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by jdavis703 14y ago
A useful case to use this is for custom tooltips. I'll probably rip out the JS solution in my companies app for the attr function.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
At my old company we'd tell interviewees to bring a laptop loaded with there usual dev tools. After a couple of typical interview questions they were then instructed to create a small program using whatever language/tools they'd like. They
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by jdavis703 14y ago
It's not just about rap: http://rapgenius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz...
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Seems like some of these WTFs were just kludgy fixes, like replacing a broken a tile with one that was the wrong color. Sure it doesn't match but its better than showing a cement floor.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Not to be pedantic, but those who believe their time here is a scarce commodity are often driven to do great things (e.g. Steve Jobs).
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by jdavis703 14y ago
I was simply trying to locate an apartment near Metro. I toyed with the idea of scraping their site but remembered this Wired story from 2009 [0] so I just gave up on using them for my search. 0: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/m
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by jdavis703 14y ago
I had that exact same pain point in 2011. It's too bad the Craigslist refuses to innovate or let others innovate on their platform.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
So if I use SASS/Compass why would I want to switch? I don't see anything here that the other CSS pre-processors (LESS and Stylus) can't do.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
JQuery is slowly moving in that direction [0] and YUI has long let you pick and choose which "abstractions" you need [1]. [0] https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md [1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/configurator/ [edited wit
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Didn't MySpace fail once it was an apparatus of News Corp? I think it would be very difficult to count News Corp as a startup.
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The demographics of GitHub(quantcast.com)
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by jdavis703 14y ago
According to this Indeed graph most jobs are seeing a decline in new postings: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/industry I'd be more inclined to hypothesize that companies are slowing down hiring after bringing on lots of people post-reces
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by jdavis703 14y ago
NOVA has horrendous traffic because of poor urban planning (e.g. too much sprawl), few successful small businesses (mostly just chains), a barely viable public transit system outside of Arlington County.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Cause seems to be lower iPhone sales than were expected: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aapl-aapl-apple-sells-48-mill...
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by jdavis703 14y ago
There are lots of people worse off. Doesn't me good-off individuals shouldn't try to improve their lives.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Just flew United on the 14th and didn't see the ad.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Part of a permanent tax fix will hopefully be making re-invested capital gains not subject to any tax.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
MDN ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ ) seems to be a pretty solid source when needing a reference to browser-based based web technologies.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
At least on iOS it performed better, at least before they introduced the more performant one a few months back.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
Sometimes I've wished for this, but I think it would ultimately stifle collaboration. Instead it would be nice if more open floor plan offices had study carrels -- places you could go when you need quite to focus.
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by jdavis703 14y ago
What problems are you having? It sounds like boredom is one of them. Write an app that solves a problem for you and maybe it will solve one for others.