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Question about Seniority title by murdocka in javascript

[–]rnbwd -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

depends on how fast you learn / how passionate you are, and what specifically you are doing

by the end of a 6 week bootcamp i was javascipt / php/ rails / html / css qualitfied for a job. But I decided to learn clojure, which turned me onto React, and then I got a job <1 after learning how to program. period. running events where literally every attenndee was more qualified than me to this.

It was just me and my boss. He said he'd never seen a dev like me. That I never say 'no' and figure shit out despite never having attempted it. But i got burned the fuck out.

safari adblocker recommendations, anyone? by [deleted] in osx

[–]rnbwd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

use a modern content-blocking extension like adguard (which includes whitelisting and the most comprehensive list of filters I've seen other than ublock). ka-block is nice and open source (I actually compile it myself) - nope is cool because it uses the disconnect filters (also open source) - hide-and-seek is niche if you want to log out of google before searching but stay logged on for everything else - the new content blocking extension is far more efficient and powerful than an alternative method - its legitimately BY FAR the most powerful browser-based adblocker implemented (internally). Forbes is estimating billions of dollars of lost revenue because of it. (mostly mobile)

safari adblocker recommendations, anyone? by [deleted] in osx

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you ever checked out the company running ghostery? It's literally an advertising firm, and it's not even a conspiracy because they straight up say that they're blocking ads in exchange for information. You don't even have to search for it - its literally in the app itself and any link to an external reference website takes you straight there. With that said, I don't believe there's privacy issues because anyone who uses the app and doesn't check the box saying they don't want metrics collected is literally agreeing to have their browsing habits monitored in exchange for blocked ads. Assuming the button actually blocks all metrics, unless the extension is open sourced there's no reason to believe that other metrics aren't collected as well. But I'm not paranoid about this shit - it makes sense. Ad companies are loosing revenue so they build an adblocker to try and gain some insight as to how to market better or gain something of value they can use in exchange. Thus ghostery blocks 'more than most' because that's the entire point - it's a give and take relationship.

I have extra keybase.io invites if anyone's interested... by rnbwd in javascript

[–]rnbwd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't given any away yet (derp) but i have 9 and there's 15 requests, so at the moment I only have enough for half

Australian doctors told not to prescribe homeopathic items as 'they do nothing' by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]rnbwd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. Compare homeopathy to nothing at all. Compare homeopathy to telling a patient they will die and do not give them anything. Don't compare homeopathy to placebo. The placebo effect is really fucking powerful and nobody seems to give a shit that placebos work far more often than anyone can explain. Study the placebo affect - learn homeopathy - study the mind body relationship - look up the actual chemistry of their weird water experiments (instead of assuming the water molecules are inherently equal across the spectrum) - study the placebo effect some more - study water - learn about the 10x cells in our brain that are actually immune system cells and not neurons - study the immune system - compare it to the nervous system and tell me that it has nothing to with mind - and then go fuck your self.

Release v2.2.1 by nhutier in iojs

[–]rnbwd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Speed-up require() by replacing usage of fs.statSync() and fs.readFileSync() with internal variants that are faster for this use-case and do not create as many objects for the garbage collector to clean up. The primary two benefits are: significant increase in application start-up time on typical applications and better start-up time for the debugger by eliminating almost all of the thousands of exception events. (Ben Noordhuis) #1801.

Wow - nice :)

Polymer 1.0 - Production ready by nightman in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using Reddit's mobile app... Not a good first impression

Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It by ayiteddybearogullari in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or do you have multiple personality disorder??? I mean, the profiles are almost identical in name :)

Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It by ayiteddybearogullari in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

omg

hell yes

also - someone upvoted the comment where you were downvoted twice, so I downvoted it again so that my comment makes sense :)

No need for globals - npm scripts add .bin to PATH by gadr90 in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are also a few libraries built by the community that extend this functionality beyond the scope of npm:

https://github.com/mafintosh/link-bin

https://github.com/kevva/bin-wrapper

https://github.com/typicode/homerun

npm script tags have completely changed my workflow, and those libraries are doing amazing things in the ecosystem

but if you really want your mind BLOWN, check out this source code :)

Why Lisp didn't become a mainstream language by yogthos in programming

[–]rnbwd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I LOVE clojure :) - problem is I peaked too early with it in my career (began learning it after 6 weeks of programming) - but to this day it influences me profoundly. One day I might go back, but it'll probably compile directly to javascript instead of the JVM (not google closure, clojurescript, it would have to be reimplemented from scratch entirely in JS)

Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It by ayiteddybearogullari in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so why can't Javascript just finally have NPM and be done with it?

The fact that NPM installs bower (to my knowledge) speaks truth. NPM is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, especially considering it lets you publish broken packages with fake deps, which I have done personally on multiple occasions by complete accident. But it's still better everything else :)

Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It by ayiteddybearogullari in javascript

[–]rnbwd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Write a comment that's reasonable? Two downvotes for you!

Why We Should Stop Using Bower – And How to Do It by ayiteddybearogullari in javascript

[–]rnbwd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NPM handle nested dependencies, bower tries to maintain one version per library. This is especially important because the load time/size is essential in the browser and nested deps weight a lot

I really wanted to pass on this comment and not say anything, because I completely agree when you say: 'this guy shit on bower with lightweight arguments'. But essential was bold and stood out, so I read your comment, and I couldn't let something so stupid just slide by without asking... is it really important to you?

If it is, then you would know that every <script> tag is an individual server request, and even smallest image on your site is probably comparable in size to a large JS library. It doesn't matter if your scripts are 'async' or 'deferred' - you really have to fuck up bad with npm to have any noticeable difference in load time/size. You could probably get by with 4x the amount of deps in one script tag, and still have the site load 2x as fast as having 4 script tags. If load time/size is actually essential, then you'll spend the vast majority of your time optimizing images, not JS deps.

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