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by bshimmin 11y ago
Probably relevant: FIREBASE WARNING: Specified Firebase has reached its Peak Connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. ( https://blazing-fire-4313.firebaseio.com )
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If I had a pound for every person I know who makes snooty remarks about "not even owning a TV" but actually watches BBC iPlayer and Netflix TV episodes on their laptop... well, I'd have at least £3.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Node.js is the rare example of a Linux-centric tool with great cross-platform support. Apart from the problems with Windows, npm, and path lengths.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think I've only ever once seen a CV with an IQ on it. I remember at the time we laughed and thought, "How weird!", but the rest of the CV was a bit "off" too, so it went straight into the reject pile. I can'
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by bshimmin 11y ago
For anyone worried this isn't suitable for work: it's not a euphemism.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Having a little browse through their releases ( https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer/releases ), it seems like many of them are national mottos, qv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nati
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"It's a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." — Tom Lehrer
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think it depends on the DSL (and perhaps what you're doing with it, perhaps not). I love RSpec's, I don't much like RailsAdmin's.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
RailsAdmin's "automatic" nature is a big win for us, whereas with ActiveAdmin we would have to write some code (even if it is easy code) to get us to the same point. For some of our projects RailsAdmin in its default state d
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by bshimmin 11y ago
As someone who's played the "Let's use Rails Admin, it's quick and easy... <time passes> Oh hell, the client wants to see what in there now? <much more time passes, punctuated by intense pain and misery> OK
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I too enjoyed this piece and could relate to, well, all of it apart from the hair straighteners. I spent a year on an exchange programme at a university in Italy, and found that 1) the Brits were by far the worst drinkers (followed by the A
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Thanks for this response too! I don't have much to add other than to say that you sound like you would be a pleasure to work with.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this longer response to my relatively flippant one. It's also pleasant to see some positivity here about CSS, which in these halls is often decried as being complete junk (rather unfairly - not many
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by bshimmin 11y ago
People said the same thing - that the author had not worked on a large-scale project - when he wrote this utterly insane piece about eschewing classes: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/classes-where-were-g..
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Here's a great piece from Geoffrey Pullum (fairly pre-eminent linguist) on the passive voice: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf I think the discussion on this article has been very good, actual
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Orwell wrote important and influential books but his actual writing was quite pedestrian - much more like a good journalist than a great literary stylist. Thackeray, on the other hand, broke all of those rules (except perhaps the last) in a
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by bshimmin 11y ago
For anyone struggling with the `shuf` bit, it's part of GNU Coreutils. `brew install coreutils` would be a good start on a Mac (if you're lost at `brew`, this is probably not for you!).
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Depressingly, common usage now seems to be that # is pronounced "hashtag"; even Wikipedia says this: Number sign - also known as Gate, Hashtag, Hash (Key) or Octothorpe, amoungst others Note the order... I can only think that m
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"Surprise & delight your new readers with a funny cat picture. Seriously, never underestimate the effectiveness of a well-timed cat picture." This might work for some types of businesses, I suppose. For others it would be a h
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Do you really think she's taking it personally, or is that "tweet storm" actually something of a PR exercise? Those tweets don't read as someone who is upset to me - they read as someone who is carefully cultivating a t
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Stunningly beautiful. Sure, the UI is quite complicated and arguably not all that intuitive, but it's so fun to play with it hardly matters (though "related events" disappearing once you move your mouse is a bit annoying). C
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Well, except that the NetSurf project was started in 2002. Other than that, you were spot on!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
There are hiring managers out there who won't hire a female developer because they're just outright sexist. Do these people actually really exist in 2015, and are there organisations that would allow them to behave like that? I
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The conversation between Kara Swisher and Parker Harris, quoted, is rather amazing in terms of the verbal gymnastics they resort to: "I have employees, that are, you know, other types of diversity coming to me..."
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'm actually a little shocked that they don't at all mention Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in this, which surely must have been at least in part the inspiration for it. (The Oracle of Bacon - http://oracleofbacon.org&#x2F
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Man, that's such a humbling stat. Many of us here don't even earn that in a year !
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The intensely overwrought style of Pitchfork is really one of the things I love most about it - that you sometimes have to fight even to figure out what genre an album is. For the types of music I care about, I find their reviews are really
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This is like corporate email golfing, I love it. I propose "Hey" instead of "Team".
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I've used an Apple Wireless keyboard (I believe the previous generation of the new "Magic" one) for a few years as my primary keyboard, usually at a MBP connected to one or more monitors, sat on a big glass desk. It's s
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This cheerfully reminded me of the thing in MRI Ruby of (relatively recent) yesteryear where strings longer than 23 characters were twice as slow, qv. http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strin

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