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by samspot 11y ago
Is there a way to use this in the excellent Git Bash for Windows? Because Git Bash is amazing and I don't see myself going back to cygwin anytime soon. I understand how they could be very incompatible because of the way Git Bash is b
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by samspot 11y ago
I'm assuming many individuals swallowed their pride as part of this agreement. Kudos to you all!
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by samspot 11y ago
I think you've hit upon a good measure of function quality. If you find you have to jump around a lot when reading, that would be a sign that it's poorly organized and needs to be refactored. On the other hand, if you find you d
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by samspot 11y ago
I think that I understand. Programming is a trap because it is easy to be satisfied with writing code. It is fun and rewarding. But it may not be the most valuable thing you could be doing for your organization or for your career.
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by samspot 11y ago
I don't think strict mode affects == vs. === Best bet is to use a linter to catch that.
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by samspot 11y ago
Survey is down, so I'll just post. I use curl primarily for testing web service apis. It's also pretty awesome that chrome and other devtools can 'copy request as curl'.
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by samspot 11y ago
It wasn't that we weren't validating, but instead there was always something that prevented us from getting to 100% that we were unable to fix. That is what I mean by 'probably will not validate anyway'.
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by samspot 11y ago
That closing slash was never really required. Sure your xhtml won't validate, but it probably wasn't going to anyway. xhtml was recommended in my formative years and I never really broke that habit. I still think input, img, br
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by samspot 11y ago
How do you measure speed though? Speed to hit the done button or speed to get to production bug-free? You aren't really measuring speed accurately until you account for all the downstream time, and even include time for problems foun
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by samspot 11y ago
hahaha, thanks for that reminder.
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by samspot 11y ago
Are we already at the bottom? I just read an article about Baltimore on CNN, and at the bottom the related articles included "TV's hottest news anchors".
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by samspot 11y ago
According to the article this phone home feature activates even when you uncheck all the share options.
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by samspot 11y ago
Tables nested in tables nested in tables was a fate worse than divs. Even in the simplest case (one box) a table stinks: <table><tr><td></td></tr></table>. I personally found that trying
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by samspot 12y ago
These sound like great techniques, but I am not convinced that they can overcome the start-of-interview confirmation bias. I use the same questions for every candidate, yet I often find myself rooting for some of them more than others. Th
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by samspot 12y ago
This is really cool! But for price-conscious consumers like me (I'm cheap) it may not be an option. I'm sure this is going to cost more than if I just buy whatever is on sale at the grocery store. However, if this becomes ubiqu
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by samspot 12y ago
If you click through the innovators link, they have a form of this tech that you can build into the device so that it can order automatically for you.
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by samspot 12y ago
I don't know about you, but I think blowing your entire life savings at Vegas is too reckless.
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by samspot 12y ago
Vim appears to be Mercurial while Neovim is Git. I imagine merging is a lot easier when you are on the same VCS :)
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by samspot 12y ago
It has awful parts that should be avoided. Once you learn to avoid them you can have a great time. This isn't that different from most other languages. I think javascript has just been more heavily complained about. There is also a
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by samspot 12y ago
I don't think that is true. We had security and privacy problems before we had extra features. These problems will always exist, whether we innovate on other stuff or not.
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by samspot 12y ago
> First of all, you don't distribute self-contained components, you distribute text, markup, and media. Yes and that is one of the exciting innovations being worked on right now, web components. That's exactly why I brought it
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by samspot 12y ago
A lot of sites are still supporting old browsers like ie7/8, which means they have to lower their tech to the lowest common denominator. So it's not too surprising that it feels the same, especially if you happen to be browsing i
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by samspot 12y ago
Add operating systems, servers, and languages to your list for completeness. The reason they are unsafe is because they are created by humans, who make mistakes. You are basically proposing that all technology innovation should cease unti
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by samspot 12y ago
I feel the same way about the news, but I suspect we are both wrong to have this exact reaction. While the bullet points are correct, not wanting to know the news comes from a place of self-centeredness. This is betrayed in the statement
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by samspot 12y ago
I did. I actually sent everyone a note one morning that I was planning to avoid email, and they should hit me up directly if they needed anything. I was going to suggest that in the comments here, but I feel like I need to see how well th
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by samspot 12y ago
It's not my favorite thing, but I do believe it removes the need for a lot of other meetings. I also find that I am almost never 'statused' on this team, which is a huge improvement. Talking too much is a discipline thing t
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by samspot 12y ago
I had only one thing to do this entire week, and I didn't even get it done. So from where I sit one thing a day is pretty optimistic. Granted I did a lot of useful things for people, I just didn't get my own priority completed.
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by samspot 12y ago
That glass is not suitable for it's contents.
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by samspot 12y ago
I think it is thickly worded. Entire sections have nothing to with the technology you choose. I particularly liked the culture section.
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by samspot 12y ago
TLDR: Bill Watterson did an interview and you can buy it. It was great. It was great. It was great. What an empty article. I kept reading hoping to get some information. I guess they were worried the would get in trouble for quoting a

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