uk_programmer

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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Maybe. But if it wasn't deemed valuable than it wouldn't matter how much it costs to mine. Oil in some regions of the world literally seeps out of the ground (known as petroleum seep) and until the 19th century it wasn't real
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Not at all. The cost of producing something is different from its market value. Recently because of panic buying of loo roll, there wasn't any loo roll available in the UK. On Amazon for a 12 pack of decent quality loo roll was selling
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
> you're making the normative and tautological argument that values are what they are because that's what (you think) they should be, not that there is any intrinsic reason for value to be defined only by a market. markets are
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
The labour theory of value is easily discredited. The market determines the value i.e. what people are willing to pay for something. The labour theory of value is simply describing the cost of producing something. Whether people are willing
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
It is rarely an options. Additionally defects are introduced into features that have been supported for quite a while.
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
The problem is that without User Agent sniffing in some circumstances there is no other way of working round a browser bug e.g. There are cases where browsers will report that it supports such feature using one of the feature checks but t
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
The going rate for a developer is about £300-600 a day in North Europe for relatively common skillsets such as C#. It isn't just silicon valley. The $10,000 bounty is about right for this sort of work. In fact it might be a little low,
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Some of it this was spot on, especially doing research. Very rarely you will be doing something completely novel and it always good to look at how other people have solved a problem. However the old "Learn C" and "Write a com
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Most of these reasons why Markdown Fails are weak at best. The 5th reason especially You can convert markdown into other formats such as PDF, Word, Media WIKI etc using pandoc (I am sure there are other programs). It is trivial to write a s
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
> For example, it feels nice to define margin or padding on a <p> element, but what does that mean - distance between two paragraphs? Between paragraph and heading? Between paragraph and bulleted list? Using spacers seems like the
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
There is a great video on youtube that explains how it all works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs He gets into the explanation of how the tracker software works about 8min 30seconds in. Typically though if you g
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I think I've written some CSV parsers until I thought to myself "I can't believe they don't have this in .NET".
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
For my office I bought two "gaming" monitors because they were cheaper than the equivalent "professional" monitor. The panels were exactly the same. However my accountant raised it when I put it on expenses it just becau
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Kind of and kind of doesn’t. I am saying you should call stuff what it is. So a larger component maybe (this comment text box for example) the styling that belongs to that should all be grouped logically together. The easiest way to do this
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
What you are talking about is the still part of the document and the document structure. Generally where writing something you will have a beginning, a middle and and end of a document. You will have parts of a document that will have lists
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
At the time CSS wasn't as feature rich as it was today. The problem was a lot of the time the designs didn't respect the medium at all. There were even designs that were impossible. The technology was being pushed to do stuff it w
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I believe Brave has them disabled by default or an option for it. It is a shame a good feature has been abused, but yes you are right it is to be expected.
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Not at least with HTML 4 and XHTML. HTML didn't harbour presentation information. It told the browser the structure of the document. If you look at other document writing system such as LaTeX. You will see that there are Sections, SubS
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
This is a great list some of these APIs look pretty interesting and didn't know about them this is a great list. Push notifications are becoming an irritation mainly because of their overuse. The number of sites where you go to them to
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
If you call things what they are it works out better e.g. a class for a call to action class="btn-cta". Want a large call to action button class="btn-cta btn-large" or similar. I really should write something on forgotte
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I've heard all this before. I am extremely sceptical and tbh I wouldn't want to build a site this way at all. It goes against what CSS was supposed to do and generally the results are IMO hard to work with because you have the ove
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I really like CSS Zen Garden and it had a profound impact of how I think about front-end work. I see a lot of back-end developers trying to force the markup and their styling to conform to what they want. If you understand how the document
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
> It's not necessarily a good idea to completely separate what things are and how things look. It indeed makes easier to do a complete redesign, but how often does it happen? And if it does happens, what are the chances that it actu
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
JavaScript is getting simpler in a lot of ways. Things that are confusing to developers of others languages e.g. function scope can be avoided by telling people to use let instead. Also a lot of the things I wanted 5-10 years ago that I had
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
A little known secret is that in the VB namespace in .NET full fat, there is a really nice CSV file reader/writer. https://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/built-in-net-csv-parser/
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I really don't understand the fascination with Mac OS. I have two macs and tbh it feels like a polished Linux distro that doesn't run that well after a few OS versions (my 2015 Macbook Pro is so slow it is useless now and I'v
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
VB gets a lot of hate. But the language is perfectly fine for the most part. One of the most annoying things about VB.NET is that projects need to be configured with certain options out of the box otherwise it allows you to write some very
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
Have you got any stats to back that up? I've been playing around with it and there is nothing from the profiler in Chrome or Firefox that suggests it might be slow.
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
What do they mean by a contractor? Do they mean Software Engineering contractors or do they mean zero hour contractors which are typically not paid particularly well. I am a .NET contractor/consultant at a similarly large corporation (
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by uk_programmer 7y ago
I did the same with a Sun Blade 150 (gave it to a friend). They are pretty expensive to pick up now. Solaris 8 (maybe 9) was on there and I think I ended up running on of the BSDs on there. The machine wasn't fast (not compared to an A

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