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Haha that last one's been nagging me lately every time the kids ask how many days are left till Christmas.

Is that 55,000 lines of elm in a single large project or across all projects?

Good advice, definitely want to keep everything in a single branch.

While building the enterprise version of Kumu [1], I found it much easier to maintain if I used the environment to toggle configuration flags rather than scattering if(enterprise) calls throughout the codebase:

    BILLING_ENABLED = APP_ENV !== 'enterprise'

    if (BILLING_ENABLED) {
       // do something
    }

[1]: https://kumu.io/

One time I was at the park with my three kids and all the sudden every parent at the playground grabbed their kids, rushed to the parking lot, and got the hell out of there.

I had no idea what was going on. So we kept skateboarding.

Next thing I know cop cars are zipping in and out of the neighborhood, dozens of police are running around jumping fences, and there's a helicopter circling overhead.

Our car was parked in the center of the chaos, so we stayed on the far side of the park and watched.

Would have loved to have an app like this that day. Still never got to the bottom of what was actually going on. Or figured out how all those other parents were privy to the situation before I was.

I agree on the benefits of the first example but is that really dependency injection? Or is it just an abstraction layer?

eg. what if getAccount was hard coded to initialize all the other dependencies it needed on the fly for each call?

If that's still considered DI then it's a much looser term than I understood it to be.

Have you seen http://en.arguman.org?

It allows you to make an assertion and then break the argument down into peer-validated because, but, and however statements.

Thank you everyone that offered advice and encouragement on this. Here's a few of the top resources that were shared for anyone else in a similar situation:

http://parenting.stackexchange.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Unconditional-Parenting-Moving-Reward...

https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/14516638...

https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Child-Children-Overw...

https://www.amazon.com/No-Drama-Discipline-Whole-Brain-Nurtu...

https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Child-Revolutionary-Strat...

https://www.amazon.com/Explosive-Child-Understanding-Frustra...

https://www.amazon.com/Simplicity-Parenting-Extraordinary-Ca...

https://www.amazon.com/1-2-3-Magic-Effective-Discipline-Chil...

He actually thought it was fun. I tied him up with one of the play silks we have and a couple loose knots. Only took him a few minutes to work his way out of them but at least it diverted his attention and helped him calm down for a bit.

"Bring it, bitch" is definitely his attitude at home. He loves wrestling and any other form of deep physical contact.

His teachers say he doesn't have any problems at school, which is comforting yet extremely frustrating at the same time since that means it's very much an environmental condition. And the environment he doesn't cope well with seems to be his younger sisters.

I don't think abuse was the reason kids were less defiant before.

In the old days they just had more space and time to explore things on their own, work out mini conflicts with other kids on their own, and basically learn the rules of life on their own.

It's really sad how little room there is for kids to do anything truly on their own these days. Once I've saved enough money I'm going to open an adventure land here on Oahu to give kids like my son a place to breathe and be their selves.

Point taken. Unfortunately he also encourages his 3-year old sis to climb over the fence with him now too. And she is absolutely adorable.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Your point about remembering he's just a kid is spot on. He seems SO old compared to his sisters, but every once in a while he'll say something that strikes that chord and makes you remember just how young he still is and how much help he still needs.

We've been hiring baby sitters this summer so my wife can do 1-on-1 dates with him twice a week. He has a blast with her but then immediately relapses as soon as they get back to the house. Almost makes things worse because you feel like you're doing something right for once and then it ultimately ends up backfiring.

He usually gets about 10 hours of sleep (goes down around 7:30 and usually up around 6 or 6:30).

Sounds like we're very much in the same boat. He definitely took a turn for the worse when his little sis was born.

He's a very creative and strong willed boy. Loves people and loves to talk. If he's left to his own he does alright, but unfortunately he has zero concern for anyone else's safety so he's not able to do that very often. The words "no" and "stop" have been far too frequent in our house lately but it's really hard when you have a newborn and he's jumping off his bunk bed and nearly crushing her.

We like weird too. We have friends raising robots and I'm honestly not sure which is more painful to watch -- my son losing it or their kids acting like grownups.

Sounds like a great idea. We've tried the point chart but haven't tried to capture his behavior over time in a way that's visible to him.

He can to a point, but once he gets tired / bored the behavior comes out even in public.

Yesterday my wife took the kids to the beach and tried to get a photo of the three of them together. In the sequence you see him pull our 3-year old down and then start chewing on his fingers while he's smacking our 1-year old in the back (not hard but quick repeated pats). The last shot is him staring at the camera with his fingers in his mouth and his other hand hitting the side of his head.

It's an incredibly sad photo for my wife and I to look at. He's obviously tormented by something internally but nobody we've worked with has a clue what it is or how to help him cope with it.

The natural consequences are more along the lines of...

