Hooked the Das up to my laptop.

It's... simply amazing.

does the noise get annoying, or is it like a harley with loud pipes where that's the whole point?

off HN front page, this guys has to be greatest mspainter in the world:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/0...om-windows-95/

Those images were amazing

Thanks, will have a look tonight and try and get head around it.

I bought the Brown "Silent" version. The noise isn't too loud if you don't bottom out the keys. Not much louder than a cheap Dell. The noise is much smoother, if that makes sense.

If you're using jQuery "sparingly" are you sure you need jQuery at all? Angular's internal jQLite works fine for most DOM manipulation, generally jQuery is only necessary if you need to integrate with jQuery plugins.

I could probably get rid of it with a little work, was definitely more laziness at the start than anything.

Only thing I'm really using it for right now is a modal (which I could probably get angular-ui to to replace it), and setting the CSRF token.

I've done a fair bit of work to get everything to a reasonable size though, so I'm not stressing too much right now.

So there is one irritating noise: the backspace button has a bit of squeek to it sometimes. Apparently this happens to mechanical keyboards, so I have to buy a puller and some oil.

I could have gotten the loud version, since the average volume at work is very loud.

The keyboard is getting quite a bit of attention, to say the least. Blank keys get quite a few stares and lots of questions, like: "So, you know all the keys?"

A few people love to look and were reading the box. Sure its been used a few times while I wasn't around.

Personally, I'm impressed. The keystrokes are super smooth and for the first time since I started, my hands aren't tired or in pain, and my pinky isn't burning. It is also nice to press a key and not have to pause to be sure it responded.

The cool thing is how works after bottoming out the keys. You don't have to release all the way and that cursor just zips across the screen.

Not sure about the typing faster thing. I can perhaps believe 5 more words per minute, but I can do about 85wpm according to type racer. The whole 15 to 20 percent faster probably means you are a slow typist anyways. The main value is really from the fact that my hands are basically glued to the keyboard all day long.

Got a link to this keyboard? I could use something sexy, I do a lot of typing.

Brag: Just got my first entry level web dev job offer after about 1-1.5 years of self teaching.

Congrats! Care to share a little more info?

Nice!

Good job. You deserve it.

kinda long but early to scroll through

sick dude, tell me where

Nice dude. Was it the php gig?

So I dropped all the media queries on my site in favor of just using javascript to change a few elements css properties on window resize.

Is this frowned upon because css purists think there should be some sort of separation, or am I going to find that people with slow computers get owned a bit?

All of my computers/devices are too strong

i think the primary reasoning behind the purist view is that it should work with js turned off, but there may be other reasons as well. it's a good question.

Ya. Well, my site is a one page app with no fallback, so I think I'll take this approach for now

Also, I think part of what I'm doing can't be done smoothly in css, at least without tons of media queries.

i see no issue with that. especially with SPA with lots of client side scripting, the idea of supporting noscript just seems like a dated pointless nod to some purist creed. it makes much more sense on more informational or traditional server/client sites.

General question about C-likes: Everyone knows about this famous bug:

I recently read something where someone advocated using this construct instead:

The idea being that "5 = x" is a syntax error, so forgetting an = errors out instead of silently doing the wrong thing. The question: Is there a reason not to do this? Why don't more people do it?

Probably because it goes against every text book or paper ever written on the subject of assignment vs comparison so it's ingrained...

Thanks. Yes, LAMP so PHP. I'll have to learn that on the job. It's a pretty big company and they're hiring 10 people like me to train for 4-6 months before moving fully to one of the regular dev teams. I'm pretty pumped.

My current hypothesis is that it's so ingrained because an English speaker or mathematician would never put the predicate first. Either way, the barrier is surely social and not technical, right? or are there cases where the practice might backfire?

Did you end up doing more of the ramp up program, or did you bail? Are they using some sort of framework?

My first offer was from an awesome company with some really smart guys, but they were pretty new to web dev and were using php without a framework. Still not sure if that was a good decision... would have learned a ton about algorithms/big data, and they were a lot of fun.

I wish you the best of luck.