jack_jennings

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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Say what you will about the usefulness or redundancy of yet another build system, I really enjoy the way the succession of JavaScript solutions have explored different means of control flow. I'll upvote this mostly for the clever use o
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Thought that this was going to be about this movie (which I thought was a great watch as an LA transplant): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Plays_Itself If I recall correctly the first line of the article is
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Unfortunately, doing TrueType hinting more-or-less requires FontLab. There are other alternatives that are being developed, but by and large FontLab remains the industry tool for building TT-hints. Part of this talk by Tal Leming ( https:&#
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Technically, they are GLIF files and not SVG. The GLIF format is specced here: http://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/glif.html
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by jack_jennings 11y ago
Glad to see that these guys are still around. I used to work down the block from their headquarters in Seattle and stopped in quite often. I second that it's great stuff.
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
The score simply being the number of top sites feels pretty difficult to understand in isolation. For instance, knowing that React has a libscore of 203 doesn't mean much if I don't know both that this is out of one million sites
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
2 to 3 was a more difficult update. If I recall correctly, a feature of 4 was that the upgrade path was more reasonable.
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
I wondered what level this was designed for and didn't see that information at first glance (found it after seeing this comment). It might be a good idea to specify higher up on the page or under a separate header? I imagine that'
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
I'm not sure if this was intended as sarcasm? Is having a twitter account all it takes to guarantee good PR? I'm skeptical.
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
+ 10.7.5 opened an issue with stack trace here: https://github.com/breach/breach_core/issues/59
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
Agreed completely.
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
I guess I'm in the minority based on the other comments here… After spending a few hours with the documentation, I felt like I had a generally good feel for how you would interact with ES through curl, but then jumping into using the R
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by jack_jennings 12y ago
Hopefully this means that the documentation gets some help, especially some of the official libraries. So far working with ES has been a mixed bag… seems good in theory but I've had a hard time getting over the learning curve.
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by jack_jennings 13y ago
Was just going to post the same thing. I've never had anyone walk away from a project after asking for 50% upfront at projects this scale.
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by jack_jennings 13y ago
Depends on where you live. I was in NY and that wouldn't have gone very far. Try out a few projects, and you can change it later as you feel more comfortable charging more. Figuring out what you're worth is pretty hard when you&#x
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by jack_jennings 13y ago
Maybe you can roll the numbers up a digit for each successive job… Having done "MVP" work before, I wouldn't undervalue your work like this for to long or you'll be facing burnout quickly.
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by jack_jennings 13y ago
Now do Daredevil Dan
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by jack_jennings 14y ago
The website rejected my email address as being invalid (j@ckjennin.gs)…