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by blowski 3y ago
> HTML is the native language for describing UI in the browser In the same way that assembler is the native language for giving instructions to the CPU. In practice, it is of zero importance, because there are powerful abstractions buil
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by blowski 3y ago
Bad idea because it's LinkedIn, which has a shady reputation? Or that her profile doesn't look good? Or something else?
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by blowski 3y ago
About the same as it is. My time working in web agencies has taught me that the vast majority of website owners don’t want to look the same as everyone else, and they want whizzbang high-tech widgets that make them look advanced. Usability
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by blowski 3y ago
Totally agree with this diagram, it's a great representation. Now if I could only get stakeholders and less experienced people on the team to understand why it's important, and get them to follow it.
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by blowski 3y ago
Liked by parents before their kids get into the school, often detested after publishing a report that doesn’t match their own experience. I’ve personally seen them make weird recommendations that damaged the school.
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by blowski 3y ago
Let’s ask some of the people who made a fortune out of doing it. Entrepreneurial, maybe?
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by blowski 3y ago
Will do. I’m further South but up that way occasionally for raw milk!
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by blowski 3y ago
I saw a successful attack on a .dev domain doing exactly this. Links on PCs worked correctly, but phones showed a scam site, so emailed links were attacked. It was hard to fix because they couldn’t get the spoofed domain, and there were so
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by blowski 3y ago
As a Suffolk resident, can I ask which one?
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by blowski 3y ago
Being old doesn’t automatically make you more right. You don’t get wisdom as a birthday gift.
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by blowski 3y ago
There are effectively 2-3 dead weeks in which you’re not paid but can’t look for a new job. All you can do over Christmas and New Year is worry.
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by blowski 3y ago
I'm sceptical that Drew DeVault has a sock puppet account on HN, created 3 months ago, in addition to @ddevault. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't like non-satirical impersonation.
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by blowski 3y ago
1. If you _really_ like an album, buy it on Bandcamp, because it gives more money to the artist. 2. If you just listen to the occasional song, listen to them on Spotify. Artist gets _some_ money, but nowhere near as much as #1. 3. If you do
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by blowski 3y ago
Some things are enjoyable in themselves, without needing a “so that”.
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by blowski 3y ago
There are many other “general intelligences” walking the planet who _are_ extremely dangerous. So it doesn’t need all AGIs to be dangerous for this to be a significant problem, just one is enough.
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by blowski 3y ago
I saw a fairly large estate agency system that bcc’d every outgoing email from their system to a shared account everybody then synced to Outlook. It was part audit log, part debugging tool, part database backup. They changed when they reali
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by blowski 3y ago
When I travelled to Brazil, I was confused as the North Star (Polaris) had disappeared.
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by blowski 3y ago
Yeah, it's usually a cliched pseudo-sceintific way of saying "I don't think it's necessary", and that seems to be the case here too.
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by blowski 3y ago
If they keep you showing you ads, and you keep paying them $120, then I can't see why they'd stop showing you ads.
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by blowski 3y ago
Didn't matter much for Git.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve definitely run into its members recently. They tend to have other strange beliefs, like “methods can’t have more than four lines” and “you can instantiate an object only in a factory service”.
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by blowski 3y ago
That begs the question, in what way are they speeding it up?
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by blowski 3y ago
We’ve received your order … we’ve taken payment for your order … your order has left our warehouse … your order has arrived in another warehouse … your order is with a delivery driver … all for a $5 cable.
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by blowski 3y ago
iPhones are sold as IP67 or 68. Terms like water resistant and waterproof are too ambiguous.
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by blowski 3y ago
These workplaces where bosses tell employees to learn unheard-of tools with zero context sound terrible.
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by blowski 3y ago
There’s a really blurry line that needs more clarity. When George Clooney tells me he uses Nespresso coffee pods, I don’t entirely believe him. If I found out that he didn’t, I can’t imagine trying to take legal action against him. But Chuc
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by blowski 3y ago
That’s an oft-quoted aphorism, but it’s not always true. Sometimes, the piece of crap you’ve just deployed becomes somebody else’s support and maintenance nightmare. With a bit more care, it could be avoided. Other times, the piece of crap
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by blowski 3y ago
Indeed, they do very little work in selecting authors and editing the books, but they still take a big revenue cut. So they tend to attract lower-quality authors. There are a few exceptions but I agree with the general opinion of Packt. The
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by blowski 3y ago
Laravel is quite patchy with types, because it does a lot of magic not supported by PHP’s type system. There are libraries and IDE plugins that mask this. Symfony, the other big PHP framework, has a lot more to offer if you like types. It a
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by blowski 3y ago
A lot of analogies break down here. This is just an early salvo in many arguments to come, that will need reasoned debate by competent people, judged by wise leaders. I really hope we can have that debate.

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