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by err4nt 11y ago
This is really great advice and I meant to hit tbe up arrow friend, but I'm not sure which arrow I tapped and now I can't see or correct it :/ I really like the idea of the BFF heuristic, but I also think people should try to
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by err4nt 11y ago
I grew up in Canada and went to school with rural kids, military kids, and french kids. My family wasnt in poverty but we didnt have many of the nice things others had. Around grade 5 I began to notice how we never had money for a TV, but a
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by err4nt 11y ago
I have one, during setup it asks you to log into your account to 'complete the setup. i couldnt at the time, and some apps worked, and others absolutely required the login, but it was half-usable without it. When you log in it 'fe
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by err4nt 11y ago
I find searching, and search and replace the most useful IDE feature, you can reformat entire documents with a series of well thought out search and replaces:)
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by err4nt 11y ago
There's a difference between what an ideology is at its core, and how it is practiced by humans. In theory, christianity is a simple religion that strongly values charity, sacrifice for others, and selflessness. Yet when you look at pe
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by err4nt 11y ago
Whenever I meet people hiring for tech in Toronto They say things like: 'We practice XP, We apply agile to agile!", I hear "We have no idea what we're doing, and no idea how we're going about it but we will change i
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Show HN: Deck of Cards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript(staticresource.com)
1 points by err4nt 11y ago|0 comments
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by err4nt 11y ago
Looking at a real horse's teeth shows how worn down they are over age. Looking at a horses teeth is to check its age. The idiom could be modernized to: 'dont check the odometer of a gift car'
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by err4nt 11y ago
I think he was referring to where the article said that one of the advantages of breaking a monolith into any amount of services is that they can store the data in the location and format that suits their task best, and also be written in d
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by err4nt 11y ago
I use MIT because I want the license never to be an issue to somebody taking it an using it for their own needs. Do you know of any reason why people would object to MIT, or is that the best one for a plugin/library?
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by err4nt 11y ago
Snall screens dont always have small resolutions. There are more pixels on an iphone than my laptop!
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by err4nt 11y ago
Wow thanks for the link, I didn't know about ShortCat until right now. Sometimes the smallest little utilities can totally change the way you use a machine, like Quicksilver the application launcher. Can't imagine life without Qui
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by err4nt 11y ago
The keyboard has 3 backlight options: unlit, blue, and red. I have several 'shift' keys which toggle the action (and backlight) of other keys, but having one keyboard two-layers deep isn't as powerful as the combinations you
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by err4nt 11y ago
I test in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, so I'm constantly doing this set of actions: - Focus address bar - Copy URL - Launch Firefox - Focus address bar - Paste URL - Press Enter - Launch Safari - Focus address bar - Paste URL - Press E
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Using a Custom Keyboard for CSS(codepen.io)
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by err4nt 11y ago
It's not just about CDN-hosted files, it's also a way to not execute untrusted JS. Let's say you have a high-traffic WordPress site with a dev environment. You might have a clean theme and know all your JS, but be using plugi
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by err4nt 11y ago
I find I work best in two sprints less than 6 hours, I totally get that long sprints reach a point of diminishing returns. My question is Why is six hours so much better than abandoning shift-based timing for something like task-based timin
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by err4nt 11y ago
While I agree that an arbitrary eight-hour work day may not suit every task the best, I don't see why switching it to six hours is any less arbitrary. As a self-employed person my pay _directly_ correlates to the amount of hours I grin
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by err4nt 11y ago
You wouldn't want to use this as a primary desktop, it would be like watching a YouTube video of your computer screen. Linux runs on very modest hardware, you shouldn't have any issue running it on a powerhouse like a 2015 Macbook
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by err4nt 11y ago
Anecdotally, my girlfriend just realized with iOS9 which apps had been draining her battery. Now it gives you a breakdown of battery usage per app, snd she uninstalled Facebook because it was draining battery alllll the time.
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by err4nt 11y ago
You can create VERY lightweight offline-cacheable offline apps, try adding this to your home screen: App: http://staticresource.com/quotes.html
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by err4nt 11y ago
I have written two ways of exporting SVG that you can inspect here: http://staticresource.com/sketch.html One takes the SVG from the browser, encodes it and sends the <svg> as the body of an email (inlined, not as an
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by err4nt 11y ago
How often? Daily! I do a lot of HTML/CSS specialist stuff, writing a lot of front-end interactivity from scratch. I maintain a list of snippets that have helped me and others. https://gist.github.com/tomhodgins/27c
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by err4nt 11y ago
The Code of Conduct says: > "OS4W.org is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression..." — https://www.os4w.org/code-of-conduct But the
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by err4nt 11y ago
Oh man, my heart goes out to you! 90% of the time you wont recover the money, be cautious of the fallacy of sunk costs and its wiser to move on to paying clients.
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by err4nt 11y ago
I live in Toronto and work independently. Productivity = prosperity, and so I live a life of work punctuated by relaxation an rest. Of the tech companies that have tried to woo me, most fall into this infantilization trap and its such a big
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by err4nt 11y ago
How is it irrelevant? FTP is a protocol, but people use FTP in a variety of wrong but commonly understood meanings: FTP Server = Hard drive accessible via FTP, not the server on that machine running the protocol FTP Program = a file-managem
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by err4nt 11y ago
I have been stiffed by a number of clients and theres already some great advice in here. Here are some things to keep in mind: - as unthinkable as it is, some indididuals will contract you for work they never intended to oay for from the st
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by err4nt 11y ago
Both of the most popular FTP clients for Mac and Windows that Ive seen developers using have fantastic support for S3! http://cyberduck.io https://panic.com/transmit/
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by err4nt 11y ago
I picked up a Windows8 touchscreen laptop for web testing and it cost me the same as an old android phone: $230 That means a machine like my primary work computer is like 8 low-end laptops. This new iPad is the cost of 2–3 low-end laptops.

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