swyxio

3. Clone Open Source Apps

You already know you should be making projects to learn things and potentially add to your portfolio. You've read your Malcolm Gladwell, you know that you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. Given you're just starting out, I have a slightly contentious suggestion for you: DON'T make anything new.

Your decision-making is a scarce resource. You start every day with a full tank, and as you make decisions through the day you gradually run low. We all know how good our late-late-night decisions are. Making a new app involves a thousand micro decisions - from what the app does, to how it should look, and everything in between. Decide now: Do you want to practice making technical decisions or product decisions?

Ok so you're coding. You know what involves making zero product decisions? Cloning things. Resist the urge to make your special snowflake (for now). Oh but then who would use yet another Hacker News clone? I've got news for you: No one was gonna use your thing anyway. You

rauschma

Strings

String.prototype.*

None of the string methods modify this – they always return fresh strings.

• charAt(pos: number): string ^ES1

  Returns the character at index pos, as a string (JavaScript does not have a datatype for characters). str[i] is equivalent to str.charAt(i) and more concise (caveat: may not work on old engines).

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

vitorbritto

Regular Expressions

Basic Syntax

• /.../: Start and end regex delimiters
• |: Alternation
• (): Grouping

homaily

السلام عليكم ، هذا كود ريجيكس بسيط للتحقق من صحة أرقام الجوالات السعودية ، يقوم الريجيكس بالتحقق من مفتاح الدولة ، مفتاح شركة الإتصالات لضمان صحة النص المدخل .

Hello, this is a simple regex to validate saudi mobile numbers, the code will validate country code, telecome company code and make sure the tested sting is correct .

/^(009665|9665|\+9665|05|5)(5|0|3|6|4|9|1|8|7)([0-9]{7})$/

Regex Breakdown - شرح الكود

dmglab

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Note: this is a summary of different git workflows putting together to a small git bible. references are in between the text

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How to Branch

try to keep your hacking out of the master and create feature branches. the [feature-branch workflow][4] is a good median between noobs (i have no idea how to branch) and git veterans (let's do some rocket sience with git branches!). everybody get the idea!

Basic usage examples

joyrexus

Sans jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

TylerFisher

Hey there, apparently people are still using this Gist from 2013! It's out of date! Consult the Github docs.

Steps for Hosting a Website on GitHub

1. Create a GitHub account on github.com.
2. Download either [GitHub for Mac][1] or [GitHub for Windows][2], depending on your operating system. Open the app and log in using the account you just created.
3. (On Mac): After you login, click advanced and make sure that your name and email are correct. Then, click "Install Command Line Tools", just in case you want to start using the command line later in life.
4. Create a new repository in your GitHub application. Name it your-username.github.io. The name is very important. Note the folder that GitHub is saving the repository to. Make sure the "Push to GitHub?" box is checked.
5. Move your website's files into the folder that GitHub just created when you made the repository. IMPORTANT: Your homepage HTML file must be called "index.html", and it must exist in the top-level