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by bshimmin 9y ago
The ritual isn't really complete until someone has complained about the people complaining about people asking simple questions and someone else has posted the ESR document about how to ask smart questions, a document so astonishingly,
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That's one hell of a "just".
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We had an absolutely ghastly time last year trying to implement wkhtmltopdf in a Rails app - we probably wasted an entire week fighting with both Wicked PDF and PDFKit before we just gave up and wrote something using Prawn instead (which wa
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I take your point in general, but I'm not sure this specific task - converting of SVGs - has ever been one that has easily been solved by some tiny amount of code: probably the way I would have done this in the past (say, ten years ago
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I dimly recall we were pitched something about joining the BCS when I was doing my master's - I'm not sure if it was a full presentation or just some pamphlets that were passed around. I don't think any of us joined because
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I googled some of the hardware mentioned in this guide and it seems like it would cost several thousand dollars, at least, to buy it all (I could be totally wrong, I'm not much of a hardware guy). At the current price of Ethereum, you
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by bshimmin 9y ago
What an absolutely fantastic response from one of the CockroachDB guys to the endlessly tedious naming criticism! (The only open issue on it also made me laugh.)
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Yeah, totally agree. I run a software consultancy too, and it is very, very far from what I would term a "lifestyle business". I work extremely hard - at least in part so the people working for me don't have to work extreme
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The next step after that is telling the various people you work for that, actually, you've got subcontractors doing the work now and your job is to manage them. At that point, boom, you've just built a development agency.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I honestly struggle to understand how a traditional ternary like this isn't obvious. The bit before the question mark is the condition (er, like a question, which ends with a question mark), then the other two bits are for true and fa
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Out of interest, is there anyone for whom these illusions don't work?
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I love that you asked this question! The very reason it doesn't happen often is because of friction inherent to legacy payment systems. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what is meant by "international payment", but surely
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by bshimmin 9y ago
You should do it, even if it's just for your own benefit! (It's unlikely it'll benefit arkadiytehgraet, but he probably finds that with a great many things.)
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It's not simple if you don't know what a "convertible note" and a "cap" are.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I always advise against calling your `this` alias `self`, because of https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Window/self - ie. if you missed out the `let self = this` line, then `self` will st
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think it's for the purposes of rhetoric, with emphasis cast on "the next new thing" by its repetition, and some vague attempt at an ascending tricolon (maybe) with discover/invest/build. It reads quite clunkily b
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Yeah. I have a Fire TV Stick and half the time I'm not even sure what service I'm watching something on - encouraged in part by the search function bringing up all results from different providers at once.
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My apologies. I guess if you don't have any ethical qualms, you have lots of choices!
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I will admit I found it hard not to read this comment and wonder about your sense of entitlement in the face of the vastly privileged situation we live in now in terms of media consumption. You pay $10 per month to watch high quality TV
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Right, so you're using one of your competitors' names quite prominently on your own site? And, er, you think that's ok?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Why does https://www.directlyrics.com have a TITLE of "Azlyrics" and an H1 of "Azlyrics" but http://www.azlyrics.com seems to be an entirely unrelated web site? The latter is typically what I end
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Millions of developers are working with Ethereum?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Well, Ruby and Java were both first released in 1995. C# is a bit newer, having been released in 2000. I'm not sure that's at all what he was saying, though.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"There’s plenty of really great web development alternatives," Shaw said, mentioning React, Vue.js How on earth are those alternatives for Rails?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
It's funny, we were early (?) adopters of Flowdock, back in about 2012, on one particular project. We used it fairly happily for a year or so, and then just sort of forgot all about it and drifted back to Skype (I think with a brief f
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I can understand the above paragraph too (from a background in English/Italian/Latin/school-level French), but I can't say there's anything beautiful about it!
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I think a Trello board for non-technical stakeholders to raise a load of stuff is probably a fine idea, and almost certainly better than hastily firing off emails that will disappear into a blackhole, as you mentioned earlier. As long as th
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Ignoring the specifics of my examples, which really aren't important, the problem is the frequency with which these process failures happen. If the board is in a near-constant state of mayhem and flux because the sales director makes
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I mean, for example, a sales director with a stake in the business getting in after a challenging client meeting and creating extremely hyperbolic cards like "Search is incredibly slow!!!" or "Client profile picture is blurry
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Montana yes, biology no.

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