Don't like dinner? That's fine, don't eat. Then he goes in and makes a bowl of ice cream. What's the natural consequence approach there?

Same when he's taking his frustration out on his toys. Eventually one actually breaks and now he's sad _and_ angry and directs his emotions at his mom and sisters.

Just this week he figured out how to climb over our fence and out into the street. Is the natural consequence to let him be run over or kidnapped?

I put "natural consequences" in quotes because I think it's a joke. If your dealing with problems that have natural consequences you don't actually have much of a problem.

We've tried spanking but it just gets him riled up (and as you noted, more violent).

Not sure what else to do though. He refuses to accept no for answer and insists on doing whatever he pleases whenever he pleases unless you physically stop him.

Hopefully that attitude will make him wildly successful when he gets older, but it's currently tearing our family apart.

He's already seeing an OT at his school but it doesn't seem to be helping much. Not sure what the next step up is.

For the most part he behaves fine out in public (or when he knows he's being tested). But once he gets home he's an absolute terror.

Yeah the stress it's causing my wife is one of the hardest parts about it. She got her BS in child development, worked at the local CDRC in college, and always assumed parenting would come easy for her. Thank god our 3-year old daughter is the sweetest thing in the world.

When I was in high school I remember my mom losing it one night and saying she wished I was never born. Those things stick for life and my wife is very much at that point.

Thanks, hopefully that's the stage we're getting to. My wife hung posters on the walls with exercises to help him calm down and I've been quitting work early to be able to spend more 1-on-1 time with him in the afternoons.

What incentives worked for you? We've tried the points/sticker chart thing without any luck (allowing him to redeem his points for audio books, tv shows, treats, and even Dave and Buster's if he saved up a lot).

What's with the down votes?

We've built a platform that helps people diagram, explore, and share the complex systems Donella talks about. Her work has been a major influence on Kumu and we even have a quote of hers on the manifesto.

The Systems Thinker [1] is another great resource.

[1]: https://thesystemsthinker.com/

Anyone know how playcanvas handles antialiasing? Their scenes are beautiful.

I'm not sure I'd consider this apathy. My guess is that everyone who considered fixing this over those 8 years instinctively knew it was going to be a leaky fix. And that "fixing" it would likely lead to more bugs.

Kumu | Honolulu, HI | REMOTE | Software engineer / javascript developer

Kumu is a web-based data viz platform that helps people understand complex relationships, mostly through network, systems, and stakeholder maps. We’ve spent the past four years refining Kumu’s visualization platform and we’re embarking on our next phase: developing a suite of tools and products to simplify the process of creating maps (through surveys, custom forms, and integrations with other platforms) and making it easier to collaborate on maps remotely (through integrated discussions, branching/forking, and version control).

We’re currently working with some of the world’s top organizations including The Omidyar Group, Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, USAID, Stanford ChangeLabs, Democracy Fund, World Bank, Humanity United and more.

    - Full-time position (remote or join team on Oahu)
    - Salary $60-80k
    - Equity 1-2%
    - Small team with recurring subscription revenue over $100k / year
    - Flexible hours with a fun mission-driven team 
    - Stack: react, rails, webgl, webpack/babel, aws, git/github, slack, hangouts, IE11+
    - Bonus points for experience with: graphs/networks, couchdb, elasticsearch, redis, d3

On a day-to-day basis you’ll primarily be working with Ryan (@rymohr) and will be involved throughout the entire development process: from the initial brainstorm to flush out the basic architecture all the way to the final stages of testing and release. We like to move fast and ship often, and we try to break work into weekly deliverables to keep everyone’s expectations and progress in check. We do a quick hangout at the beginning of each week to revisit everyone’s immediate priorities.

Please send an email to careers@kumu.io if you’re interested or know somebody we can reach out to who might be. Thanks!

https://kumu.io/manifesto

https://twitter.com/rymohr

Still no support for incremental snapshots though right?

Yeah that's the gist of it. Helping people make sense of complicated relationships so they can make an impact.

If you're interested in this stuff Donella Meadow's book "Thinking in Systems" is a great introduction: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/...

I've been a software developer on Oahu for ten years and I'm currently working on my own startup with my brother [1]. There are plenty of "real" jobs over here but to be honest, the community of talented developers on island is so small that you're not going to find the jobs online. Go to the local meetups and ask around and you'll find plenty of people that are hiring.

Not sure what your background is but if you're interested in the work we're doing at Kumu hit me up (think github meets gephi focused on social impact). We're hiring and have found it incredibly hard to find local developers that A) know their shit, and B) don't already have a better offer.

All in all, if you're a decent human being and you're good at what you do you'll have no problem finding a job wherever you look.

[1]: https://kumu.io

Why Honolulu if you live on Maui?