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by jsdalton 18y ago
Ah, cool, that does actually answer the question. Thanks!
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Why is everybody gossiping -- both here and on proggit -- about a discussion list thread from April 2005? (Yes, it's a rhetorical question, but if there's a reason why this has suddenly become timely I'd actually like to know.)
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I just disagree with you that it is interesting at all. It has the illusion of interestingness because it's about Twitter -- hey, it's web! it's Twitter! i do that stuff for a living! -- but it is completely lacking in substance. What do
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by jsdalton 18y ago
It's a publicity stunt. Of course, every time a company engages in a publicity stunt like this, the same debate we're all having takes place. Pro: "Wow, what a great campaign!" Con: "Pshaw, it's just a gimmick." Pro: "Oh really? It got you
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by jsdalton 18y ago
> a thing that must be understood and managed. That's true, but how do you manage it? Especially when it's so difficult to measure in the first place. One idea that popped into my head would be to keep a running tab of technical debt
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Boffin: "...scientists, engineers, and other people who are stereotypically seen as engaged in technical or scientific research. American equivalent is 'egghead.'" Just in case anyone had no idea what a "boffin" was and figured it was some
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by jsdalton 18y ago
> I use a keyboard shortcut to search Out of curiosity, what do you mean?
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Once you get used to using the address bar as a search field, it's addicting. Right now, for example, I'm working on a project in Django, so I'll type things like "django queryset" in my browser bar and it will pop me straight through to th
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by jsdalton 18y ago
The one thing I always, always miss when I attempt to switch from Firefox to Safari is how Firefox automatically executes an I'm Feeling Lucky search from the address bar. It's an even better feature now that it searches my history/bookmark
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Which system is that?
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Could the journalist not have spoken with someone at Google prior to publication of this article? It's just irresponsible journalism that they clearly did not.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
What I was really hoping to find here was a travel search site that let me find cheap fares without necessarily having firm dates in mind. To me, Tripeedo just puts the functionality of kayak in a slightly different UI, as opposed to offe
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Unless I missed something, this is exactly what django-compress already does for the Django framework: http://code.google.com/p/django-compress/ We just started using it in a project I'm working on. Most excellent.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Have you (or anyone else) used this? It looks fantastic...just wondering if anyone has any feedback on the good/bad as an actual user of the product.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Seconded. For some reason I'm always on the look out for something better to come along, but On the Job is the one app in this category I actually use.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
> I find it profoundly disturbing that if every other search engine in the world shut down tomorrow, our website's traffic would be effectively unchanged. Jeff missed a major point here. What is ACTUALLY a disturbing thought is that if
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Actually (someone can correct me if I'm wrong here), I believe in her situation her payments probably will change. Her main loan was a 5 year, interest only loan, probably at an adjustable rate. What that means is that for the first 5 years
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Really? I'm the opposite. I will admit right now that I copy/borrow/steal design and concept ideas from other websites relentlessly. I find, however, that I tend to do it for stuff around the periphery of an application. For example, how sh
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Do you know of any good texts or articles that describe the "right" way to test? I put myself in the category of mediocre test writer, because I do bump into the problem fairly regularly of having a lot of tests fail when I do a rewrite. I'
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All Google search results marked as malware (link to pic in case it gets fixed)(i44.tinypic.com)
7 points by jsdalton 18y ago|1 comments
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Speaking and writing as a journalist is what Michael Arrington does. That's a very specific type of speech -- so specific in fact that it's actually explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution. There is simply no relationship whatsoever
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by jsdalton 18y ago
That's not true, except in a reductio ad adsurdum sense. Presidents administer laws, hire and fire staff, spend money, withhold money, declare wars, veto laws, etc. In the absurdly literal sense they do execute these actions by exercising t
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I had the same reaction as you. And to add to what you wrote, I interpreted it as, "I disagree with you and don't like what you write about, so you must be an asshole, and my only problem with what happened is that it was a bit over the top
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Why do you have so much animosity toward him? You say he represents everything you hate about Web 2.0 greed culture, but is that a valid reason to delight in someone receiving a nice cream pie in the face? I think you need to stop and recon
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I'm not sure how you define a "solved problem." Do you have an example? When it comes to end-user software applications, I can't think of any problem that has been solved categorically (contact management, calendaring, browsers, word proces
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Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 Now Available(blogs.msdn.com)
2 points by jsdalton 18y ago|1 comments
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I used to design using tables, then I learned how to do it in CSS and now I use CSS exclusively. There are only a few instances when I don't, namely: * When I want vertical centering and the column height is not fixed. * When I want the wid
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I agree with his premise, though I don't entirely agree with his conclusions. I've come to think that the problem with our approach to global warming right now is that it's been yoked to environmentalism as a broader, and in many ways, spir
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by jsdalton 18y ago
Oh, I think what I meant was "how the fuck" was not idiomatic English, and that what he meant to say was "what the fuck." I more meant the "proper" way to say the phrase he was referring to.
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by jsdalton 18y ago
I think it's a really awesome idea. As others have pointed out, "what the fuck" is the right way to say it. More common than that these days is "WTF" (the abbreviation). This allows you to get the same point across without using profanity.

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