JohnLBevan

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by JohnLBevan 13y ago
Personally I hate it when my name's overused; it makes me feel as if I'm talking to a pushy sales guy / the person using it gets a high score on either the "creepy" or "slimey" meter. "John, I'm so glad you downloaded a copy of MegaThingyFo
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by JohnLBevan 13y ago
I recently had a similar idea (i.e. plotting contentment) related to keeping employees engaged / detecting how events at work affected the general mood: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646466 This post's great as it shows a really g
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How’re you doing? The continuous employee engagement survey.(developer42.wordpress.com)
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by JohnLBevan 13y ago
Similarly, how about context. If there's a photo of someone on the web and you can't find the owner/subject's contact details you could put this in a post about STDs; if that post becomes popular the subject's image is then associated with
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by JohnLBevan 13y ago
Despite Google Image search existing, perhaps there's still an opening for a site where you register your work; thus creating an easy place for people to check when looking for owners (i.e. if an image is used all over the web Google may re
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by JohnLBevan 13y ago
Should there be an RSVW (welcome) as well as an RWVE (expected)? i.e. RSVE I'd interpret as "I don't have time to read long replies" whilst RSVW I'd read as "I'm happy for your response to be brief, but if you prefer verbose knock yourself
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I assume that eventually this will just show a flat (relative to the circumference of XKCD-Earth) expanse of sand due to entropy (maybe followed by a few exciting moments when it gets swallowed by its start red-gianting, is swallowed by a b
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Given the French propensity to strike it would have been interesting to see the public's reaction had he been held on anti-terrorism laws when it's clear to all he's an innocent person and there seems little evidence of any imminent threat
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I like the effect this has on me. I look at Facebook at the weekend and see some friends were up hours before me to run up a mountain, others have gone into London for the day to see an exhibition then head to a restaurant. I stayed up la
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Great work - this looks amazing. Do you have a mailing list I can subscribe to to get notification of when the .net version becomes available? Thanks!
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Glasgow Comedy by Sanderson Jones (of HN London Meetup fame)(comedysale.com)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
There's Code Golf and Programmers to cater for some of these things - but I'm a little blurry on the rules of exactly what the boundaries of each site are. http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I think Hume may have argued with the 'Cogito ergo sum' statement.
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
"Potentially risks thousands of years in jail". Did I miss the post on the invention of cryogenic jails?
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
How did Twitter get the patent on BizTalk? The description sounds much more like BizTalk than Twitter to me.
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Do four tests - TDDers doing TDD, TDDers doing non-TDD, non-TDDers doing TDD and non-TDDers doing non-TDD. From this you can get a better idea of whether it's the method or the coder's skill affecting the results. Clearly if TDD is better
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Another thing to take into account is who's coding, what they're coding in, what they're building, how big their team is, how mature the team is (i.e. how long have they been working together) and how their environment's set up. As with mos
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Great article, but I couldn't help thinking my time could have been better spent elsewhere. ;)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Why go the lawsuit route - that just brings attention back to a bad review. If the claims of the BBC are false, play the media - suggest a rematch, ensure the terms are fair but supportive of your case, and use the latest model to blow the
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
It seems strange that you can use a browser bug to get into a site. Since the browser's outside of FB's control (i.e. theoretically anyone could write their own, including one which said it was Chrome but had been created for malicious pur
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
(code now updated to include animation)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Thanks, you made mine too - it's rare that I can find a library which I can create something with within an hour of coming across it, and this is also my first contribution to the world of memes, so chuffed that I got to do it using such a
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Great project - really easy to use and works well. As other comments have said there's tonnes of potential / additional functionality which could be added, but this is a great start. For anyone interested, here's my play: http://cmx.io/#4
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Same here; there was recently a pay it forward thing going around social networks where you offer a gift of any value to 5 friends who sign up if they agree to do the same. All my gifts are sourced from the rewards of Kickstarter projects
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I see the tl;dr as a failover to the full story. Those who have time you walk through the journey of discovery. Those who don't you'd rather they could at least see a summary of your conclusion than leave with nothing.
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Agreed. Aside from assisting in removing bias from the reader, working your way through to the conclusion allows it to remain a mystery to the reader, allowing them to enjoy being walked through the process of discovery, rather than just g
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Looks good. I'm no expert on this area, so what's below is conjecture; hopefully you'll find it useful though. A post here called "Show HN: Crowd Reviewed Websites (Chrome Extension)" would be a good place to start. You can set up faceboo
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
What does it do? Assuming it solves a problem, hunt for people with that problem (e.g. on stack exchange / forums / Google) then comment saying you can resolve their issue & here's the link. Put in a full disclosure note so that folk k
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
(sarcasm)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
It's nice to know that those who are happy to ignore the law and gamble illegally still pay their licensing fees.

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