yaliceme's comments

Full stack web developer with advanced knowledge of JavaScript and modern application architecture. Formerly employee #7 at Meteor, most recently building GitSpy.com. Interested in mid-sized, rapidly growing startup with strong pragmatic product and world-class application engineering team.

Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, Angular, Node, MySQL, MongoDB, Meteor, React, ES6, Socket.IO, D3, Mocha/Chai, Grunt/Gulp

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaliceme

Email: <my HN handle> + <gmail>

Space Rock - Build computer things that are nice to use, faster than you could before https://space-rock.meteor.com/

(MDG-er here) On #2, I think you may enjoy browsing https://www.meteor.com/projects. :-) Lots of meaty technical detail on the different subprojects that make up the Meteor stack.

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We actually never upvote our own stories or ask others to. It's hard not be curious about the comments, though, and we make a point to identify ourselves in our replies.

Isobuild blog post is up now - https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/08/28/isobuild-why-meteor-c...

(MDG-er here) Expect a blog post on Isobuild very soon... :-)

(MDG-er here) Yup, we decided to break it into two parts! Expect a blog post on Isobuild very soon.

No problem, happy to answer questions.

We picked GH stars because it's a transparent public number. Also because it's a relatively lightweight ask that still means a little more than a retweet or FB like. This campaign is about the existing Meteor community reaching out and encouraging new people into our community, and raising money for CodeNow is in the same spirit of accessibility and sharing.

Like Bahamut's comment shows, people do hesitate to star something they aren't actually interested in, and that's good; we want people to actually make an effort to tell their friends why they should check out Meteor. And then, if they succeed, it only takes 1-2 clicks for the friend to register their interest and get counted as part of the campaign.

Hi, I'm running this campaign.

I'd say you should only star the project if you genuinely like Meteor enough to star it.

If you're still on the fence about Meteor but like the cause, I'd encourage you to donate directly to CodeNow at codenow.org.

Couldn't agree more. My mom almost got taken in by a classic Craigslist scam, which did a lot to make me appreciate how easy it can be for even smart people to fall prey (she's an IT professional, has an advanced degree, and is quite smart in general).

Basically, she'd listed some furniture for sale. A guy contacted her with praise for the item and said he was a purchaser for a regional furniture reseller -- he finds nice used furniture for them and gets a cut of what they pay to the original owner (e.g. my mom). The two of them agreed on a price (including his commission), then he mailed her a check from "his company" and asked her to wire him his cut. At the point I found out about this (it came up in passing completely by accident), she'd deposited the check and was planning to wire the money the next day.

I told her it was a classic scam and to please not wire the money. She didn't believe me; she'd successfully sold furniture on craigslist before, the guy's e-mails sounded legit, and the bank seemed to have accepted the check just fine. I told her it takes a few days for the check to fail. She still thought it was fine, but for my sake, agreed to at least wait a few days.

Sure enough, the check bounced. My mom described how masterfully the scammer worked upon her feelings in the meantime, asking where the money was, sounding hurt and angry that she was withholding his "cut" on purpose and trying to cheat him, saying he'd trusted her with the check because she seemed nice. Even with my dire warnings, she felt bad about waiting for the check to clear, but luckily she did.

(MDG-er here) A few meteorites actually did write an equivalent of phpMyAdmin for the Meteor Summer Hackathon, in case it's of interest to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixJyB8Z-tU8 :-)

Sure. Chris Mather did a screencast on building a multi page web app with Meteor - http://www.eventedmind.com/posts/meteor-build-a-multi-page-a...

The Discover Meteor book is great; I highly recommend it. However, if you are looking for free tutorials, Stephan Hocchaus put together a nice compilation of the resources out there here - http://yauh.de/articles/376/best-learning-resources-for-mete...

Planet Money did a great podcast on the history and political power of the dealer system, and why buying a car sucks so much - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buyi...

Why do designers keep thinking that splitting a feed into two staggered columns is a good idea? It makes it much harder to skim down a feed to find a particular post, because your eye naturally wants to skim in straight lines, not zig-zag back and forth.

This seems to me like a classic case of designers thinking of visual "prettiness" first and actual utility second.

Facebook did this for a while with Timeline, until they fixed it with the newer Timeline which keeps the posts to one column. It really looks like Google+ is just ape-ing Facebook design, even when the design has implicitly been admitted to have been a bad idea.

I am willing to be persuaded otherwise, though, if someone wants to make the case.

It's up for me.

GreenQloud is pretty neat - Renewable Energy-powered IaaS http://greenqloud.com/

It's worth noting that the book itself is in fact a Meteor app.

Thanks for this! Cycling is my preferred way to commute, so I expect this to come in handy. I just confirmed that my usual work->home route is in fact the flattest.

You would probably find this amusing - http://www.braintripping.com/new/paul-graham