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jdeseno··on Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
FYI many (possibly all) of the Whole Foods here in Seattle did in fact change overnight: they added higher shelves, rearranged the layouts & product placements etc. All of this happened within the final day of the switch from what I can tell.
jdeseno··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)
Fishbowl VR, looking for a Senior Web Developer/early hires to help with our app. we offer playtesting for VR/AR developers. Seattle area or remote for the right person. fishbowlvr.com/careers/senior-developer hit me up or jobs [@] fishbowlvr [ com ]
jdeseno··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Fishbowl VR, we offer playtesting for VR/AR app developers. We're early stage and funded.

Looking for a Senior Web Developer/early hires to help with our app. An excellent way for someone to get into VR/AR.

Our current stack is Rails on AWS. We do a lot of video transcoding/dealing with large files etc. Most of our tech choices going forward will be very flexible.

Seattle area or remote for the right person. fishbowlvr.com/careers/senior-developer hit me up or jobs [@] fishbowlvr [ com ]

jdeseno··on 3.5 years of open development for a procedurally-generated adventure game
The Moonman devlog has been a great read so far. Good insight into how much work it takes to make a polished game. Looking forward to playing it.
jdeseno··on Cargo, Rust's Package Manager
The read-manifest command seems to output a JSON of your Cargo.toml if you have tools you'd like to use that require it:

    cargo read-manifest --manifest-path .
jdeseno··on Candy Japan 2013 Year in Review
Personally I'm trying to kick my habit of picking up cool art supplies and paper whenever I'm in Japantown.

I think something as simple just monthly 3-4 novelty erasers would sell really well.

I also recall reading that paper yearly planners are popular in Japan right now.

Edit: I was thinking of these http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2135267959864327501 -- http://www.1101.com/store/techo/2014/planner/

jdeseno··on Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs
I agree, my phrasing is too vitriolic. I feel that links like this are part of the decline in quality around here but, I'm not helping any.

Apparently I can't delete the comment myself at this point.

jdeseno··on Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs
It is "Top X of Y" style article that adds almost nothing to the content. Edit: Try googling "Top X TED Talks" or a variation. Almost all of these are SEO spam articles on this exact topic. I'm sure I'm just being too negative but, I find it really annoying.
jdeseno··on Top 12 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs
This is linkbait garbage. Giving Shopify the benefit of the doubt, I clicked on it expecting it to maybe be a parody of these types of articles. Disappointing.
jdeseno··on What's all this fuss about Erlang?
For the people who don't like Erlang's syntax, there are alternatives. I've used Elixer (http://elixir-lang.org/) with some success. It has a Rubyish syntax and gets rid of a lot of the warts newcomers seem to dislike.

The language is actually the easiest part, the biggest hurdle seems to be organizing a complicated application to take advantage of OTP. Erlang is really about OTP; not the language.

jdeseno··on LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally
The call out is "what I want to be" and of the 3 choices I'm given, all 3 are white male 25-30 something techies.

I can't understand why you'd want to advertise that so blatantly. I'd recommend something less abstract, like a useful explanation of what your site does etc.

jdeseno··on LearningJar- Learn Skills Informally
That's a pretty striking lack of diversity in the call to action on the main page. ^C^P^P.
jdeseno··on Static Typing is not enough
It seems to be a trend; gloss over the article then infer most of the meaning from the title.

The title I submitted isn't great but, I can't seem to correct it.

jdeseno··on Study: Teens Think Your eBooks Are Lame, Prefer Actual Books
Haven't you actually purchased a license to the book contents and not an actual book?
jdeseno··on Book Conan's TV studio on AirBnB
Seems like a poor choice to force logged in users to accept new TOS before seeing anything; not being able to view the listing without agreeing or logging out was annoying.
jdeseno··on Ask HN: What are the stupid things Rails developers do?
- Not writing tests.

- Long finder methods instead of using named scopes.

- Not using restful routes.

- Too much code in their views.

- After saves that should be validations or other confusing AR lifecycle mistakes/abuses.

jdeseno··on I Broke Justin.tv
Having been at JTV, looking back it almost seems insane to try to do as much work as we we're without good coverage. If it matters, it should get a test.

I think a lot of people also see tests as slowing things down but, they also provide a lot of value in documenting intentions, make upgrades easier, etc.

jdeseno··on Polyglot extension for Chrome - Learn a new language
I liked this extension but don't use chrome, so I made: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/86091/.

If you find a bug, repo is here: http://github.com/jdeseno/PolyGlop, patches welcome!

jdeseno··on Because Spain won, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is free for 24 hours
A nice checkbox 'send me marketing upates' below the email entry box would be really nice. These days most people appreciate an opt-in experience to opt-out.
jdeseno··on Twitter Chirp live broadcast on Justin.tv
http://www.justin.tv/twitterchirp/all#r=QcLevkA~
jdeseno··on Guido on Functional
Couldn't we do this?

r' f (x:xs) | xs == [] = (f x):[] | otherwise = (f x):(r' f xs)

or:

[(f a) | a <- myList]

- another edit -

r' f (x:xs) | xs == [] = x | otherwise = f x (r' f xs)

jdeseno··on Bill Clementson's Blog: JavaScript and Lisp
Nice but, anonymous recursion is possible with arguments.callee.
jdeseno··on Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block?
This is the technical equivalent of: "Hey, I found $100 what should I do with it"? 255 addresses ... woo-hoo.
jdeseno··on Fast vector graphics word art with HTML canvas
So that's what you've been working on? Nice work! 面白い。