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pags··on Let's talk about an ideal webdev workflow without build scripts. We're so close
It’s already a reality, I was doing it about ten years ago.

require.js was a big piece of the puzzle, allowing the use of modules in browser without a build step.

The only time a “build” happened was to concat/minify scripts for production release, but even this wasn’t strictly necessary.

There were other pieces involved, but we had a powerful stack (aforementioned modules, css preprocessing, reactive templating) that had a faster and easier workflow than anything happening today.

pags··on Is AWS Wrong?
Cognito supports OAuth integration, but itself isn't an implementation of OAuth.
pags··on Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
I don't know anything about modulating LEDs, but could that high freq. have anything to do with the quiet but audible whine I hear when the light is on? Seems like it could be 8kish.
pags··on Show HN: Galiboo – An A.I.-powered API for music
Works well. How much are you pulling from the video title and description?
pags··on Algorithmically Fingering Guitar Chords with Elixir
The idea of impossible fingerings is ambiguous - I can play that D minor voicing in that position as 2 - 4 - 4 - 3. It'd be interesting to see if you could take a set of samples from the user first and apply that to your algorithm. Also useful would be something that purely takes a set of pitches as input, and produces fingerings with the same pitches across various fretted\open strings (and possibly allowing for octave transposition).
pags··on Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
Littman's books on Mitnick and Poulsen.
pags··on AWS Security Primer
This is the problem with "knowledge by web article" in general, isn't it? Blindly following best practices, rather than developing any true understanding of the task at hand.
pags··on Ask HN: If you targetting ES6 by default, how did you rationalize that choice?
"With the new versions of ES, my code is more independent from external sources."

What about all of those external sources brought in to support building\transpiling\source map generation\whatever?

pags··on Error Handling in Node.js
This is what I do when working with my own Error types.
pags··on The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development
Developers can't be trusted to make good decisions about the tools they use either.
pags··on Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
npm shrinkwrap
pags··on Software Development at 1 Hz
No it doesn't.
pags··on Software Development at 1 Hz
Web engineers are waiting for stuff to compile these days? I thought things were supposed to be moving forward, not backward.
pags··on JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
What is a "level" of security? If I'm able to inject arbitrary code into your page, with it I can access your local storage data, but I can't access your "http only" cookies - so there's at least some "level" of difference.
pags··on Show HN: What does your resume say about you?
Hi HN - I'm working on this more as a project than an actual startup, and would love to get feedback. It's similar to other sites that will grade your resume, except that it's tailored specifically for programmers. Right now it only handles resumes in English. Try it out and see if you learn something useful, thanks!
pags··on Show HN: See how technical recruiters view your resume
Hi Hacker News - this is a project I've been working on to see what might happen if you try to extract information from technical resumes. Any feedback would be appreciated!
pags··on Node v4.0.0
Those are classifications, but are they definitions? It's still not clear to me that "stability" has much to do with the software performing in a consistent matter. Either way it's a careless choice of wording, I've never encountered anybody who saw the word "unstable" attached to a node.js release and understood that it might refer to the API (see surrounding comments).
pags··on Node v4.0.0
I think it means that the API is stable, it's not related to how well the software works.
pags··on Ask HN: Why web frameworks are becoming so complex?
This sort of "complexity" (DI, ORM, extensive configuration) has existed for a long time, particularly in the Java webapp space.

You don't need a license to release a framework, and a framework doesn't have to be sensical to be adopted.

If you learn the fundamentals of the things you're working with, particularly HTTP, web browsers, the web in general, and your chosen programming languages, things will become much more clear.

pags··on Morphdom – fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (without the virtual part)
Currently using virtual-dom to power my front-end system, but have been waiting for something like this. Can't wait to see how it works in comparison.
pags··on Stop Looking for a Cofounder
You haven't met anyone who can work at all levels of the stack, then. There are engineers with a good grasp of the fundamentals, and know how to apply it across the board.
pags··on ES6 in Depth: Classes
That's strange, coming from Java.
pags··on ES6 in Depth: Classes

  static set circlesMade(val) {
    this._count = val;
  };
What's the value of "this" here?
pags··on JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately
One was killed by Apple.
pags··on Prototypes are Objects
I think you're confounding the idea of a "dictionary" with the specific data structure of hash map/table. Not all dictionaries are hash maps. There's nothing in the spec that says the dictionary-like properties of an object must be implemented as a hash map. I'm fairly certain that in at least V8 they are not hash maps.
pags··on Is Node.js declining already?
It's a common paradigm for UI programming. This is the basic backdrop of JS in the browser as well.
pags··on Prototypes are Objects
Probably for chaining
pags··on Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin
I also found it interesting that doing a Google image search on his name yielded nothing matching the description of the man given in this article.
pags··on Straightening our Backbone: A lesson in event-driven UI development
Definitely. I was surprised at how thoughtful and sane this article is.
pags··on Do Not Learn Frameworks – Learn the Architecture
I'm not sure that time and bodies necessarily produce good abstractions.
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