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by bshimmin 11y ago
What's the current thinking as of 2016 about Browserify versus Webpack? We've been happy Browserify users for a couple of years now, but I'm drawn to both the code splitting and dynamic expressions parts of Webpack. On the o
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I once contracted at a company where one of the salaried staff was tasked with implementing Markdown. For some reason, he actually implemented BBCode (I think with a regex he'd found online somewhere). When I tried to explain to him
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I browsed through the README and was somewhere between laughing and crying by the end - it's like a case-study for all the baffling complexity that's been added to front-end development over the last two or three years. (I expect
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I suppose you could argue that "Schadenfreude" counts as a positive word, for at least one of the parties involved anyway.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Relatedly, Martin Porter (of Porter stemmer fame) has a great pair of essays on the famous Burke quote about the triumph of evil (which, of course, he never said), starting with http://tartarus.org/martin/essays/bu
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Has Aral left the UK yet? https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Those screenshots of code are kind of a challenge to read.
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I think Svbtle was created by Dustin Curtis, actually.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I don't wish to be overly mean or uncharitable, but I don't really think anyone who is unable to figure out the advice offered in the section titled "Some tips on reducing burn" all by themselves is ever going to be able
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Yeah, practically a McDonald's salary. I am reminded of that lovely remark once made by Boris Johnson's, London's blond bombshell of a mayor, when asked about his £250,000 a year contract to write a column for The Daily Teleg
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If it weren't so awful, the Met's verdict after their investigation into Williams' death is almost comical - sort of like Occam's Razor taken to some sort of incredible extreme. I mean, of course he accidentally padlo
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by bshimmin 11y ago
People pay for Trello?
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Well, this is why I said I struggled to understand the piece. On the one hand he says "[t]he apotheosis of Darth Vader was truly disgusting", while on the other he says "Does entertainment have to have an outcome? We were do
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I get the feeling this guy takes Star Wars (and probably himself) just a little worryingly seriously. I can't really understand what he's saying - that George Lucas is evil? That the Star Wars films are promoting Lucas'
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It allowed me to live in France for a couple of years before eventually moving back to Canada, where my wife and I got our first baby. If you were wondering, my wife tagged along with me in Europe. As far as I know, I am the biological fat
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Imagine if matchmakers existed on the same scale and employed the same tactics as IT recruiters! A terrifying thought.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I don't remember BowieNet at all, and I was definitely cheerfully using dialup in the UK, with Demon Internet, in the late nineties ('97 onwards I'd say). Was it really a big deal? I can't find out much information abo
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think you were being gently mocked for your spelling there. (Read L'Étranger , it's great!)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think it's an incredibly challenging book, but also a masterpiece. It's really hard work to get through in places, and some chapters are much, much better than others. Some parts of it are astonishingly and gleefully excellent
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Well, he starred in The Man Who Fell to Earth , so does that make up for it?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
There are some corkers here. Wonderful to imagine Bowie reading The Leopard (I wonder if he enjoyed the masterful Visconti film of it, too).
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by bshimmin 11y ago
With a name like Paris Theodore, you really can be anything you want to be.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is linkbait advertising "Approved Index", whoever they may be. I'm also pretty sure there's nothing in here that someone with half a brain couldn't figure out for themselves.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It does pretty well on the always-entertaining bunny benchmark! http://www.stagexl.org/samples/bunny_bench/ (You'll want to click and hold because clicking to try and get the FPS below 60 soon gets tedious.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Is there a strong overlap between "people who don't know (or care) who DJ Khaled is" and "people who are unlikely ever to see any value in Snapchat"?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Nice to see Postgres as a/the first-class citizen here! From a quick glance at the documentation, the "server types" seem very sensible.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
UK slang, in some regions at least, for someone who talks a lot, perhaps when they ought not, thus usually somewhat in pejoration - "She's a right gobby cow, she is."
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I'm not 100% confident "articles" like this are even written by humans.
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For anyone confused by "Texas versions", this might help: http://design.perl6.org/S99.html#Texas_operator
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I have a lot of fond memories of Perl from a decade or so ago, and would love to do something more than just installing and tinkering with Perl 6 and then forgetting all about it. I also conveniently have a little "weekend project&quo

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