bshimmin

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by bshimmin 12y ago
Nice!
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by bshimmin 12y ago
Has anyone written a little web app to turn an HN poll into a nice chart, automagically? (Extra hipster points for using D3 and some random and inappropriate visualisation no one has ever heard of.)
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by bshimmin 12y ago
The first half of the sentence definitely feels that way... the second half just feels almost offensively exclusionary. Unless Berlin is a really weird, dysfunctional place, like London's Old Street roundabout on a city-wide scale -
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by bshimmin 12y ago
"The golden soda has become essential nourishment for anyone in Berlin involved in hacktivism, club culture, dance music, tech—just about everyone in the city under the age of 40." What a ridiculous sentence.
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by bshimmin 12y ago
Published by the same people as the Daily Mail, no less.
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by bshimmin 12y ago
I agree with the poster that shelling out $1500 for a 10 minute interview, and then basing a significant investment decision on that interview, does seem curious - but, as the poster said, they see hundreds of teams, and have done for a num
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by bshimmin 13y ago
Horrible, isn't it? Baffling, quasi-random punctuation inserted to prevent random errors caused by poor design choices intended to make programmers' lives easier.
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by bshimmin 13y ago
Skitt's Law strikes again - it's "née" (or "né" in the masculine, though that's uncommon outside of the Francophone world).
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by bshimmin 13y ago
Rather wondrous that the HTML 5 spec itself has grown so gargantuan that it actually provides quite a good stress test for browser rendering.
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by bshimmin 13y ago
In the ECMAScript language spec, at least as far back as 1999, it quite specifically does say "unordered".
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by bshimmin 13y ago
No, that script looks for scripts of type "application/dart" in the page and then tries to find a compiled-to-JavaScript version of any scripts it finds by appending ".js" to them. It looks like the actual Dart file
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by bshimmin 13y ago
I should clarify that I didn't think the article badly written - just not quite in the style I'm used to from a publication like Business Insider. That said, I probably haven't read many other long-form pieces on there. Othe
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by bshimmin 13y ago
There are some truly strange and incongruous turns of phrase in this article - "Google's human resources boss, a serious woman with bangs named Stacey Sullivan", "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak&quo
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by bshimmin 13y ago
Doesn't IronWorker do all of that, and well, already?
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by bshimmin 13y ago
In 48 lines of code, he has 12 lines where he's evaluating JavaScript between backticks (and not all those 48 lines are significant). If you're having to do that much evaluation of raw JavaScript, then what is the point of using a
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by bshimmin 13y ago
Some day I'm going to go into a pub, strike up a conversation with a stranger, and when they inevitably ask me what I do, I'll say, "Why, thank you for asking! I write about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and
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by bshimmin 13y ago
> Is it a rhetorical question were I to ask which of the two versions, Om + Clojurescript vs vanilla JavaScript, looks more pleasant? Well, the JavaScript is harder to read because of the colour choices and the fact that at least in part
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by bshimmin 13y ago
The pardon does not imply the law (the Labouchere Amendment, 1885) was wrong, but the Sexual Offences Act 1967 which repealed it certainly does (or did).
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by bshimmin 13y ago
I had a look at the CoffeeScript source. Is there some reason why you're not using CoffeeScript's `class`? It would save you having to do all the `tyto::foo` and `tyto = this` stuff.