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nebstrebor | 11 years ago | on: On the foolishness of “natural language programming”

The same could be said of "natural language contracts" and "natural language laws and regulations". Lawyers get hounded for "legalese" but its just a form of code--based on but deviated from natural language--to try to overcome the inherent inefficiencies of natural language.

nebstrebor | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Greenscreen, open source digital signage with Chromecast

Am aware of a high school that tried to use a Chromecast for digital signage (not this particular software) on the same network as students (woops)... needless to say the screen wasn't showing their digital signage for long! After a prankster played a few "educational" videos for the whole cafeteria, school admin panic ensued and that was the end of the Chromecast for signage plan.

(This scenario wouldn't happen of course on a network where you have 100% trust that no-one else is going to hit the Chromecast button on their browser or phone...)

nebstrebor | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)

Nutrislice, Inc. - UI/UX Designer and front-end developer -Boulder/Denver, CO

Nutrislice is a self-funded, thriving software company with (currently) 14 employees. We're three years old and still very much in a startup mindset.

We build awesome, modern software that makes a positive impact in the world. Specifically, we build software services and apps for school food services. We have a dominant market share in the K-12 food service space and are growing rapidly, including into other markets.

Design is paramount for us, and we practice design-driven development. Our primary designer, who is also the CEO, is getting busy with other duties, and our 5-strong software development team could use a design/UI/UX specialist.

We need someone who is comfortable designing UI/UX (both for web and mobile) as well as working with existing UI designs to extend, improve and add new features. Up-to-date front-end developer skills are also a requirement, including HTML5 and CSS3 mastery and basic Javascript.

Job duties will include creating designs, wireframes, and mockups of new apps, features and pages, and working with our current front-end and full-stack developers to build the front end for new features and extensions to our current products.

We'll take care of you, as far as pay, benefits, and a work/life balance go.

Email [email protected] for more information or to apply.

nebstrebor | 11 years ago | on: Tower 2

Mostly a matter of preference. Several tower users on our team and a SourceTree user. Try both, take cost into consideration, and go with what works for you.

nebstrebor | 11 years ago | on: Tower 2

Three things I've noticed as a manager of several developers who use or don't use GUI's for git: Pre-commit self code review tends much better with a GUI or at least a good git-aware diff program, leading to higher code quality. Visualization of branches, merges, etc. is much easier with a GUI. Complex merges with conflicts, partial commits, etc. tend to be easier with a GUI like tower.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: GitHub monoculture

I like Github, but just switched our business repos over to bitbucket. Github's pricing for businesses isn't even competitive.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: Firefox 29

And I assume you also don't understand why anyone might prefer to use an IDE instead of vim/emacs...

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: What's left of NoSQL?

"Because it is schema less ... you can trivially add new rich schemas" made me lol. Maybe this makes sense to Mongo users, but I have no idea what you mean here and the language you use to describe this feature is, well, contradictory to say the least.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Fair enough. To be honest, I was in the majority with Brendan Eich at that time (although not in California), based on sincere beliefs. And I am now in the majority with you and others in being all for marriage equality and viewing it as a civil rights issue. But because of where I am now and where I have been, I feel empathy with those struggling to sort out their feelings or that are still on the other side. Most people who I know who were or are still against gay marriage aren't "homophobic" or hold have any problem with gays, they just don't view marriage as a civil right, like the civil rights of 60's, since marriage has always been a man and woman thing since the institution was invented. And while I may disagree with them, it doesn't matter to me in the larger context, and I still willing to love these people and I don't think they're bigots worthy of my contempt unless they prove to be so beyond this single issue. I respect that this is where I differ from many of you, who, this single issue is enough for you to hate someone or wish for nothing but evil upon them. And I'm not talking about the figures at the forefront of the anti-gay-rights movement, but the every day people I know who may be more conservative than I and besides an occasional vote or even a donation that differs from mine, that is only a small part of who they are.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Lets not forget that he supported "the broad moral view of society", as evidenced by a popular vote at the time. I'll agree that the "broad moral view" has switched, and turn about is fair play. Let us punish the new minority.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: Why CoffeeScript Isn't the Answer

It is hard to argue, however, that Javascript (the thing Cofeescript purports to improve) doesn't "allow you to write bad code easily" or "makes it hard to write bad code". I have avoided Coffeescript and probably will continue to do so, but it seems to at least try to make it a bit harder to write bad code, albeit not getting all the way there apparently.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: The Road to React 1.0

I've done sufficient with both Angular and React to have decided to go with React for next our project. Its a better fit for this particular project because the "reusable components" paradigm fits what we're doing, which includes building a non-model-specific framework that we can reuse for different models, where the framework renders slightly differently based on meta data provided with the model. We'll probably use Backbone for the model (& meta) & router. I like Angular, and would like to use it for a project that's more concrete and less meta.

nebstrebor | 12 years ago | on: Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem Revisited

Around our shop (we have several PhoneGap projects) we frequently refer to Android browser as the IE of mobile. (and we're referring to IE6-8). Its crazy how many really key parts of HTML & CSS don't work on various versions of Android browser that are still very much alive and well, including some that worked on 2.3 and stopped working on 4.0 or 4.1. We basically have to turn our apps into static pages for anything < Android 4.2.
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