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by bshimmin 11y ago
The advertising on this was so obnoxious (a 5 second video popup that I couldn't dismiss) that I was just left with Betteridge's law of headlines here.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
He's also famous enough that whenever I see ntlworld.com [1] I immediately think, "Ah, must be JdBP - that'll be worth reading." [1] It's actually slightly astonishing his hosting still works at that URL given that
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Let me get this straight - the "Stanford chick" you know is the tallest woman in history? (qv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_people#Women )
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Really interested by the pricing on your signup page ( https://openexchangerates.org/signup ), where you have the prices from most expensive on the left to cheapest on the right. I have mostly seen (and always built) these t
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by bshimmin 11y ago
"Freelance taxi's? There must be taxi laws that requires special transportation permits to allow such activity. Taxi companies will not like this and will try to stop drop dime drivers from popping up everywhere." That commen
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by bshimmin 11y ago
You say that, and yet this didn't really seem to matter for Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Violence_against_women
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The consensus seems to be that Atom is still much slower than ST3; I'm still on ST2, and I find it terrible for opening large files and mostly resort to Emacs for that sort of task (and anything involving search and replace with regula
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If you're going to the trouble of setting up and deploying a Rails app, which you will then inevitably need to customise and style to match your content, how much more effort is it really just to start from scratch..? (Personally I&#x
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I don't wish to be argumentative, but I googled the term before I posted, too, and I don't see many references to it that predate Fowler's first article on the subject, or, indeed, many articles that don't actually credi
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Did Martin really need to invent the important-sounding term "collection pipeline" for this?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I think "massively" is relative here. If you compare Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 2.2, they are very clearly the same language, but the latter with many pleasant and useful additions - the sort of iterative improvements, in fact, that Apple
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This is probably quite an informative and interesting article (though I found some of the examples troublesome to understand and I doubt they'd make it into any codebase I had anything to do with)... but the twee tone made it agonising
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'd be seriously impressed if someone could do this just using CSS. (I was pretty impressed already, to be fair.)
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by bshimmin 11y ago
My first thought too! The fact that it happened not once but twice really is inexcusable. Does this sort of nagging really work on anyone?!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
It seems to me like this is the realisation of the personalised advertising billboards they had in "Minority Report", except instead of billboards it's your phone (for now...).
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If you liked the general theme of this, you might also enjoy: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2010/05/01/credit-card-concierge...
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This is super easy if you use Digital Color Meter on the Mac!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I'm sure it is on HN. There are probably places where they talk about ninjas and rockstars where it might not (yet) be, I'm not sure.
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by bshimmin 11y ago
In my mind, strangely, it came out as "woeful programmers" - "women" didn't even occur to me. Obviously this name is every bit as bad as the execrable "brogrammers".
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by bshimmin 11y ago
You can't live in a McDonald's franchise. You can obviously sell it and buy, er, a house though!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Exactly this - if banks didn't think people could pay off mortgages, at least some chunk of the people, they wouldn't be offering them. I agree that buying a house in central London (for example) is probably outside the reach of m
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by bshimmin 11y ago
If you buy a house and pay off the mortgage, once you're older and don't want (or aren't able) to work any longer, you can live in your house for the cost of your utility bills. If you don't own a house, you still have
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Here's a nice one-page cheat sheet, of which about 75% you will probably never need to use: http://www.postgresonline.com/downloads/special_feature/post...
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by bshimmin 11y ago
The "On registering Correspondence" section is rather fascinating - neurotic, but probably extremely helpful for someone who received a large number of letters. I wonder what he would've made of "Inbox Zero"!
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I get documents from designers with names like "FINAL homepage v23 latest updated FINAL_2 (3).psd" all the time...
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Is the name a play on "La vache qui rit"?
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by bshimmin 11y ago
Sure, those examples are quite contrived. Here's one that's not: console.log("woof") (function() { console.log("foo") })() Without semi-colons, that blows up (with a super unhelpful error message, to b
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by bshimmin 11y ago
This looks fun, and it's nice to see third-party software starting to appear for Crystal. While parts of it do indeed appear to be inspired by Rails (the routing and the controllers in particular), it feels like it's much more at
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I did some work for a company whose build system involved uploading Java files via a web interface and waiting patiently whilst it compiled them and then refreshed the page with either "Success!" or "Error!" - nothing el
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by bshimmin 11y ago
I don't know how to phrase this in a constructive way, but... there are only two links on the landing page, and the first of them leads to a 404. That strikes me as a bit of a QA disaster! The URL is also quite hard to type / rem

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