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Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Data Graham posted:

What's everybody's opinion of CoffeeScript? A crutch for the weak, or the only way to do rich apps with closures and optional parameters without going totally nuts?

It's a palliative for Ruby programmers so they don't have to feel like they're coding JavaScript when they're coding JavaScript. For any programmer worth their salt It's a needless abstraction and distraction.

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Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Pollyanna posted:

Why not keep the questions as text in memory, shuffle those, and then write the shuffled array of question strings to a ul? Keeping your display logic as separate as possible from your business logic makes things a lot easier.

This is the Right Way™ to do it.

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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my bony fealty posted:

There's always poo poo on Craigslist in my area but it is generally "i need a website with e-commerce, tell me how much this costs and i will pay you to make it, thanks. and I will pay you $50"

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Just logged in no problem.

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Jekyll doesn't *have* to be used for a blog. You can just use simple pages that aren't blog-like.

You can also embed plain old HTML files using

code:
{% include footer.html %}
This was taken directly from the Jekyll site:

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/templates/

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Data Graham posted:

The only way I've had any luck in fighting against Mongo-happy vision-type people is to explain that despite the name, Mongo isn't a database at all. It's a cache. It might as well be Redis.

You want fast key-value lookups? Great. But it isn't meant to do anything more than that.

(That article makes this point very vividly; I wish it were required reading for product managers)

Bingo.

And without trying to start a religious war :ironicat: I will say that I much prefer Redis.

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Data Graham posted:

(Well, that and cats + cucumbers)

:crossarms:

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Thank you, I completely forgot about that!

Back when I first saw it, I tried it on my two cats. They didn't react that way at all. It was more like :rolleyes:

Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Fluue posted:

Does this async write / sync read design seem to go against the idea of how REST should work?

Yes, because these calls are supposed to be (a) stateless; and (b) atomic.

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Unity Gain
Sep 15, 2007

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Seconding Sketch. I too sometimes have to create "programmer art" and just did a bunch of OS X app toolbar icons in it. Far easier and far more enjoyable than in Adobe products (for which I do have a CC subscription).

They have a bunch of instructional videos on their site which I found very useful and which actually helped convince me to buy it.

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