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gregchapple

116 karma · joined April 15, 2013

Python and JavaScript developer from Dublin, Ireland.
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gregchapple··on Show HN: A text adventure for developers
This is just a pet peeve of mine. I don't understand why you ask "Are you sure you want to leave this page" when I click back, or try to close the tab. I am sure - that's why I tried to leave.

edit: fixed typo

gregchapple··on Prose, a content editor for GitHub
Actually, it's a Backbone.js application. It uses the browserify library to load other modules, which is what the "require('blah')" bits are. this confused me too when I first read it. so essentially you can run this on a static file server like GH pages.

As far as I remember in order to get the GitHub authentication piece working you need to use an external app simply for the authentication with GitHub. DevelopmentSeed also wrote an app for this called gatekeeper (I think) which I believe is a node.js application.

impressive stuff.

gregchapple··on An editor is an editor after all Isn't it?
The simple answer is that Emacs has fantastic support for working with Lisp code. Have a look at this page for a more detailed explanataion: http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/emacs-ide.html#Slide-2
gregchapple··on Is Twitter down for anyone else?
down in Ireland also
gregchapple··on Intern at a YC Company
I've noticed a strange bug with the latest version of Chrome where pages sometimes don't render. Try opening the developer tools, this usually causes the page to render for me.
gregchapple··on Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception of 5 minutes
better than the alternative: "vibrating unisex".
gregchapple··on What's the new hottness? EmberJS, AngularJS, BackboneJS, or something else?
I can't recommend Angular.js enough. I've been working with it for the past few months and find it to be really enjoyable. The docs aren't great (though getting better), but I found these tutorials pretty good for getting up and running: http://egghead.io
gregchapple··on Gadget: A smallish web framework for Go
+1 for Martini. Spent some time looking for a decent framework like this, and was delighted when I discovered it.
gregchapple··on A WebGL game engine
It could be a hardware issue too. My graphics card doesn't support it, even though my browser should.