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by kentbrew 4y ago
No build system was ever used in the making of Pinterest's widgets: https://github.com/pinterest/widgets
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by kentbrew 4y ago
Given that you are going to throw away every single bit of this code -- yes, you will, and yes, your investors should know about it in advance, and yes, you should set hard numbers for when it's going to happen -- you should build your
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by kentbrew 4y ago
The thing where Escape is supposed to get you out of the arc tool but instead drops you out of full-screen mode is super annoying.
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by kentbrew 4y ago
https://ev.io is quite good.
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Tome wants to bring work presentations into the social media age(fastcompany.com)
16 points by kentbrew 5y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 5y ago
Living through this right now; I've just ended a ten-year stint at Pinterest and finished Week One at a stealthy little start-up. Find someone who needs your help with a problem in your domain and help them figure it out. Important: t
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by kentbrew 5y ago
A year ago I was simjacked by someone who walked up to a T-Mobile kiosk in San Diego and acquired my phone number by simply claiming they were me. This bypasses every possible layer of protection you can set up with T-Mobile; an actual hum
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by kentbrew 5y ago
"Firefox Can’t Open This Page To protect your security, [domain name] will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window."
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Ancient muscle memory completes the URL thusly: babelfish.altavista.digital.com
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Nothing is over until Mythbusters says it is. Picturing in my mind right now a guillotine with a fifty-pound blade made of human shit frozen in liquid nitrogen ... I bet it would stand up to a single impact just fine. And if it didn'
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by kentbrew 6y ago
I have a career because of Firebug.
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Obituary: Dame Diana Rigg(bbc.com)
2 points by kentbrew 6y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 6y ago
This, of course, is the correct answer.
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by kentbrew 6y ago
thehistoryoftheweb.com is a cultural treasure and I'm very happy it's there. One thing that would make me like it more: if I could submit a pull request or two....
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by kentbrew 6y ago
The Earthsea books are wonderful.
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Some very strong choices here. Here's another great one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruum
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Pay special attention to the reasons the author gives under "ask if it's okay first."
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Same. If you can possibly manage a stint at Netflix, do it.
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by kentbrew 6y ago
Here's Samegame in 24a2: https://kentbrew.neocities.org/samegame/ Wishing for a mouseover event....
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Principle of Least Astonishment(en.wikipedia.org)
22 points by kentbrew 6y ago|11 comments
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by kentbrew 7y ago
This sounds like a Google interview question....
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by kentbrew 7y ago
Spent that night in the NOC, for absolutely nothing. The only thing that broke was our guestbook, which came from Matt's Script Archive and thought the year was 19100 on New Year's Day.
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by kentbrew 7y ago
If you don't like the way desktop Twitter periodically overrides your system settings and returns you to "top" tweets, try Twitter System Saver: https://github.com/kentbrew/twitter-setting-saver
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Buckeye Bullet(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by kentbrew 7y ago|0 comments
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by kentbrew 7y ago
Xenon Death Flash is the name of my next band.
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by kentbrew 7y ago
I did a ton of good work in QuickBASIC 4.5. Wrote some shareware games, one of which was converted to a successful commercial product. Plus lots of contracting in the 80s for people who needed data (send back and forth on floppies) conver
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by kentbrew 7y ago
Avoid "why." Instead ask about "how" and you'll get lots of "why" for free. "I'm trying to visualize doing this without using sshd and am drawing a blank. It's probably something really ba
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by kentbrew 7y ago
At that point in history APIs that returned a JSON object wrapped in a callback were few and far between (and Yahoo! had almost all of them). Pipes would give you anything you wanted in a callback, allowing for nothing-but-front-end mashup
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by kentbrew 7y ago
Maybe check Tom's leaving-Yahoo post? There's a paragraph listing a bunch of the devs: "So I want to personally thank Seth Fitzsimmons, Samantha Tripodi, Jeannie Yang, Chris Martin, Ben Ward, Kevin Ryan, Phil Pearson, Rabble,
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by kentbrew 7y ago
If I recall correctly Pipes was originally a 100%-Sunnyvale product, predating Brickhouse.

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