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by robotmay 14y ago
It's probably a great testament to its good design that I failed to notice how well it works when browsing Amazon. Everyone notices awful dropdown menus (and I really don't like Bootstrap's), but good ones like this often pass un-noticed be
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by robotmay 14y ago
I've also noticed a significant down-turn in production quality from Apple in the past few years. I have a G4 iBook sat in a cupboard which will still boot up without a single issue (not even any dead pixels), but my 2010 MBP had some weird
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by robotmay 14y ago
AFAIK the use of high-fructose corn syrup is illegal in the EU and a number of other regions (thankfully), hence why Coke is made with actual sugar in most areas outside the US.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Wow no kidding; I hadn't come across that one and it does look pretty swish.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I've been fancying building a game with Go + JS. I only have 2 problems: 1: I can't think of a game 2: Most JS libraries/frameworks drive me nuts. However there are quite a few decent looking JS game frameworks about. Are there any recommen
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by robotmay 14y ago
It was great to see him mention how well Civilisation V is supported on it. I love that game, and hearing that it runs so well on the Surface Pro would probably be the tipping point for me if I had the money spare to spend on one.
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by robotmay 14y ago
This looks quite neat and the Rails example ( https://github.com/hexagonaljs/rails-example ) is interesting. I'll definitely have a play around with it later in my never-ending quest to find JS libraries that don't make me want to snap my c
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by robotmay 14y ago
No need to apologise; he was being a dick. Your english isn't bad and his comment is totally uncalled for.
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by robotmay 14y ago
We have a magic roundabout in Cardiff too, though it's named that way for a slightly different reason: http://i.imgur.com/pmQmg4M.jpg
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by robotmay 14y ago
I can't remember why I stopped using Pocket. I really need to write down reasons why I stop using software/libraries etc; there always comes a time when I need to justify it and I can never remember the reason :D
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by robotmay 14y ago
It's honestly out of laziness. I mostly just keep opening tabs and can't be arsed to go back through them and decide which ones to keep. I've tried using all manner of sites like Pinboard, but none of them work as I like. I want a one-click
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by robotmay 14y ago
There's a few "massage parlours" with frosted windows and flash(ish) cars parked outside dotted around Cardiff. Everyone knows they're brothels, but nobody really cares; at least that way the police know where the prostitutes are and can ke
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by robotmay 14y ago
The reason I use Firefox over Chrome is mostly down to memory usage with a large amount of tabs open. Chrome really starts chugging when you get over 40 tabs (and it's a pain to organise them too). It also has some really weird caching prob
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by robotmay 14y ago
We do eat something like 95% of all baked beans they produce, however.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I'm really excited for Firefox OS, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I have a lot of respect for Mozilla and the high quality of their software. Having a fresh ecosystem is always going to attract developers who haven't bothered with
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by robotmay 14y ago
The greatest thing I've gotten out of Discourse so far is the fully functional, real-world Ember app that I can use to learn Ember. So many frameworks seem to think that a to-do application is enough of an example, but it isn't. I decided t
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by robotmay 14y ago
I started building an app with Batman.js a few months ago, and I've come across those exact same issues. The performance is a real problem as I'm doing a lot of live updates to big-ish data sets, and it's noticeably chugging now.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Any word on when they'll support purchasing from a UK bank account? Most of the other options are a bit more convoluted than the straight-forward system Coinbase seems to use.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I feel exactly the same. I enjoy my work but by the time it gets to the evening I need a break, and I never manage to find the time to hack on fun side projects. I have so many silly ideas and things I want to hack on; I really want to get
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by robotmay 14y ago
As far as I know he's very fair; he shared work out between himself and others evenly, trusted them to do the work, and made sure everyone was doing their share. He always tried to shield his team from the managerial crap from above. He als
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by robotmay 14y ago
When my dad left one of his previous jobs, in which he was a manager of about 10-15 people; 3 of his team quit within the week. One of them told him that he was the best manager he'd ever worked under, and that he couldn't face working in t
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by robotmay 14y ago
That's a business goal I can get behind. Or inside, I guess.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I agree that it's a hard choice; I had to make this exact choice last week when working on a video chat service. Possibly because of the nature of the service (tutoring/teaching) it felt incredibly unnatural to see a non-mirrored image of m
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by robotmay 14y ago
Aye, I believe it was the TIFF exploit.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Well, that's certainly dimmed my views of Rackspace UK a bit. There would appear to be a rapidly thinning list of UK cloud providers who aren't subject to US interference.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Not sure how I missed that film; that's going on my to-watch list!
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by robotmay 14y ago
Here in the UK the FBI are generally seen as a bit of a joke by people in similar lines of work. Source: relatives and friends who have had to work with them.
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by robotmay 14y ago
If only more businesses realised that the London demographic is starkly different to pretty much everywhere else. I'm in Cardiff and I see quite a few more Android phones than I do iPhones.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I realise "torn to spreads" is probably a mistake in there, but that's now my new favourite phrase. Especially in the context of lunch.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Well at least they realised they were being a bit thick; they could have just kept on blindly enforcing it. I think it really hit home when they lost a serious percentage of their analytics data.

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