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by marrs 11y ago
Details. We'll just build multistorey farms.
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by marrs 11y ago
He exploited and exposed it
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by marrs 11y ago
Opaque writing is a pet peeve of mine as well. It seems to be a particularly strong vice of British academic authors. I tend to favour American texts as a result. I hope the emoji example doesn't catch on though. I found the example in
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by marrs 11y ago
The "good architecture" there is to begin by making things general and then build specialisation on top of that. This is essentially what the author was saying. At that point its an implementation detail if you have your CSS in on
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by marrs 11y ago
I would actually argue that DRYness is to be avoided in this case. How many selectors you are specifying, and what they are, is something you should be explicitly aware of. You may find that your DRY SASS is producing very non-DRY CSS.
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by marrs 11y ago
I tend to avoid nesting as well now. Wrt your modularisation, that seems like a reasonable approach, although where do rules go if you have nested components? From my experience, modularity really starts to bite when you also have inheritan
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by marrs 11y ago
More likely this article demonstrates that the author has worked a large-scale web application and has the war scars to prove it. See my post elsewhere in the comments about a single line of SCSS writing out hundreds of lines of CSS.
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by marrs 11y ago
The trouble is that untangling nested selectors can be a real challenge, especially if you have inheritance between them, and the implications can be chronic. On a project I was working on recently, a colleague reported to the team that th
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by marrs 11y ago
I think it's often an anti-pattern. A good acid test for me would be, will modifying a rule written to a selector in one file affect a selector in another. If the answer is yes, then you haven't modularised by definition; you just
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by marrs 11y ago
This has likely happened before during the cold war when there were concerns that communists had infiltrated the Labour party. Harold Wilson famously believed he was being spied on throughout his term as prime minister
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by marrs 11y ago
Examining religious scripture in isolation like this is a pointless exercise. It's like trying to imagine what it's like to eat at a banquet by tasting a single ingredient you pinched from the kitchen. You taste salt and you thin
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by marrs 11y ago
oh right, good point. If only journalism wasn't in such a sorry state, we might know the answer to that question. They might be drawing a high salary, equally they might be drawing no salary at all and living as non doms.
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by marrs 11y ago
But those are shares. They have no monetary value until you try to draw a dividend or sell them, at which point you have to pay tax again. The pre-tax loss is for the UK operation, not the global entity as a whole. It seems that the real qu
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by marrs 11y ago
I'm not saying they wouldn't - I'm sure they probably would - but that wouldn't stop there being 362 fewer roles in the UK. If the industry in the UK continues to grow then yes we would be better off, but the fear is tha
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by marrs 11y ago
But Apple are paying their taxes.
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by marrs 11y ago
Why should Facebook get to enjoy an advantage over 36 companies employing 10 people each at a similar average salary? Let's turn it around. How would you go about taxing a corporation that didn't make much profi
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by marrs 11y ago
I think the parent is referring to contractors, who avoid PAYE but still have to pay dividend and corporation tax. The dividend tax rate is about to go up so the PAYE issue is about to become void.
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by marrs 11y ago
I don't understand what you're arguing for. If Facebook shut down UK operations then, for starters, Facebook would be paying no tax at all in the UK and Ireland would gain the difference. If the Facebook UK staff relocated to Du
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by marrs 11y ago
Neither the Isle of Man nor the Channel Islands are a part of the UK.
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by marrs 11y ago
You forgot the VAT that Facebook's UK clients have to pay, the VAT Facebook have to pay on their expenses in the UK, the council tax that they have to pay on their offices, the pension and NI contributions they have to make, etc, etc.
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by marrs 11y ago
Unless the engineers agree. Even if they don't, if the assessment is true and they can't accept it then those engineers are probably a part of the problem.
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by marrs 11y ago
The parent is probably too young to remember a time when you could buy a device expecting to keep it for the rest of your life, or maybe even pass on to your children.
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by marrs 11y ago
eugh, I hate it when sites do that. I'd be really angry if I found out that a friend of mine had been sharing my contact details with strangers without my permission.
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by marrs 11y ago
That's probably the only good reason to have a native app. It amazes me how many app developers just don't even think about doing this
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by marrs 11y ago
Can't imagine why you've been down voted for this completely accurate observation.
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by marrs 11y ago
At which point MS settled out of court and kept Lindows in business for many years to come.
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by marrs 11y ago
Are we arguing over the true definition of the terms asset and liability or over the point the OP was trying to make when using these terms as a metaphor?
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by marrs 11y ago
But the point is that you pay for the code in order to gain the functionality. Code is an expense. The application is the asset. If you want to add a feature to the application then you have to pay for it in developer time. The larger and m
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by marrs 11y ago
I don't think either science or religion are seen as a source of the truth. They're both methods established to help seek the truth, be it rational truth in the case of science, or irrational truth in the case of religion, but nei
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by marrs 11y ago
Because the scientific method has nothing to do with morality. The author gives the example in his own article when he says that he doesn't understand why people would have a problem experimenting on aborted or miscarried foetuses. We

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