bshimmin

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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   The landing page really needs to do a much better job of explaining what this does and who it's for, preferably with some visual examples of whatever it is that it does viewable without a requirement for signing up. Right now, I basica
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   There should be a button you can press to make a librarian (or a recording of a librarian) say, "Shhhh!", and/or tut disapprovingly.
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   Well, obviously it's very prescriptive. In theory that should mean it requires less mental effort because it tells you what you should be doing - in practice, I found it required more effort to do things the precise way it wanted. I
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   In case you're thinking, "Wow, I bet in the real world this would be a misery to impose on a team - I'm sure no one would really want to do this!", well, I worked briefly with a team where they imposed this. It was part
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   I love the random quote from "Withnail & I" in this - "A certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh so very special", spoken by the late, great Richard Griffiths.
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   I love how insane Page and Brin look in the photographs they chose. (I'm pretty sure BI does this deliberately.)
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   The headline here has "entire" in it - on CNN it does not. Makes quite a difference!
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   Honestly, this headline would be perfect for False Medium: https://twitter.com/falsemedium
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   by bshimmin 12y ago

   Do you quite honestly believe that because we have microwaves and Reddit that there's nothing we, or a 14 year old, could learn from ancient philosophy?
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Everybody else was posting maths, science, or science fiction, so I wanted to balance it out a little!
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Virgil, Plato, Dante... I could carry on for a very long time.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Am I alone in thinking this is utterly infantile behaviour? It makes me rather sad that the art of correspondence (the beautiful letters of bygone times) is now gradually being replaced with Facebook Messenger and animated GIFs.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I had no idea what this was, but found the main web site here: http://www.seldon.io/ (It features a carousel which updates faster than you can casually read the text, which I did not find encouraging.)
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I have one pair of clients who send me wireframes produced in Excel, sometimes with screenshots of LinkedIn (which serves as the inspiration for most of their ideas) pasted in. I find it quite amusing and genuinely like the clients as peop
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    How do we feel about USA Today ( http://www.usatoday.com/ )? That's a Backbone SPA and it seems to work quite well (though the adverts cause some loading unpleasantness from time to time). It's certainly highly deb
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Is "brewery" the new "factory"? https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket/blob/master/docs/briske...
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    This is great to know - thank you! And keep up the good work.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Sometimes I hate web development. Comparing the buttons ( http://primercss.io/buttons/ ) between Chrome and Safari on my Mac, the text is a pixel further up in Chrome and thus looks slightly wonky to me. Here's a s
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Just great. This is basically more valuable to me than all of the updates, combined, in Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I'm certain the vast majority of interviewers wouldn't care in the slightest if you demonstrated that knowledge; I just happen to have a degree in classics and thus a bias towards such things! (Not that knowing the meaning of two
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I'm surprised you would say that there "hundreds of different definitions" of polymorphism. Here's one of the top-ranked results for the term: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1031273/what-is
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I share your frustration. Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, "on the spectrum" - these words and phrases all seem to mean precisely whatever the person saying them wishes them to mean, from a pseudo-sympathetic acknowledgement of
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    I guess you find out pretty quickly whether someone's a competent heart surgeon.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Let me get this right. You pop this pill and then work for 24 hours straight? How do you feel the following day?
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    How interesting! I'm based in the UK and have never even been to New York, but I rather assumed that the outline of Manhattan was one of those more-or-less instantly recognisable things.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    How is Nvidia a startup? They were founded in 1993 and have 8,800 employees and revenue over $4B.
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Thanks (both) - status.rackspace.com is where I was hoping/expecting an update to be. Looks like I don't need to start calling my clients just yet!
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    Anyone able to find an announcement from Rackspace? (I'm also an AWS customer so thank you for posting the above, which I'm certain would've been a considerable challenge for me to find!)
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    This is one of those ones that everyone seems to get wrong - even otherwise very grammatical people. Even Hollywood gets it wrong: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313737/ (You'd think Hugh Grant, with an Engli
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    by bshimmin 12y ago

    There's a 1 second delay when it starts... function start() { if (modus=="running") return; interval=setInterval(step,1000); ... I feel like I'm missing something here.