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by benaston 13y ago
tldr: Don't do this.
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by benaston 13y ago
Citation?
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by benaston 14y ago
Are they not insured?!
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by benaston 14y ago
The fizzbuzz syndrome is real alright. But someone failing fizzbuzz is not an indicator that they will always be incapable of development. It just means they are very junior and require training. Frighteningly for the West, Indian and Chine
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by benaston 14y ago
My experience is mainly with OKCupid. I presume most other dating websites are variations on the same theme. The problem is that OKCupid is a geek's worldview distilled. Whether a girl is visible to you is largely based upon algorithmic ana
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by benaston 14y ago
I'll chime in - your standups are poisonous. I can sympathise though because I've been there too. It is a symptom of a junior team with weak team leadership/standup facilitation. Long monologues should be cut short and "taken offline". Ac
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by benaston 14y ago
Looks great. Wish it used JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript to lower the barrier to entry though.
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by benaston 14y ago
Three "m" words: mystery meat menus.
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by benaston 14y ago
Copy Chrome?
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by benaston 14y ago
This could be empirically tested. For me "My Computer", "My Profile" reflects the internal dialog occurring in the users head and (in my perception) has less cognitive overhead than the reflexive "your".
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by benaston 14y ago
All this management bullshit might work if your reports were mindless and we didn't live in the age of the Internet; unfortunately in IT, they probably aren't and, well, we most certainly do. Aping emotions, and playing psychological games
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by benaston 14y ago
"Gabe Newell — Of all the people at this company who aren’t your boss, Gabe is the MOST not your boss, if you get what we’re saying." This is double speak because it is saying one thing explicitly and exactly the opposite meaning is implied
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by benaston 14y ago
"Gabe Newell — Of all the people at this company who aren’t your boss, Gabe is the MOST not your boss, if you get what we’re saying." Most egregious example of double-speak ever?
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by benaston 15y ago
Companies complain and complain about the hiring process, with people like the OP even resorting to subversion in an attempt to "de-risk" the process. "The only real solution would be to get to know the people better..." I totally agree. Re
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by benaston 15y ago
>> most things behave the same in IE8/IE9 as they do in Chome, Firefox and Safari Having recently developed an HTML5 single page web app, I can assure you that this statement is utterly false.
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by benaston 15y ago
Agree wholeheartedly with this post. Thing is; I have never come across a so-called user experience expert that had a single particularly insightful thing to say about a user interface. Indeed, my experience has been that I get more insig
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Microsoft and -webkit prefixes(blog.bj.ma)
2 points by benaston 15y ago|0 comments
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by benaston 15y ago
This is a real problem in the industry IMO. You do not need to be a good algorithmist to be one of the outstanding programmers in most industries. You just don't. The most important contributor to being a good programmer is excellent inte
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WebKit Isn’t Breaking the Web. You Are(webmonkey.com)
5 points by benaston 15y ago|1 comments
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by benaston 15y ago
I always wondered what the purpose of Path really was, given that it offered little over and above Facebook itself (apart from an arguably nicer UI.) It would seem the purpose is to data-mine users' handsets.
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by benaston 15y ago
Uninstalled Path. Incredible violation of privacy.
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by benaston 15y ago
Certainly, but the inertial scrolling on OSX actively encourages flicking as a mechanism to scroll a long distance. A genuine feature IMO. …except, if you happen to be in a browser and at the far left or right of a page, then a big context
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by benaston 15y ago
"countless usability studies" References?
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by benaston 15y ago
Not at all. The behavior in Lion (inverted scroll movement, bouncy scroll edges) encourages the user to see themselves as actually touching and directly manipulating physical objects on the screen (cf iPad/iPhone). One such resultant user-b
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by benaston 15y ago
Overloading the horizontal scroll with page navigation is a bad idea, and although hyperbolic, does, in my opinion, break the web. Apple should change the default behaviour to avoid the overload. I am developing an app using horizontal scro
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by benaston 15y ago
IBM constantly seems to release press releases about technology it hasn't yet developed to production quality. Said technology always vanishes without trace (as far as I can recall.) I'm not holding my breath on this one.
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by benaston 15y ago
If the job stays open for months then either the role isn't that important, or the hiring company is doing something seriously wrong. Finding good people is not difficult ("site:linkedin.com works for x", where x is google, facebook, whatev
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by benaston 15y ago
This is all bullshit. Each company pays what is profitable for its business model. Work in a hedge fund? Your pay is commensurate with the business model. Work in a digital agency, likewise. As far as I can tell a digital agency is a digit
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by benaston 15y ago
Please accept my apologies, my original response was a little OTT. The objective reasons for making the switch are: - its a lot faster (IIRC creating a branch in subversion is the same as a copy operation) - the merging algorithm is better
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by benaston 15y ago
Are you serious? With a DVCS you can commit to a personal repository offline, this in itself is a killer feature. Git also tracks content rather than files which makes renaming so much less problematic when it comes to subsequent merges (an

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