Hacker News: stringham

New comment by stringham in "What is the best programming dad joke?"

stringham — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:36:38 +0000

!false

It's funny because it's true

New comment by stringham in "Use streaming JSON to reduce latency on mobile"

stringham — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:41:09 +0000

Should have (2017) in the title.

Git fixup

stringham — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 23:14:13 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.stringham.me/2018/02/02/git-fixup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16300256

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringham in "Gmail auto labels"

stringham — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 06:17:48 +0000

What kinds of things do you use it for?

New comment by stringham in "Converting 600k lines of code to TypeScript in 72 hours"

stringham — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:47:41 +0000

It was not feasible to stop the entire organization from writing new code to do a migration, which is why most migrations like this happen slowly over time. However, we got a lot of benefits by doing a "big bang translation" like not having to link two different module systems (Google closure and TS)

The hackathon was an ideal time to attempt something like this and we knew the scale of the project was huge. Once the project was complete we each got a couple of extra personal days.

It was really cool tackling a project that many thought was impossible and succeeding. We all had the vision that we were doing something that had the potential to significantly improve our satisfaction and productivity on the daily basis for the long term.

This kind of thing is completely voluntary and everyone who participated really wanted to do it. I think we have a really good work-life balance at lucid.

It's awesome having leadership that supports us in moving forward with a project like this.

Converting 600k lines of code to TypeScript in 72 hours

stringham — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:16:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2017/11/16/converting-600k-lines-to-typescript-in-72-hours/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15715594

Points: 25

# Comments: 8

New comment by stringham in "Codemod – A library to assist with large-scale codebase refactoring"

stringham — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 01:24:09 +0000

I find the idea of https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift to be really useful.

I've started writing small scripts using the TypeScript parser as a library to make meaningful improvements in our codebase. Since JavaScript is valid TypeScript syntax the scripts work on both.

For example, I wrote a small script to change var to let or const when possible. It uses the AST to check scoping rules and to check if a variable is ever reassigned.

Writing scripts like this is way more effective than doing it by hand.

New comment by stringham in "What's the deal with Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right?"

stringham — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:19:59 +0000

I had the same problem with vscode.

I filed this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/32246

Rather than wait, I ended up creating this extension last weekend to do it the way I wanted it to: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stringha...

Using the word “just” damages credibility

stringham — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:03:47 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-says-this-word-can-damage-your-credibility-2015-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10415731

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by stringham in "The Witness: the creator of Braid talks about his fiendishly difficult new game"

stringham — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:47:49 +0000

I have been following the progress of this game on the-witness.net for a few years. Really exciting that they've got a release date now.

New comment by stringham in "Future Node.js releases will be from the io.js repo"

stringham — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:30:26 +0000

Interesting that they are moving forward with the name io.js rather than merging into node and keeping the legacy name.

New comment by stringham in "Hackthe.computer 2015 coding competition"

stringham — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:59:39 +0000

Great set of problems! I've really been enjoying working through them.

New comment by stringham in "Five Years of Google Closure"

stringham — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:48:35 +0000

We use Google Closure at Lucid Software for Lucidchart and Lucidpress. It has been a great tool for us, especially for sharing code across a huge javascript codebase. Compile time type checking and dead code removal have also been great.

It is unfortunate that it isn't used more widely.

It's nice that you can see some of Google's open source projects built using closure

I Read All the W3C Specs

stringham — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:46:58 +0000

Article URL: http://sandersk.github.io/reading-w3c/#/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9417347

Points: 34

# Comments: 13

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:25:27 +0000

On my Chromebook it doesn't override it with rotateY(180deg), but it does on my Linux machine running Chrome 41.

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:23:33 +0000

For Chrome on Linux (41.0.2272.101) I'm seeing the rotateY(180deg);

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:57:06 +0000

I see the scaleX(-1) on ChromeOS (42.0.2311.60 beta) and Chrome for Android (41.0.2272.96)

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:51:14 +0000

Using chrome, and chrome on android inspecting the source shows that it is

  transform: scaleX(-1);

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:34:08 +0000

TLD Source: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html

Mirror implemented with:

  body {
    transform: scaleX(-1);
  }

New comment by stringham in "elgooG"

stringham — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 04:17:18 +0000

.google is a TLD

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/google.html