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by bshimmin 6y ago
This is an interesting but problematic idea. Firstly, I'm not certain of how the economics would play out: the "marvel or transformers nonsense" (and boy is it nonsense) tends to cost a lot of money to make, because they feat
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by bshimmin 6y ago
This has bothered me for years! I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who didn't already understand the concept of "free software" for whom this expression was actually helpful. (Maybe RMS lives in a world where there
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I have the DT 770 Pro, which I'm not sure they still make anymore, and it has been a ten year love affair. I am reliably informed that you can, as the grandparent says, replace most parts of them, but I have never needed to - they are
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by bshimmin 6y ago
My brother moved from the UK to New Zealand a few years ago, and I've managed to visit him all of once - it's much more than a day of travel from here, with the added disadvantage that neither he nor I live near any of the conveni
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by bshimmin 6y ago
You could quite easily argue that another vote was conducted in the form of the 2019 General Election, which the Tories - the only party of note who actually were in favour of Brexit - won by a landslide.
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by bshimmin 6y ago
When I used to work in ad agency land, there was typically a role called the "traffic manager", which was sort of like a project manager but for the whole creative department rather than just an individual project or two. They wo
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by bshimmin 6y ago
If you look on YouTube for something like "Flash CS4", you can find numerous videos showing what the Flash authoring tool was like. I never found it all that much of a pleasure to use, but for people who were good at animation, i
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I think it's probably important with Connery just to accept him as the man and actor that he was, rather than worrying about his range - whether he was playing Bond, or King Arthur in the execrable "First Knight", or a Russia
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by bshimmin 6y ago
For anyone who is staggered by the amount of stuff here, it's worth noting that they apparently have 1,276 employees (which is a lot more than I thought they had). I'm not sure that really excuses having "an email signature
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I took this twice, the first time without headphones and panicking slightly at the 1/64ths - I got 27; the second time, I did it with a (decent) pair of headphones and with less panicking, and got a perfect score. The 1/64ths wer
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Yes, precisely. Even my local (definitely not very high-tech) fish-and-chip shop can manage to print a number at the top of the receipt, and then call that number out when your food is ready. Starbucks ask you for a name to make the proces
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I was curious about this “Ursula N. Owen”, thinking perhaps she was an assistant of Knuth’s back in the 90s. It turns out that it’s a pseudonym sometimes used by Knuth himself, and is a reference to “U.N. Owen”, a character from And Then T
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by bshimmin 6y ago
This looks really great and obviously brings back lots of happy memories! One little thing - is the opacity scale the wrong way round? I would expect high opacity to mean it's not very transparent and low opacity to mean it's mos
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by bshimmin 6y ago
In the tutorial it says: "In this tutorial we'll stick with `h` to keep it simple and close to the metal." I'm pretty sure they put that in there just to aggravate the HN crowd.
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I briefly had Figma, Zoom, and Slack (three workspaces) open at once on Friday on my Mac. My computer was more or less unusable and sounded very sorry for itself; it was sort of entertaining, baffling, and sad all at the same time. I ended
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by bshimmin 6y ago
There's also a weird flip side to all these downsides. Once you establish yourself as competent there is this kind of threshold effect where not having a university degree can suddenly start causing people to actually take you more se
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I would so watch this. Perhaps it could involve the infamous baguette [1] mutating into something horrifying. [1] https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-11/bread-loving-...
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by bshimmin 6y ago
You're looking for the wonderful-sounding "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", which is a great thing to trot out at dinner parties (if those ever become a thing again).
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Create React App: https://create-react-app.dev/
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I have to admit, I found the wonky vertical alignment of the text on the buttons really off-putting (caused by Nunito).
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by bshimmin 7y ago
This isn't quite as pretty but is fairly good: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c9...
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by bshimmin 7y ago
I think HN is just "undesigned" to be honest. I mean, look at the stylesheet - aside from some declarations to use Verdana, a few minimal concessions towards a mobile layout, and a bit of fiddling about with the voting arrows, th
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Many languages have a similar word that gives you a clue about its meaning: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fenestra#Descendants English is something of an exception, really!
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by bshimmin 7y ago
This is an incredibly glamorised version of what a lawyer's life looks like (I say this as someone whose father was a lawyer for 49 years). You're describing, by the sounds of it, a partner at a Magic Circle law firm, and you&#x2
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Pedantic, but I think on the initial screen this should say "Enter your birthdate" (or "date of birth") rather than "birthday" - the former is when you were born, the latter is the thing you celebrate every yea
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by bshimmin 7y ago
For anyone who was suddenly terrified that there's a vast array of very specific and weirdly-named CSS properties on the horizon, fear not - this is something entirely different. This is actually a low-level API for drawing things wit
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Francis Cornford in 1908: "Every public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time."
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by bshimmin 7y ago
A Willingness to Hire Fast and Fire Faster I think you need to be really careful with this. Treating employees like fungible commodities doesn't really foster any particular sense of commitment or a strong team. It's okay, I s
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by bshimmin 7y ago
It's perhaps worth noting that the with the venerable GNU Screen, you can more or less achieve this by enabling multiuser mode and then doing screen -x.
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by bshimmin 7y ago
Because people often book holidays six months or more in advance, and Thomas Cook's financial woes weren't especially big news back then.

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