imjared

I did the exact same thing. Those electric scooters are also a lot more fun than sitting in someone's Prius. Especially as the weather here in DC warms up, I can see myself shelling out the $2 fee for a bike/scooter way more often than I'd be willing to spend $8-10 for a Lyft.

Not OP but I did the same thing. 7 and 8 seemed comparable but for a pretty negligible price difference, it seemed to make sense to just buy the latest and greatest. Agree that the speed is unbelievable. I was totally fine with my 6 and how it worked until iOS11 came in and wreaked havoc. The 8 + iOS11 is a lightning fast experience and I have no regrets about upgrading.

I think the things I've been happiest with, at least visually, have been a result of the things I've been the most unhappy with to the point where I want to fix them. Things where I understand how I use them and understand how I'd _prefer_ to use them end up working well.

> I've had one semester of Computer Science, and have zero clue of how people do stuff like this.

Just wait, I've had about a decade of front-end dev experience and I think I could reverse engineer an API like this (maybe not quite so quickly). What I couldn't do, however, is write a C investment calculator text program. You're a whiz :)

Didn't dive in too much yet but heads up that your hero animation is a bit funky in Chrome (stable). Here's a screencap: https://cl.ly/0D031Z0p3v26. The glitch happens towards the end of the recording.

We've been using Algolia as we build out our custom database of ~1.5million US-based nonprofits for patronage.org and I have become their #1 fanboy. The search is blazing fast, super customizable, and support has been incredibly helpful. It's one of those products that seems to provide "if you can dream it, you can do it" functionality. We went from a slow search that used EINs to a search that accounts for typos, alternative names of charities, EINs, locations, and is customized for the logged-in user since we can pass queries to Algolia clientside.

My only complaint, if I had to make one, is that pricing is a bit steep for our use case but I can't imagine how much time I'd need to spend to get ElasticSearch running comparably.

Something that's kind of tricky for me and my team is that we disagree on things like indentation and spacing in/around brackets and parens. The disagreement isn't just a "I think it should be done this way..." but "I actually understand code better when it's written this way..."

If we were to implement prettier, and chose to use 2-space indents, for a simple example, how would a 4-space developer fare when they pulled down the Prettified code? Would they just set up their own config locally based on their own standards?

> Fear is a wonderful motivator.

I'm convinced this is part of what drives home so many "oops" lessons for me and helps me figure out what I can do to mitigate them in the future.

For example, I learned the value of caching when we launched a client's site on a nationally televised show. We didn't have caching and when tens of thousands people hit it after the show's host mentioned it, it went down. Just as we got it back up, the show aired in central time. Boom. And

That was a bad day but I will always remember the value of not just writing code and delivering a website, but trying to understand how it will be used and in what capacity. And caching. Always caching.

I'm also a veteran of working at an aquarium and have heard this story before. Is it something you witnessed? I've wondered where this story came from:

- http://belizeadventure.com/2013/08/octopus-facts/

- https://www.tonmo.com/threads/midnight-tank-escapes-fact-or-...

Edit: this is not to call you out for you story, it's very possible that this happened at CHS aquarium, I'm just wondering the origins since it's such a fascinating and strange story.

This seems odd. It feels unfair to shame companies because they may or may not contribute to a handful of projects you've picked out. I'd also encourage the author to do a bit more digging. The first entry calls out Instagram for allegedly not contributing to Django but they have a fork of it here: https://github.com/Instagram/django and without doing much digging, it's easy to say they've contributed at least once.

Several of the companies listed make incredible contributions to OSS.

Looks neat and absolutely love the diagrams. Thanks for your work.

and you could call a cab too but you might use Uber if their booking process is better.

Creating a projectname.sublime-project is usually my first step when I start a new development project. In fact, I do it so much I have a text expander shortcut for it.

Then I have a short bash alias `lime` that takes the place of `subl`: https://gist.github.com/imjared/db14e2c92df864ae048e1d2a94d0...

The benefit seems to be that it _isn't_ synced with my .gitignore so I never have to worry about accidentally committing a .env or similar. I can toggle files and folders on and off as I need to.

S3 works really nicely. I'm building my Octopress-based site using snap-ci (free for public builds). It was fairly straightforward to configure for use with S3 and you can run just about anything you want on it.

> (western europe, plenty of cabs)

There are not plenty of cabs in Austin. Part of what has made Uber so popular is the proliferation and therefore availability of a ride home from a night out. The convenience factor of being able to open your phone and have a ride come for you within minutes beats having to plan your night around leaving at a certain time or committing to a long wait (could easily be an hour or more) for a cab.

