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by ollysb 14y ago
It's quite possible the brain isn't optimised for the current availability of nutrients. Judging by the number of overweight people walking around it seems likely that evolution has selected for efficiency rather than performance. Given tha
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by ollysb 14y ago
I think "inferred preferences" sums it up pretty well. Automatically adjusted clocks were probably one of the first examples of this, get off a plane in a different country and your phone/watch is automatically adjusted to the current time
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by ollysb 14y ago
Will be interesting to see if car features become subscription based. Currently manufacturers derive the majority of their profit on the initial sale. Once the cars are on the road they don't see a penny of profit for most of them(ok, there
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by ollysb 14y ago
Yeah, this is exactly what I do, I work remotely but have a bright, relaxed office 10 minutes walk from my house. I can see this being a more popular arrangement in the future. Perhaps instead of companies spending money on giant cubicle of
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by ollysb 14y ago
TDD can be a great way to debug, particularly if it takes a lot of effort to get your running app into the state where the bug occurs. Write a cucumber scenario that sets up the conditions where you think the bug occurs and tweak until you'
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by ollysb 14y ago
Yeah, don't really get this, it's basically saying, if you have the username, password and hostname for a database, you can access it...
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by ollysb 14y ago
The scrum can be any time of the day that's convenient. At my last place we used to do one just before lunchtime. Definitely a good way to keep it short...
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by ollysb 14y ago
This is one of the main reasons I use cucumber, I write out a feature and then work my way through it. This works great on a side project because you can drop what you're doing and come back to it a couple of days later. You just run your l
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by ollysb 14y ago
Thanks, that looks perfect!
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by ollysb 14y ago
It looks really good. We're just about to start building a dashboard so this could be really useful. We're using emberjs though, is it possible to use just the views and the layout code? I'm thinking along the lines of a dashboard bootstrap
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by ollysb 14y ago
Do more masculine names help male lawyers become judges?
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by ollysb 14y ago
I think they were just crowdsourcing the pruning effort. I don't have experts exchange blocked and I haven't seen it appear in my results for months.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I use TDD most of the time when I'm developing, when I'm writing tests I'm really writing specs. I'm almost thinking out loud, what is this thing I'm about to create actually supposed to do? When writing like this the rspec syntax is far mo
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by ollysb 14y ago
The area where sublime really wins for me is discoverability. Say I'm writing some markdown and I decide I want to preview it in the browser. A short key combo opens the command palette, I type install package, hit return, type markdown, se
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by ollysb 14y ago
Maybe a photoshop style history would work well here?
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Climate change cut from UK curriculum(guardian.co.uk)
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by ollysb 14y ago
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences. I'm not sure that you could attribute unwieldy spaghetti code to the use of TDD though. Do you believe the projects you've worked on with TDD would have been in better shape without TDD?
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by ollysb 14y ago
"I believe the idea of a Multi-pipe is a natural progression of basic unix pipes, and this amazing Patented Invention of IBM's is something that I think everyone should know about." Seems pretty bold to put "natural progression" and "amazin
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'm still a bit confused about what it does, "share your passwords securely through facebook"? EDIT: read the about page, maybe "Share your wifi password securely with your facebook friends" or "Never have to ask for a wifi password from yo
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by ollysb 14y ago
It doesn't currently support collaborative editing, if you have the doc open in multiple windows it's last save wins. I'd love to see this added a la google docs but I imagine it's a big step on from where they are now.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of IA Writer, there's a couple of areas where I think it could be improved though. Being online is one of them, the other being an option to show bold/italic/underline formatting (as opposed to just markdown syntax). One diff
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by ollysb 14y ago
When I took a look at emberjs a few months bach ember-data was one of the most appealing parts. What are your concerns regarding viability?
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by ollysb 14y ago
Guess they had their minds made up on this one already.
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by ollysb 14y ago
I only test public methods. These are often composed of private methods which I might pull out of a method once I get to green and I'm working on readability. A particularly common source of one line methods is to extract query methods(repl
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by ollysb 14y ago
I have a dedicated desk. I'm based in Spain(work is in London) so it's pretty damn cheap! I pay 200 euros a month for a bright, modern office on top of a block in the center of town(Granada). We have a terrace that surrounds the office and
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by ollysb 14y ago
I work remotely but I have space in a shared office about 10 minutes walk from my house. This means I never have to a long commute, can work from home or work around others when I want a bit of company. In terms of working conditions this s
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by ollysb 14y ago
Yes I got bitten by their lack of customer support a couple of weeks ago. I did a release and the rails asset pipeline stopped precompiling the resources. I'd tested in staging so this came as a bit of a surprise. I promptly rolled back to
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by ollysb 14y ago
Not sure if it's got some kind of learning algorithm, it mistook "school" for "scrubs" repeatedly for a whole minute but after that started to understand very consistently.
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by ollysb 14y ago
It was way off for me, after a minute of attempts I couldn't get it to understand árbol (spanish vocab)
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by ollysb 14y ago
Surely this is a case book example of the free market in action.

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