prakhar1989

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:

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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excalq

// 2024 Update, use URLSearchParams [https://caniuse.com/urlsearchparams]
export function createQueryString2(name: string, value: string, searchParams: any) {
  const params = new URLSearchParams(searchParams);
  params.set(name, value.toLowerCase());

  return params.toString();
}

// ---- Original 2012 version, when browsers really sucked ----
// Explicitly save/update a url parameter using HTML5's replaceState().

HenrikJoreteg

// grab your file object from a file input
$('#fileInput').change(function () {
  sendFile(this.files[0]);
});

// can also be from a drag-from-desktop drop
$('dropZone')[0].ondrop = function (e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  sendFile(e.dataTransfer.files[0]);
};

dhh

class PostsController < ActionController::Base
  def create
    Post.create(post_params)
  end
  
  def update
    Post.find(params[:id]).update_attributes!(post_params)
  end

  private

artero

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation