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by bshimmin 10y ago
I wish they'd revisit the first ever flat-screen iMac, the one that pivoted every which way and could easily be positioned at any height. That's this one, for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This is a very fair point. For instance, you can't do the sticky footer Flexbox example with a table layout: https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/stick... (or, at least, I can't immedi
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by bshimmin 10y ago
You'd be forgiven for thinking, logically, that something which works in two dimensions would do everything that something which only works in one dimension would do. Unless the two, in fact, were intended for entirely different purpo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Jack Singleton is a developer and security specialist at ThoughtWorks. What a splendid example of an aptronym! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It seems like it actually isn't, though this was my first thought too: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/twilio-now-lets-developers... (I'm glad 1st April is a Saturday this year so I can mostly not
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thank you. I've always enjoyed this quote from Francis M. Cornford, which perhaps takes an opposing view: Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothin
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Absolutely not - and I didn't mean my post to come across as negative. If this is purely a feature intended for power users - or if the whole piece of software is intended for them - then that's totally fine. Aside from the slig
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This seems very cool and all, but surely 99.99% of regular users have never really thought about seeing their browsing history in a calendar view, or wanted or cared for statistics about it. I am fairly sure a significant proportion of use
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I don't know why I'm doing this, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YokNW7tIs (Fairly obviously NSFW or the readily-offended if you have the sound on.)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Pah, that's less than six weeks (if you don't sleep)! I'd put a more realistic estimate at 2-3 years, though obviously anything involving JavaScript will have changed at least 6 times whilst you've been attempting to lea
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Is gulp seriously so out of fashion already ?
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My initial reaction to this was "Good grief, no one needs to know all this stuff!" Then I saw the "Pick any" label in the key and it made a lot more sense.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I like the film a lot too. I'm not certain whether the impossible-to-film gore of the book would've changed the message of the film had they somehow been able to include it (for those who haven't read it, the book has passag
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by bshimmin 10y ago
American Psycho , Bret Easton Ellis. I learnt everything I know about fashion and business cards from this important book.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Is this an American thing? I have never heard of it.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I wonder, is DuckDuckGo's name a problem for adoption? I have no idea what it's supposed to mean, but it sounds very silly and I don't much enjoy recommending it to people in real life, at least in part for that reason. (&q
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yeah; I didn't have trouble with it particularly, but two things I noted: 1) He has a very strong trill to his rhotic "r", which I think must be put on for effect. 2) Does he have a slightly South African accent? I think h
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I can confirm that Omniture (or Adobe Whatever-It's-Called now) definitely used to break right-clicking on links; I know this because we integrated it into a site and it broke right-clicking on links, and then when I turned Omniture
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Very helpful. It wasn't immediately obvious to me, but if you click any of the thumbs on that page, you get through to the individual page for each artist, where it shows their work and actually identifies which film each poster is fo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's a bit tricky to pin The Economist to either the left or the right; they describe themselves as being "radically centrist". This Quora answer from an Economist writer is good: https://www.quora.com/Is-The
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by bshimmin 10y ago
They had me at "Hacker" "News". Thank you so much for sharing this! (Hell, I mostly quite like HN and I'm sure I'm often part of the problem, and this is still wonderful.)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I dearly love The Economist (and, indeed, have a small stack of them about a foot from me right now), but I do sometimes get the feeling that reading a newspaper with which I agree so strongly on almost all issues (hell, even the advertisin
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I don't really know what to say. It is unfortunately self-evident that when something that is unusual occurs, it is newsworthy, and when something happens every day, it becomes less newsworthy (I guess that's the "news"
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by bshimmin 10y ago
If you can't meaningfully differentiate between people dying of illness or old age and people dying from someone driving a car deliberately into them and then running amok with a knife... well, I think the problem's with you rathe
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by bshimmin 10y ago
You're right, it was in really poor taste. I'm sorry. The downvotes are entirely justified. (As a poor attempt at mitigation, I had literally just made that typo, which cost me about two hours because I'd run a lengthy migr
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I can relate: a good part of my morning was ruined by typing "RAILS_ENv" instead of "RAILS_ENV"...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There's always someone on HackerNews who has done something pertinent to almost any discussion (it's one of the best things about being here, in fact) - are there any COBOL guys or gals who made a fortune fixing Y2K bugs who&#
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by bshimmin 10y ago
JWB as in John Wilkes Booth, the guy who assassinated Lincoln? I can't really imagine him having a resurgence in popularity, but I've never fully understood the American psyche, I will admit.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I think this one is really a horses-for-courses situation. For me, my current setup of two 2560x1440 monitors plus a 15" laptop is absolutely optimal - I can spread a load of stuff out everywhere, flip between a few spaces, and just g
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Ah, thank you for these. I skimmed the documentation about AS3's XML support and didn't see it there, and I'm not sure "operators" would be a place I would've looked! I don't know if this would've be

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