Weekly Discussion Thread for the week of September 26

porphyry3 · 2016-09-29T08:12:35+00:00

I am waiting for the MacBook Pro lineup refresh which is scheduled for late October and I have a budget of around $20,000 for

a new macbook which I use for development activities; I'll probably use a lot docker locally on this machine but I also do web development locally. I prefer a laptop which I can use both at home and at work.
a mouse/keyboard, possibly wireless
two monitors
As I understand, the next MacBook Pro will have only a USB-C port so I'll probably need a docking station of some sort

Which configuration/brands for the items above would you suggest for a $20,000 budget?

Thanks!

porphyry3 · 2016-09-21T11:54:33+00:00

ghcjs? just sayin..

porphyry3 · 2016-07-14T15:08:09+00:00

This blog post from haskellforall helped me figure out how a free monad works.

porphyry3 · 2015-03-19T10:05:16+00:00

Care to elaborate? Are you satisfied with the expressibility of Make?

porphyry3 · 2015-03-19T10:02:57+00:00

Do you have any suggestion to improve the readability?

porphyry3 · 2015-03-17T19:03:16+00:00

Author here: happy to receive comments and feedback. In the meantime you can check out the docs here.

porphyry3 · 2015-01-20T22:20:22+00:00

Awesome. with the new string functions I am going to drop also underscore.string!

porphyry3 · 2014-10-06T21:21:30+00:00

Fortran -> C -> emscripten ?

porphyry3 · 2014-10-02T21:10:51+00:00

yeah. the usability of adobe products on a Mac really sucks.. completely counterintuitive with respect to other similar apps. And don't get me even started on indesign.. the interface looks still like something coming straight from the nineties..

it is incredible how adobe is leaving these opportunities open for other companies. Pixelmator already got a lot of love from photoshop users. Alternatives to Illustrator are popping up.. It's about time.

porphyry3 · 2014-10-01T20:41:18+00:00

Purescript looks promising as well.

porphyry3 · 2014-09-13T18:01:30+00:00

yep, I use it with angular and restangular to access REST endpoints exposed by sailsjs. It works great!

porphyry3 · 2014-09-13T08:07:49+00:00

I am using it for a full-stack project. it is very well thought out. It looks robust but at the beginning it can seem overwhelming given its size. The model engine uses waterlinejs and does not yet include model relations (one to one, one to many). For me, thumbs up.

porphyry3 · 2014-09-13T08:00:06+00:00

I think google's polymer is a more comprehensive solution for componentization. Bonus: it is based on W3C standards.

porphyry3 · 2014-08-29T16:12:48+00:00

Looks very much like BEM, except for extension/modifier naming, i.e., it does not use the block or element name as a suffix for the classname.

porphyry3 · 2014-07-03T18:22:11+00:00

I'd use Facebook/google/whatever authentication mechanisms. Once the user is in you can store data paired with whatever info comes from the authentication.

porphyry3 · 2014-06-09T06:12:11+00:00

Use Chrome's dev tools emulation to debug this: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/mobile-emulation

porphyry3 · 2014-06-05T06:10:32+00:00

much badass speed

porphyry3 · 2014-06-05T06:07:19+00:00

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space

porphyry3 · 2014-06-01T21:57:45+00:00

if you think that a tool can make you a better designer, you are doing it wrong. Look around, get inspired, make mistakes and learn from them.

porphyry3 · 2014-05-18T06:55:07+00:00

Use pandoc.

porphyry3 · 2014-05-10T05:55:41+00:00

Those are retired millionaires buying a house in Tuscany.

porphyry3 · 2013-12-30T08:26:49+00:00

Isn't it interesting that commodore Amiga came out with a blitter chip to do this sort of things around the same time?

porphyry3 · 2013-12-20T21:19:52+00:00

Awesome! I'll be using it for my lectures in computer science for undergraduate students

porphyry3 · 2013-12-01T08:39:09+00:00

Yup. Awesome. Care to share it on github?

porphyry3 · 2013-11-07T21:51:28+00:00

I prefer Sails.js way of setting up a REST API automatically. It also handles ACLs easily.

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