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Why AngularJS is worse than a new ASP.NET WebForms(medium.com)
20 points by benaston 12y ago|6 comments
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by benaston 12y ago
Because they've got a shit codebase?
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by benaston 12y ago
Great, so having previously suffered a rash of sites that permanently took up valuable vertical screen space with fixed headers, they now will all have headers that disappear whenever you scroll down and appear when you scroll up, with slig
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by benaston 12y ago
Can anyone tell me the company(ies) that designed and implemented this website? They seem to have negotiated a much freer hand with the client wrt design than is typical.
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by benaston 12y ago
That is not a solved question. There is a lot of evidence that democracy is deeply flawed, but there is no evidence for a better way of organising nations. Indeed there is plenty of evidence that when you take democracy away from people, yo
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by benaston 12y ago
I omitted to mention the European Parliament for the very reason that it is democratic and is not relevant to my point. The European Commission, a key part of the EU is not elected by the people of Europe, hence it's members cannot be
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by benaston 12y ago
That is orthogonal to my point. With the current system you get Cathy Ashton and Barroso and the farce that is the Ukraine. If people in positions of significant power are not elected directly by the people then said people have no way to r
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by benaston 12y ago
If you think there is any truth in this article, then real democracy becomes ever more important as a check on the power afforded the elite. I note that the European Project (i.e. the slow but relentless move towards a United States of Euro
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by benaston 12y ago
I think Michael O'Church would have a field day with this one. Particularly the "frustratingly smart" line.
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by benaston 12y ago
I installed 14.04 yesterday and was unable to get retina support. How do you enable it?
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by benaston 12y ago
Context is the binary implementation of the Number type. Crockford believes it should be more akin to a fast decimal implementation.
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by benaston 12y ago
That's a mischaracterisation of my argument. I am blaming the political elites, not the eastern bloc countries (who are blameless). If I had no qualifications and I suddenly no longer needed a masters degree to come to a country with a
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by benaston 12y ago
OK, my comment was glib, but I do understand the meaning of "correlation is not causation". The link you provide attempts to refute the argument that "immigration causes unemployment". You correctly point out that no cor
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by benaston 12y ago
Correlation is not causation. Sorry that was too easy ;P
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by benaston 12y ago
This is the result of the government being so "open minded" that they end up not looking out for the best interests of their own populous. By "open minded" I mean rapidly (this being the operative word) removing all cros
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by benaston 12y ago
If Chrome stops displaying the URL, I will stop using it. Caveat: very small screen devices may justifiably need clever tricks surrounding the display of the URL to reduce screen usage.
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by benaston 12y ago
Off topic and a little nosey, but what skills do you have that command 650/day?
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by benaston 12y ago
Open new tab. The recent sites are displayed. Enter a url and hit return. The website is displayed. Now try and click the back button to return to the recent sites list... You can't, the back button is disabled. Despite the profession
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by benaston 12y ago
Totally agree. Good design sense appears to be incredibly rare, and it's unfortunate that major sites simply copy each other's designs resulting in UI trends not based on sound design, but fashion. See the pervasive fixed position
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by benaston 12y ago
An excellent case study for the Macleod Heirarchy. http://gapingvoid.com/2004/06/27/company-hierarchy/
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by benaston 13y ago
A puff piece. All the significant announcements made since Nadella took office will have been in the pipeline for months if not years. You don't port Office to iPad in 8 weeks.
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by benaston 13y ago
This is, after all, how Thoughtworks make their money - they insert polyglot (read graduates/juniors with a smattering of experience in different languages) into projects and bill for experienced professionals (the "seasoned"
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by benaston 13y ago
I have done the same and come to the same conclusion.
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by benaston 13y ago
Did those close to him know/suspect drug use before his death? Just trying to gauge the plausibility of the accidental overdose theory.
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by benaston 13y ago
Suspect the weak mean salaries in London are due to the fact that many (most?) senior developers move out of the permanent jobs market into consulting/contracting (which, I hear is not par for the course in other nations).
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by benaston 13y ago
When the market shifts, or for tactical reasons you have to pay more to recruit someone, you instantly have a problem.
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To my generation (of programmers that is)(baus.net)
2 points by benaston 13y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 13y ago
Surely you don't begrudge them wanting/aspiring to something better. I presume you mean that if they expect to have the trappings of success without putting in any effort then you have something to say. But even then, that is me
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by benaston 13y ago
People with education and good parents are at the table playing the game. The poor and disadvantaged are playing a different game, with its own pressures and psychological frame. Decision making is dependant on psychological frame, and deci
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by benaston 13y ago
Is this a legal technique to avoid Google having to pay for open source software in any way? Does acceptance of the blanket mean anything legally?

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