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by harryf 11y ago
At one place I worked, in the days when Firebug was still new, we used show a discrete a web developer job ad if we detected window.console.firebug ... didn't actually lead to any hires but it made us feel clever ;)
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by harryf 11y ago
I remember once haranguing a group of Java developers to use the log4j's RollingFileAppender. No matter what arguments I used and despite many nods and promises, on live systems they just kept on using the default FileAppender like the
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by harryf 11y ago
It sounds like you got burnt by being the downsides of being a PM; always having to be somewhat hands-off, too many meetings etc. I would hazard a bet that as lead designer a lot of what you're doing is still PM work; setting the direc
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by harryf 11y ago
Thanks for publishing - great read.
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Less than 30 days to iOS 9: a quick guide to make sure your app is ready(medium.com)
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by harryf 11y ago
You took it upon yourself to interfere with other people's relationships and families. Whatever moral reasons you feel justify your anonymous intervention, when you start fucking with other people's relationships and families you
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by harryf 11y ago
Good thing you did it anonymously. We wouldn't want you to have to face any consequences for your actions. Let's hope you're not responsible for something like this http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa
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by harryf 11y ago
But not for me ;(
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by harryf 11y ago
I have family in Germany who get their internet through Deutsche Telekom. When visiting I've found its faster to watch YouTube via a VPN through Switzerland than directly through Deutsche Telekom. While this doesn't prove anything
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by harryf 11y ago
Traffic is certainly shifting from desktop to mobile e.g. https://twitter.com/lukew/status/626792657684029440 - a mobile only generation is upcoming while millennials find themselves addicted to Facebook. So we ma
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by harryf 11y ago
Pretty nice. Although I have a simpler implementation... #!/bin/sh if grep --quiet '<?php' $1; then echo 'run for your lives!' else echo 'phew. all ok' fi Edit:
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by harryf 11y ago
Exactly. For me the real art of programming lies in the getting stuff done. KISS, YAGNI ... the smartest programmers I've ever worked with - the ones I'd want to work with again - were masters of getting results on-time or even be
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by harryf 11y ago
This is cool - "3D Printed Cable Guide" http://imgur.com/a/kidl0 ... ( via her galleries at http://sexycyborg.imgur.com/ )
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by harryf 11y ago
> After 10 months, you should have been able to work around nearly anything you mention in your article. But that's exactly the point. Ages ago this comment on HN summarized the situation perfectly... https://news.ycombin
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by harryf 11y ago
Nice blog too - lots of useful articles - makes we want to spend the rest of a beautiful Sunday indoors hacking
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by harryf 11y ago
Awesome that all our dick pics are being stored forever. Future generations should not miss out.
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by harryf 11y ago
Bananas or oranges anyone? http://telegram.me/PollBot?startgroup=c4dd5512c96b2952a17396...
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Because their job is not software development, it's reporting the news and earning from advertising. Sure they have developers working _for_ them but that doesn't make them a software development company. When you factor in all th
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by harryf 11y ago
> the right solution is more productive working conditions Absolutely! To me what's most disturbing about "Just use headphones" is it's highly prevalent information-age companies but shows a deep _lack_ of understandi
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To me the most promising approach would be entropy detection. Crawlers have less entropy than humans
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by harryf 11y ago
I believe they Open Sourced a significant part of it here - https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework
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Interesting. How does it differ from https://getstream.io ?
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by harryf 11y ago
> Facebook has been haemorrhaging interest from fresh faced teenagers for a while. In the US, the percentage of teens between 13 to 17 using Facebook fell to 88% in 2014. - See more at: http://www.thepinchandzoom.com/blog
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“So we went with a Hamburger menu…”(medium.com)
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A definitive list of factors influencing app store ranking(medium.com)
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by harryf 12y ago
In my experience people who work long hours are often too tired to be objective about the quality of the work they are delivering or their own efficiency . It's worth watching this talk from the Leading @ Google series - https:/&
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by harryf 12y ago
> I vastly prefer doing almost anything I can think of on a real desktop with big displays and a good keyboard over a mobile app. Am I that out of touch? Yes I'm afraid you are. Worth watching Luke Wroblewski talking about Mobile at
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by harryf 12y ago
Mobile? Strikes me there's been remarkably little innovation around bringing comment and forum-like functionality to mobile. Given that typing hurts on mobile but you have easier access to other types of input (voice, camera, location,
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"Only available in the European Union" ...and GB = Great Britain.
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The implication here could be for Facebook, Twitter and other apps relying on people addicted to their streams. Watches could mean less time spent staring at phone. Depends on how hooked we really are I guess

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