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by benaston 12y ago
But this software is vapor. If you are running forwards slower than a treadmill is taking you back, are you advancing?
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by benaston 12y ago
So... they are trying to make the Web more shareable with a proprietary annotation feature, thereby introducing a new category of UX issues, bugs and incompatibilities. I suppose that would be kind of neat if the Web wasn't already t
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Put down the iPhone(medium.com)
2 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
The problem with AngularJS can be summarised thus: "Its marketing and documentation does not correct those who believe it is suitable for web-applications more complex than simple CRUD apps." As soon as you have an application whe
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by benaston 12y ago
Destroyed by the traffic. Can someone post a link to the github repo if one exists?
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by benaston 12y ago
Wow, this thread is a tough read for someone who ranks JavaScript as the best high-level language in common-use today. Haters gonna hate!
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Define “CTO”(blog.gregbrockman.com)
2 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
My favorite job advert was one for a large-ish company (200 people) that invited you to criticise their public-facing web application. The implication was that not following the instructions on the advert to a T would result in your applica
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by benaston 12y ago
I suppose what I meant was that you point out that the coercive behavior of some operators is counter intuitive; ergo type coercion in JS is a mess. I dont think that follows because some operators behave in a coercive fashion more convenie
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by benaston 12y ago
That is not specifically type coercion, but the behavior of the equality (==) operator in JavaScript. Type coercion in JavaScript can be very useful, for example !!('foo') is coercive and easily understood (and has an unsurprising
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by benaston 12y ago
"JavaScript type coercion is such a mess" - in what way? Seriously.
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by benaston 12y ago
I suppose the difficult thing to gauge is whether using these cool-sounding names has any effect.
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by benaston 12y ago
You think you can go from almost zero to being good enough at JS for a 100k job in 12 weeks?
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JavaScript Inheritance: Or, Why Classes Are Unnecessary(medium.com)
1 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
This article is so wrong I don't know where to start. Sorry.
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by benaston 12y ago
I love Adam Curtis' work, but I can't help but feel that this "peering behind the curtain" is all a bit passé. I think many (most?) people people are aware at some level of the media manipulation of populations using cru
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by benaston 12y ago
Agreed. Was left less enthused and more suspicious of the product because they couldn't/wouldn't tell me what it was in the prmo video.
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by benaston 12y ago
You may also be interested in an open source library I wrote called EventAPI https://github.com/benaston/event-api
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by benaston 12y ago
Thank you for the helpful comment. I can't help but feel you miss the point of my post though. I can solve the problem. Verbally, (but admittedly less eloquently and less complete) I approximately gave your answer in the interview. Gi
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by benaston 12y ago
Oh how I agree with this post. And I've been the asshole on the hiring end before - but I (hope) have learned my lesson. I recently interviewed with a consultancy (role was UK-based) that is desperate (quite literally) to hire experi
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by benaston 12y ago
A weak piece that, more than anything else, serves to highlight the sorry state of journalism in the paid-for media.
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Everyone I know is broken hearted(zenarchery.com)
3 points by benaston 12y ago|1 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
I see no fresh insight in her comments. And this is her full-time job?
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Why developing a web app should imply HATEOAS(medium.com)
3 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
The problem is that now this is public, any positive review of a Microsoft product will be viewed with suspicion, having the very opposite of the intended effect.
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by benaston 12y ago
It was a tongue in cheek reference to the antitrust trial of the 1990s where Microsoft spent millions arguing that IE was inseparable from the core OS.
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by benaston 12y ago
I highly recommend FireFox, Opera or Chrome instead of IE. IE is perennially around 2 years behind (or more) every other browser (overall - in places they are on a par - and very occasionally ahead).
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by benaston 12y ago
Of course, they would highlight the complexities of the process wouldn't they? (cough - antitrust - cough)
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by benaston 12y ago
Does this mean that Internet Explorer can, in fact, be run completely independently of the core operating system?
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How you ended up using AngularJS.(medium.com)
2 points by benaston 12y ago|0 comments

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