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Re:How to Learn JavaScript on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:17AM (#23666895)
For the most advanced (well explained) Javascript and all the way to Typescript and beyond, get a FrontEnd Masters subscription for a few months. Top notch teachers in all manner of content and Kyle Simpson will lay it out well in his many videos (among other great teachers like Will Sentance). The SessionStack.com and Logrocket.com blogs cover some important concepts with modern ECMAscript standards. Surma and Jake at Google are great and have a lot of YouTube resources to bite into. Maybe start with 'What the heck is the event loop anyway?' by Philip Roberts and then Jake Archibald's: 'In The Loop' to get a foundational understanding of what is happening. Javascript.info also a great text resource. You don't know Javascript also should be on your list. Honestly there are so many resources these days including specific YouTube creators but really it's more about your learning style and what works best for you.
@burtonator yes curious what you have or maybe it's a better fit under Piranha?
I did the test. I was 4-4-2 so basically mixed handed, but really more so I don't care about top hand on a spoon, knife or broom, so really more like 4 left, 1 right, 5 don't care. So as mixed handed as it get cause I throw a mean right handed spiral too. And boy do I relate way more with left handers, all because I prefer highly to write with my left even though if I need to my right will do.
Re:Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database? on Monday December 31, 2018 @01:56PM (#18796221)
Highly recommend you look at JanusGraph. Gremlin query language is quite easy, it's open source and the underlying graph DB for most cloud providers. I've extensively looked at the others. Janus Graph was our choice.
Re:Show HN: Mapping 11M points with Tile38 – Mapbox/Geonames on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:31PM (#18731427)
Can't wait to read this. Well done
Re:MLab is being acquired by MongoDB on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:52AM (#18186056)
While sometimes a longer timeframe to migrate is better (often, most times), there are edge cases where you want to migrate immediately after an announcement like this. For us, we'd like to get this done by next week. The sooner the better to avoid any schedule disruption thereafter.
believe a lawyer looked at them.
Re:AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API on Monday August 13, 2018 @11:37PM (#17755430)
Love that you charge by the second. Need to run some math, but we're excited to at least give this a go sometime this week. Congrats on launch.
Re:A list of startups funded in 2017 on Monday August 13, 2018 @12:29PM (#17751316)
It still says protected file and won't open
Very nice job on this. Will use for a noise points visualizer. Well done.
Re:Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @01:28PM (#17717696)
Love it. Thanks. Even better if tag is visible btw.
Re:AWS icon quiz on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:41AM (#17698588)
Looking at those icons makes me physically uncomfortable haha
Where and when will the match against Vancouver Dota World Championship team be played later this month, anyone know? Can public watch in Vancouver without a Dota pass?
Re:Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy? on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#17693743)
Guilty of also falling for this insanely rad community. I don't have the time nor constitution to participate, but watching an occasional breakdown of glitch detection, shortcuts, hacks and other such time savers, is a lesson in outside the box thinking. Speedrunners capitalize on pixels and milliseconds and there's something I love about that level of attention (in occasional doses).
Re:Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve? on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:38PM (#17693685)
This is correct and covers most current attempts at implemention.

The public cannot be confused if you want new technologies to become mainstream. Selling the value of decentralization, something few ordinary people truly care enough to make behavioral or even proactive choices towards adopting, is the wrong strategy currently. That someday will change but it could be a while. The public needs other value propositions like the promise of benefit with little to no effort or mindshare to adopt.

This is similar to why mobile payments faltered (and to some extent still does) in the North American market. Too many players sending out different complex messaging. No unified voice.

Eventually we will eliminate the performance penalties, but mass adoption or demand for a decentralized web will require a complex multi pronged approach that includes education and extensive value adds which are easily understood.

Re:The Shipping Forecast on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:18AM (#17618124)
Loved this show and have listened to this forecast for years.
The name is awful. Absolutely it has inhibited larger adoption without question.
Perfect. 5 seems a bit much (5 problems that is), but 3-4 minutes or problems seems like a moderate guideline in today's world. Great measure.
Actually I wrote an article for Nantucket news expressedly with this exact premise, only about Nantucket, a decade ago. Love to go back and compare numbers.
Re:Onboarding is more important than hiring on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @06:43AM (#17496900)
Controversial, but the piece, and truth is, there's definitely some merit to this position. The difficulty is in creating onboarding experiences that also account for the uniqueness of humans. Creating a replicatable process for introducing new hires to a company based on who they are, not on procedural flow steps unified for company benifit. That's the real work to be done.
Re:Google faces EU antitrust fine over Android case on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:56AM (#17256278)
Android isn't the issue near as much as Google proper. - One answer seearch results scraped from sites to be dominant in keeping ppl on Google - Maps showing places scraped by Google - Google results order

These are the real anti-trust cases.

To drum up business you should just do all the Joe Rogan podcasts for free.
Re:Neighbourly by Google on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:43PM (#17210672)
S̶o̶f̶t̶w̶a̶r̶e̶ Google is eating the world.

I'm actually surprised that they aren't pulling back a bit. Antitrust case is not near in this climate, but it will happen eventually and it's becoming harder with their ever growing tentacles to avoid or reverse. They are going to be their own worst enemy in the end.

Re:Shadow DOM enabled in Firefox nightly on Monday May 28, 2018 @11:47AM (#17173038)
Imagine you had a chat, and 30 videos in the chat.

30 play buttons 30 vulume sliders 30 pause buttons Etc

That's a lot in the DOM.

So intead you put the html5 video player components in shadowDOM and reference as needed. Only have them once then.

Re:Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:42AM (#17132355)
Agree but his track record is 14 yrs long already. Let's not forget that.
Wayyyyyyy safer, and yet still not.
Re:Traditional TV Is in Trouble on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:40PM (#17071483)
When u cancel 'The Mick' no wonder

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