glenjamin

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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   How often do you expect to replace an item like an iPad? I'd expect one to last at least 2 years.
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   I believe that was the OP's point.
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   One meta-analysis of studies, for example, found that "discrimination against blacks was more likely to occur when potential helpers had more opportunities to rationalize decisions not to help" by invoking "justifiable explanations having
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   It seems to me that this argument boils down to whether a comment on HN is more akin to conversation (ie. somewhat less formal), or information. My personal opinion is that with the rise of globalisation and non-native English's prevalence
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   I tend to rely on http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html when coming to validate an email address. I do often fall into the trap of trusting the framework's built-in email validation to be correct. Apparently, this is the regex to
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   Is it? I was under the impression that there's very few hosts/libraries that don't have PHP5 support now.
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   I would expect NLTK to have a fairly broad user base too, although possibly the community is less likely to be involved in the broader python landscape.
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   "Worse" in this case is subjective. Perhaps firefox today is objectively not as good for me (as a developer) as it was at 1.0. My argument is that I'm not necessarily the main target demographic any more, Firefox 3.6 is fast enough and has
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   by glenjamin 16y ago

   I've never heard of it, or seen it referenced on any design blog, or seen any marketing of it whatsoever. I'm not necessarily claiming that I'm an accurate sample of the web development/design community, but it certainly seems to be pretty
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    My university offers degrees in both Comp Sci and Software Eng. Over the course of a 4 year undergraduate masters programme I think we took maybe 3 different modules (where a module is 1/12th of a year).
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    I'm, in the UK. My employment contract is quite specific on these things. The company owns any IP I produce, and I'm forbidden from working on side projects... without permission from my manager. So given permission (in writing) to start a
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    The idea of restricting your width to [a number] makes sense for the tiling reasons mentioned by the other commenters. However, since everyone is shipping widescreen monitors (which I think means UI design should stop making tall toolbars,
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    Are there any greasemonkey gurus out there who could write a script which adds a box for this onto public pages?
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    I'd say that in the 10 or so years since firefox 1.0, the average computing power and requirements of the firefox user have shifted enough that the goalposts have moved. Firefox 1.0's USP at a time when browsers were bloated was its lack of
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    If you recall a while back, a blog post became the top result for typing "facebook" into the firefox address bar (or something along those lines - see http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/some-people-cant-... ). If the conclusions of
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    Hoptoad: http://hoptoadapp.com Exception notification, mainly ruby but has an easy to implement API. Plugins available for many other frameworks afaik.
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    508 Compliance might be a luxury in the US, but not making a website accessible would be a breach of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in the UK. I'm not aware of anyone attempting to enforce this however.
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    At the risk of sounding foolish, what exactly is a Wordpress network, and what is it for? (not a troll, genuinely interested)
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    Please correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this pretty much the same as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2196160 There's no graceful degradation at all, and in order to provide graceful degradation you'd have to duplicate the view templ
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    I cannot agree with this more! I'm constantly suprised by the amount of Ruby vs Python arguments I see. There's only about 3 or 4 actual differences between the two. (I started to list them, then realised I'd have to do more research to exp
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    With the amount of comments on this page it's unlikely anyone will even see this, but am I the only one surprised at how many people still use the term "Indian" to refer to natives populations who look a bit like Indians? As far as I'm awar
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    As I see it, either his report is solid and contains no factual errors or incorrect assumptions (and thus is "engineering quality work") - in which case since it's correct then there should not be any issues in following its conclusion. Or
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    by glenjamin 16y ago

    I don't agree with your assessment of python closures. Just because you have to name all inner functions doesn't mean they're not proper closures.