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daveroberts

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About daveroberts

Taking the arc challenge

Recent public activity

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    Comment #30587504

    I suspect they'll get zero PRs: "The files in this repo are for historical reference only and will remain read-only and unmodified in their original state. Please do not send Pull …

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    Comment #29992411

    It seems almost self evident the game would not have been greenlit without a form of DRM. Most of the comments here are lamenting the game having DRM, but they're comparing having …

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    Comment #28330614

    Well done! Not an easy task

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    Comment #26823580

    > we should have an SQL database in the frontend Although not SQL, this is essentially the approach Meteor takes where you have your same DB on the front and back end https://www.m…

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    Comment #25688817

    Not Ruby's default REPL, but Pry Stack Explorer provides this functionality to Ruby

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    Comment #17264618

    Microsoft had an advertising campaign for Windows Vista called the Mojave Experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Experiment

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    Comment #16561403

    Are there any good real world benchmarks for Ruby?

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    Comment #16517986

    This is very cool. I'm heavily invested in Vue.js, but seeing these kinds of features of the horizon with React makes me a bit jealous. The APIs do see unintuitive, but as Dan said…

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    Comment #16181475

    > William Whyte‘s rule: Virtually all corporate relocations involve a move to a location which is closer to the CEO’s home than the old location. Of course, it's hard to pick any l…

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    Comment #16168634

    I'm trying to understand the problem this solves. Let's say you have an HTTP API which allows users to update their email address: POST /api/user/:username/update_email But you cha…

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    Comment #15493210

    How is TOML not properly nestable?

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    Comment #14560807

    How did you make / optimize the animated gifs on the front screen?

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    Comment #13630632

    How did you handle user signup / authentication to your service? Did it piggy-back on VK's authentication?

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    Comment #12566404

    There are some other issues for users trying to follow along. I hit my next snag from moment.js not being imported, and not having the filters domain, amFromUnix and amTimeAgo not …

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    Comment #12558186

    Just a minor point, but your first stories.component.html snippet doesn't include {{i}}, so the way it renders in the browser is different than your screenshot

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    Comment #12557677

    Fails for me pretty early on: ng set defaults.styleExt scss Could not start watchman; falling back to NodeWatcher for file system events. Visit http://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#wat…

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    Comment #12307102

    Multiple microservices are supposed to have different data backends, so that they are completely independent. Splitting your data up this way isn't all roses, but ideally the servi…

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    Comment #12203016

    One method: My employer has asked me to keep some information confidential, including its employee compensation. I'm sure that you expect your employees to keep a certain level of …

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    Comment #11808936

    What is the "code insight" feature? Is it an intellisense feature of VSCode?

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    Comment #11639458

    I know very little about the subject, but when multi-core processors were first introduced, I remember that the general wisdom was that server software could benefit, from its high…

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    Comment #11430725

    The first result from Google for nodejs worker pool leads to this project: https://github.com/jeffmo/node-worker-pool The project has only 9 stars on GitHub. While it might be a pe…

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    Comment #10260718

    Thanks. Should any other packages be in core that are not?

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    Comment #10260162

    How often do you use npm packages which are not part of atmosphere? I remember this not working great. Have things changed?

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    Comment #8810325

    Go and Rust and included in the Computer Language Benchmark game: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ Nim, and many of the other interesting languages mentioned in this thread…

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    Comment #5359391

    For what it's worth, I installed this in my VIM, switching between files took about 4 seconds instead of 1, so I uninstalled it.