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Rafting on HN, never thought I'd see the day! For anyone looking for more on the subject of multi-day wilderness rafting trips, my parents wrote a blog post on a similar trip we di…

Had the opposite experience recently as an EM. Spent a few months trying to find a staff-level engineer. Found a great candidate who worked for a FAANG, worked to get our budget up…

Looks like they hit the daily request limit on the Google Maps API (you'll see the error message if you hit Cmd-Option-J in Chrome).

If you're familiar with node.js' "require" syntax, Browserify is a good place to start: https://github.com/substack/node-browserify#usage . An up-and-coming alternative is Webpack:…

I was impressed by how easy it was to integrate Clef into my existing auth system- by far the best two-factor authentication system I've used.

From http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spotlight-Odd-Looking-Scuba-M... , "Designer Jeabyun Yeon's odd-looking and quite innovative concept scuba mask works by turning people into fis…

browser compatibility is hard :). in all seriousness though, we're working to support every browser we can. hopefully we'll have some fixes for Linux users in the next couple of da…

We should mention this on the site, but the visualizer currently only works in Chrome due to some idiosyncrasies with the way other browsers handle (or don't handle) getting wavefo…

Yes, we're using Express.js. QUnit looks interesting, I think I'll start with it. Is it pretty standard to just have an HTML file that runs all your client-side tests?

This looks awesome, thanks! Definitely what I was looking for.

Wow, looks really helpful. I'm definitely going to try out their trial. Thanks!

Thanks! Our backend is built on Node, but I'll see if I can glean some general concepts from this.

Does anybody have recommendations for where/how to start learning best practices for TDD? As (nominally) top nerd at a tiny startup (2 engineers), I feel like I should set a preced…

Agreed, the current state of software tools for biology is sad- the tools are written by scientists, for scientists, and tend to have messy source code and incomplete/difficult to …