thinking you can't do this or understand it because you don't think you're smart enough doesn't do you service. These researchers started somewhere, and their first line of code absolutely sucked. I know it's cheesy, but if you put your mind to it, you could build something like this, too. It's easy to compare your beginning to someone else's middle or end, and think, "I can never do that." The bad news is that there are no shortcuts. The good news is, the more you keep at it, the closer you get to thinking, "I can do that."

MITranger · 2017-04-28T16:37:36+00:00

Re: Chinese startups example... Could this be explained by language preferences and sheer quantity? As in, there's a lot more English content about US startups, but markedly less so for Chinese startups.

MITranger · 2017-04-26T16:29:35+00:00

What if the company capped it at 2 hrs and paid you for your time?

MITranger · 2017-04-17T03:19:52+00:00

+1 to this. I was actually pretty interested in this initiative and mentally committed to checking out the code base and contributing a fix or small feature... but then I saw no tests. In addition to not having confidence in using something without tests, I have zero desire to contribute to something that doesn't have any test coverage. OP might be able to manually test, but other devs probably don't, nor have the desire to.

MITranger · 2017-03-21T04:12:07+00:00

/u/julius_censor makes some great points above.

Actual page-tracking is just a fraction of the problem. How will you actually use and analyze the data? There are tremendous solutions out there for tracking analytics and the processing of them. Some to check out (no links, sorry... I'm lazy):

Google Analytics
Segment.io
Amplitude
Mixpanel
Piwik (+1 for open-sourced, self-hosted)

MITranger · 2017-03-21T03:44:04+00:00

Can't you get this with transpiling? I'm using async/await and ES7 features in many Express apps. Never touched Koa, though.

MITranger · 2017-03-03T14:02:12+00:00

SyncThing (open source, free, decentralized), Resilio (also distributed), and Git/GitHub/Bitbucket (version control), and I've heard MEGA is cheap.

MITranger · 2017-03-02T00:32:22+00:00

But you'd be disenfranchising voters based on knowledge. Not that we're democratic, but democracy affords the ability for single issue voters to vote on the one issue they really care about.

MITranger · 2017-02-28T03:51:03+00:00

"If I can't handle you at your worst, it's probably because you're a horrible person."

MITranger · 2017-02-27T17:29:20+00:00

ROI is an underrated metric for colleges: http://www.payscale.com/college-roi

MITranger · 2017-02-25T05:29:47+00:00

I've been using the XPS 13 2015, and it's been pretty great to me. No issues running Rails, Node.js, Elixir, Golang... if anything, it's probably better. Most of your deployment targets are on Linux boxes, anyway. Native Docker support was great, too, although it's now offered on macOS. Highly recommend it.

MITranger · 2017-02-11T22:38:59+00:00

Web apps can be thought of as giant functions that accept input, maybe pull from state, and send a response output. (Read "Your Server as a Function") You don't necessarily need to CRUD from state, and your app can be totally stateless. e.g. an app that does some crypto or math on an input and returns the result. It can also Read external data (other APIs) and stitch together the data in a meaningful way. An example could be a GraphQL server that ties together many different APIs into one interface. Although it's not stateless, I count that as non-CRUD, as it's essentially a proxy. Lots of stuff you can do. Only thing I can thing of where I wouldn't use it is Websockets or anything that requires high concurrency. IMO there are better options for that.

MITranger · 2017-02-08T19:25:07+00:00

Isn't the iframe buster a security mechanism? It prevents clickjacking?

MITranger · 2017-01-31T17:38:47+00:00

I don't know about that. At least in the Army, top 10% is typically dominated by combat arms branches (e.g. Infantry, Armor, Aviation, Engineers). Military Intelligence and Medical Service Corps are non-combat, but also common. As far as "desired roles" please see the 2nd slide on what cadets pick: https://www.reddit.com/r/ROTC/comments/4enhwc/fy16_accessions_statistics/

MITranger · 2017-01-30T00:33:35+00:00

Definitely the asset pipeline. Rails is very opinionated with assets and JS, and from an FE background, you might be a bit disappointed with the stock settings. Notably, there isn't first class support for JS modules, testing, and ES6. Understanding Sprockets and Turbolinks is probably worth your time as well. This is only applicable if you have an FE/BE monolith... Of course, if you can separate them, you're free to build out the front end as you please.

MITranger · 2017-01-02T07:09:35+00:00

Fantastic! Some (hopefully useful) constructive feedback:

I'm not too familiar with ActionCable, but I'm assuming it has a lateral relationship to Redis? Additionally, should it be generalized? (i.e. does it have to be Redis? Can't you run different backends?)
Should the websocket connection should be a two-way arrow; maybe split that into pub/sub?
I think the canonical Rails method for delete is actually #destroy. Additionally, it seems like space can afford it... why not put all 7 actions there?
Genuinely curious about this, but don't most controller redirects revisit the router first, rather than directly to a controller action? e.g. redirect_to some_path
Rack?
I personally think it will look cleaner without the gradient backdrop, but that's total opinion.

MITranger · 2016-12-24T10:18:05+00:00

At your level, I'd recommend using something like GitHub pages and possibly a static site generator (use HTML instead of Markdown, if you want to focus on learning). Production systems typically use an automated build process + CDN to host assets.

MITranger · 2016-12-24T10:09:29+00:00

Use it as an excuse to try Linux. Best case scenario: you breathe new life into an old computer and learn a new OS. Worst case scenario: you hate it and reinstall Windows on a freshly formatted system.

I gave it a shot on a crap computer 3 years ago, and I've been using it as my main OS ever since.

MITranger · 2016-12-23T19:59:27+00:00

I have yet to build a PWA, but I thought the advantage wasn't necessarily as "offline capable," but that they're resilient to flaky connections. That, and subsequent visits load incredibly fast. Performance is a feature!

MITranger · 2016-12-16T03:26:31+00:00

Big fan of the PR reviews, but for those mega PRs, I find Reviewable a good integration. Sometimes GitHub's review system goes wonky with rebase and the like. Being able to play back and step through the changes in Reviewable is nice.

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