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by rikroots 6y ago
Thank you! It tries to be. You should be able to tab through the pins using the keyboard, and 'click' a pin by pressing the return button (mileage may vary between browsers and devices). The text labels and links themselves also e
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by rikroots 6y ago
Yes. I wasted a massive amount of time on that game - though personally I never considered that time wasted! My other favourite time waster on the Amiga was Theme Park - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Park_(video_g
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by rikroots 6y ago
> A pet peeve of mine is that "red on white" is considered bad while being, in fact, perfectly legible: When I get my eyes tested at the opticians, one of the tests is usually looking at a red ring and a green ring against a wh
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by rikroots 6y ago
I used to love image maps: really useful for adding hotlinks and hover effects to images. Sadly they can't deal with the modern responsive web - though there exist some Wordpress plugins to help overcome that issue. This CSS article[1]
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Don’t be afraid to ask for money This is where I fall over - damn my parents for teaching me to feel guilty about asking for money! > One great hack for finding out who is using your package is to open an issue called "Who is u
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by rikroots 6y ago
It was an Inquiry into the role, functions and funding of Local Government in England. Landlords no doubt had a stake in the Inquiry's conclusions but then so did everybody else living and working in England at the time (not least cent
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by rikroots 6y ago
Try here (starting on page 39). Whether it answers your question - I have no idea. It was part of the research commissioned by the Inquiry to inform its work. The Inquiry's terms or reference were to review options for local government
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by rikroots 6y ago
> They would no more be able to make up their losses through rent increases than I could make up the loss of being charged extra for a loaf of bread at the supermarket by unilaterally raising my wages. One does not drive the other. Do yo
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Its a shame the inquiry didn't recommend formula funding from central government receipts The Inquiry's main objective was to investigate possible revenue streams that could be raised locally, to help local councils free them
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No seriously. The answer was: "Because it's there." The whole thing about tax is to extract the maximum number of feathers from the goose with the minimum amount of hissing. Taxing property is easy "because it's the
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by rikroots 6y ago
The Inquiry didn't happen in "splendid isolation", and the recent history of property taxes across the UK was not a happy one. Property rates were replaced in 1990 by the Poll Tax (Community Charge) which led to protests and
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by rikroots 6y ago
The Inquiry didn't kill LVT, and efforts to promote it haven't stopped just because Lyons didn't recommend it as a solution going forward. > ... extremely wealthy landlords ... killing LVT LVT would not be an appropriate m
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by rikroots 6y ago
Back in a different life, I worked on the Lyons Inquiry which looked at English Local Government finances. Final report was issued in 2007[1]. As part of the work we had to look into Land Value Taxes as a supplement/alternative to Coun
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by rikroots 6y ago
https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
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From the article: > There is no obligation to free labour. Every hour you put in working on your project for free is a gift to the world. If the world comes back to you and says "You are a bad person for not supporting this thing I
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by rikroots 6y ago
Writing demos for my Javascript library, trying to push it to its limits, uncover bugs, etc. Fun stuff. Also writing "teach yourself" lessons for the library ... which is not so much fun, but does helps uncover "softer"
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Hope that helps. Thank you! This is a fantastic response (now bookmarked). I think it best not to do the work now - the library is still evolving and keeping the basic documentation up-to-date (inline comments, but not in JSDOC format)
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Once in a while I come across an obscure library without TS typings, in which case I would generally provide a `.d.ts` file for it, starting with a catch-all `any` type for its exports, later potentially specifying it further if useful
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by rikroots 6y ago
I don't know about other candidates, but when I'm preparing for a phone interview I'll have spent time learning about the company and will have tailored the general questions I expect the interviewer to ask me to map closer t
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by rikroots 6y ago
> I'm personally curious how far we could go with using just canvas and wasm In a word: accessibility. HTML is inherently accessible - you can curl a webpage and read the contents of any (static) web page. If you curl an entirely &l
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Realistically, most companies are never going to check your GitHub profile in the first place This is, in my personal experience, a sad truth. I've been seriously looking for work for the past 6 months (thank you, Covid-19, for yo
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by rikroots 6y ago
For what it's worth, this was my take on the GDPR requirements for site cookies. I had to consider them when recoding my poetry website last year (mainly for Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons) https://blog.rikworks.co.uk&
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by rikroots 6y ago
I had to code up this test for my canvas library. Results are ... well, Scrawl-canvas isn't Pixi.js fast! But the results aren't too bad - I can live with that sort of speed. Especially as the library is entirely 2D with no WebGL
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by rikroots 7y ago
I got my first coding job - junior level - when I was 49. Then again, it did take 4 years of applying for jobs in the industry before I finally found a company willing to take the risk of employing me. I don't know what my x-ranking is
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by rikroots 7y ago
The skills I learned as a civil servant - policy development, communications, staff/resource management ... all the way down to document control and filing - have been super-useful and transferrable to both my professional and personal
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by rikroots 7y ago
The very first time my company farmed me out to work onsite with a client. Day 1, Job 1: download the client's website code and get it running on my laptop. ... It just wouldn't work. Everything I tried - failed. Everything else o
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by rikroots 7y ago
Smashwords prefers .doc files, but does allow upload of .epub files - though that route is still in beta (and has restrictions). https://www.smashwords.com/about/supportfaq#prep Amazon's KDP allow uploads in .doc,
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by rikroots 7y ago
> Then why write a book? Because it's (mostly) a fun hobby. Writing the novel or poem can be great fun and great annoyance both at the same time. Self-publishing the book is a whole different sort of adventure, but the pleasure of g
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by rikroots 7y ago
> It must be nice to have a trust fund. /sarcasm I'll let you know ... if I ever manage to find and marry a trust funded person > It's one thing to churn out a book in your spare time, and its quite another to make auth
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by rikroots 7y ago
> charging for a book signals its value Evidence is mostly anecdotal (not my anecdotes) but the main reasons why people buy a book are: - they know, know of, or have heard good things about the author (author platform) - the book was rec

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