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by jsdalton 16y ago
Reading this article, the thought occurred to me that perhaps it's the "building stuff" part of computing that women aren't as interested in, as opposed to the "math" part, which is the typical culprit. So, did a bit of googling and found t
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Can you help me better understand the risk to an end user this represents? I just recently implemented some similar login redirect logic and want to make sure I'm handling the redirect value properly.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I agree that just shitting all over people's work is, well, shitty. But I disagree entirely that the anonymous critic behind Read the Fucking HIG ( http://readthefuckinghig.tumblr.com/ ) is out of line or that this kind of criticism is lack
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Original article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Yeah, it's also called "Newstweek" and it's clearly a replica of the Newsweek website ( http://www.newsweek.com/ ). So, it's definitely a hoax/satire. It's just kind of not really very funny..
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Here's an excellent, detailed, and fairly recent explanation of the Hacker News ranking algorithm: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574
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by jsdalton 16y ago
drivingmenuts used the word "burn" in a comment in this thread, which for some reason brought an apt metaphor for this whole debacle to my mind. It seems to me that the group behind this are not much different from arsonists: They light a t
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Yeah, they are probably using the javascript change event to trigger the enabling of that submit button. Unfortunately, most autocomplete functions don't trigger the change event. It's a real pain; you end up having to poll the form fields
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Relevant to this article is Gawker's new beta site: http://beta.gawker.com/ I'm not sure how I feel about that site as a solution to the issues Denton raises in his article, but there is certainly some compelling thinking behind it for an
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Why Gawker Is Moving Beyond The Blog(businessinsider.com)
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by jsdalton 16y ago
> Design is about communication. That's all it's ever been and all it ever will be about (a user interface is a communication to the user how to interact with your product/idea). Yes, design is about communication. But communication and
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Well, look at your own article. There's an h2 tag wrapped around each of the subheadings (e.g. "NO MORE H2-H5"). How do you propose content authors mark these up if they don't use an hn tag?
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Wow, I'm so going to buy this. We've got another baby on the way and I was looking for something like this to use as a baby monitor. Nothing out there has really caught my fancy yet, but this looks pretty darn awesome. BTW, I might not repr
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by jsdalton 16y ago
This is akin to complaining that Impressionist paintings don't look "real" and therefore are not as good. I suppose we should be deploring the fact that we'll never, ever know what that starry sky in Arles really looked like because Van Gog
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I think the difficulties I've personally had with embracing TDD come down to a slightly different set of experiences: TDD: Spend an hour writing the test (sometimes more if I have to figure out how to properly work with a third-party librar
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Thanks for your excellent replies. I realize that part of the difficulties I experience with using TDD in real life is that testing feels "expensive" to me, e.g. I frequently spend more time futzing around with test code than I do productio
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Do you find it hard to change directions with a feature or component, because your tests have sort of "locked you in" to the structure you were working on? How religiously do you follow TDD? Do you literally not write a single line of code
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I'm hopeful that some ambition person out there will do a phpocco in the near future.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I think ez77 is pointing out the irony that Scott just published Steve's email response for the entire universe to see, but the footer message on his original email indicates Scott would be none too pleased if Steve did the same to him.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Right, that makes sense. But I guess I don't really understand how that moves the conversation forward. Maybe I misread your original comment, but it sounded to me like you were claiming that there are a whole buncha crappy REST APIs out th
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I think you're wrong to dismiss most developers' efforts at a REST API as cargo-culting. A half-ass REST API is better than XML-RPC or SOAP, at least in my humble opinion. Out of curiosity, though, do you know of any examples of what you co
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I am interested though in hearing about how this kind of inter-application communication could evolve into a more well-defined protocol. REST has become a fairly well defined way for applications to communicate, but it's pretty much geared
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Check out http://www.modernizr.com , for example, which abstracts feature detection for many advanced "HTML5" features. You (sorta) don't have to worry about browser version, you just have to worry about feature support. Feature detection
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I frankly don't understand the basis for your critique. Joel and DHH are having a heated disagreement about how to value a company that is not yet public. Underlying their disagreement are two opposing startup philosophies: 1) the "37 signa
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I agree with some of your comments, but to be fair this was posted in October 2009, so it's almost one year old. If I'm not mistaken, the new dictionary-style DATABASES setting is from 1.2, which only came out this year. Not sure I agree ab
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by jsdalton 16y ago
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=673630 (I apologize profusely, I just couldn't resist.)
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Hmm, that's not entirely accurate. They list Google Docs under Labs, but the word processor part at least came from their acquisition of Writely, if I am not mistaken.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Horribly written article, but very interesting topic.
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Well, there are 184 other apps (and counting) in that contest that fit that same criterion: http://10k.aneventapart.com/
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by jsdalton 16y ago
Modernizr ( http://www.modernizr.com/ ) is as close as you're going to get at the moment. It's pretty solid.

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