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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   It's also referenced rather beautifully in bobince's contemporary masterpiece of regex-related despair: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-... ("The <center> cannot ho
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   I was pretty young at the time, but Helen Sharman was a really big deal back then, Twitter or no Twitter. I imagine most British people in their early thirties or older would remember the name with only a bit of prompting (though I concede
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   I love the diagrams on this blog post. Does anyone know if they're hand-drawn or if there's a tool that produces them?
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   I think more needs to be made of this statement: Watch for some buggy behavior with flexbox in IE11. "Some buggy behavior" may more or less mean "it completely doesn't work in IE11" (which still has very significa
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   Slightly off-topic, but I can honestly say I've never once used Apple's Maps application that now comes with Mac OS X (not iOS). Does anyone use this? It probably ought to be faster or better integrated or something than openi
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   I think he meant "manly consideration" in the sense of "It would not be fitting of a man (read: gentleman) to make disparaging remarks about his wife in public". Perhaps I'm totally wrong though.
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   This part rather struck me: In the manly consideration toward Mrs. Dickens which I owe to my wife, I will only remark of her that the peculiarity of her character has thrown all the children on someone else. I do not know — I cannot by any
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   That photograph really is sensational. Gates looks wonderfully young and innocent, almost angelic. Ballmer looks like an enthusiastic understudy for Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
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   by bshimmin 11y ago

   I know it's practically a HackerNews trope by now to point this out, but this is a really poor name choice, given the abbreviation that they seem keen to use. (I'm referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I think I probably would have preferred something brief and written in plain English. Its author was previously a lawyer, and it shows. I'm sure it's very measured and careful and so forth - but really everyone here can read bet
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    It's long, it's rambling, it uses phrases like "laser-focussed" (twice). Fine, it's not corporatese at its absolute worst (there isn't a "synergistic" in there), but it's also not going to win a
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    The announcement from Mitchell Baker really is corporate drivel at its worst: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/kAyVlhfEc... This also seems like a shame. I'm not sure Thunderbird was e
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    That said, I think those are all Herman Miller chairs, so I guess that's something.
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I only quickly glanced at it and thought it was a sweatshop in Bangladesh; I then had to look again because that didn't seem to match the headline of the article or what I'd remembered clicking on from HN. I think it's possi
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Impressive, though the results aren't quite as good as http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Looking at the last example, how does it know that `name` is of type String and `age` is of type Number? Should it not be $ frodo generate model user name:string age:number or something?
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    That absolutely mirrors my experience - I never spoke to anyone in Sicily or Venice who didn't immediately switch to non-dialect Italian as soon as they realised I was a foreigner (fairly obvious from my fair hair and blue eyes!) who c
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Thanks for the correction - it's years since I've seen "Trainspotting" and somehow I relocated it to Glasgow in my mind; that said, Wikipedia helpfully informs that it was actually mostly shot in Glasgow! "The Wire&
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I'm guessing 99% of people wouldn't know what "beatify" meant either, and a significant number would think it was a typo for "beautify". Those two words also rather nicely express the vagaries of English pronu
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Great read. This bit was especially interesting to me: Still, guess what, nobody has issues understanding one of another region, or even from a Switzerland canton. I learnt standard Italian (Tuscan) whilst I lived in Bologna, and achieve
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    For all the people who spend time on HackerNews and suffer from impostor syndrome, I hope this snippet (pg. 21) will make them feel a little better about themselves: var ev; eval("ev = control." + eventType + ";");
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I remember my final project in my CS master's degree very fondly: I delivered a barely working piece of software in a totally arcane problem domain with a very complex set of instructions which enabled it to work, sort of, in one speci
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Well, there's plenty of controversy in this one, but I think Compared to CS students, the average web developer is not as passionate about programming, and not as skilled a programmer. ...probably takes the biscuit; I'm not even
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I agree. I don't wish to sound overly unkind to an entire discipline here, but I think in recent years there has arisen a perception that UX is a job which pays well and doesn't require any particularly hard skills: software deve
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Steven Pinker has a nice one of these: The rapidity that the motion that the wing that the hummingbird has has has is remarkable.
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Thanks to everyone for the great responses (and apologies for hijacking the comments a little here, which should have been about Klong) - much to delve into!
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Two things that caught my eye in this article were "Many people have turned to ad blockers" and "A small but growing number of people, however, are taking ad-blocking a step further and just disabling JavaScript altogether&qu
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Several times, over the years, when I've looked at a new and challenging (to me, in both cases) programming language I've thought, "If I put a day or two of effort in, I'm sure I'd eventually be able to make sense o
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    Well, I followed the link to /r/unixporn and was amused to see that most of the screenshots (described as "at least on par with any other operating system") look like people desperately trying to recreate "The Matri
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    by bshimmin 11y ago

    I certainly remember Movable Type, and I think a few well-known blogs are still powered by it: two that spring to mind are Daring Fireball and kottke.org. (Probably a case of "if it works, why change it?".)