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Skywing

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Grubhub CEO sells stock before making damaging statements

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Would quitting my job, to work on a passion project, be a bad idea?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: I work for one company, but write code for another. Could this be bad?

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rycole.com 12y ago

You're probably not ready for programming

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rycole.com 12y ago

League of Legends Opponent History Tracker

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rycole.com 12y ago

Implementing the Repository Pattern with Entity Framework

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github.com 12y ago

GlobalTaunt is a C# client for the official League of Legends API

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pdfeverything.com 12y ago

Show HN: My side project, PDF Everything – convert files to PDF

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rycole.com 13y ago

League of Legends replay file reader

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rycole.com 13y ago

A web-design approach for non-designers

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rycole.com 13y ago

Securing a simple HTTP-based API with Ring middleware functions

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rycole.com 13y ago

Organizing Clojure and Compojure web applications

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i.imgur.com 13y ago

Minecraft server event analytics on Mixpanel

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rycole.com 13y ago

Getting Clojure up and running on Windows

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rycole.com 13y ago

Organizing node.js and Express web applications

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rycole.com 13y ago

Minecraft and Clojure for fun and profit, without the profit

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github.com 13y ago

Minecraft server (Bukkit) plugins written in Clojure

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mit.edu 13y ago

MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: I think I re-imagined IRC on mobile devices

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thepdfmachine.com 13y ago

Show HN: The PDF Machine - My project website that converts documents to PDFs

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github.com 13y ago

Convert documents to PDF programmatically with Node.js and Oracle libs

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github.com 13y ago

A node.js addon for Oracle's file id library

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ryancole.github.com 13y ago

Command-line tool for checking who has unfollowed you on Twitter

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: Xcode in your browser, idea only

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Graphing Diablo 3 Auction House price data

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daringfireball.net 14y ago

Daring Fireball: Google's Open Web

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github.com 14y ago

Here is the source code to friendblur.com

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: A Facebook profile picture guessing game I made

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: Web app to convert documents to PDF

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seattletimes.nwsource.com 14y ago

Obama wants small business tax, investment breaks

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Damn. A* was the first cool algorithm I implemented when learning to code games many years ago. I remember feeling so cool having a tower defense game with A* pathing.

Are you suggesting that you have done zero development yet? Develop locally until you need things to go "live". Don't buy AWS on day one, you won't utilize it. Save the money. There are many great ways to develop locally, even with teams. You can go far by utilizing dependency management services, like npm, etc. You can go far by utilizing local database init scripts, etc, for consistent dev environments after a fresh repo clone.

Looks like she wasn't even aware of the project, but instead saw it on a person's twitter profile and went to its github repo to get that person fired. In a way, she's doing the exact same thing, to others, that she is claiming github did to her.

Right, yea, the something else would have been knowing that in the event of a Trump victory he'd send out this email which could likely hurt the company (it'd naturally get leaked). Obviously it's a bit of a stretch, because why would he intentionally hurt his own company? I just thought it was a bit odd-looking.

Another user in this thread pointed out that this seems to be a monthly thing the CEO does, so this no longer appears as strange.

Not entirely fair. A lot of good things have worked on the honor system, as long as fair thought has gone into the "rules" of the system so that enough easy, edge case abuse scenarios are protected against. A big one that comes to my mind was the gaming league, CAL, back in the day. It was 100% honor system based, with a target audience that was known to be hackers, liars, and in general kids - yet it worked!

The Clojure, and ClojureScript, hype train is effective. I've been interested in learning Clojure for several years. Every other week, or so, I'll see a tweet or blog post that makes me want to drop JavaScript and move over to ClojureScript. The community looks like a great one to be part of, from an outsider's perspective. With that said, I've never been able to break beyond that learning curve, or have that "ah hah!" moment. I've been able to learn a lot of different languages over the years, and I so want Clojure to be one of them but it just hasn't happened for me, yet. This blog post puts my issue into words very well, it feels like I'm trying to program in mandarin and I struggle to be efficient at what seem like the most basic of tasks. A script that I could knock out in 20 minutes, with C# or JavaScript, will take me hours or days in Clojure because of the lack of muscle memory or something. My excitement always fades back into thoughts of "meh is it really worth the effort", at which point I usually just revert back to JS. :(

I was looking into using lambda functions called in response to an S3 event. Specifically, I wanted to create a record in my SQL database after a file is uploaded to S3. Users are uploading directly to S3 using pre-signed requests, so I needed some way to step in and create a database record after they actually perform the upload to S3. S3 supports this via several methods, one of which is the lambda functions, but when looking into lambda functions there was no way to have the code access my SQL database internally, I would have had to make my SQL database open to the world. I didn't find any IAM rules etc to enable lambda functions to access my SQL database resources. I'd be curious to see how this is handled by this JAWS work flow.