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by nilliams 13y ago
He appears to have removed links to the obviously offending plugins now, the 4 I spotted at least. He still has the gall to leave that blog post up though.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Oops, good point! (It was very late when I wrote that).
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by nilliams 13y ago
You're quite right. UX was never a factor with Linux, and OSS (in the large, excluding things like Basecamp, sorry) has never succeeded to create good, consumer UX. Unfortunately UX is absolutely critical with mobile. Here's a tal
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by nilliams 13y ago
It was clearly a joke.
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by nilliams 13y ago
I think it's negative in a playful way, and as a result, positive.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Well it's not quite so transparent in its naivete, since a lot of people have tried and failed to create decent visual editors for HTML & CSS in the past. This particular editor does seem a significantly better attempt than previ
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by nilliams 13y ago
Agree, it seems like a complementary tool for people who know how to code. I also would have loved to have this tool a couple of years ago to help explain certain concepts to my boss (an HTML/CSS naysayer), i.e. 'these are the kin
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by nilliams 13y ago
You could also say By and Large is simply 'Cockney rhyming slang' [1] for Barge. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
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by nilliams 13y ago
Agreed.
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by nilliams 13y ago
> Aside: I don't think it's healthy to be as invested as you are in random Internet comments. Probably :) Of course though, I do think we should all be aware there are people on the receiving end of these comments we casually f
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by nilliams 13y ago
> It is all marketing. Notice how shiny Angular/Ember's site is? You realise how absurd it is to say that just because a project has a nice website it is all marketing ? I genuinely thought you were being sarcastic and agreein
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by nilliams 13y ago
Okay, here're a few examples. There are probably more: I've used $.bbq plugin for 'basic' routing (similar API to riot). It wasn't enough. I was writing tons of boilerplate and my routing logic was fragmented and ha
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by nilliams 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Jeremy was not criticising the jQuery dependency, since his framework (Backbone) also depends on it. He is just stating that there's nothing actually in riot.js, it just proxies to jQuery. The project might as
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by nilliams 13y ago
Glad you saw this. Well I've had 2 for 2 success just sticking 'codecanyon jquery keyboard plugin' and 'codecanyon jquery scrollbar plugin' into Google so I suspect there'll be more. I've emailed both of t
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by nilliams 13y ago
Here's another suspicious plugin to look into: On codecanyon for $6 under the name 'jQee' http://codecanyon.net/item/jqee-keyboard-shortcuts-for-jquer... On class.pm as 'ClassyKeyboard' http:&
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by nilliams 13y ago
Same, I've added that to my 'remember this' list of phrases/quotes/terminology.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Have you made similarly complex apps in Python or Ruby?
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by nilliams 13y ago
in which case the answer to your: > In todays development world i dont see any reason why to use python/ruby instead of php ... would probably just be that for anyone with a taste of Python and Ruby, PHP the language and dev-environ
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by nilliams 13y ago
I think most people hate the language itself but recognise its strength of crazy-easy-to-get-started-with.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Try using hnsearch, it's little publicised but very useful! A search for math (it's the 'Dear Startups... ' link): https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=math&start=0
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by nilliams 13y ago
> That's a nice strawman you've propped up there. In his defence, that's not a "strawman he's propped up", it's taken from the article.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Y Combinator is an incubator for startups. Do you also get frustrated when you see pictures of cats on icanhascheezburger?
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by nilliams 13y ago
I'm with you, most beers sold in Thailand are pretty good. Singha, Tsingtao, Tiger, Chang. The comparison to Budweiser is way off imo!
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by nilliams 13y ago
The feature detection mantra is true for you and me, but it's a leap to say you can apply the same tactic to a huge site like Google. Google isn't stupid, if they UA sniff, you can bet they have good reasons.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Why? I'd wager most of us are happy with the concept that it's being presented on CodePen with a bit of helper JS so that the target audience (developers who are unlikely to disable JS, or are happy to enable it for a site like Co
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by nilliams 13y ago
That approach only works in the short-term though. When you've got an already large code-base you just 'made work' but with no tests (code-coverage), how do you 'make it faster' or 'make it readable' witho
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by nilliams 13y ago
If I could down-vote this lazy, drive-by, language bashing I would. Back up 'so messed up' or keep comments like this to yourself, they don't help the discussion.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Zoom is a magnifying glass containing a `+` or `-` (or both, if it's a zoom menu?). Search is an empty magnifying glass next to/within a text field.
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by nilliams 13y ago
>> JS is pretty slow (It uses an interpreter!) The notion of using it on the backend is debatable. It is pretty fast. It has a world class VM with an optimising JIT compiler. V8 is considerably faster than many other interpreted langu
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by nilliams 13y ago
>> I believe 1.2 is normal It's the default in browsers and what the 'normal' keyword means yes, but I don't think it's a good default, any more than the default font-size is. I think 1.5 is a pretty common re

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