bshimmin

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by bshimmin 9y ago
Next time I'm in a pub in Glasgow I'm so going to compliment a guy on the definition of his upper arms and then, if I'm still alive, move the discussion onto Dior's 1978 collection. Thanks for the tips!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Excuse me while I kiss this guy.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Don't all non-Americans (like me), whenever they see pie in this context, quietly sing to themselves, "When a moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..."?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Sorry, I was being a bit snarky there (if you make the bold keywords clickable, it of course obviates the need for the command prompt - but the command prompt is fun in and of itself, even if it's more cumbersome to use).
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Idea for the next iteration: make the keywords in bold into links which can be clicked, then get rid of the command prompt.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Thanks one and all for the responses to my comment, which was written in some haste but seems to have generated useful discussion nonetheless. Just responding to this one, I would say that it really depends. If your task is implementing ana
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I really don't see why it has to be that way, and if people feel like that, there's something weird going on. If you've been given a large feature that involves, say, analytics, there is surely nothing wrong with your standup
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by bshimmin 9y ago
For anyone who looked at the repository linked from the Heroku app and was confused as to how this works (or indeed the extent of what it does), the actual transformation is being done server-side, using this: https://github.com&
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by bshimmin 9y ago
...or, if it isn't already being done by Facebook, can't be developed and rolled out incredibly quickly to a billion users if they decide that they like what you're doing and want to do it too.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I'm not really sure who the intended audience for this is! I find it quite difficult to imagine that anyone who doesn't already know what the functions do could actually figure it out from the descriptions, eg. "CDR function
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I quite like the "contextual vertical align". Everything else I find either visually unappealing (eg. the ampersand, as already mentioned) or outright confusing (the equality glyphs in particular).
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by bshimmin 9y ago
You're quite right. It's so long since I've used Rails with anything other than Postgres I knew that it couldn't be the default because of having to specify the configuration flag, but it escaped me that it would be SQLi
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The actual default for Rails is SQLite [1], though a lot of people (perhaps a majority) use PostgreSQL. You certainly can use MongoDB with Rails via Mongoid, though I'm not sure vast numbers of people do, comparatively. For Node, well
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by bshimmin 9y ago
See my other answer - I'm using "eight hours" as short-hand for "a reasonable amount of work to get the task done". I accept that wasn't clear. (We usually bill by the day so I often think in 8 hour slots!)
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The biggest timezone gap we have is 3.5 hours, and they find it supremely convenient because they do other work in their morning. My company is based in the UK and we can only really work with people who can work in a moderately convenient
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The latter really just to let me know if there have been any particular disasters during the day, or if there's anything of note to report. I care more about the former, to be honest - and even that, to an extent, only to reassure me t
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I work with a bunch of remote employees. My general policy is that I want them to be available to say "hi" and talk about the day at the start of the day (9am) in my timezone, and to give me a status update at the end of the day
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I work with an English guy who's been in Amsterdam for a few years now and he often says "medior". He usually corrects himself to "middleweight" after a few seconds.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
 ...for anyone who doesn't fancy looking through nearly twenty thousand (!) lines of markup and JavaScript.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
No no, the point is that they're supposed to look convincing, not like models!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
If you're in your fifties, a single decade is about all you need to take you through to retirement age. To be honest, I would've said going deep on JavaScript right now (React, React Native, etc) would give you a shelf life of at
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Someone asked the other day about how to get your first 100 users. I guess if you posted to each of these, that might (optimistically) do it. (I'm not suggesting this is a good idea!)
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Totally agreed. Here's a picture of it in action for anyone (not unreasonably) struggling to grasp this concept: http://www.riscos.com/the_archive/rol/productsdb/images/risc...
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by bshimmin 9y ago
The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
That's much more like a copy of the Mac's System Preferences, really.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I quite miss RISC OS sometimes... Macs seemed great when I switched from whatever vague succession of Linux distributions I was using in around 2004, but for quite some years now Macs have annoyed me in a way that I don't recall RISC O
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I have literally never heard of IndieWeb. Is this something important I should have heard of?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Honestly, if you've watched people who are actually good with After Effects, this isn't really all that much work. And see, look how clever After Effects is: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/how-t
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Somehow she managed to find time to get a double first from Cambridge whilst also being really pretty and an actress, so I think that probably at least slightly qualifies her for some vague element of credibility.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"100% CSS and one tiny line of JS." ... and a GIF of the explosion! Still, I love it!

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