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rayshan··on Spotify files for its IPO
I'm also a subscriber and love Beats 1, but I believe Beats 1 is free. Sometimes I wonder if I should just unsubscribe and listen to Beats 1 all day.
rayshan··on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
Facial verification, together with cell phone number, which requires an ID to purchase, has been the standard practice for internet companies in China for a while now, e.g. for WeChat, Alipay, etc.
rayshan··on Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today
If not supporting IE, a good gauge is evergreen browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) and Safari going back 2 major versions. This means supporting 2 years of Safari 9.x and 10.x as of today. macOS doesn't upgrade as often as evergreen browsers.
rayshan··on Payment Request API
Here's an in-depth discussion with Molly Dalton and Zach Koch, contributors to the Payment Request API spec: https://modernweb.podbean.com/e/2017-04-mw-payments/

(Disclosure: I'm the host of the podcast)

rayshan··on Exiv2, performant media metadata library, is looking for a lead maintainer
Exiv2 is widely used by KDE Desktop, Dolphin, Konqueror, Darktable, DigiKam, GIMP, GwenView, PhotoFlow, etc. The current core maintainer, Robin Mills, is a very seasoned Adobe computer scientist. He is very active and helpful in mentoring contributors. This is a great opportunity for anyone wishing to work on a major part of graphics software.
rayshan··on ‘This’ in JavaScript
Bind is less performant, because bind creates a new function with new context. At the framework level, bind is avoided at all costs. @wiredearp's approach is correct, because it only adds a single event listener, everything else is conditional.
rayshan··on ‘This’ in JavaScript
This is less performant, because bind creates a new function with new context. At the framework level, bind is avoided at all costs.
rayshan··on Microsoft Concept Graph
Thanks, I saw that, but it's not the same graph-based UI as the screenshots.
rayshan··on Microsoft Concept Graph
There are only screenshots of the Probase Browser. Anyone has a link to a working instance?
rayshan··on Keith Ohlfs, NeXTSTEP Designer, has passed away
I was extremely lucky to be able to work side by side with Keith at Montage Studio. I am grateful for all Keith has taught me and all he has shown the world. I will always remember the late nights we spent together. My condolences to the Ohlfs family. Rest in peace Keith.
rayshan··on Server APIs Project
FYI the job description says Seattle, Washington
rayshan··on Ask HN: How to evaluate a job opportunity when you don’t know the technology?
I was thinking machine learning, but it could any other technology, e.g. going to a hardware company as a software engineer. I was wondering if people had general thoughts on this topic.
rayshan··on Ask HN: How to evaluate a job opportunity when you don’t know the technology?
Hi HN! Sorry the text got swallowed. Let’s say you’re a web front-end engineer, and you’re thinking about join a small startup with machine learning as its core technology, something you’re not familiar with. How would you go about making your decision?
rayshan··on React: Mixins Considered Harmful
I see some React code using decorators but this article doesn't mention them. I'd love to get everyone's opinion on whether decorators are also an anti-pattern, even if decorators become a JavaScript standard.
rayshan··on Changes to Evernote’s Pricing Plans
Free accounts can only sync with 2 devices now, so if you have a work computer, a personal computer, a phone and a tablet you're totally screwed. Time to switch. Any recommendations?
rayshan··on Apple Pay on the Web
Another solid product page by Stripe. Simple, elegant, fast, responsive. For example, the "demo video" isn't actually a video - it's a composition of small images, DOM elements with CSS animation.
rayshan··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2016)
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Within San Francisco bay area

Technologies: JavaScript for web & hybrid applications, vanilla or using React / Angular; Node.js; relational databases; Photoshop / Sketch; deep understanding of finance / e-commerce

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayshan https://github.com/rayshan

Email: ray@shan.io

rayshan··on ThingieQuery: $19 SQL IDE for Excel
I think he's referring to Power Query / Get & Transform
rayshan··on Grafi.js – JavaScript Image Processing Library
The better way of triggering hardware acceleration nowadays is with the CSS will-change API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/will-change
rayshan··on Inside Equinix's NY4 data center where Wall Street trades
How does one go about visiting such a facility? Do you have to be a customer or can anyone just request a tour?
rayshan··on The following new features have been added in Safari 9.1
Picture element support, yay! One less browser to polyfill for.
rayshan··on Simulating the World in Emoji
Nice! Now we just need a Dwarf Fortress emoji tileset.
rayshan··on How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web
If you'd like to enjoy the benefits on the desktop, there are extensions: https://github.com/edlea/DesktopAMP
rayshan··on Show HN: JavaScript Graphing Library Comparison
Missing Plottable.js by Palantir, a solid modular charting library based on d3: https://github.com/palantir/plottable
rayshan··on Paw – REST Client for Mac OS X
Hmm it didn't catch the url, maybe b/c of https, sorry
rayshan··on Postman 2.0 with Sync
Loved Postman as well, but I've switched to PAW [0] with a very polished and powerful native OS X experience.

[0] https://luckymarmot.com/paw

rayshan··on Show HN: Xr – A modern ES6 Promise-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper
What happens after .then? Does xhr get GC'd? Would the inner xhr be considered out of scope?
rayshan··on Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
Listening to panel discussion at Node Summit now, it was discussed by Scott Hammond that Node.js Foundation corporate membership costs $5k to $250k, vague on individual membership
rayshan··on Emacs Rocks
Nice! Is there something similar for vim? For newbies looking to get into one, it'll be nice to see a comparison.
rayshan··on Clear Sky Chart – sky clarity and darkness forecast at 4909 locations
It's made for astronomers, but I use it for photography, especially helpful for locations that's frequently foggy (e.g. San Francisco bay area). UI is a little lacking but info is rich and a godsend, very thankful that this exists. Wish there's an API for it...
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