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by theefer 3y ago
Not to nitpick, but XManager was built by the Platform team at DeepMind, not DeepMind for Google, though they helped roll it out beyond DeepMind. (I was on the XManager team in Platform.)
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by theefer 8y ago
The frontend repository above is only for the user-facing front-end website (aka the guardian.com). Other back-end components such as the content API and the content creation tool (Composer) are separate projects in their own private repos
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by theefer 10y ago
> `await import('./foo.js')` could kick off a speculative fetch for foo.js Interesting, and kind of makes sense. However: > Of course that doesn't help for dynamic cases like `` await import(`./language-packs&
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Create value, not products (lessons learnt after 4 years at the Guardian)(slides.com)
1 points by theefer 11y ago|0 comments
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by theefer 11y ago
It seems you have chosen a bit of an edge case. Agreed the videos shouldn't pre-load, but to take a more standard example of a simple article: AMP: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/brWXpA/http://
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by theefer 11y ago
As you can probably see yourself from the screenshot and video, not much. There may be some subconscious influence from the old system and other image systems we have used (Lightroom, Picasa, Google Photos, Flickr, etc), but I can't th
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by theefer 11y ago
> are there some video features (like kaltura or youtube simple editing)? Not at this stage, no. We're currently focusing on images. > how does "Indesign integration" exactly work? InDesign integration works by drag and
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by theefer 11y ago
As other replies have said, this is functionally a DAM. It is particularly adapted to the requirements of publishers, in that it supports large number of images (we have over 3M currently), can scale to ingest many new images continuously q
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by theefer 11y ago
It has some similarities with Thumbor (incl. cropping and resizing assets, etc), but the two are quite different. Thumbor goes a bit further than Grid with features like face recognition, etc, which we are looking at for the future. Thumbor
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The new era of perishable luxury(inso.cc)
1 points by theefer 12y ago|0 comments
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On the ambitious but bumpy road to AngularJS 2.0(theguardian.com)
1 points by theefer 12y ago|0 comments
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by theefer 12y ago
People interested in Duo may also want to have a look at jspm.io. It solves a similar problem, but with a few differences which to me are advantages: - Transparently supports modules from CommonJS, AMD, ES6 or globals. - Enforce a manifest
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by theefer 13y ago
Markdown was indeed considered, but we ended up rejecting the idea for a variety of reasons. Given the interest around this decision in several comments here, maybe we should write up about it as well.
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by theefer 13y ago
They're quite happy with it (except when it breaks, understandably). Mostly, they just want it to work as they expect (i.e. like Word or Google Docs), so the goal is for them to not notice it. Doing the Right Thing on paste from GMail
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We need to talk about source maps(bytes.inso.cc)
2 points by theefer 13y ago|0 comments
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Abstracting away the Grunt work with Plumber(bytes.inso.cc)
1 points by theefer 13y ago|0 comments