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by ollysb 13y ago
I think the point was that the programmers working in the environment with music produced solutions with more complexity. Over the lifetime of a project that complexity is going to add up.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Perhaps a better way to put it is that your code base develops through assimilation rather than predicting abstractions and then shoe-horning features into them. In my experience the most elegant interfaces consistently emerge from the repe
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by ollysb 13y ago
If it's so little effort to add a layer of abstraction then it will be just as easy to add it later. If you end up needing to add a feature that the abstraction would make easier then you can still go ahead and do it first. You won&#x2
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by ollysb 13y ago
I find this news extremely disturbing, why make such an announcement with a posed photo the day after his sentencing?
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by ollysb 13y ago
The design's obviously a work in progress, this was my quick attempt to clean up the kit page a bit http://i.imgur.com/DuwlqPO.png
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US and UK at odds over security tactics(theguardian.com)
89 points by ollysb 13y ago|22 comments
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by ollysb 13y ago
Thanks, I'll have to have a play and see how the two approaches compare then.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I can't see any reason there would be a collision between the two, framelessgrid is very lightweight.
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by ollysb 13y ago
This just feels wrong, it's the unsemantic approach of bootstrap 2 but going even further in the wrong direction. Semantic classes with media queries easily allow for any variations in layout. Multiple grid classes on a single element
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'm a big fan of heroku's scrolls gem[1], it uses a key=value format and is intended to be streamed straight into stdout. We're using it with splunk storm[2] which automatically parses logs in the key=value format and from th
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've just taken my girlfriend through the same steps, html + css and then onto using middleman with less etc. She was using my 27inch imac which meant there was plenty of room for chrome, sublime and a console. With livereload running
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by ollysb 13y ago
Something I'd love to do as a civic duty would be to help scientists get their code in shape. It seems a lot of science is being done with code that is basically deemed to ugly to even publish. I can't be the only hacker that woul
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by ollysb 13y ago
Doesn't this argument apply just as much to smoking cigarettes? They're banned from pretty much anywhere they might disturb you, transport, restaurants, bars etc. It seems the balance is pretty good between allowing you to smoke a
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by ollysb 13y ago
It's not like there's a shortage of startups to provide innovation so it probably just makes more sense to buy the successful ones than speculatively spend a fifth of their workforce on random ideas.
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by ollysb 13y ago
...and expert guidance is by no means guaranteed at a university (even the good ones).
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Obama cancels meeting with Putin over Snowden asylum tensions(theguardian.com)
1 points by ollysb 13y ago|0 comments
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by ollysb 13y ago
Just enabled card aging, looks like a really useful extra piece of visual information. I can see which cards have got stuck in the pipeline and the cards in the backlog that perhaps could be pruned. The idea of aging is something that I&#x2
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by ollysb 13y ago
Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression that content_for works correctly with caching from rails 3 onwards.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Having used LESS for a long time I've switched to SCSS because the debugging is so much better. I found that less would often fail silently and just truncate the style sheet. I'm a rubyist and I've found since switching that
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'm using it to display analytics. The page has various controls to view different metrics with different filters etc. there's a single chart which updates as you change settings. The backend is super fast so the chart updates alm
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by ollysb 13y ago
Wouldn't the information be more useful in text form? Transcripts would take far less space and would probably be necessary for any sort of useful search. They might even call the transcript "meta-data".
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by ollysb 13y ago
I think the point is that this didn't used to constitute suspicious activity. The range of suspicious activity is growing and growing. Something that no one has really talked about yet is the effect recent revelations have had on the o
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by ollysb 13y ago
> After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. So they went to someone's house because of "suspicious internet search
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by ollysb 13y ago
There can't be many people that have at least searched for the anarchists cookbook at some time. The notion that the authorities now think it's ok to turn up at my doorstep for that is incredible. The language used is pretty chill
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by ollysb 13y ago
That depends if they're set to task or given enough to room to build something cool.
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by ollysb 13y ago
I'd love this as a webservice (I'd pay). I need to create product shots for every customer I have (white labelling) and it would be awesome to be able to generate them on the fly.
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by ollysb 13y ago
HN is currently the best site I know of for quality political discussion. It doesn't cover the broadest range of topics though, heavily leaning towards politics related towards technology. I'd actually like to see a broader range
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by ollysb 13y ago
This is exactly what I do. You'll notice that there is a pattern repeated horizontally across the page. Now cross your eyes until 2 of the repetitions are on top of each other. Once they're on top of each other the image will pop
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by ollysb 13y ago
Slightly tin-foil, but any thoughts on the timing of this story? The intersection between those talking about the NSA and those that will be angered by the introduction of internet censorship is pretty perfect.
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by ollysb 13y ago
The whole thing comes a bit unstuck when you realise that BT has had a system in place that allows parents to protect their children for years. The new approach doesn't seem to provide any benefits but succeeds in pissing off a great n

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