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by bshimmin 11y ago
My first thought was, "Wouldn't a folded beermat have sufficed?"
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This one from Philip Walton is quite handy too: https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/ (The six examples in the showcase are all very common problems, and well-solved with Flexbox.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Two things: 1) it requires an extra stylesheet (from what I can make out, at least); 2) you can already achieve this with JavaScript, if you really want it (which is, itself, debatable), so why add extra cruft into the browser? Also, from t
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I didn't even realise you were supposed to scroll until I eventually saw the tiny vertically-aligned text saying "Scroll down to see more" - when will they learn?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This was the first I'd heard of "Navigation Transitions" (perhaps I don't read the right mailing lists), and ppk's right - this seems like an absolutely crazy feature to add.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Was that challenging from a technical perspective, or from a "I can't quite believe I'm doing this" perspective?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
There's such a thing as a "high-functioning alcoholic", you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-functioning_alcoholic
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This really was vapid clickbait drivel, though it was almost worth clicking the link just for Eric Elliott's hair (phenomenal!) and this astonishing piece of wisdom from the same hirsute genius: "15. Choose your programming langua
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by bshimmin 11y ago
For maximum impact, you'll need to choose your programming language carefully. I would suggest Elm with a sprinkling of Coq, though I think using either K or MUMPS would earn you a lot of kudos in some quarters.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"It's not giving up, it's disengagement." If you set out to do something and stop doing it before you've succeeded, even though you could carry on with at least some possibility of further and future success, callin
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by bshimmin 11y ago
My father, approaching 70, does Sudoku with his breakfast every morning to keep his mind sharp. I think it would be at least equally beneficial for him to learn Python and write a Sudoku solver in it, and since he knows nothing of programm
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." Wow. I mean... why?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"I’m tech lead in these projects and I coach two of my colleges, rookies, by using peer programming and code reviews and just by straight up lecturing them, sometimes both arrogantly and with a temper, on naming conventions and object
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Thanks for posting that. It led me to the best comment I've ever seen on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Now I feel slightly (only slightly) bad for using the word "imbecile".
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think it's terrific that they post things like that so openly. If I were ever going to apply for a job again (and I hope never to), I would definitely read up about the company and read at least some of their blog posts. And if I f
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Yeah. I loved The Dissolve every time I remembered to visit it. Sadly, that really wasn't very often. Even as a fan of cinema, and of the sort of cinema that The Dissolve often used to write about, there wasn't much to remind
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It sounds to me like becoming a contractor might perhaps suit you better - is that a possibility where you are based? On the other hand, contract roles often involve the kind of problems you wouldn't necessarily find "challenging
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It's good to see concrete examples of Elm and this is definitely an easily digestible (even pre-coffee) article, but I found the first five paragraphs rather hard to swallow. I get that the author has jumped on the bandwagon that Java
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"Searching Twitterdjklquvxyz for a better pangram" works!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I use Alfred too, almost entirely just to do "Sleep" and "Lock", which Spotlight - for no very good reason - doesn't let you do. If Spotlight could do those, I'd uninstall Alfred: even though it does many wond
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This looks really, really nice. But I think a problem for adoption is that on a Mac Spotlight can already do most of the calculations this does that I'd actually want to do on a regular basis (for me, that's currency conversion a
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It's been a good while, perhaps a decade now, since usenet was really a commonplace thing, so it's unlikely that anyone will ever flock there now. Usenet's downfall perhaps in part stems from its legacy as part of the "n
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It's slightly funny to read about a "moderated, distributed, and anonymous" forum system, as if these features were new and exciting, when we've basically had exactly that since about 1980: usenet.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I wasn't complaining that this was particularly onerous (in fact, I am always pleased how easily PostScript files open on Macs)!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
One click to download, two double-clicks (one for the gzip, one for the PS) to open on my Mac.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The Tube is absolutely brutal at this time of year, too. Glad I don't live in London anymore...
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by bshimmin 11y ago
3.3 Use readable synonyms in place of reserved words. // bad const superman = { class: 'alien', }; // bad const superman = { klass: 'alien', }; What is unreadabl
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by bshimmin 11y ago
As a huge tennis fan who grew up loving Pete Sampras (I even copied his serve, as best I could, and utterly failed to imitate his signature "slam-dunk" smash many, many times more than my coach or team mates really thought was acc
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'll be honest - I find the UI impenetrable. It's dark and full of fiddly icons and I'm not sure what I can click, what I can drag, etc. If there's any way you can find someone amenable who has no personal attachment to

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