mstade

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by mstade 8y ago
> How often do you look at some code and think "an idiot wrote this", and then realise you're looking at your own code? Every single day. I am my own worst enemy.
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by mstade 8y ago
Haha fair enough. Thanks for the laughs buddy!
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by mstade 8y ago
Hah, yes. Wales too I suppose. I wonder – do people from Northern Ireland root for Ireland or England? I'm only half referring to soccer with that question. ;o)
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by mstade 8y ago
They probably wouldn't, I'm not part of their constituency. But that's just how representative democracies work, MPs (or in the EU case MEPs) argue and vote on behalf of their constituency. I can of course try to sway MEPs
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by mstade 8y ago
That's interesting, I've found it much easier to get in touch with MEP representatives than it is to get in touch with national politicians, and MEPs have been much more responsive as well. Have you tried contacting any MPs, and&#
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by mstade 8y ago
As a non-brit having lived in London for a few years my (mostly but not entirely tounge in cheek) take on it is that it seems pretty much all parts of England loathes every other part of England, to variying degrees; while all other parts o
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by mstade 8y ago
I don’t know whether this is true because I never looked into it really, but a colleague of mine in the ndustry told me I could join the banker’s guild. His words were that because I lived in the city[1] at the time, and also worked for a b
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by mstade 8y ago
> Thanks for being respectful and well-reasoned in your response. Likewise! WebAssembly is a very good counter example, but still my feeling – or fear, really – is that this is not in spite of Google's hegemony but because of it. Le
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by mstade 8y ago
Well that's the argument, isn't it? Collaboration doesn't mean necessarily mean being in sync or following suit. When there's a hegemony then a level of collaboration might still exist, but if the interests don't al
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by mstade 8y ago
Fair point, thanks for adding this perspective! I of course assumed there was at least a modicum of control over this server side but as you correctly point out if there is no such control then shebang style navigation is your only option i
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by mstade 8y ago
> The idea that we were at some web standards pinnacle in 2008-2012 is crazy to me. The pinnacle is now. I don't think the point was that we were at a pinnacle in terms of standards quality, completeness, or user agent consistency.
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by mstade 8y ago
Point isn't so much that the server needs to do anything, you can still just serve up the same response no matter the path, and have the client render different results – just as you would with a shebang style navigation in the past.
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by mstade 8y ago
I would hope not, but who knows? I guess it's more like the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by mstade 8y ago
I think maybe you're misunderstanding what I meant by fragment based navigation – that's probably my fault. I refer to the shebang style fragments, that was used to implement deep linking in primarily JS driven sites. This of cour
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by mstade 8y ago
Judging from this chart[1], definitely somewhere between 2008 (the x-axis starts at 2009, but if I recall correctly Chrome was released in 2008) and second half of 2012. Possibly the original comment was referring to a larger time span than
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by mstade 8y ago
At first glance, this seems like a really half baked idea to me. Some immediate thoughts: - Wasn't there a draft spec floating around in the early 00s that tried to accomplish this, but didn't catch on? - Fragments are already use
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by mstade 8y ago
I've only flown in an A380 once, business class from London to Miami, but I'd agreee with this 100%. Very nice ride!
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by mstade 8y ago
That's my take away as well, but I don't think it's a bad read. It shows something about leadership I think. In my experience – in organizations big and small – most meetings have no agenda beyond a subject line in an email.
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by mstade 8y ago
> But no matter the process, if a manager is destroying productive time from the developers the fault is in the individual, not the environment or process adopted. Why can't it be both? Bad managers can be empowered by a process, ju
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by mstade 8y ago
> I personally find it more useful — it tells me whether I should look up breaking changes or not. It doesn't though, does it? It's a contract, sure, but there's no guarantee that the producer of the software you're d
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by mstade 8y ago
Definitely not going to argue about Virgin – they're useless – and this may be an unpopular opinion but.. let's not pretend it's just Virgin. As an ex-pat having lived in London for years it's my firm belief that this is
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by mstade 8y ago
Hey, that's a great project – thanks for sharing!
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by mstade 8y ago
> This. GraphQL is agnostic to the application layer, whereas REST is tied to HTTP. If anything it's the other way around really, HTTP is tied to REST, but even that would be a misnomer. HTTP is an implementation of the architectura
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by mstade 8y ago
More commonly, walking down stairs is a known knee-killer. This kind of product could be extremely viable for people who do a lot of walking at work – e.g. nurses, anyone in the hospitality industry, beat cops, etc.
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by mstade 8y ago
This is precisely my takeaway as well. I wonder if there's more to the story than described in the article – maybe he's just really hard to work with? Maybe his prototypes are two expensive to put into any large scale production,
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by mstade 8y ago
A lot of those “logo explorations for the octothorpe” look like swastikas to me, including the final shape. Basic shape I suppose, easy to find in most any circular-comprised-of-geometric-shapes kind of design, but still imagery you’d proba
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by mstade 8y ago
Do you have sources for this?
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by mstade 8y ago
Is more or was more? The referendum was two and a half years ago and people now have more information at hand, which is my point – why is reneging on brexit automatically political suicide? Because it's not what the people want? Ma
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by mstade 8y ago
I’ve heard a lot of people make the point that it’d be political suicide if the government declares brexit a bad idea and then backtracks, ignoring the referendum and thus remain in the EU after all, that it’d feed into the hand of the nati
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by mstade 8y ago
No, I live in Europe.

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