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by bshimmin 11y ago
I strongly disagree with the premise that the Yahoo! presented in that screenshot was a minimum viable product - that really was the product: the differentiator between Yahoo! and, say, AltaVista was that Yahoo! was a hierarchical list of
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Well, I think: 1) "notional" is an odd choice of word since @jashkenas has over 20K karma on here; and 2) it's fine to offer reasoned criticism, but the sort of denigration I was responding to ("messes", "usele
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It must be really rewarding to be the author of an open-source project when you read feedback like this... Backbone is "dying", if you will, because an awful lot has changed in the last five years, not because it was necessarily f
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by bshimmin 11y ago
My brother endorsed me on LinkedIn for Git. I'm about 90% sure he wasn't talking about version control.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I've definitely been asked by potential clients if they can look at my LinkedIn profile to get an idea of my background and the sort of companies and projects I've worked on in the past (and I've even had clients ask that abo
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'm slightly on the fence with this one. Often employers are looking for someone "normal" who will fit into a team in a "normal" sort of way; and having a LinkedIn account is certainly "normal" (given the
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I personally think it was very clever of Eco to write a pastiche of The Da Vinci Code 15 years or so before it was published. That aside, Foucault's Pendulum is undeniably quite hard work, but he really does cover a fascinating bre
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This was a nice trip down memory lane, first to FlashDevelop and then to FDT (which is what my team always used to use) - it's actually rather nice to see that both are still being actively developed.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
For anyone thinking, "The words in the title sound sort of familiar, but I'm not sure why", it's a reference to "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", a great book by Milan Kundera which translated into Daniel Da
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This was a great interview, and it was very interesting to read that Waugh admits to being influenced by Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises": I remember reading that book and "Vile Bodies" at much the same time and thi
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I can imagine this being useful at particular junctures in a project - perhaps it's real crunch time on a critical feature, where everyone needs to put their minds together to solve one difficult problem, everyone is months in and on a
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I thought this too, I won't deny it. I suppose two counterpoints would be: 1) If you really can work days and days on end without feeling tired or feeling the need for sleep (as someone who works very, very excessive hours, I can safe
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'll be honest and say my key learning here was that astronauts don't earn all that much money (and presumably none of them are homeowners in SF!).
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I have to say, my first (and rather uncharitable) thought when I saw this was, "Does the world really need another templating language?" I've been really happy with Haml for years now, and have reached moderate levels of sat
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I thought I recognised the URL! This is by the same genius as Elevator.js: http://tholman.com/elevator.js/ (Turn your sound on.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The docs do mention nested lists ( http://facebook.github.io/draft-js/docs/advanced-topics-nest... ) but this doesn't seem to work for me in the demo. I agree that lists in web-based rich text editors, versus t
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by bshimmin 11y ago
As an unashamed Italophile, I very much liked the "DOC" at the bottom of the README in the repo!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Is ambiguity in language always a bad thing? William Empson wrote in Seven Type of Ambiguity that "The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry", and he seemed to know a thing or two.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Do they also do a Palmer reading method? I looked at this complete example - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Palmer_M... - and, whilst very beautiful, I found it in no way easy to re
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It worries me slightly that I can still remember the URL for PuTTY - I'm not even sure I've used Windows once in the last 5 years in a context where I would have needed it!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I agree with this. I like Stephen Fry too, but I think his public persona of being this loveable gentleman of the people - entertaining, eccentric, erudite - quite often clashes with his tendency to make either silly or spiteful remarks in
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Probably worth noting as a bit of context to this that Fry was presenting the BAFTA awards last night, said something offensive about someone who was a friend of his (but the public wouldn't necessarily have known that), and people on
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Wasn't it Sartre who famously wrote Three o'clock is both too early and too late to start refactoring?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The actual site (not this article) is currently serving up a 502; I think the author needs to play with his autoscaling options in EB!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Someone needs to make a "flotation desk", stat.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
the data are encrypted is correct - "data" is plural.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Weird that they would do that with this sort of site. Weirder still, there's a tiny link in the footer which takes you to the actual content ( https://www.crayon.co/f/ ), which you can look at a for a second or two
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I don't think I agree. I've been developing stuff for the web since the mid-90s, when TABLEs were just about starting to be a thing and Perl was definitely the preferred choice on the server. There has been plenty of excitement
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Rollup isn't linked anywhere in this article and I had only dimly heard of it, so here's a link: http://rollupjs.org/ I guess it wouldn't be JavaScript without at least three choices, one of them still in its
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If you visit one of their fora (eg. https://epicmafia.com/forum/36 ) and open your browser's console, the message displayed indicates the kinds of troubles it sounds like those poor moderators have had to deal with

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