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by bshimmin 9y ago
Bug. This is an incredible achievement though and just the sort of thing I love to see here on a Sunday!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I'm saying that if CockroachDB came up in discussion frequently, people would lose interest in complaining about its name, because after a period of time, the number of people who'd been exposed to it and previous conversations ab
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by bshimmin 9y ago
git is also a really bad name, and I've had awkward conversations with hiring managers about it in the past ("You want someone with experience in... what?!"). ("git" is a mild oath in British English, for those who
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Somebody already thought of that one! https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb proprietary auto sharting algorithm makes me laugh every time.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I actually thought this was a Stripe product when I first saw the landing page - and I mean that as a compliment, because Stripe's web pages are always beautiful. (My only slight criticism of this one is that the bits which load in pr
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Do a view source on that page to get some lovely 90's era HTML nostalgia. (If you're wondering why the in-page menu behaves like that... it's because they're images, swapped out for their hover state with JavaScript, wi
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I like the "Wat" talk too, and it's maybe about the only time that "Wat" has really ever seemed appropriate to me! In my experience of conversations featuring the phrase "virtue signalling", I can only say
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I don't find it offensive, but I did find it quite annoying, likewise "Wat?" and "AF", and I thought to myself that it was a shame that what appears to be a useful tool had a README littered with this twee, cliquey
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by bshimmin 10y ago
What I care about is the return for our customers, we could call this profitability. Well, you could call it that, but it's not what the word means. In the penultimate paragraph you talk about cost-effectiveness - I'd stick to t
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Oh wow. The next time I've got a difficult conference call where all sense and reason has been lost, I know what I'm going to do. "Ben, do you think we can implement this feature successfully in time for the client demo?&quot
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's understandable that they took a hammering over it: it was a tentpole pledge, they couldn't stick to it, and they then apologised for it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19646731
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This is it. Everything else is just a convoluted red herring. For nearly everyone, Facebook is just better in every single way for the things that they actually want something "social" to do - which seems (from looking over people
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by bshimmin 10y ago
The really depressing thing is that this applies to all walks of life - landlords and tenants, estate agents, even recruiters. From my own experience of running a micro-agency, the "1 in 20 sociopaths" rule absolutely applies. I
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I often ask people about their editor setup too - I tend to find that the level of enthusiasm they have about their editor is a moderately good indicator of their enthusiasm in general (though not, necessarily, their competence - I think th
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Looking at that office makes me feel so glad that I work from home - look at all those people hovering about and interrupting!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thank you for taking my mean-spirited response in good part (I upvoted your initial comment because it entertained me - though you've since edited out the best bit! - and I'm upvoting your reply because it was interesting and deli
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by bshimmin 10y ago
accidentally stumbled on the Buddhist practice of deity visualization, which created a second conscious voice in my head. She helps me learn how to embody more than one new personality trait at a time easier than if I simply focused on bei
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by bshimmin 10y ago
For verbs, it's called conjugation , for nouns declension . Broadly, the system of words having different endings is called inflection .
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've been a contractor and led teams and mentored juniors on a number of occasions - I don't think it's very unusual at all. I don't know if it would be literally specified in a written contract in those terms, but it&#
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm an absolute fool for upgrading my text editor whilst I have two major project deadlines due before Easter, but I like to live dangerously. And it was worth it - the new Adaptive theme looks fantastic!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
(I'm not actually bad at spelling, it was a reference to http://www.snopes.com/trump-sends-unpresidented-tweet/ - but I should probably know by now that cheap one-liners don't go down well on HackerNews...)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
17 months to build it; 17 years to renovate it!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
But what is the actual benefit to the consumer? What is the user story here? "I want my washing machine connected to the Internet so that _________"? I can't finish this sentence - I have literally no idea. As another comm
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There is, however, a further danger to microdosing - the risk of taking too much. You don't say! I consume the BBC News online fairly compulsively as my go-to news source, but sometimes it really is pretty mind-numbing (no pun intend
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's 3D printers all over again!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
According to `man ps` on my Mac, there are nearly seventy of them - how many did he want you to know?!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's interesting from a UK perspective to see this described as a "growing trend" - the "gap yah" [1] has been a tradition amongst wealthy students for, oh, decades over here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Perhaps this is just gratuitous bike-shedding, but somewhere between the font [1], the line-height, the general layout (narrow columns shifting about, sometimes transparently on top of imagery), I found this article quite unpleasant to read
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I found a certain irony in the title of this piece given that when I first opened the article, I was greeted with, "You've reached your article limit. Register to read up to three articles each week or subscribe now for just €20&q
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Ah, so jQuery spaghetti has now been replaced by React messes. I can also contribute that I've seen some Angular abominations and - a year or two back - some baleful Backbone projects. It's almost like whatever the framework or

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