rvdm's comments

Hi Olivier,

These are just my thoughts and they are based on nothing tangible, other than that I own a tech company and hire developers and designers. I also come from a mixed engineering and design background and am probably from about the same area in Europe as you are and now live & work in California.

— You're young and it's hard for someone your age to master multiple disciplines. I'd focus on presenting one discipline. If I were you I'd sharpen and highlight your development skills. Maybe you can present yourself as a design-driven front-end developer?

— Recruiters often search by keywords. LinkedIn can help you experiment with what keywords get you the most attention. You could for example try learning React.js which is very popular right now, or further developing your iOS skills and change your LinkedIn title to React.js developer or Swift & iOS developer. Try different things and see what gets you more attention.

— Some recruiters like seeing big names on resumes. Have you considered applying to, for example, big international ad agencies that have Paris offices? Companies like Grey, Ogilvy, BBDO might have local offices that need design sensitive front-end developers. I have no opinion about any of these companies, I just know they're big agencies that have offices all over the world. You might be able to transfer or those names might open some doors for you in the US.

Again, please take this with a grain of salt. These are just some quick thoughts.

This number sounds about right.

Curious, do you have a solution to automating food intake logging?

Props for using Shopify!

The fact that you manually have to log your food intake seems like a hurdle though. It's an important part of the puzzle and it takes a lot of discipline to log every single thing you eat.

But automating food intake logging sounds difficult…

So something like a GitHub timeline for exercise and healthy eating?

I've been doing the exact same in the last few weeks in the opposite order.

I remember reading these as a young teen and liking the stories, but thinking the concepts were so far from ever being possible.

This was the age where the brutality stories of my grandparents surviving WWII started sinking in.

I was convinced mankind would never ever allow anything to happen again that could lead to what happened in the late 30s.

I like the clean UI.

The site is exactly what it should be. Politics aside, both the code and content are just straight to the point which I find very refreshing in an age of all React everything where every step along the way needs approval from a bunch of different people before anything gets done.

He sat down and said what he needed to say. At least he's not afraid to speak his mind.

And then there's the Wu-Tang thing.

His whole story even made him a character Watch Dogs 2.

The code for this site is very much in line with the tone of the message.

This is all just delightfully postmodern.

If your project is going to face the general public and needs the best chances of being indexed correctly by Google, you should start with some type of server side rendering.

Currently, I'd opt for using either an existing CMS like Wordpress or Shopify, depending on the needs, with a layer of React.js on top of it. Or a full stack React.js + Node.js custom build.

You'll find plenty of resources saying Google can index JS SPAs but regardless of what you think about that, the no JS user should not be left out in the cold.

If you're building an internal application where you can dictate the browser support I've actually found that I'm fastest completing projects building a JSON API with an Angular.js front end. React.js would work just as well of course, just depends on what you are more comfortable with.

Lastly, PageSpeed. Some clients don't care about this, but some do. If you're deciding on a stack, try running your build through Google PageSpeed Insight once in a while during the early stages to make sure you're not getting any road blocking red flags.

I personally don't care much for PageSpeed's reports, I have found them to be buggy or bizarre at times. But having your client rip your masterpiece apart just because they hired a marketer that's blaming all their shortcomings on a less than perfect PageSpeed score isn't fun.

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions. I would be happy to clarify or elaborate.

As someone who has built a company around working closely with the Shopify platform, I'm very happy Shopify is taking these initiatives.

I like that Shopify isn't your typical Silicon Valley tech company. But coming from a background as a tech and security consultant for Fortune 500 companies, Shopify does feel like I'm back in the tech little leagues sometimes.

And this is an unfair image association problem Shopify has. Their tech is quite amazing and a lot of very brilliant people work there.

It’s great to see Xal, the CEO of a publicly traded company with a close to $4bn market cap, this active on HN. I’ve always considered him one of the most brilliant engineers of our generation ever since the Active Merchant days. To me these programs and the way they are being shared on HN really help bringing his company the credit it deserves.

Really great to read more about real world large scale Haskell use.

I'd be curious to find out if the success FB has had with Haskell for spam filtering means they might consider Haskell for different parts of their stack too? Does anyone have any insight on this?

I've always been intrigued by Swiss software.

I'd love to know what the Swiss themselves think about this system.

To any Swiss people on HN :

— Do you feel this had a positive impact on society?

— Maybe more important, would you recommend this to other governments?

I appreciate that Shopify took a slightly more conservative approach to growth resulting in less feast / famine.

Their RoR stack might have gone out of fashion but it seems like they consistently made the right decisions considering a lot of their customers rely on the Shopify platform for their livelihoods and not just to express their opinions in 140 characters.

As someone who has dedicated the last few years of his life building a dev / design shop around Shopify, seeing these kind of numbers makes me very happy.

Looks like we placed our bet on the right horse.

imho xal / Tobi should get far more recognition for what he built. Shopify is really quite remarkable and in a league of its own.

Curious if they'll ever beat Amazon / Alibaba volume.

First off. Great tutorial! I wish more frameworks their native documentation would come with more real world examples. Redux's fantastic documentation is a step in the right direction but still makes real world solutions a bit too much of a side note.

Regarding Javascript fatigue, I want to share something that greatly helped me.

I have written enterprise applications for Fortune 500s using PHP, Rails, Backbone, Angular, React, Node, Express, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Yeoman, Bower, Redux, jQuery, Coffescript, Prototype.js ( remember them!? ), LESS, SASS... Basically whatever was hot at the moment.

Long I've enjoyed learning new things, but after having made a solid investment in Angular only to find out none of it's SEO solutions were really commercially viable the fatigue hit me hard and I gave up on trying to learn new things for a while. I simply stopped caring.

Then I got approached by SpaceX for a JS full stack position. All they told me about the interview beforehand was that it would be very JS heavy, yet no details on what stack or framework they were working with.

To prep I brushed up hard on my basic JS skills. Codeschool.com their JS road trip was very useful. So were "Eloquent JavaScript" and "JavaScript: The Good Parts".

After making that tough but very rewarding investment, learning React, Flux, Redux, Elm etc. all became a breeze. I no longer have any attachment to any framework. They're all just different ways of using JS to me. And no matter what the future brings, no matter how many frameworks and build tools get thrown our way, I don't think ( hope? ) my heavy investment in Javascript will soon disappoint.

So for those of you out there trying to figure out what to invest in next, React, Elm, RxJS.. My advice would be to get a deep understating of pure Javascript first. Ideally, try to build your very own framework using vanilla JS. Once you do that you'll find each new framework is just a different opinion on how JS should be used.

Many frameworks have come and gone. But after more than a decade of investing in the Javascript language, it keeps rewarding.

I'd love to see how IBM themselves have used Watson to improve their own business.

This, as a potential Watson customer, would give me a much better idea of Watson's potential and real world results. Plus it would establishes more confidence in IBM.

A lesson from my high school economics teacher that has always stuck with me is that you have to be your own product's biggest believer.

I'm really excited to see a framework make security and authentication part of it's foundation.

Amazing work Horizon team!