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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thank you - confirmed. I just dug up a copy of Flash CS6 and tried this: var val : String = "foo"; var foo : XML = <foo><bar prop={val} /></foo>; ...and it worked. I swear this wasn't do
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I always found it a little odd but quite pleasant - but I don't at all remember AS3's E4X having interpolation. Did I just never know about this feature (or have since forgotten - it's been, oh, half a decade at least since
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's funny, I started reading this thinking "Ah, how nice they all are" quite sincerely (especially the gifts from Google and Codefresh - though I suppose you could interpret those a bit cynically if you put your mind to it..
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by bshimmin 10y ago
How do they find the time... That said, from a quick perusal of the landing page, I have precious little idea what this is for, and equally little inclination to watch a two minute introductory video.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
While I don't much like software developers calling themselves engineers either, it was hard not to read this and think that about a week ago I was reading all about a dam that seemed poised to fail and thousands of people had to be ev
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by bshimmin 10y ago
If you take nothing else from this, just take the bonus advice, which Thomas and Patrick have been flogging here for years. It really is just true. If you bill hourly, people will attempt to attain an intimate knowledge of the comings and
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by bshimmin 10y ago
OK, I'm completely baffled by this. Am I the only one who thinks taking your young children on a conference call is somewhere between totally unprofessional and, well, very annoying? I get that your children are your priority - but s
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I love the joyously mixed metaphors of the imagery - pencils and walls and keys and a raven!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check them out (and thanks for the other responses too)!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yes, I've sort of half-heartedly considered this, without really exploring the idea very fully. Can you - or anyone else - recommend such a service? All they would really need to do is reach out to customers to check tallies on their
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Invoicing. I sell a product that customers use on many of their own projects, and each project of theirs means one invoice for me. I can solve some of this with automation, and I will get around to doing this, but it will remain hard to
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I completely missed the excitement of being downvoted, sadly! You're probably right, though I find saying anything negative about remote work on HN tends also to get a less than stellar reception.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I also think there's a lot to be said for the routine of the "dad job". For many people, it's comforting to have structure in one's life, for every day to follow a similar pattern; surprises are stressful, and wh
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Money is great for solving problems where the problem relies on needing money (as David Mamet put it, "Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money"). After a certain point, however, the problems you are left with ar
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I've never heard of this one. I'd try it, but the pricing page just says "Get a quote" all over it, which is a massive turn-off.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yes! It feels like I try a new video conferencing system every week, never to see any improvement. I currently pay something like £20 per month for WebEx because it's marginally better than Skype (particularly with more than three
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by bshimmin 10y ago
With the possible exception of Frank, the combine harvester, I don't think there's anything remotely scary or frightening in Cars .
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Oh, such happy memories of that site... This has quite made my day!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This is, to me, absolutely indistinguishable from an April fools' day joke.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Or write in a way that's light, friendly, and engaging. Not everyone wants something that's "fast and efficient" and information-dense, perhaps especially not people taking a beginner's course on HTML and CSS.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I was feeling masochistic so I read the "manspreading" article (having first googled "manspreading", a term I hadn't heard before and wish I hadn't now). Having read this piece, I think the only viable decision
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This has now been unlinked from the original submission ( https://medium.com/the-mission/wow-its-official-the-subscrip... ), which contained this gem: Personally, I couldn’t count how many Medium articles have changed m
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This is horrendous. I read this piece about the Mosul Dam ( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-proble... ) a month or so back and found it very alarming, but wasn't sure how seriou
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Why? Do you think it will make you happy? I used to think money would at least make life easier, but past a certain point (and that point is vastly less than $1m/year), it really doesn't - you just end up spending it on stupid a
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by bshimmin 10y ago
In the spirit of helpfulness, I think you mean "critique". :-)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Those Russian guys were writing pretty big novels 150 years ago too, though. I will say that War and Peace was a much faster read (at least for me) than Infinite Jest - though I greatly enjoyed both, in very different ways.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
His most famous novel (I think) is Slaughterhouse-Five . I enjoyed it a lot. So it goes.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Chance is a funny thing. I was once reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (which I can heartily recommend) - not an especially obscure book, but certainly not his most famous. I was a student, and
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This article is fairly typical on the subject: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2014/jul/...
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I once spent an evening in a darkened restaurant patio overwhelmed to tears as a kind man explained to me his young daughter, hospital-bound and dying of cancer, had used the Harry Potter IMDb boards as her main social life in her last yea

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