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by bshimmin 9y ago
I worked in a place once that had both a whiteboard with Post-Its and JIRA. The two weren't especially well-integrated. (The same place also had a 45 minute standup - often featuring Post-It note rearrangement and concomitant stick
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I actually find that the ease with which non-technical and - let's phrase this delicately - busy people can add new cards and even new lists (columns) to Trello is a significant detractor from its successful use in software project m
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by bshimmin 9y ago
As someone who has never used GitLab, it is perhaps interesting to note that I would have literally no idea of the chronology of those images you've linked; if I had to guess, I would say the grey one (1) looks older than the purple on
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Just to add a moment of levity, I'm reminded of a great quote from Alan Sokal: Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Quite. Though, if by any chance you have reached a sufficient mastery of English prosody to understand the iambic pentameter, the dactylic hexameter really isn't such a stretch, notwithstanding one being based on stress and the other
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by bshimmin 9y ago
My advice would be to have reasonable expectations. Latin isn't easy to learn - you can't practise talking to real people, it has plentiful grammar, there isn't so much vocabulary (relatively) but many words have a vast vari
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Absolutely. A decent client who sees you as a key partner in the success of whatever they want doing is absolutely worth apologising to - and they will apologise to you too if they get things wrong. A monster of a client will never apolog
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Saying sorry is: always the right thing to do not an admission of liability acknowledges that something could have gone better the first step to learning from what happened and preventing it recurring This is very, v
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I was somewhere between baffled and delighted when I discovered that Bicester is pronounced "Bister".
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I studied Latin in Newcastle and definitely heard "Novocastrian", but I'm certainly an outlier. I can't imagine any Geordie you're going to meet in St James' Park is likely to use the term. Mancunian, Glaswegi
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Already taken, of course: https://baconjs.github.io/ (and they have a picture of Francis Bacon, just to be contrary!)
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think we probably win the award for the most worthless exchange on HackerNews today. Well done us!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Your sentence was unidiomatic to this native English speaker - "point" and "out" always belong together in a construct like that. My offer was a joke, but never mind.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
It should be "I can't even point out their bad spelling or writing style". When the preposition gets separated from its object, it's referred to as "dangling". There's a famous (probably apocryphal) examp
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by bshimmin 9y ago
and I can't even point their bad spelling or writing style out There is a certain delicious irony that you managed to contrive such a perfect example of a dangling preposition in the very next sentence after your complaint about a da
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I can't even begin to imagine putting in this amount of work and effort - while he may "only" spend 5-10 hours a week currently, apparently there was a lot of upfront effort - on something that is fundamentally of no interest
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Technophobe. Just acquiring the necessary Google skills to find out what the proper regex rules are will probably take him till Christmas. But hey, the man loves a challenge.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Brilliant. My dad is 71, loves puzzles (like cryptic crosswords and Sudoku), is a huge technophobe, and has just retired. This should keep him busy until about 2022.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I presume this is the Solidity they're talking about, for anyone baffled by this: https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I'm slightly terrified that this update is going to confuse the hell out of my ageing parents, who find the simplicity, lack of meaningful support for multitasking, and absence of the Dock, to be key selling points of their iPad.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think a large part of the problem comes down to two somewhat related things: people only understand things based on their own experience, and people have very little imagination. As developers, we spend all day building things that don&#x
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by bshimmin 9y ago
...and when running from localhost, watch out for any resources loading from a CDN, and, of course, for your local dummy data being total crap and/or accidentally offensive (and get ready for "Why is all this text in [Latin/F
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Why would the combination of two very recent and quite esoteric things make you worry that you've been an impostor for the last ten years?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Theranos had a similar treatment a month or two back. News and sordid sagas (and many things in life!) are all rather cyclical.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I watched the video - which is quite rare for me, it must be said - in which it started out by telling me how broken email and Slack were, and then proceeded to explain how Twist was much better, by apparently letting me do things in my own
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by bshimmin 9y ago
This doesn't seem like such an egregious example to me - I tried it in a colour contrast checker and it passes WCAG AA but fails WCAG AAA for normal size text (but passes for larger text): https://snook.ca/technical&#x2
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Their work is really about as good as it gets, so I don't really see how you could conclude they are "avoiding the difficult stuff" - though quite possibly they don't care very much how their pages render in IE 11 (I don
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I love the idea of Smart Summon - it reminds me of one of the Assassin's Creed games where you would whistle and your horse would magically appear a moment or two later!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Can anyone tell if there's a good article buried in here amongst the GIFs and really, really questionable phrases like "I am not an albino living in a cave (so, not a developer)"?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Unfortunately that seems to be missing the main bit one would care about, the actual map!

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