tdavis

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I Can Haz Community? (Ben Huh on improving community)(thinkvitamin.com)
1 points by tdavis 18y ago|0 comments
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Coding Horror Strikes Again (RE: Windows 7 UI)(yafla.com)
40 points by tdavis 18y ago|18 comments
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've been using two spaces my entire life, and I'm not about to stop now! I will occasionally use one space when writing online, but I overwhelmingly stick with two.
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by tdavis 18y ago
If I had to put on a number on it, I think we have an 80%+ chance of success. However, I'm just here for the journey. The result of the journey, whatever it may be, only signifies it's time for a new journey. Basically, I can't lose.
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by tdavis 18y ago
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Yeah, I suppose Fight Club quotes are trite by now, but I still believe it to be true. Before I left for a year to Afghanistan, I had a decent programming job, was go
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by tdavis 18y ago
It can be when you're in the Military, believe me. Lots of things are funny that the average person wouldn't consider to be. I found absolutely nothing strange about that bullet point. Although, he joined the Marines, which means as a membe
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've yet to find anything they're doing wrong . Honestly a truly amazing hosting company.
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by tdavis 18y ago
If I had to pick the most preposterous part of this article, and I really hate to have to, it would probably be the end when people are decried as "polluters" because they use Twitter. Even if we forget marginal cost (which the article seem
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by tdavis 18y ago
It's all there in http://nydus-media.com/ts/css/base.css It should be noted that I took the lazy man's approach and used <input type="image"/> which means you get those superfluous x and y GET params.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Yes, but there are many networks still going strong. QuakeNet, Undernet, EF, DAL, etc. Freenode is still the best place to get instant tech support for basically everything that matters. GameSurge is still hugely popular. Many people probab
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by tdavis 18y ago
I remember years ago, when I basically lived on IRC. Hell, I still have channels open 24/7. Now anytime I read about some company using IRC, I get really excited. And every time I use a web-based product that is basically an inferior replac
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by tdavis 18y ago
The story of my life would go something like, "For the first 24 years, Tom did nothing of particular note. Then he moved to Boston and co-founded a web start-up. We're still not sure if this is noteworthy either." Care to imagine why there
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by tdavis 18y ago
I'm not judging his life; he's free to do whatever he wants. It has absolutely no affect on me whatsoever. I'm arguing the newsworthiness of the article chronicling his success with Plenty of Fish. To me, the story reads as "lazy guy who kn
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by tdavis 18y ago
For an apparently really smart guy with all the time and money in the world, he doesn't seem to do much of... anything. Congratulations, you created a pedestrian website which makes gobs of money and requires 10 minutes per day of "work" to
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by tdavis 18y ago
No, they just inherited the name. It's an entirely different team.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I have never swapped a battery out of a laptop, ever. So... yes.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Thanks brother :)
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by tdavis 18y ago
I remember back before we launched I was so worried that TC/Digg/Reddit traffic would bring the server down and I'd be a laughing stock. Then we launched, and... Nothing happened. I mean, we got the traffic and all that, but the only way yo
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well, I should have said that tables are easier sometimes. But all the layouts that people complain about being hard in CSS are already written; it's essentially copy and paste at this point. YUI Grids, Blueprint, blah blah... just pick one
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by tdavis 18y ago
Strange. I haven't used a table for page layout since the 90s and I haven't missed them, either. Yes, it takes more effort to not use tables, but since tables are not meant for page layout it makes sense to avoid them.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think pg would be less happy because he'd have to admit I was right about this whole silly standards thing ;) As for your questions: The page bloat issue is pretty apparent: it takes a lot more markup to wrap everything in tables than it
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by tdavis 18y ago
Aside from separation of content and presentation as mentioned, it creates serious accessibility issues and page bloat, among various other problems which we in the standards movement have tried to impart upon fellow developers for years. I
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by tdavis 18y ago
I've got this funny feeling that I could kill a lot of hours learning this...
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by tdavis 18y ago
Validation is by far the least of this site's markup concerns... * Font tags * Tables For Everything (tm) * Inline styles * Inline Javascript * Crazy URLs (&whence=<gibberish>) * Deprecated tag attributes I coul
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by tdavis 18y ago
If it makes some people think about the idea of no god, I'd say it's worth it. Besides, we've been bombarded by religious propaganda our entire lives (at least in America), it's about time the other side started speaking out.
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by tdavis 18y ago
There's a reason security through obscurity doesn't work The even worse part is, it isn't even obscure ! The path is /admin/ not /walrus/ or something. And why would they have plain-text php files at that URL? It's like shooting your
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by tdavis 18y ago
I know, right! I mean, if music weren't free to produce and distribute it'd be one thing, but since it is, why doesn't everybody use bittorrent?!?! sigh
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by tdavis 18y ago
For the love of GOD . The Internet has been around a few years now. It's time to stop doing stupid shit like this.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Ah, I thought you were replying with regard to the question "Anyone care to guess how low online music will go?" In the case of upgrading, I don't disagree. Sorry for the wrongful callout, it just drives me nuts when people have thousands
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well, it's already better looking than pgAdmin III and I doubt it would make me force-quit my browser when the VPN drops like pgAdmin makes me, so... I might be motivated enough to try it. Does it go on the DB server itself, or does it matt

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