bshimmin

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721.
by bshimmin 11y ago
An almost comically ridiculous premise. "/partyline create:task Blah" requires a user to remember both the initial slash and then that two words must be joined with a colon, with no spaces. There's a reason why many co
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The fact I completely forgot about it is probably quite telling!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I've been a Twitter user since 2006 and mostly just use it to post sarcastic and pretentious remarks for my own enjoyment; the social aspect of it is almost meaningless to me. Many of my friends in tech do have Twitter accounts, of wh
724.
by bshimmin 11y ago
Lovely word. Thank you very much.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Oh, thank you. I was desperately trying to work out if this was a "A16Z" (Andreessen Horowitz) thing...
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think this is exactly it. I worked at a digital agency in London a few years back who bought a 3D printer (maybe a Makerbot one, I have no idea) because it seemed essential that a company working in that sector should have one - they wer
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"With this in mind we made the tough decision that AMP HTML documents would not include any author-written JavaScript, nor any third-party scripts." Quite a bold decision there! Ultimately this will fail, of course, because the v
728.
by bshimmin 11y ago
"Diverse Device Hands" looks... handy. (Sorry, I'll get my coat.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I wasn't criticising you for sharing that link - just that the content of the link itself was, really, not the best (no doubt written with good intentions, though, I'm sure). I also think snippets of code are somewhat worthless,
730.
by bshimmin 11y ago
Totally irrelevant to the topic at hand, but that first link really is grim reading - a complicated topic treated in a dismissive tone, chock-full of jargon, and probably leaving the average reader feeling slightly abused.
731.
by bshimmin 11y ago
Use CSS to hide the unstyled content, and then JavaScript to remove that styling and display it. This will, of course, invoke the ire of those who browse with JavaScript disabled.
732.
by bshimmin 11y ago
Jason Bourne is quite a big fan of them, as I recall.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I remember spending hours (and hours and hours) downloading the latest Netscape over a 14.4k modem in the mid-nineties, and somehow that awesome icon really did make it all seem worth it. What a time to be alive!
734.
by bshimmin 11y ago
What a strange comment. Isn't Paul allowed to be a guy posting stuff that he cares about on Twitter, just like the rest of us? Does his relative fame (in some circles) have any real bearing on it?
735.
by bshimmin 11y ago
It gives you a button you can click to select a predetermined piece of text and add it to your clipboard. That's it. This is handy from a usability perspective in some circumstances.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Well, in this case it relies on the Selection API which is currently still a Working Draft - that sounds quite "modern" to me. It also eschews an older technology (Flash) in favour of newer ones, so that also seems to be a forgiv
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by bshimmin 11y ago
For the avoidance of confusion, I was just making a (fairly weak) joke in reference to Crockford's famous "JavaScript: The Good Parts" book. The "blah" bits are obviously just placeholders - I'm sure there&#x27
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I guess you could say those entries are the less good parts.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
That chart is amazing (and depressing, as another commenter said). I counted and I've used 18 different ones. I've also used a few others for video and audio conferencing, like WebEx (unless that falls under a particular Cisco o
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Yeah, exactly. I think the very existence of this site also kind of sums up the problem: http://reed.github.io/turbolinks-compatibility/
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This is a great summary, and there look to be some really interesting things coming in Rails 5. Two thoughts: 1) I hope ActionCable is as seamless to integrate and works as well as Rails features ought to; you can, of course, achieve web so
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I have found over the years that the fewer Christmas cards I send (zero for quite some years now), the fewer I tend to receive. I'm quite happy with this situation.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It's interesting you say this. My father-in-law has worked in a number of quite heavily regulated industries (heating and building, for the most part), and often refers to what I do as being "the wild west". I think he most
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by bshimmin 11y ago
In the UK cars are taxed according to their emissions - will VW have to foot the bill for the problems this will cause their customers?
745.
by bshimmin 11y ago
It does indeed appear to be so - and it works great if you disable JavaScript. In fact, if anything, it works better if you disable JavaScript, because it doesn't flicker and jump around as it renders. You might almost be forgiven
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Sample of not very many? I'm based in the UK and I've never heard of it before. Perhaps all my friends are using it and never mentioning it to me, though! (I checked to see if it does operate in the UK, and it seems to.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'd say that in 2008-2009, Flex, for that sort of application, wasn't necessarily a bad bet. Most people date Flash's demise to the start of the mainstream smartphone movement, but the first iPhone was only released in mid-2
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by bshimmin 11y ago
An alternative tldr: spend your precious free time giving away your stuff for limited or (most likely) zero personal gain, and then make sure to spend even more time shepherding it afterwards, also for no gain (but possibly considerable fr
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The passwords it generates (from this page: https://fakena.me/random/ ) are totally unrealistic. Better would be "qwerty12345" and "footba11"!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I fully agree with this and the grandparent. I've written a handful of literate programs, and I found that it worked nicely for a parser, which read from top to bottom in a single file, and it worked quite well for some unit tests, wh

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