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Gigablah
13y ago
In the "real world", you'll eventually run into cases where you have to translate recurring words/phrases/sentences differently due to context or language peculiarities.
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13y ago
> You're telling me that a country that uses the death penalty for people shipping contaminated milk can't keep regional bureaucrats from murdering newborns? What kind of comparison is that? Even you should know that rules don&
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Gigablah
13y ago
There's some irony in that plastic bags wrapped around the head are normally a suffocation risk for children, yet used in this manner could potentially be a lifesaver.
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Gigablah
13y ago
I didn't watch PBS since I'm not American :( I read about Alfred Nobel in a children's encyclopaedia in primary school; I mostly remember him as the inventor of dynamite who got a crisis of conscience and thus created the Nob
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Gigablah
13y ago
Sure, and you can continue ruining interfaces in your academic vacuum.
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Gigablah
13y ago
Where did you get the idea that it's "tasteless"?
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Gigablah
13y ago
The thing is, I don't remember those people as philanthropists...
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Gigablah
13y ago
Is the comment above going to get downvoted? Yes.
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Gigablah
13y ago
Oh, they're already switching keyboard and mouse? Let's make them do it even more! /sarcasm Seriously though, what makes you think people have to "scroll" through 11 months to get to December? 12 options can be comf
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13y ago
You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to tab through multiple fields. If the expiration date is broken into multiple text fields that creates more work as "regular" users need to switch between keyboard and m
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13y ago
Did you write a regression test for it? :)
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Gigablah
13y ago
We were burnt by this before -- someone did a "git push -f" thinking it would force push only their current branch. It ended up pushing everything including their master which was out of date, thus wiping out a whole bunch of newe
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Gigablah
13y ago
Fedex? Your cat? I dunno. We don't know if it's a particular batch or all of them uniformly smell like that.
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Gigablah
13y ago
"The keyboard smells like piss, therefore it's Dell's fault"
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Gigablah
13y ago
China is a huge place too; is it uniformly higher, or only in certain urbanized areas?
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Gigablah
13y ago
I don't see how that's relevant -- once something is scientifically validated, it's no longer proper medicine unless it's in a pill?
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Gigablah
13y ago
Right, now parse HTML :D
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Gigablah
13y ago
Seconding this. I've used it for more than a year, very happy with the spartan no-nonsense interface.
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Gigablah
13y ago
Not sure why you're blaming SOA there. Atlassian apps are standalone instances so, assuming your former employer self-hosts, it has more to do with your own server and network performance. In fact GitHub is most likely closer to SOA ar
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Gigablah
13y ago
Eh, flat design isn't particularly new. And I really don't understand the mentality of sneering at things that have gone out of fashion.
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Gigablah
13y ago
Quick, add Bootstrap 3 and flat UI to everything!
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Gigablah
13y ago
Some are scripting it into the web server (nginx in this case): http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/oauth-support-for-nginx-with-lu...
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Gigablah
13y ago
My 5S is consistently 2° off compared to my colleague's 4S.
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Gigablah
13y ago
"conceptual flaws", "Total Cost of Ownership", "operational complexity", "big O notations", "But the devil lies in the details". I'm sorry, but that sounds like a lot of vague buzzwordy
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Gigablah
13y ago
Insecure much?
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Gigablah
13y ago
> a fairly broken situation You missed the problem as well. Don't ask for trouble by creating broken situations.
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Gigablah
13y ago
CodeIgniter is still okay. Smarty, on the other hand...
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Gigablah
13y ago
You can still mock the Foo class... by using class_alias. Don't tell anyone else, though :p
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Gigablah
13y ago
Hey now, there are different degrees of caring. I care 10% and cygwin98 cares 90%.
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Gigablah
13y ago
Yes, they are both hypocrites :) (Seriously though, degree and frequency are different things)
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