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by jasim 10y ago
> One problem, of course, is that Android Studio was not built from scratch; it’s based on the long-in-the-tooth IntelliJ IDEA platform, a Java IDE… and, well, you can tell. It feels like fifteen-year-old software, and it’s all too appar
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Are these personal observations, or empirically established facts? For example - would liver and kidneys actually shut down when they don't have any work to do?
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by jasim 10y ago
Regret posting this. Sorry!
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by jasim 10y ago
I'd love to know what the magic recipe that GitLab uses to be so prominently in-your-face at all times on HN.
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Generate HTML, CSS Straight from Sketch Using Protoship(medium.com)
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The History of 3D Studio(cgpress.org)
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by jasim 10y ago
In support of this argument - The HTML snippet embedded in `let titleView = "<h1>Hello</h1>"` can only be parsed as a string. This means no tooling support - no linting, no tags that autoclose, no code formatting.
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Implementing functional languages: a tutorial(research.microsoft.com)
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Rationalizing Functional CSS(marcelosomers.com)
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It's all about the data - Data Oriented Design(dataorienteddesign.com)
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Here's another reason for unions to become defunct over time, as explained by Steve Bruce in his book Sociology: A Very Short Introduction. "Any kind of group activity requires organization. But as soon as one starts to organize o
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by jasim 10y ago
"Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancien
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The journey of simplifying our CSS(blog.dnsimple.com)
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Overview of WebKit’s CSS JIT Compiler(webkit.org)
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by jasim 10y ago
How do you do market research for SaaS that don't leave an artifact in the client website? Consider project management - what ways can we find people who use Trello/Basecamp?
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by jasim 10y ago
Not a counter-point at all, just an aside: consumer windows and NT were fundamentally different software. The "Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" book is a packed guide of wh
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Strangulation: Risk Mitigating, ROI-Maximizing When Rewriting Legacy Systems(agilefromthegroundup.blogspot.com)
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Absolutely stoked to read your response. Thank you sir. There is a dearth of quality conversations on the internet about good code in a real-world messy context, mostly because the people who're doing serious work don't have the t
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by jasim 10y ago
As someone looking in from outside, the Chrome codebase is a treat. Anecdote. Once during the start of my career I was asked to implement a caching layer in an HTTP library. I had no idea what it was, so there was some reading up to do. The
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Post-structuralism(mtholyoke.edu)
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by jasim 10y ago
TDD is probably not the best way to do deep work. http://ravimohan.blogspot.in/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-so... About context, this is from Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers, interviewing John Page, author of
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by jasim 10y ago
Sorry, not at the moment. I figured out those parameters after tweaking things a bit. You might want to start the conversion with just the name of the file, and use the interactive prompt to try out various parameters.
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by jasim 10y ago
Paperwhite has been really good to me. Both Oasis and Voyage look great as well - they have higher resolution than the Paperwhite. And they have real buttons to move between pages, so if I were buying a Kindle today I'd buy one of them
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by jasim 10y ago
koreader looks fabulous! Last time I checked, the Paperwhite could not be jailbroken. But it no longer seems true. Thanks for the link.
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by jasim 10y ago
k2pdfopt works ok for me. (bash function) tokindle () { ~/Software/k2pdfopt $* -dev kpw -mode fw -wrap -hy -ws 0.375 -ls- }
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by jasim 10y ago
cynicism is well warranted. but if you're open to possibilities, they might pleasantly surprise you. > This claim is typically met with skepticism. Isn’t generated code unusable? Are the elements going to be absolutely positioned? W
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by jasim 10y ago
I'm a programmer like you and used to believe in the idea that you should design in the medium which is HTML and CSS, and not in a tool like Photoshop or Sketch. But I've completely reversed my stance after working with a lot of d
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by jasim 10y ago
You get three designs for the same website - one for mobile, one for tablet, and one for desktop. Now you have to combine all that into a single set of HTML and CSS using Flexbox and media queries. My project for 2017 is to automate all tha
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Speaking from personal experience - nothing magically happens even if you create something valuable and put your heart and soul into it. You have to beat that drum, even if you hate every note that comes out of it. Which is why there are ro
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by jasim 10y ago
If you're starting from a vector design (designed in Sketch for example) and need to convert it into a design, would you recommend using Bootstrap's components and overriding them, or is it easier to roll everything yourself?

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