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jon_kupermanon The Life of a PHP Developer

Honestly, I spend a lot of my time writing JavaScript and Scala. My point with the article is just that PHP has a lot of stigma that creates a self fulfilling prophecy of being a 'bad language'.

jon_kupermanon The Life of a PHP Developer

Agreed. I've been in the Bay Area for ~1 year and definitely see the Ruby / Node / Java trend but back in Michigan it seemed like every tech job I'd run across was PHP or .NET.

jon_kupermanon Show HN: Shortcut.js – standardized keyboard shortcuts

thanks for the feedback! I was a little stuck on where to go next but I do agree that different keyboard layouts would be huge.

jon_kupermanon You Don't Need JQuery

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

jon_kupermanon Static Site Generators

Awesome list! I've been using jekyll for about 2 years and I really like it. It's crazy that Jekyll is number 1 and 2 considering Octopress runs on it.

jon_kupermanon Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML

Someone should make a resource that allows you to see if your website is ready for the front page of HN :/

jon_kupermanon Parameter Hell

Hadn't seen that, thanks for the share.

jon_kupermanon Parameter Hell

Absolutely, they would be the ideal answer but a lot of times this gets the job done better than just having 10 parameters to your function.

jon_kupermanon Parameter Hell

haha a friend just showed me named parameters in python! /jealous

jon_kupermanon Frameworkless JavaScript

If the code is already cached on the device, which I'm assuming it is in most cases. What is it that is slowing down the UX experience?

jon_kupermanon Simon Says game in JavaScript

20!? I can't get past 11...

jon_kupermanon Simon Says game in JavaScript

That would definitely be cool! I also would love if some of these game parts could be made into modules so I could use them to make other classic games...

jon_kupermanon Frameworkless JavaScript

Really interesting post for sure.

I'm not really seeing the size advantage here. All of the mentioned frameworks are cached on popular CDN's and I just don't think you're really getting much of a win out of creating your own, smaller files.

Also, I'm always wary of companies that want to re-invent the wheel as opposed to using open-sourced, well-documented projects. If I start at your company and you use Backbone, not only is there a good chance I can come in with a good understanding of your code -- but I can easily check on Google for any questions I have. If I start at a company that has built their own, closed-source, custom JS framework -- I'll have to ask internally every time I have trouble figuring something out.

It may be necessary for your product, but to me it always raises a flag when people create their own proprietary version of something that already has been done.

Anyway, a great read for sure!

jon_kupermanon Skype blog hacked

Yeah getting access to their WordPress blog doesn't really prove anything.

jon_kupermanon Better JavaScript Selectors

I'm using them in a side project, it's on Github: https://github.com/m1ck3y/inspires/blob/master/app/client/vi...

jon_kupermanon OpenEmu 1.0 Released

I don't even know what this does yet but the website looks awesome! I can't stop scrolling...

jon_kupermanon Bing is blank?

Yep, expect 100% blank iPhone's coming in IOS 8.

jon_kupermanon Sublime Text 3 Build 3059

I switched over after the last build and things have been really stable.

jon_kupermanon The Reality of Code

That's interesting. I think classes are supposed to have a single responsibility according to S.O.L.I.D so it seems to make sense to have a lot of them.