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by intranation 17y ago
The founder of the company I work is pitching there as one of the invited start-ups. Watch out for Jason Trost from Smarkets.
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by intranation 17y ago
I cycle to work every day, which is about 4.5 miles each way. This adds up to about 40-45 minutes of exercise per day, which is awesome as it's both quicker than public transport and also keeps me fit.
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by intranation 17y ago
See my caveat: "well-known performance issues".
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by intranation 17y ago
Even better - because GMail recognises aliases, you can do "bob+siteisignedupto@mydomain.com", which means you can PINPOINT the exact site the spam comes from, and rat them out. This is without creating extra email addresses or wildcards/ca
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by intranation 17y ago
In the article he mentions using @import over LINK due to some convoluted logic about "easier to re-use". LINK and @import behave exactly the same, except the well-known performance issues. Why should we trust someone who doesn't actually u
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by intranation 17y ago
I quit Facebook about a year or so ago, which as an expatriate Australian in London was quite painful due to my friends being far more frequently seen on FB than on email or Skype. Still, I don't regret it - they seem to push the privacy bo
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by intranation 17y ago
> For the web? Passing the entire document asynchronously? See Google Docs as an example of this.
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by intranation 18y ago
My last company refused to install IE7 on the corporate images and only allowed people to use IE6. You can imagine that as someone developing internal web-based tools this was quite frustrating.
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by intranation 18y ago
What they really should have done is check whether the user is an existing logged in Digg user, and only displayed the bar to those users. The bar is utterly irrelevant and intrusive for every other Internet user (this is without going into
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by intranation 18y ago
Definitely. I was bitten by this, and had my Twitter stream flooded with old tweets this morning from bots due to the removal of "since" in the API call. No notice, nothing. In fact, after it happened, I signed up for the API Google Group a
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by intranation 18y ago
I can't believe this kind of crap is still floating around. Sorry to be harsh to anyone, but if you call yourself a "professional web developer" and think that: a) Tables can even compete with CSS-based layouts; b) Replacing tables with DIV
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by intranation 18y ago
Agreed. Most of the "points" were either personal taste, or jQuery won but it was called a tie because of "negligible difference" (for example - the fact that jQuery core is 30% smaller than ExtJS, but it's "only 19Kb"). Or ExtJS's ostensib
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by intranation 18y ago
Mostly agreed, but beware that the UNIX layer on OS X is BSD-based rather than GNU/Linux-based, so it's not exactly the same as Ubuntu or Debian etc. The biggest win on OS X for me is all the slickness of the desktop (Ubuntu doesn't even
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by intranation 18y ago
I believe they call that the "not invented here" phenomenon.
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by intranation 18y ago
This quote: "The trouble, he insisted, is that the so-called Web 2.0 languages aren't always as efficient as they need to be, especially in an economic environment threatening to bring Web 2.0 to its knees." Is particularly dire. Sure, so i
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by intranation 18y ago
Or... you could just use a Javascript framework that takes care of that abstraction for you. This is seriously not a hard problem.
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by intranation 18y ago
It really doesn't. I'm an experienced front-end coder, and I can tell you right now that the amount of extra work I put into IE6 support is really not prohibitively high. The bugs and issues in IE6 are well-known and well-documented, so it'
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by intranation 18y ago
I always find that the easiest languages to learn are ones I can get up and running with quickly, and that can solve problems I have. This made Python quite easy for me to learn, and I imagine Ruby would allow for similar ease. It made Erla
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by intranation 18y ago
I would have thought that "think about your own audience" was just common sense.
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by intranation 18y ago
I'd pay for it if they had a plan in between 2GB and 50GB. I want more like 10GB for like $2/month or something - the big plan is too big, so I'd rather not give them $8 extra per month out of the goodness of my heart.
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by intranation 18y ago
Common sense says to track absolutely everything . Flickr (care of Cal Henderson) have written extensively about metrics and analysis. A framework that lets you track the results of A/B variate (or bucket) testing helps for trying new thin
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by intranation 18y ago
They've gone on record as saying the reason the 3 countries were picked as keeping the status quo is purely down to advertising sales in those countries. What's really stupid is the way international entities still segment countries as far
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by intranation 18y ago
Most PHP devs I've worked with (myself included) would consider these tips so trivial as to be expected knowledge. So don't be so unfair on PHP developers--the good ones find the ridiculous questions on PHP.net, and articles like this, just
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by intranation 18y ago
Seems like all these arguments are stemming from the (newly resurfaced) debate about "online personal brand", and creating an identity as such. I'm all for diluting these namespaces with GUIDs or similar--who's to say I'm the most important