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by georgestephanis 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLJ5NHARMk
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Why not just use the PBS Kids app? My daughter adores it.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Of websites using a discernable server-side programming language, over 80% of them use PHP -- https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua... -- The four biggest content-management systems on the
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Or VV https://github.com/bradp/vv
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Yup, encrypt every time. Otherwise, they may be able to snag your SSH RSA keys off of the hard drive, and if you've password protected it, they can try to brute force it. Also, it helps safeguard against border patrol wanting to access
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
jQuery also tends to handle a lot of assorted browser quirks, giving you a consistent api to call.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
There's a reason the first thing I do with a new laptop is add about fifteen assorted stickers to it. Very helpful at conferences and such when it comes to keeping laptops distinct.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Not really. The citation you mentioned above itself says, under "Private Auctions" -- > The winner will pay the amount of the second-highest bid, split either equally or proportionally between the losing applicants And if you
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
You're differentiating procedural versus descriptive code.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
> This is implied in the previous recommendations, but since it’s crucial I want to stress it: Don’t use !important in your code. Ehhhh, sometimes `!important` is a good option. I agree that just for the 'quick fix' it's
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Someone register law.blog as Bob Loblaw
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
Not a money grab. All $$ paid by the winner of the gTLD are divvied up to the losers of the auction. ICANN isn't just printing money here or pocketing the price.
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
It means that Automattic gets a share of every .blog domain sold or renewed, and gets to enact policies around what .blog domains are available (like, can you register emoji in domain names) and other arbitrary restrictions about what can b
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by georgestephanis 10y ago
No, actually. The sum for the TLD. is actually split between the other bidders for that gTLD. So if you had applied to bid, and lost out on .blog, you would have gotten an equal share of the money that Automattic paid to be the owner of the
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Yup. Wysiwygs are hard. But just saying "You can edit paragraphs, that's all you get" is worse. Clients need to be able to do more advanced things in an editor, and coding a hard limit on never being able to do them feels
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
My favorite commit message of all time: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/26851 --- The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem, to those innocent in the ways of The Shears, a triviali
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
At the point when I applied to Automattic, I was working for Speck (phone and laptop case manufacturer) as a Senior eCommerce Developer specializing in Magento, and had been an active contributor to the WordPress open source project for pro
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Right, when you add functionality, speed may go down. Okay. It's a worthwhile tradeoff, largely because very few websites are 'just a forum' anymore, and forums aren't distinct parts of a website, they're fully in
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
> I'm skeptical of this statement. It seems to rest on many unreliable assumptions (e.g. at a busy company, it seems that a team lead may know better than the CEO when his team needs additional resources to deliver). As a team lead
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
To the best of my knowledge, everyone at Automattic goes through a trial process, even up to Director type positions -- https://automattic.com/work-with-us/director-of-business-wra...
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Any company that claims it can't find talent is artificially limiting their hiring pool, perhaps based on geographic constraints or the like. We're up to 422 Automatticians at the moment, and that's not really slowing down.
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Yup, my trial took a grand total of about 20h to complete, spread over three weeks. Mostly weekends. (just as an example)
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Would that even prohibit the employee from contributing code to open source projects? :\
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Eh, bbPress used to be on BackPress, which was a relatively unmaintained fork of the functional core of WordPress -- rather than having it run on unmaintained software or duplicating effort by pulling code across, it was changed to a plugin
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
We also use Slack extensively, but P2s are a pretty solid choice for us (we used to have the unofficial slogan "more p2s than people!") -- it makes onboarding really easy, as the full history is easily searchable and you don'
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
If you do have a conflict, they're normally willing to work with you on how the trial is structured. If I had been under such a non-compete, personally, I'd probably have just done the trial unpaid as a targeted contribution to a
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
While trial projects are actually useful things that need doing, I'd hazard a guess based on my experience that the majority of trial projects never actually launch. Some do. Some get passed off to the person after hire to further po
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
Bruce Schneier has one of the best posts I've ever read on why Encryption is important here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/why_we_encryp... -- great resource to share to people who
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
If it's the primary email on their account, you already can with Gravatar. https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/profiles/
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by georgestephanis 11y ago
In only 100 lines of PHP! Requires Symfony.

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