MrPatan

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by MrPatan 9y ago
Because the PP, the party in power in Spain, will get political benefit out of conflict in Catalonia, the bloodiest the better. If by any chance a Catalan terrorist group appears, that's the next several elections sorted. PP misses ETA
602.
by MrPatan 9y ago
Most likely Left Alt + Left Shift, if you're on Windows. I use it on purpose now, but man was it baffling when I didn't know what was going on.
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by MrPatan 9y ago
There is hope. How about instead of becoming the expert at whichever business domain the software is for, we become experts at helping business domain experts find and express the business rules that need to be implemented? You can fit a de
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by MrPatan 9y ago
To me, the article falls into an expanded understanding of "naming things". As in, once everybody is talking about the same things using the same terminology and referring to the same abstract concepts, etc, the job is straightf
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by MrPatan 9y ago
> flash and java applets And ActiveX! you probably repressed the memory of that one, sorry to remind you.
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by MrPatan 9y ago
Yes! A VC telling us that bypassing VCs and enabling people to invest in what they want directly is bad. News at 11. But no, you see, they are worried about SEC compliance. Aren't you glad VCs are looking out for your interests?
607.
by MrPatan 10y ago
What I was trying to say is that without the class keyword, people used inheritance less, prototypal or whatever. Which is good, because inheritance sucks.
608.
by MrPatan 10y ago
That's the thing, with prototypes you don't use inheritance, which is the good option. Now it's easy to do the wrong thing. Thanks ECMA!
609.
by MrPatan 10y ago
Yes, and good riddance.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
Interviewing well is part of your job. Let me say that again: Interviewing well is part of your job. You are not a good developer if you don't interview well, because by not interviewing well you just deprived that company of your skil
611.
by MrPatan 10y ago
A quote from the book (Pre-suasion) "Taylor reports that she knew then, without a single piece of data yet collected, that her experiment would be a success because the rehearsal had already produced the predicted effect—in her."
612.
by MrPatan 10y ago
Did she put the interests of the _customers_ last or first, though?
613.
by MrPatan 10y ago
What does it for me is "accused". As if putting up a website supporting a candidate was somehow illegal or sinister or immoral.
614.
by MrPatan 10y ago
That's it, I'm filtering all "news" about batteries.
615.
by MrPatan 10y ago
If it holds data it's a database.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
Also printed ones? Burn all the old newspapers?
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by MrPatan 10y ago
For SMSs too? On my Android, the new(ish?) message app ("Messenger") now wanted control of SMSs back from hangouts. Another silly reversal, and another silly messaging app from Google. Fourth time lucky? On that topic, when is th
618.
by MrPatan 10y ago
Do you need to pay rent to Point for that 10%?
619.
by MrPatan 10y ago
> Unless they spend most of their code fighting the framework to accomplish their actual task. Which happens rather often. You can't make things foolproof. Fools are very clever.
620.
by MrPatan 10y ago
Everything is quantum. There is no classical.
621.
by MrPatan 10y ago
And by the same reason, nobody will give your parcel addressed to foo bar baz to your neighbor at blih blah bloh, would they?
622.
by MrPatan 10y ago
To be fair, just plain old "I" is very disappointing most of the time.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
Worse is better.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
The accordion example cheats a bit. The height of the items is fixed to 300px. I don't know if it'd be possible with flexbox nowadays. The usual max-height trick is not ideal, as the animation then doesn't have the right dur
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by MrPatan 10y ago
Or: Why Other People must keep having difficulty accessing information and opportunities, for my own aesthetic pleasure, but I bring up my kids only with useful languages.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
var $ = selector => [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(selector)); Fo' sizzle
627.
by MrPatan 10y ago
querySelector and querySelectorAll exist in browsers only because of jQuery
628.
by MrPatan 10y ago
From that article: "However… if your friend is dying in the back seat and you’re trying to get them to hospital before they bleed out everywhere, by all means, drive faster than 70mph! In 90% of situations, the [avoid !important] rule
629.
by MrPatan 10y ago
People who work in a team have a harder time absolutely knowing what's in their team's heads, though.
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by MrPatan 10y ago
TIL! Thanks!

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