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by bshimmin 10y ago
Perhaps I'm just a fuddy-duddy, but I rather like MDN's description of what classes used to be for: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... (The second paragraph.)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I think I'd have to assume anyone using that on a project I was paying them for really was trying to be funny. I mean, really, take a look at this: https://github.com/tachyons-css/tachyons-visibility
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful and considered response. I'll just leave out the bit about drills, because debating analogies is always unwise, especially if the analogous subject is outside of one's area of expertise! > The cr
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm not sure this analogy works. My brother-in-law is a builder and I would certainly ask him what drill to buy if I needed a new drill, and I'm sure he'd have an answer. (If I didn't have him to ask, I'd probably
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by bshimmin 10y ago
It's a ghoulish nightmare, isn't it? I think one possible approach - and I haven't tried this because I am in the fortunate position of having been working in web development for a long time and just about having kept pace
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Given this is a complete rewrite, I guess updating doesn't work at all. But at least in that sense it gives you an authentic experience of modern web development!
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm not sure how much you can really read into a couple of big name agencies being bought out by a couple of much bigger name companies with very deep pockets. Presumably the founders of the big name agencies are in their 40s by now,
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by bshimmin 10y ago
"Gaffer's Accumulo Store is optimised for: Ingesting large amounts of data efficiently." For some reason that made me feel slightly nervous.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
If I'm iterating over a hash, it seems natural to use "k" and "v" or "key" and "value". Do other people use different names for these?
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by bshimmin 10y ago
These are lovely, and made me think of another Tumblr with beautiful animated GIFs (one for the cinema lovers out there): http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Perhaps you missed the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Definitely at least one other person: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil... And despite their lack of "social media engagement", they do have a Twitter account (@sublimehq) with
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I don't much care for Angular, but this is some seriously beautiful documentation.
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by bshimmin 10y ago
There's a lot that's slightly off about this (though there is also some good material in here too, and clearly it's coming from a place of frustration based on real projects - perhaps, I suspect, without a huge amount of expe
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by bshimmin 10y ago
I'm not sure whether I actually care if he is or if he isn't - there's just so much good material in this story: hidden super computers and theology degrees and all sorts of craziness. The only thing that could really improv
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by bshimmin 10y ago
Yeah. I applied for Deloitte because a big-4 accountancy firm ticked the right sort of boxes for someone who'd been to a good school, a good university, got good grades, and was looking for a reasonably prestigious job with decent per
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by bshimmin 10y ago
100% this. Some people simply do not like London - they stand atop the tube station at Oxford Circus and look at the succession and repetition of massed humanity (to quote Waugh) and think, "How unpleasant." Even if you're
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by bshimmin 11y ago
That's quite a list! I can't really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I have had an iPhone since they came out in the UK in 2007, and I love being able to check my email and idly browse the web on it (I don't much care about apps, I'll be honest). But, to be honest, I quite miss my Nokia 3210 which
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by bshimmin 11y ago
They are?! Whither do they flock?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Is this actually a problem that's really crying out for a solution? I mean, I can't say I do collaborative remote planning of trips or shopping online very often at all, but on the rare occasions that I have, sending an email or
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think the thing I like most about this is how it's evidently very imperfect - the ball sometimes goes missing, the rules for what velocity it needs to bounce from one window to another seem hazy, etc - but none of that really matters
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I must be having a stupid day - what is offensive about this name?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Well, I know who he is, but from a sample of not-very-many in the UK, my wife had no idea and my colleague sat next to me (male, early 30s, loves cricket) also had no idea. I'd say he's semi-famous in the UK.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
From speaking to people both 18-35 and in older age brackets, I've actually found it's the opposite - the younger generation is relatively impassioned about staying (or mostly indifferent but can't really see why we would lea
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think the WHATWG would have a nice time finishing off CSS3. (Seriously, the W3C started writing drafts in 1999; is it ever going to be finished? Why did they start on CSS4 before finishing CSS3?)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I hadn't heard of the source material (perhaps more/only well-known in the US?) but I presume it refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_and_Toad Some insightful parables either way, though!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It seems intuitive to think of contracting as being at some level risky (particularly the "leap into the unknown" aspect of it), but I can't really say I know anyone who's tried their hand at in London and actually faile
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The referenced pull request for removing the <span>s ( https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/5753 ) is terrific - a real paragon of open-source professionalism.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
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