brunoc

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grokking some really weird junk http://js-montreal.org
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Comment · 3 years ago
You can get a really, _really_ good pair of professional studio monitors for 2000$. I'll confess that I've never heard the HP1 but that is a bold claim!
Comment · 4 years ago
My 2c as a JavaScript senior citizen --

I feel it never really was about denying how effective plain web pages are but rather that faced with the choice of a wonderful DX with just JS, and a more difficult day to day with a mix of both, we picked the first. Sometimes at the expense of the end user, yaddi yaddi yadda, etc.

Good solutions for the "have your cake and eat it" scenario with exceptionally good DX are just now reaching some maturity.

Comment · 5 years ago
It's kind of like needing to wear glasses; all you know is that everything looks blurry, and as far as you know that's how everyone sees. And if you struggle to see clearly, well, that's your problem.

My guess is that it stays undiagnosed because doctors aren't trained to make the connection between untreated ADHD (as an adult) and the disparate consequences it has on one's life.

Comment · 5 years ago
Developers model and reproduce this drift in software synthesizers because it's pleasing to the ear of many...
Comment · 6 years ago
"Don't hate the player, hate the game"
Comment · 6 years ago
There can be a lot in-between here. You might end up with something like `Report(type: PROFIT_AND_LOSS, unit: MONTHLY, segment: SECTOR)`

Like every tool, there's a sweet spot where it really shines and others where it doesn't fit. If you need to have access to a bunch of disparate datasources it's really nice to have that layer of abstraction.

Comment · 6 years ago
I feel that by using these types of tools you could really miss out on a fantastic opportunity to create a schema that models the business domain as accurately and elegantly as you want to make it, regardless of the underlying service topology or the databases behind it.

That's what I find the most attractive about GraphQL. Large companies and companies that have grown fast often have all kinds of APIs made at different time by different people with different standards. GraphQL lets you paper over that without breaking existing, revenue making code.

Comment · 7 years ago
Wouldn't you be spending the money you save on salaries on training your new "reverse bootcamp" employees? Hiring entry level people and giving them work isn't the same as teaching. The costs involved in actually training them has to be paid from your own pockets after all.

Might be possible to have them sign an employment contract beforehand and simply have them join an existing, reputable bootcamp.

Comment · 7 years ago
Same as sibling comments, and I would add that if you’re interested in modular fun, there is now a Volca Modular and in a slightly more expensive bracket, the Behringer Neutron has a ton of features for the money.
Comment · 7 years ago
A good way to start is taking a piece of music you like and trying to reproduce a reasonable facsimile. Going top down like this gives you some insight into the structure of music without having to start from “first principles”.
Comment · 8 years ago
How? This is a tiny functional CSS library.

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