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by bshimmin 10y ago
...(Pivotal Tracker) which predates Trello by some years! That said, I never much enjoyed using Pivotal Tracker, and Trello seems to do more or less everything it does but in a nicer and more client-friendly way.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
EWAH is "Enhanced Word-Aligned Hybrid", for anyone wondering. (It also reminded me of the joke "Why does Edward Woodward have so many 'd's in his name?")
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by bshimmin 10y ago
You're seriously comparing a refurb on eBay..?
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I don't think it's as bad as a domain parking web site, but there are some serious problems with it. - The line drawings make it look like this is a charting library. Perhaps they have some mysterious symbolism, but to me it looks
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There are two reasons: 1) There's no real world benefit to using these elements, in any easily demonstrable way (maybe there's some sort of tiny accessibility or SEO advantage, but it's fractional in comparison with, say, jus
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Ha! Even Ethernet used to be a lot fiddlier in the '90s, when you had to worry about crossover vs patch cables.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I had no idea "escape rooms" were a thing. Here's the Wikipedia page, for anyone else who is perplexed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Apple have something like a 10% market share. I think what you see in coffee shops and on expensive commuter trains is not at all representative; if you go into a Starbucks in a trendy part of east London, you'd be forgiven for thinki
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by bshimmin 10y ago
From the article: Firstly there is the sheer scale of savings held by individuals, companies and governments. From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35801951 : A survey by the Money Advice Service has found that fou
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by bshimmin 10y ago
This would really depend on the sort of agency and the type of work they're comfortable doing. Many agencies specialise more in "strategic" work, and have in-house resources for that, but when it comes to actual digital &quo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Sometimes this can be a case of Maslow's hammer, though - if you work for a shop where they've standardised on Angular (or whatever) as their go-to solution for everything, you can end up with massive overkill in some scenarios wh
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I can perhaps understand that sort of attitude from people fresh out of their computer science degree, or even after half a dozen years of miserable grind in the workforce - but this guy looks to be in his forties, has (apparently) already
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I feel like this is some sort of promotional piece, but I can't quite get the angle - is he a fictitious individual made up by Google? Is this an attempt by Apple to make Google employees look weird? Is he a real person who's lo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I guess this goes especially for recruiters who don't really know (or care about) Semver. Isn't that, well, all of them..?
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I am quite interested to know how you got into the business of making software for hair salons when you're not a "domain expert in the beauty industry" - did you start out building this for someone else who was involved in th
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Well, I suppose if you believe that the news is all inherently false, biased, and generally uninformative, then it probably isn't going to be a good choice for you. (Incidentally, the Brexit polls were somewhat wrong, but they were n
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Good question (apart from the scare quotes!). I run a software consultancy based in the UK. I work with a variety of subcontractors, most of whom are based in Europe. The outcome of Brexit might potentially have a significant impact on my
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I think you want to be careful with that - you don't want to make the magic that we do look too easy. "Can you just quickly change all the fonts on our massive, complex site to Comic Sans? I saw you do it in the demo the other d
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I can't really get onboard with this. A lot of the comments here, and the commentary in the article itself, talk about how depressing the news is, how biased it is, about Gell-Mann amnesia -- and they're all right. But from my o
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm trying to work out what would count as passive enough to satisfy the grandparent commenter, if writing a book doesn't qualify. Maybe inheritance? Even robbing a bank requires some upfront effort, so it's hardly passive.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yeah, this. I bought a Herman Miller chair from a company that ceased to exist not long afterwards and, several years later, Herman Miller still cheerfully sent me a replacement armrest when I phoned up to say I'd managed to damage
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I humbly submit that they need to work on the name. I've had a long day and not much sleep and my eyes didn't recognise the difference between "hearphones" and "headphones"; the two even sound pretty similar.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I can't really speak to Google's software because there's so much of it and it does so many different things (much of which I try my hardest to avoid), but I've been using JIRA for a long time - probably on and off since
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I stared at .put for @wanted.combinations.grep: { $materials ≽ [⊎] |$^stuff-we-want }; and the preceding lines for some time, and then read the description, clicked through a few of the links on the different operators and read the e
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Most people use Babel for transforming ES6 into ES5. Before Babel 6, Babel did that out of the box with no configuration required. With Babel 6, it basically stopped doing anything out of the box, including the main thing it was famous fo
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Amazing what you could achieve with Adobe PageMill!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Having been buying quite a lot of toys for our young children recently, it did sort of strike me that a moderately affordable 3D printer that really did Just Work, where I could go to, say, lego.com, click what I wanted a model printing of,
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yes, of course I know this - I'm sure many people know this. What Angular 2 calls a "pipe", though, doesn't refer really to the piping of the data (though of course it also uses a vertical bar), but the actual thing tha
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I don't know; is there not some point where we can just declare something to be terrible? I looked at what he wrote about Angular's 2 templating, and then I looked at the bits in the documentation about "pipes" ( https:&
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by bshimmin 10y ago
(Is it not 100,000?) Genuine question - has anything ever happened as a result of these petitions? When it has been debated, has there been a meaningful change afterwards?

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