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by foz 12y ago
Maybe it was taken down due to negativity. But here's an article about it, with screenshots: http://9to5google.com/2014/11/21/quartz-os-linux-material-de...
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by foz 12y ago
Considering that searching for gems is the primary call to action, adding an autocomplete drop-down would help users a lot.
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by foz 12y ago
I was just at Øredev in Sweden a couple weeks ago. Rob spoke about Angular 2.0, and the disagreements about direction were pretty evident in his talk [1]. The video is online now. [1] http://oredev.org/2014/sessions&#x2
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by foz 12y ago
Perhaps it was an extremely large narco-submarine [1] smuggling drugs into Sweden. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
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by foz 12y ago
For Surface, Microsoft made $908m in sales, but spent $839m to make the devices. Compare that to last year, when they sold $2.13b worth of Surface devices but spent $2.87b to make them.[1] I wouldn't say it's a key profit area for
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by foz 12y ago
In Europe, a similar situation existed with Nespresso. They are absolutely huge on the market here, and the machines are found in nearly every office place (and many homes, where the capsules are different, to avoid people stealing them at
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by foz 12y ago
We can see echoes of this in the current mad dash by the Silicon Valley giants to become conglomerates. Google, Facebook and others also fear that their original mission will become obsolete and so they are buying anything new for billions
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by foz 12y ago
Please remember, that even if you don't do anything at all - ignore it, let it fade, or whatever - you had a great success. Be proud, let yourself feel the satisfaction. Working for years on something and having people connect with it
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by foz 12y ago
There's a great BBC documentary called "Apples: British to the Core" [1] which has a very nice look into the history of apples, how they were cultivated, and how classic varieties are becoming lost. Everything leads back to t
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by foz 12y ago
Assume 8 hours * your hourly rate. You won't be programming productively for all eight hours probably, but that's normal. Be sure to point out that the day rate assures that you commit to focusing on them for the entire day, being
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by foz 12y ago
This is an excellent series. There's an entire episode about the LEM computer which goes into detail about things like the famous alarm codes, hand-wiring core memory, and interviews with the developers.
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by foz 12y ago
This is one of my favorites. Not only is it riveting, but for anyone building software with others it's a great course in leadership, team building, and testing.
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by foz 12y ago
I live in CH now, and I noticed that most buildings have massively thick exterior walls which seem to insulate against the blazing sun during the day, so that at night things are tolerable. In my office in Zurich, we break out the electric
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by foz 12y ago
Yes, but at the same time "If you can't explain yourself in a single email, consider calling, texting or meeting in person instead." - so you do exactly to your co-workers what they do to you - in an effort to make yourself m
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by foz 12y ago
Although underscore.js is more widely-used, I think sugarjs.com is an improvement and makes the syntax much nicer.
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by foz 12y ago
I used Ack a lot when I was coding Perl (it's been a while). After I switched to Ruby, I used rak [1], which seemed easier to use most of the time, and nearly identical. However, when you just want to find stuff fast, it's annoyin
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by foz 13y ago
In my frontend web team, we used Cucumber for over a year. We slowly came to the same conclusion - Cucumber tests are hard to maintain, run more slowly, and overall take more effort to develop. As of today, we're in the process of ripp
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by foz 13y ago
I really love this effect. In use, I would suggest changing the text from "Submit" to "Saving", to better explain what's happening.
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by foz 13y ago
The hula hooping event simply took on a symbolic meaning for her, give what she went through. I don't think the act itself was dangerous or so terrible, but through her eyes, at that moment, it was the last straw.
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by foz 13y ago
I was lucky enough to see Randall Munroe speak at the OreDev conference last year. The video is online, highly recommended for XKCD fans: http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/art-and-code-with-...
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by foz 13y ago
This always bugged me about Spotify. The only reason I still use iTunes for music is because of De La Soul and The Beatles.
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by foz 13y ago
I find that by calling it "legacy code", it helps to feel less ashamed. In general, I would be worried if I did NOT have production code that I felt could be simpler, faster, or more stable. Maybe just a side-effect of becoming a
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by foz 13y ago
As the creator of that old game (which is long gone), I can say there are still people coming back asking for the theme song, which apparently, they can't stop listening to once it's started playing.
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by foz 13y ago
Encountering my first Mac is a memory I will never forget. I also remember being blown away by the crisp screen, the soft feel, and overall polish of the thing. What made the biggest impression on me however, was the interface. I could not
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by foz 13y ago
unfortunately, today, it's all about the clicks.
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by foz 13y ago
This is something Apple Numbers did right. Option-Up or Down makes a new row. Bliss.
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by foz 13y ago
No we normally never need to re-deploy the app for new content or edits. We treat Locomotive like a service: it provides us a customizable content API. So only in the case of breaking schema changes would we need to re-deploy.
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by foz 13y ago
From an architecture point of view, I'm convinced that the CMS is better treated as a service, and not as part of your web application. This is especially true in a larger organization where content needs to be collected and managed in
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by foz 13y ago
Yes, pretty much. Maybe it exists?
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by foz 13y ago
Thank you for your work on Graphite. For all it's UI strangeness and quirks, it is a great solution that a lot of people love (myself included). I'll peek at the pull requests and see if my company might be able to contribute some

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