amikazmi

49 karma · joined June 20, 2010

twitter: @amitkaz

email: amit.kaz@gmail.com

amikazmion Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

I think he meant to say that the idea is trivial, not the execution.

Just like twitter "idea" of publicly broadcasting 140 chars is trivial to make, but the whole "twitter" isn't.

amikazmion The problem with Coffeescript: debugging

In your experience, it's necessary with others' code. In my experience, it's rarely necessary.

As long as you're glad with your false assumptions, I have nothing more to add.

amikazmion The problem with Coffeescript: debugging

False dichotomy.

"All code has bugs" claim is true, but it doesn't mean you need debuggers in order to solve/fix the problems.

If your methods ARE small enough, and you have tests for OTHER cases, printing/console is actually faster (at least for me) than using a debugger. I have a JS debugger in firebug, and I rarely use it (for pure JS, not just CoffeeScript output).

amikazmion The problem with Coffeescript: debugging

1. if you keep your methods small, and have tests, you rarely need a debugger.

2. the generated js isn't that complex and you can easily map it in your head- it's not like trying to "debug" asm generated from C.

3. you'll get debugging soon (as wmf said, source maps- now waiting for cs guys to support in chrome, Rubymine IDE supports in D1 2013)

4. productivity is important.

amikazmion Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

So you could jump right into the talking part- with a web interface you'll have to get a phone afterwards.

amikazmion To apply, solve the following... are you kidding?

  IO.readlines(file).each do |w|
    puts w.split(//).find { |c| w.count(c) == 1 }
  end

amikazmion Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet

I think the idea was that only Google will crawl your site and update the index, then the rest of the search engines will use the index instead of hitting your site.

amikazmion Ask HN: Caching in Ruby?

jruby bytecode is heavily cached (on top of the caching done by the JVM)

http://blog.headius.com/2010/05/kicking-jruby-performance-up...

amikazmion Ask HN: Do you believe we'll ever encounter aliens?

But (b) assumes that they use light to know about us.. That may be false :)