bshimmin

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901.
by bshimmin 11y ago
If you're developing anything for the web that might involve advertising, and even certain things that don't, it makes it hard to test, especially if you continually forget to disable your ad blocker. (I'm only being margina
902.
by bshimmin 11y ago
You beat me to it, so I'll just add that figlet in combination with the inestimable cowsay ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay ) produces excellent results.
903.
by bshimmin 11y ago
Is there anything that can be done to make LWN.net look a bit nicer? There's often very good and interesting content on there - for which I'm grateful! - but the presentation really is rather a throwback to the pre-CSS days.
904.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I love David Simon's writing (and "The Wire" is the best thing ever to be on TV, in my opinion), but I was unable to read this article because the secondary navigation ("Popular on Facebook" ... "Q&A",
905.
by bshimmin 12y ago
It's possible just to enjoy the beauty of words, you know.
906.
by bshimmin 12y ago
It's an incredible feeling to read an article where all you can think the whole way through is how little you'd like to go for a pint with the author. (Yes, I like Ruby, I like to poke Haskell occasionally, and I've only play
907.
by bshimmin 12y ago
It does a terrific job of explaining what the product is and who would use it (and this does, I think, seem like a useful service). Aesthetically, it's not that great. The big checklist is generally a bit ugly (especially the roll-ove
908.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I wonder what proportion of Zappos' 1500+ employees actually spent 30 minutes reading that email.
909.
by bshimmin 12y ago
Wow, that was quick!
910.
by bshimmin 12y ago
You probably need to expand "ETL" on the homepage. It may well be a standard abbreviation in this particular problem domain, but I for one had no idea.
911.
by bshimmin 12y ago
From there I stumbled upon what I think must be the most amazing `border-radius` polyfill of all time: https://github.com/evanmiller/nginx_circle_gif
912.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I swear I've built a couple of these for clients...
913.
by bshimmin 12y ago
Great dayrates as a contractor doing CQ5 in London. I'm almost certain it's not worth it, but hey, you never know.
914.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I've been using Faye quite happily for the last month or so and have been very pleased with it.
915.
by bshimmin 12y ago
So much truth in this. We've been doing some work with Elastic Beanstalk lately, and - while it certainly does one or two things that are extremely clever and useful - in the end it just feels like this bizarre mix of complete magic an
916.
by bshimmin 12y ago
This comment has been up and down like a yo-yo! For anyone confused, I was referring to TempleOS, which is periodically mentioned in these very halls. Long-form article here http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonel
917.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I'm always disappointed when I see a new operating system on here if being able to talk directly to God isn't one of its core features. (But seriously, purely from the feature list, this looks like an incredible achievement.)
918.
by bshimmin 12y ago
Argumentum ad absurdum. It's hard to persuade actual paying clients about the benefits of playing the long game, usually because it's not relevant to them. If you can afford to have an R&D department, I'm sure this mani
919.
by bshimmin 12y ago
You are very intuitive. My comment initially read "I don't think they'll really agree...", and then I changed the last word to "see" when I realised I wasn't sure whether I even agreed with it myself. My
920.
by bshimmin 12y ago
"Simply schedule it in like you would any other work." When I schedule in work, usually it involves a client paying me for that work. One of my clients for one of my larger ongoing projects expects my team to produce 20 days of d
921.
by bshimmin 12y ago
There's an extra ">" in the "Wagtail in action" section.
922.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I get the impression he wouldn't bother with LinkedIn.
923.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I don't really understand how the example could be considered to have a "cleaner, more readable syntax" than the equivalent CoffeeScript. It's perhaps fair to say that it presents a syntax that is more familiar to Pytho
924.
by bshimmin 12y ago
I think someone really needs to give PPK a hug. He's done a great job over the years with his work on QuirksMode, but reading his blog these days I mostly just feel sorry for the poor guy!
925.
by bshimmin 12y ago
Yes! Lots of interesting ideas - and some thinly veiled and extremely acerbic criticism of Google et al. - in that book. It's a quick read, and certainly not Eggers' best or most important work, but I think it'd definitely
926.
by bshimmin 12y ago
"I cried when I wrote it." A glowing endorsement indeed from the author - I heartily approve!
927.
by bshimmin 12y ago
From a quick glance over Crockford's other repositories on GitHub, it doesn't seem like any of them have unit tests. Is this something he's known for not believing in?
928.
by bshimmin 12y ago
It's somehow quite reassuring that you can just type complete gibberish in JavaScript and it usually does something; for example: !~!~1234.5678["constructor"]["constructor"](console.log("foo")) Of
929.
by bshimmin 12y ago
Perhaps because, beyond a Twitter hashtag and a fairly inexplicable emoticon, it doesn't add anything new or interesting to (what usually amounts to) a rather prickly debate.
930.
by bshimmin 12y ago
"While we’ve made decent progress on understanding the workings of the system of Holacracy and capturing work/accountabilities in Glass Frog..." Sometimes I like to imagine how my grandparents would react to phrases like this

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