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Re: Code Reads

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Post by Ntrails »

jashkenas wrote: post #33

Holy moly. Didn't expect to see this at the top of HN. Went to grab some dinner, and the ol' inbox is already starting to fill up. Thanks for the warm response. To illuminate the rationale a bit more ... A lot of folks have asked for quick "gut checks", "sanity checks", and similar overviews of their codebases in the past, and this seems like a way to: 1) Help folks out in a way that doesn't entail a massive commitme…

Shame you don't do matlab... >_It would, I think, be instructive to see rough pricing guidelines. I am assuming that whilst you get a feel for the market these things are in a state of flux, but nice to see ballpark figures when thinking about whether your service could be relevant.

Re: Code Reads

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Post by conroy »

jashkenas wrote: post #33

Holy moly. Didn't expect to see this at the top of HN. Went to grab some dinner, and the ol' inbox is already starting to fill up. Thanks for the warm response. To illuminate the rationale a bit more ... A lot of folks have asked for quick "gut checks", "sanity checks", and similar overviews of their codebases in the past, and this seems like a way to: 1) Help folks out in a way that doesn't entail a massive commitme…

Any reason why pricing isn't available on the site?

Re: Code Reads

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Post by josscrowcroft »

jashkenas wrote: post #43
cpr wrote: post #7

(Jeremy, are you still working for the NYT and free-lancing, or has your wanderlust finally made you take off for good?) Looks like a great idea. Maybe you could require projects first convert to Literate CoffeeScript to make your job easier. ;-)

Traveling for the year, and doing a little bit of freelance work for the Times (and hopefully DocumentCloud as well) as I go. ... now you see the hidden motivation for the recent flurry of Docco releases. I want to make these sort of working code/prose documents easier to produce ;)

Fantastic, really enjoying the blog so far. Beautiful pictures and layout (though some of the galleries have a bunch of blank slides, even after waiting for loads)

Keep updating it!

Re: Code Reads

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Post by sirclueless »

conroy wrote: post #73
jashkenas wrote: post #33

Holy moly. Didn't expect to see this at the top of HN. Went to grab some dinner, and the ol' inbox is already starting to fill up. Thanks for the warm response. To illuminate the rationale a bit more ... A lot of folks have asked for quick "gut checks", "sanity checks", and similar overviews of their codebases in the past, and this seems like a way to: 1) Help folks out in a way that doesn't entail a massive commitme…

Any reason why pricing isn't available on the site?

He probably has no idea what the demand is. If 60% of the Fortune 500 has code they want Jeremy Ashkenas to review, the pricing will be very different than if three ramen-profitable startups want it.

Re: Code Reads

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Post by kriro »

Mahn wrote: post #40
why-el wrote: post #34

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Maybe fork Discourse? Naturally this would eliminate the crazyness that issues with every SE discussion. I can help.

On a semi-related note, it's silly how there isn't a "canonical" StackOverflow-like site for open discussions yet.

Good old irc?

Re: Code Reads

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Post by Karunamon »

quarterto wrote: post #61
Karunamon wrote: post #23

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How will this work with SE's infamous hatred of discussion threads? I'd imagine posts about code style would generate multiple "right" answers with lots of discussion to be had?

That's mostly Stack Overflow , not Exchange . If a Stack Exchange is appropriate for discussion, they're fine with it.

Noo.. the Stack* sites in general. Overflow is just one, I've seen the same deletionist bias on Superuser and Programming as well.

Re: Code Reads

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Post by petercooper »

ebiester wrote: post #69
niggler wrote: post #68

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"And although Code Reads will be entirely confidential, if any of the companies are interested in sharing theirs (perhaps to attract recruits) -- maybe I'll be able to post one or two up publicly." Can you take a high-profile public project (like coffeescript or underscore/lodash or angularjs) and do a code read? (yes I'm aware that you are the man behind coffeescript and underscorejs but I'm sure you can find someth…

Tom Dale made a tweet about submitting Ember (as a joke, presumably), but I saw at least one "Do it!" reply. I'll admit, it would amuse me.

I was one of those people, lol. To be honest, these things can only help. Rails advanced a lot with the Merb merger. (I'm not suggesting Backbone and Ember could or should merge, naturally ;-))

Re: Code Reads

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Post by ebiester »

petercooper wrote: post #78
ebiester wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tom Dale made a tweet about submitting Ember (as a joke, presumably), but I saw at least one "Do it!" reply. I'll admit, it would amuse me.

I was one of those people, lol. To be honest, these things can only help. Rails advanced a lot with the Merb merger. (I'm not suggesting Backbone and Ember could or should merge, naturally ;-))

I don't know... I think Backbone's approach to documentation would be awesome. ;)

Re: Code Reads

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Post by n2dasun »

kenkam wrote: post #5

I'm sure Jeremy can only do so much code reviews a day (unless he's a ninja robot), so why isn't there a crowd-sourced version of this? Sometimes I write code that I would like other coders to help/critique with. Github is great for collaborating and some code reviews happen (pull requests) but sometimes you're just working on a project and have no idea whether you're writing the right things or not. There have been…

I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if someone threw something together after this post. As a new programmer, I love to read posted reviews of code.
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