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by ollysb 14y ago
For a while it was showing an internal server error: http://imgur.com/RbO21
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by ollysb 14y ago
Sorry to be so meta, but what on earth was the point of extracting programmers.stackexchange.com from stackoverflow.com? Is this why so many questions get closed as being "off topic" on stackoverflow now? </rant>
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by ollysb 14y ago
More useful than pronouncibility would be spellability. I'd score domains with only a single spelling as higher e.g. twang.com over base.com (bass.com). To do this the algorithm would just need to scan for graphemes that share a common phon
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by ollysb 14y ago
I try to follow a gradual approach to decomposition. When I start to get a lot of related methods I wrap them in a module, but still within the model definition(I just include the module immediately after definition). From there I might jus
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by ollysb 14y ago
Coming from a java background to rails I found it entirely refreshing that everything wasn't in a utility class or service. Decomposition of a system using utility classes and services(in the n-tier style) is to make your system more proced
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by ollysb 14y ago
Maybe it's just me but I've always seen these things as positive feedback loops. I write a failing test so that I have a guide as to what to do next. I fix a bug so that my app does a better job for my user. I'm not sure where his negative
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by ollysb 14y ago
Or maybe just prompt the user to login when they hit "Create Question"
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by ollysb 14y ago
This would only make sense if you're working for an established company that can burn a few extra months early on. For a startup the runway might be too short. In this case you have no idea if your product is even going to exist a year late
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by ollysb 14y ago
This is the same with paged content, the user is equally less likely to see the adverts because maybe they don't view that page/scroll down that far. I'm guessing the issue is that if you use paged content you know that the user has looked
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by ollysb 14y ago
What's the difference between showing adverts on the next page or adverts further down the same page? They could continue all the way to the bottom of the page. Not that I want to see this but it would be an improvement on paged articles.
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by ollysb 14y ago
The only time I perform maintenance is when I'm adding a new feature. Before I add any new code I'll inspect the code that will be touched by the new code. If it's hard to understand or the abstractions are a bit wonky for what I want to ad
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by ollysb 14y ago
Rather than wrapping around it might be fun to bounce off the edges of the game area.
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by ollysb 14y ago
Took a while to figure out you could "eat" smaller bubbles to grow larger, was a lot more fun after that :)
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by ollysb 14y ago
We've been using crossrider.com for our plugin. It let's you write the code once in javascript and then it packages the plugins for IE, chrome, firefox and safari. They've been out of beta for a while now so it's pretty solid. It's also fre
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by ollysb 14y ago
Ah english... bruise, muse, prove, proof
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by ollysb 14y ago
I absolutely love this vision. I'm curious about what happens when you have a workforce made up of leaders though. My first thought was that it couldn't be practical, surely we need some people to be led. But then, working in an information
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by ollysb 14y ago
I upvoted this article, not because I think it's good, actually I disagree with everything in it. I upvoted it because I wanted to hear what the HN community had to say about it.
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by ollysb 14y ago
In this context design means developing the product, manufacturing means shipping it. Manufacturing software really means copying the binary, which obviously doesn't cost very much...
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by ollysb 14y ago
It seems to be a feature of kitchens in Spain that the cupboards for crockery double as drying racks. The shelves are racks and the cupboards have no bottom so that the water simply falls onto the counter. My cupboard is right next to the s
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by ollysb 14y ago
>> Swap walking the dog for a lift to the airport, and keep track of who owes you a favor. This is the copy that's making people think along those lines. If it's sending the wrong message then this is the bit I'd change.
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by ollysb 14y ago
If you're asking a friend for a last minute favour I think it's only good manners to at least bother to phone them about it. I also find the notion of tracking who'd done favours for whom rather awkward. A favour is a personal request from
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by ollysb 14y ago
>> There will be a thousand things that in the back of your mind you always have thought you'd have time to do, but then you turn 30 and start to realize that you probably won't. Absolutely! Start doing those things, pack them in. A
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by ollysb 14y ago
I was pleased to see that you can use your existing switches. For the majority of cases I can't imagine anything more irritating than having to get my phone out, open up an app and find the right light control, just to turn the light on. It
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by ollysb 14y ago
I've just brought my 8 core 27inch imac out of storage having used only my macbook air for the last 6 months. I can tell you, I am struggling! Going back to a hard drive is absolute torture. At this point I think I'm going to just buy a cab
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by ollysb 14y ago
If the table next door was having an obviously private discussion they'd probably be a bit put out if you started offering your opinion. People know their conversations often aren't secure, but then there are certain social expectations. S
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'd have thought a large majority of what's app users use it for chatting. I can't imagine they're particularly fussed about people sniffing their plans for meeting up that night. There are varying requirements for security...
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by ollysb 14y ago
I'll spare you the details but the only mishap I've had with an iphone ended, rather amusingly, with it swimming in the bottom of a toilet. After fishing it out (yes, it was a clean bowl) I vainly attempted to dry it in the Italian sun outs
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by ollysb 14y ago
I never understand why people use cases. What's the point in preserving something in mint condition if you never see it without the case?
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by ollysb 14y ago
There's a feature of the old connector that I suspect the new skinny model is going to have trouble competing with; it was large enough to physically support the iphone vertically. I'm looking at my logitech sound dock and the only thing su
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by ollysb 14y ago
Unit tests take a little time to write, sure. But look what you get for your investment: (for the sake of this discussion I'll avoid subjective issues such as improved design) 1) Faster feedback cycle - if you're developing new code you can

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