ErrantX

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by ErrantX 15y ago
FWIW KBE's are not hereditary titles :-) he can't pass it on. Here in the UK it is nowadays largely recognised as part of a larger (including OBE and MBE etc.) merit system recognising achievement. A national honour roll. Now if we were tal
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Regarding your Chamonix images, perhaps your friends uploaded photos taken at roughly the same time, with geo-tags? Nope. Family holiday. Of those there I am the only one with photos on Facebook - and in fact at the time was the only fami
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I first got these notices about... oh, best part of 2 months ago. I assumed it was everywhere but perhaps not!
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I reckon they use image recognition too. I have a gash digital camera that gets a lot of use; no exif data beyond camera make/model. Anyway; in 2005 I went on a skiing trip to Chamonix. Pics were uploaded about a month later, no Facebook ac
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Linux netbooks were meant to be the solution to that. Except they never really sold.. I think Mac/Windows simply has more mindshare amongst consumers.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think the real advantage of Envato is that it can help upcoming creative types with product validation. I finally convinced my brother to submit some of his music clips to AudioJungle and he was thrilled when they actually sold. Ok, so as
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by ErrantX 15y ago
But that situation is already solved in the MVC world; with filters, callbacks and validation. Having just finished a pretty complex "application" of this sort (which cannibalized Knockout to get what I needed...) my view is that most stuff
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by ErrantX 15y ago
> thereby emitting changes which may cause other pieces of your app to re-render, changes which may cause Ajax requests to persist the model state to the server, and so on. Hmm, really that sounds like poor application design than anyth
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I guess it depends on how the studies were conducted (I haven't looked). They may well take steps to eradicate this problem. However, I suspect you are right and - in actual fact - this may really be what the studies are concluding: that p
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think you have hit the nail on the head. This brings to mind one rather long and tedious "discussion" I had on Wikipedia last year that revolved around whether "above average" was an adequate way to summarise "Overweight and Obese". Getti
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by ErrantX 15y ago
True. At this very moment using Trello has made one ongoing project very hard to manage.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Having played with it; and after recently building an app using "jquery-ui or a combination of free and open source solutions" I'd say... because it's actually very good by comparison :) For an ISV, $399 is next to nothing.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
On my phone there is no simple way to prioritise it; that happens when I sit in front of the computer and cut through my pile of email :) So for something that I consistently need to notice at the time it arrives, things like SMS, Twitter D
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by ErrantX 15y ago
If my washing machine emailed me that would likely get lost in the noise. A Twitter DM is, relatively speaking, more noticeable. (Although; an actual direct notification service would be even better)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
It's always been in the back of my mind to try and put something like that together. Arduino + ZigBee + modular wireless sensors, or something like that.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
And I think that people should understand that just any degree doesn't mean they will be employable after they graduate. Sadly, I suspect this is just a pipe dream. Here in the UK we have the same problem the Chinese are facing - people d
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by ErrantX 15y ago
And now are attempting to fix it. Perhaps that puts them one step ahead.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The creativity my not-particularly-computer-literate parents exhibit in constantly tracking down IE from wherever I hide it continues to astound me :-)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Fair enough; I should do better research :) My comment about taking forever was not really to do with the lack of developer time (which, as a developer myself I totally understand!) but more about the difficulty of meshing two communities o
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Actually; that is a prime example of where the deletion process is failing - because the only option is "delete or not delete". That article is a problem; if you read it, it is not a biography, it describes an event. Which, I suspect, is th
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Part of the problem here is getting developer time onto fixing up such an issue. a) I don't think the Foundation employs a UI expert and b) the community actually requesting serious feature enhancements has a history of taking. absolutely.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think where the ad "crosses the line" here is the faux star rating; the other (unpaid) listings have been user rated/ranked and Patrick's ad is misusing the trust that users of the site potentially put into the ratings. I think that if th
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yep; feeling this pain. I was casting around for a simple way to implement a responsive UI in our latest application and Knockout appeared to be a good option (I'd not come across Backbone at that point). Now it just feels like more work...
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Same; I get a blank page in Chrome, IE and Firefox.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
A decent portion of the latest budget is going into hiring technical staff; and from what I have observed of that "department" things are improving rapidly :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that WP is still mostly incomplete (which is a horrifying thought :D). By which I mean; if you pick a topic to turn into a book your likely to have articles of a wide range of quality (from featured status, th
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Because of the positioning it also looks like article titles are captions to the image... which has led to "much amusement" in certain circles.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
To be honest; the Foundation doesn't spend money particularly efficiently. And I don't think that now is a good time for them to end up with potentially limitless amounts of cash. I know it has been 10 years; but for various reasons the F
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by ErrantX 15y ago
If you're overpaying people for their level of talent, that actually is a problem. Firstly you're wasting money for no extra value return. And it will leave you with the reputation of "that guy who pays stupid amounts of money" rather tha
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I have you "tagged" here on HN because usually I enjoy reading what you write. But this blog post was, well, astronomically short sighted... > on what was supposed to be a very short project that dragged on. Which ties into my almost i

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