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by rimliu 6y ago
Back then one of the common mistakes used to be taking a huge image and "resize" it with "width" and "height" attributes on the img tag. It still is, but it used to too.
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by rimliu 6y ago
It was a problem everywhere and in no way specific to RoR. If anything, RoR were one of the first more or less mainstream framewors to solve a lot of common problems then (CSRF, HTML spec only having "GET" and "POST" for
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by rimliu 6y ago
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth… - Mike Tyson
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by rimliu 6y ago
Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in the market on every single metric, but still command a premium price. May be a good time too look up that the word "objectively" means.
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by rimliu 6y ago
So I do own the phone, I am renting a platform. Or do you claim, that I do not own the TV set, because, TV broadcasters could stop at any time?
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by rimliu 6y ago
There is a plenty of hardware controls you can buy for your DAWs.
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by rimliu 6y ago
That's an interesting statement. Imagine I have a test which never fails unexpectedly. But it expectedly fails when I decide to refactor some code. By your definition that test was a waste of time, by my definition it did excatly what
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by rimliu 6y ago
Can anyone recommend some resources for the absolute beginners?
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by rimliu 6y ago
Too lazy to learn is one of the reasons. Should use framework/lib is the other. Now people think that by not using frameworks you will have messy code and happily create even bigger mess of frameworks rope spaghetti.
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by rimliu 6y ago
Nice cherry picking skills.
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by rimliu 6y ago
> Most people have children. Maybe because whilt that's true in general it is not true in the environments we talk about? Stats may be different in tech companies with very young workforce.
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by rimliu 6y ago
It is underpopulation, not overpopulation that will be a problem soon (and already is in some parts of the world).
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by rimliu 6y ago
Did I read it right? Child-free people are not normal?
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by rimliu 6y ago
It is like vaccination: "look, there is no smallpox or measles, why do we need a vaccination for?"
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You Don't Need All That JavaScript, I Promise • Stuart Langridge(youtube.com)
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by rimliu 6y ago
What stops you from using other OSes with much better quality control?
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by rimliu 6y ago
and it had an amazing IDE for the times. My first useful programs were written in TP in the late 90-ties.
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by rimliu 6y ago
Wait, what? Since when does Lithuania have a sizeable majority of Russian speakers?
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by rimliu 6y ago
Honestly, how many kids do you think would choose to study anything if given a choice?
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by rimliu 6y ago
For you claiming that math was useful there will be 20 claiming that math is one of the most useless class. And in the next sentence they will claim that school should teach practical things, like doing your taxes. It all boils down to not
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by rimliu 6y ago
So he was innocent and spent 24 years in prison? Or was he just trying to downplay his own responsibility?
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by rimliu 6y ago
How many of those 1.3billion do actually speak English? How many more outside of US and UK speak English?
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by rimliu 6y ago
We have had groceries delivery service available for a few years already, so it worked very well, except the beginning of the lockdown when they were under capacity. It also forced other players to join faster.
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by rimliu 6y ago
For something to develop it needs to be used. There is no magic switch in your brain that goes from "not mature" to "mature" at the age X. Also, the less responsibilities you give to your kid, the less skill of being r
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by rimliu 6y ago
Another look at Fukushima can be that the incident was pure bad luck.
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by rimliu 6y ago
And we do not measure fuel consumption in "miles per gallon" , but "liters per 100km".
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by rimliu 6y ago
It was the case in previous versions of HTML too. Here is my minimal document from 2005: http://rimantas.com/bits/minimal_html.html
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by rimliu 6y ago
It is very realistic. The first thing I did when I got interested in HTML was to print out the spec. I do not get this attitude that blindly poking around for hours in hope to stumble upon something that works is superior to reading the do
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by rimliu 6y ago
As someone who did the same for the same amount of time: it could not be farther from true.
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by rimliu 6y ago
We need less cargo-culting, not more of it.

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