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by pandler 10y ago
Sure, but a read receipt (if you even get one) is ambiguous. I can assume that you're thinking about how to respond, but responding immediately with "hmm" is an explicit acknowledgement indicating that you need to need a mome
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by pandler 10y ago
> The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one! I compulsively select random blocks of text: select up, select down, repeat. I definitely get annoyed with th
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by pandler 10y ago
Is it not both?
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by pandler 11y ago
The parallax was a bit too much for me though. I ended up opening the console and pausing the javascript.
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by pandler 11y ago
> The JavaScript community thinks a clever solution is utilizing Twitter as part of the build process? The JavaScript community thinks a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek solution is utilizing Twitter as part of the build process. FTFY
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by pandler 11y ago
> we've turned an ember-cli ember app into a react redux app in place using immutable.js and ramda for everything Would you mind elaborating what you mean by that? We also use Ember and I've been championing the use of Ramda. I
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by pandler 11y ago
In other words, "the best software is no software at all."
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by pandler 11y ago
Why not try both? The vibe and culture surrounding the two sports are totally different I find. Baseball teams, for instance, play almost every day as opposed to once a week for football. I think at least partially because of that (each gam
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by pandler 11y ago
"Polish Remover" A bottle of solvent or leader of the Nazi party?
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by pandler 11y ago
> I wasn't able to differentiate between Scottish and Australian, only between American English and non-American English I've spent quite a bit of time in New Zealand, and a common complaint I've heard is that when they tr
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by pandler 11y ago
> Exactly, it forces the programmer to think It's a curious feature, the way you've described it. I have virtually no experience with Java so I'm looking at this from a totally foreign perspective. The authors considers it
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by pandler 11y ago
I thought it was kiwi too. I've spent more time in NZ than OZ though and am less familiar with the Australian accent. If this website[1] is correct, then the company is registered in NZ at least. [1] http://www.infobel.com&#
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by pandler 11y ago
Cool, it looks like most of the "python django" is in Russia and China.
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by pandler 11y ago
I used to look at my friends 13 inch laptop and thought "that's way too small, I could never program on that." Now I have a 13 inch laptop and it took me all of 20 minutes to get used to the smaller screen. I find it's a
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by pandler 11y ago
I find it's sometimes easier to convince someone that you are lying when you aren't. I usually only do that when I am trying to pull someone into a prank, and I need them to believe something. Most people will pick up on the easy
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by pandler 11y ago
Can anyone give an example of a use case for this?
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by pandler 11y ago
The one thing that frustrated me the most about Android was being confused about what the icons meant, especially when trying to copy text[1]. Select text > Think for a few seconds about which one of these similar looking icons means &qu
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by pandler 11y ago
I'm currently in the process of sorting out a temporary work visa in Christchurch (+1 for the quality of life comment seriously). It's definitely harder to get a work visa without a degree in your field of work (I switched to soft
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by pandler 11y ago
Well, since you mentioned it... what is the other way? I'm curious. I promise I won't do it.
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by pandler 11y ago
The Django ORM or sqlalchemy good starting points. Metaclasses are what make them tick.
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by pandler 11y ago
I enjoyed reading through the Django ORM code to understand how it worked. Metaclasses in python are fun, but I can rarely justify actually using them for anything other than messing around. Oh but how I wish I needed to use them more!
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by pandler 11y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Clojure, but I rather liked Douglas Crockfords comment on code coloring (Lisp) based on scope rather than syntax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc&t=15m30s
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by pandler 11y ago
Or, what if I've had a few beers and my typing is getting sloppier.
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by pandler 11y ago
I find myself having to manually close dropdown menus on my iPhone 5s. 1. Click to open 2. Scroll 3. Select Option 4. Click to close
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by pandler 11y ago
Couldn't this argument apply equally to the way we currently publish reusable components, especially with regards to QA? The only difference I see with web components is that instead of implementing jquery-datepicker and ember-datepick
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by pandler 11y ago
True, but "ref" is ambiguous since that abbreviation is usually used to mean "reference". "refac" or "refact" just don't roll off the tongue.
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by pandler 11y ago
Considering cats and dogs can live for tens of years, it's safe to assume they didn't wait until they were having hard times to buy the pet.
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by pandler 11y ago
> If I write songs that sound like Taylor Swift but no one knows who I am, do I make "mainstream" music? Personally, I would say yes. You might make mainstream music but you yourself are not mainstream.
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by pandler 11y ago
I do this all the time. I also accidentally try to save web pages with cmd+s constantly.
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by pandler 11y ago
I think the point of the article is that what you described is reality and the "We only hire the best" is the illusion.

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