alexfarran

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by alexfarran 14y ago
Being able to program is not that uncommon a skill anymore. Just as you might expect customers to have a certain degree of literacy and numeracy, you can expect a growing number of them to be able to program.
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by alexfarran 14y ago
TL;DR
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by alexfarran 14y ago
One of his many companies is bankrupt, as a ruse to avoid paying money he owes.
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by alexfarran 14y ago
ClojureScript a Clojure to JS compiler.
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The Just-World Fallacy(youarenotsosmart.com)
5 points by alexfarran 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexfarran 14y ago
Surely its because they have a strong cycling culture that cycling is not seen as something extraordinary that requires special safety equipment. It makes about as much sense as a walking helmet.
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by alexfarran 15y ago
So did I. The viewing browser now displays the screen as it was at the time I killed the process. I guess it hasn't told that the session has ended.
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by alexfarran 15y ago
Sounds like Envato is a good marketplace to be in. The GPL hasn't been much of an obstacle to selling themes and plugins. I'd like to know more about how that works.
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by alexfarran 15y ago
And on the other side of the coin, why not release it as open source? I would be interested to know if they'd considered that. It works very well for Redhat.
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by alexfarran 15y ago
I don't have any hard data, only my own experience, but I think some customers prefer PayPal. I added it as a payment option to one site and they now get approximately 30% of their payments through PayPal.
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by alexfarran 15y ago
Well maybe. But at least I can run sites with low contrast through Readability. No such luck with this Heath Robinson powerpoint-a-like they've built.
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Why social marketing doesn’t work(timharford.com)
2 points by alexfarran 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexfarran 15y ago
I don't think iTunes is that simple to use. It's very easy to make a mistake and lose all your contacts. I know two people that happened to, and to be honest I cross my fingers and hope when I upgrade my iPhone. Dropbox is very easy to unde
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The emerging economic paradigm of Open Source (2005)(firstmonday.org)
2 points by alexfarran 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexfarran 15y ago
> B) If you were a designer and wanted to build something, what would you do? Install wordpress and download a few plugins. It won't be the next facebook, but most sites aren't. Similarly, if all you need is good enough design that won'
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by alexfarran 15y ago
At least one old style PHP project is crossing over into the MVC camp. phpBB4 will be built on top of Symfony 2 http://blog.phpbb.com/2010/02/18/moving-on-the-future-of-php...
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by alexfarran 16y ago
Stretching the definition of programming language a little, but CSS is pretty awful.
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by alexfarran 16y ago
When I first understood how spacecraft stay in orbit I remember thinking "Throw yourself at the ground and miss"
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by alexfarran 16y ago
It's common knowledge, but its essentially a myth. http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/September-Oc...
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by alexfarran 16y ago
Me too. Org mode works very well as a personal bug/task tracker but I don't know how I'd use it for collaborative work.
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by alexfarran 16y ago
Does it really matter that DDG works around the referer header when embarrassingillness.com/herpes has your IP address, and anything else your browser sends to them.
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by alexfarran 16y ago
Here you go: Masdar City http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9004209...
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by alexfarran 16y ago
"I’ve talked to a lot of people who have skipped from todo system to todo system, getting an initial high of productivity and then moving on. Maybe that’s just how it has to be; perhaps our brains are wired such that we need to vary our rou
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by alexfarran 16y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/oct/20/science-i... "Somewhere in the thick of these successes, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a sly piece in the New Yorker saying that Twitter couldn't start a revolution. I think that most would agr
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by alexfarran 16y ago
I think you mean 'deluded', though they're probably disillusioned too.
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An Interview with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons on Domain-Specific Languages(informit.com)
6 points by alexfarran 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexfarran 16y ago
No I'm afraid I haven't read either of those books. On a more general level I recommend reading Bad Science and Trick or Treatment. They'll equip you with the tools to form your own opinion on health issues.
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by alexfarran 16y ago
I recommend Eat Drink and Be Healthy for credible advice grounded in scientific research http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Healthy-Harvard/dp/068486...
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by alexfarran 16y ago
But these are not performance optimisations. Angus is making the case that functional techniques can be more concise and readable than procedural style control flow.
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by alexfarran 16y ago
It's all gone a bit spinal tap hasn't it. Why not just add a sixth bar.

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