The website's sidebar also has a headline that says "North Korea Nukes Washington" so take it with a grain of salt.

pretty sure amazon's Q3 earnings can be attributed to the site i launched on EC2 that accidentally had a little bit too much power, load balancing, and backup instances. fun bill.

I bought concert tickets and a friend paid me for one of them. I need help moving and my friend let me use her zipcar membership. I venmo'd her money for the cost of the van. A few friends and I wanted to send flowers to a friend who had a baby. One person bought them and charged us each the split amount. etc.

fwiw, pandastrike seems to be on a crusade against all things Facebook/React so take this with a grain of salt. https://twitter.com/vjeux/status/655128064754499588

Was a waterpark lifeguard during highschool. We went through training every Tuesday night and were all CPR certified. It's a far cry from the lifeguards you see sitting around at neighborhood pools. If I was at the wave pool, I could easily be responsible for watching hundreds of people at any given time both in the water and in my immediate vicinity of the deck (choking? heat stroke?)

The job was sometimes so intense I'd wake up in the middle of the night in a panic because I thought I had forgotten my whistle or someone was having an emergency. Props to anyone who does it. When executed well and carefully, it's not exceptionally hard work but any lapse of judgement for even a moment can lead to disaster.

I'm convinced that the better or experienced I get at programming, the more unlikely it is that I'll solve a difficult challenge while actually programming. Taking a quick shower, walking around the block, laying down for 10-15 minutes, or scrubbing a sink full of dishes often leads me to a revelation.

Couldn't agree more about the breaks. I think I've come to the conclusion (as I've started to mature a bit more as an engineer/developer) that I'm almost never going to solve coding problems by writing code.

Breaking up my day whether it's with a walk to the park, a nap, a shower, or folding my laundry is usually when the real moments of inspiration come. These are the moments that I've solved some of the more challenging problems I've been faced with recently.

I've been working at home for about a year and can sympathize with the author. I've really been surprised at what an effect its had on me socially. I'm not the most outgoing person to begin with so the forced in-person interactions (both appreciated and unappreciated) that I got in my previous office settings were probably a lot more beneficial to me than I previously believed.

I feel like I have the additional challenge of being a web developer so when I do get the chance to talk to people, I don't have the "oh you won't believe this crazy guy I work with" stories. Everything is "oh you won't believe this wacky stacktrace I was getting." Cue glazed over eyes.

I love sitting here in my sweats, making fresh lunches, taking a short nap almost every afternoon to refresh, and being able to travel literally wherever I want as long as there's wifi. I miss people more than I thought I would. I think I'll probably join a coworking space before long even if it's only to go for a part of the week.

> Or better, don't send a damn email at all and let them access it because it's pointless to have an extra verification step

I've heard lots of people say not to bother validating but I always thought it was because you could just confirm with a verification email. Why's this step useless?

This. I'm still a young gun with only a few years under my belt but the combination of writing code and working with clients who need code written has made me realize the importance of communication. I've been able to take the precise communication that I'm forced to use in my work (be it with a system or with a client) and use it in my hobbies and organizations I'm a part of.

I (and folks I work with) have had really great success using Charles Proxy for per-machine bandwidth throttling.

Also has some handy features like AJAX debugging.

http://www.charlesproxy.com/overview/about-charles/

Do you have pictures of this anywhere? I'm pretty young (28) and worried a bit that I might be going down this path. I seem to be dealing with injury after injury while training for my running races and am fairly convinced that part of it is due to muscle tightness and tension from sitting so much during the day in a bad setup.

Have you upgraded to the newest version of google spreadsheets? We were having some performance issues that sound just like what you're experiencing and as soon as we made the switch, our sheets were super fast.

But if your "sting" is, let's say, a percent of your 100,000 salary, yeah that's going to not be fun but to get your car back, you'll do it and learn your lesson.

If it's a percent of your $30g salary and you're living paycheck to paycheck while trying to feed 3 kids, the effect is going to be substantially worse. I'm not saying we can just waive penalty fees situationally but the inequality is definitely going to be there regardless.

Check this out: https://github.com/andreypopp/react-router-page-transition

Not simply react but you can get the idea.

I've always been under the impression that a good nap consists of me being tired and going to lay down in my bed for 15-20 minutes. I've done it so regularly and so often that I naturally wake up after 20 minutes and feel quite refreshed. I looked (not too hard) to try to find a description of how someone/some company/some app could possibly optimize my napping but I couldn't find any information about what I was looking at.

It was only when I went to the Kickstarter page that I realized this is some sort of sleeping mask with what looks like an alarm clock or timer built in to it.