Nate Smith nwjsmith

These are the Kickstarter Engineering and Data role definitions for both teams.

Technical	Data	People
Junior Software Engineer
Software Engineer	Data Analyst
Senior Software Engineer	Data Scientist	Engineering Manager
Staff Engineer	VP of Data	Engineering Director
Principal Engineer		CTO

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.

emacs --daemon to run in the background. emacsclient.emacs24 <filename/dirname> to open in terminal

NOTE: "M-m and SPC can be used interchangeably".

Undo - C-/
Redo - C-?
Change case: 1. Camel Case : M-c 2. Upper Case : M-u

Lower Case : M-l

Hello, visitors! If you want an updated version of this styleguide in repo form with tons of real-life examples… check out Trellisheets! https://github.com/trello/trellisheets

Trello CSS Guide

“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”

You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

This post is also on my blog, since Gist doesn't support @ notifications.

Components are taking center stage in Ember 2.0. Here are some things you can do today to make the transition as smooth as possible:

Use Ember CLI
In general, replace views + controllers with components
Only use controllers at the top-level for receiving data from the route, and use Ember.Controller instead of Ember.ArrayController or Ember.ObjectController
Fetch data in your route, and set it as normal properties on your top-level controller. Export an Ember.Controller, otherwise a proxy will be generated. You can use Ember.RSVP.hash to simulate setting normal props on your controller.

	(ns frontend.editor-plugin
	(:require-macros [frontend.goog-extend :refer [goog-extend]])
	(:import [goog.editor Plugin]))

	; 4. Now the code should work with advanced compilation but Closure Compiler
	; will display few warnings about using "this" in static functions.
	; To fix this, the constuctor should have proper JSDoc comments:
	(goog-extend ^{:jsdoc ["@constructor" "@extends {goog.editor.Plugin}"]} FooPlugin Plugin
	([]
	; 1. This doesn't work with advanced compilation as Closure compiler checks that first

	(ns explicit-state-transducers)

	(defn take-with-explicit-state
	"A stateless rewrite of the `c.c/take` transducer that requires its state to
	be provided as part of each input"
	[n]
	(fn [rf]
	(fn
	([] (rf))
	([result] (rf result))

	.vimrc
	" Map leader to comma
	let maplocalleader=","

	" Toggle this for vim-sexp to not go into insert mode after wrapping something
	let g:sexp_insert_after_wrap = 0
	" Toggle this to disable automatically creating closing brackets and quotes
	let g:sexp_enable_insert_mode_mappings = 1

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