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justrossthings··on Build a Serverless Web Applicaion
Mostly stoked about serverless because I won't have to deal with grumpy backend devs anymore
justrossthings··on Launch HN: Feather (YC S17), painless furniture rental for people who move a lot
Fyi you can return items to IKEA for up to 1 year after purchase. Even built.
justrossthings··on Show Total User Karma in Hacker News Posts
If you want to determine the value of a user's comment by the community's knee-jerk reaction to said comment, go back to reddit.
justrossthings··on Bootstrap 4 drops IE9 support and goes full flexbox
This attitude is why more people are not software developers- far worse than pissing of you and your elitist friends.

Bootstrap's 'one-line-of-code-and-go' simplicity enabled me to make my first websites with no IT education on library computer in rural Australia [we didn't have one at home]. Today, I write code for a SF-based unicorn and whilst I don't use Bootstrap at work, I attribute my career to that CSS framework.

'Easier' tools enable more people to make use mankind's collective knowledge and change their lives for the better; I don't give a fuck if you're happy about it.

justrossthings··on Out of date Chrome results in ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
Holy crap am I understanding this correctly? Out of date Chrome browsers will not load Amazon and other sites utilizing Symantec SSL certs??? Amazon and everyone running Symantec certs dropping Symantec in T-minus: 3 ... 2 ...
justrossthings··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
Any recommendations? I am about to finish Red Mars
justrossthings··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
Required reading: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/...
justrossthings··on Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 Released
We've been using maximum of 1140px col-xl width since 1920x1080 was considered the bleeding edge, but now monitors with 2560x1440 resolution are becoming more common- where 1140 barely covers half the width of the screen.

Isn't about time we had a grid container that fixed this?

justrossthings··on Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups
"Youngry" - A newsmedia property built a supplement entrepreneur and professional "entrepreneurial-advice" entrepreneur that aims to make money by creating sponsored content and e-commerce products (webinars, digital books) for early-stage, young entrepreneurs.
justrossthings··on Republic – Now everyone can invest in startups
Republic - Invest in the startups real investors won't invest in
justrossthings··on BlackBox
These guys spent more time on animating their team portraits than explaining their product
justrossthings··on Double Arm Transplant Surgery
Is anyone keeping an eye on how his nerves are rebuilding connections? This is would be pretty useful data for electronic prosthetics
justrossthings··on Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
I talk a lot about this stuff with a friend doing sales operations at a hyper-growth startup in SF. With Criteo, tools like Reply.io and others he thinks we're going to see an event horizon where recipients of spam say enough is enough and online privacy finally becomes 'cool'.
justrossthings··on Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview?
I'm a front-end dev going through the hiring process right now. Here's a list of some of the questions I have been asked in technical interviews: - What is a clojure? - What is a callback? - What is an IIFE? - How can you use scope to keep a copy of i in a loop? - What is going on when you click a link to go to a website? - Difference between classical inheritance vs prototypical - Difference between object-oriented programming vs functional - Knowing what 'this' is referencing at different points inside a function/class - Difference between <p>, <div> and <span> - Difference between css selectors: '.classA.classB', '.classA .classB', '.classA > .classB' - Difference between 'x is undefined' and 'x is not defined' error messages

Programming problems: - Calculating fibonacci numbers - Depth-first binary tree search - Turning a hashmap with multiple levels of embedded hashmaps inside-out - Handling API response data to create new objects - Creating a login form - Using media queries to make responsive pages - Determine if word is a palindrome - Using recursive functions

Knowing methods to reduce computation time and space with hashmaps and arrays is important. You will also be asked to state the computation time and space of your solutions

Framework-specific questions: - What is the difference between a component and a directive? (AngularJS) - What is the difference between a service and a directive? (AngularJS)

I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.

https://www.interviewcake.com/ and Hackerrank can prepare you for programming problems but outside of the giants you don't often get asked these.

justrossthings··on SpaceX successfully lands its sixth Falcon 9 rocket after launch
Looking forward to this not even being news in the future. Thank you Elon
justrossthings··on Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications
>build something that provides a unique unprecedented benefit, important enough that people will use it no matter how inconvenient it is

As much as I like Tim I have to agree. My mom doesn't give a shit about controlling her data, much less know who has it or how it's being used.

HN, What would be a killer user-experience that Solid could facilitate with it's data-silo'ing?

=> Enable 3rd party apps that use Solid's login to offer hyper-targeted onboarding and pre-fill more account creation inputs

=> Enable background cross-app communication to app's you've given permission to in order to facilitate great user-experiences? Eg. Spotify tells your Ticketmaster app what musicians you listen to, Ticketmaster gives you notifications when said musicians are coming to your town

=> ???

justrossthings··on Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications
>RE: "Facebook/other apps will just store your data after you login anyway, so what's the point?"

Right now, just having user is data is only 'OK'; up-to-date user data is the real goal. People, particularly every marketer's favorite demographic, teenagers, change their tastes and interests drastically and frequently. Just knowing Jenny liked Justin Bieber when she was 12 is almost useless when trying to market to Jenny at age 15.

Into the future 'old' data will further reduce in value as app developers make up-to-date and other hyper-targeted data more available.

justrossthings··on AMP Is What HTML Should Have Been
This an intro, conclusion and 3 paragraphs that don't say much more than "HTML is shit because people don't specify image size and this irritates me".

I can't tell what's worse: this post, or the fact that people are responding to it.

justrossthings··on Torrentz Shuts Down, Largest Torrent Meta-Search Engine Says Farewell
>TFW your children won't experience having access to all the software, music, and other content they could ever want just by knowing how to use a computer better than most people

Feels bad man. Having access to a cracked version of Photoshop at 13 years old changed my life.

justrossthings··on China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic
Practical or not, this isn't going to be the first time China builds something we didn't.
justrossthings··on Tell your dentist to suck it: there’s little evidence flossing works
"Anon, I suggest you start flossing more regularly to clean debris in-between your teeth"

"No thanks Mr. Dentist, an article I read on the internet said that is dumb :-)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

justrossthings··on Medium acquires Embedly (YC W10)
Congrats guys! Very excited to see what the future holds with your powers combined.
justrossthings··on Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution
OP, can you share why social login is necessary?
justrossthings··on Viral.js – Peer-to-peer web app distribution
Beats Product Hunt at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
justrossthings··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2016)

  UI Engineer with 8+ years exp. building web ╰( ◕ ᗜ ◕ )╯
  Location: San Francisco, CA
  Remote: Ok
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Angular, Javascript, Node, jQuery, Photoshop, Sketch
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justrossthings
  Email: iam@rossdyson.com
justrossthings··on Midas – Enriched contact information for email lists
Curious about this as well