wilhelm

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by wilhelm 16y ago
For web applications? Watir. Unit tests are great and all, but not that useful compared to high-level functional tests that tests the stuff users are actually interested in doing. With limited time and limited resources, write Watir tests f
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by wilhelm 16y ago
I'm not signing up when all I've seen of the service is a two-line description. Where is the sample content I can look at? Where are the pretty screenshots or the demo video?
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by wilhelm 16y ago
No. Browsers that implemented this would just lose their market share instantly. Users prefer being able to use their favourite sites.
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by wilhelm 16y ago
If you parse a string of bytes, it's nice if it always turns into the same DOM. That's the scope of the HTML5 parser. There is no benefit to inconsistencies here. Allowing browsers on different platforms to adjust page widths, font sizes, w
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Nobody sets headers and meta information correctly anyway. Those headers cannot be trusted, and browsers have to guess what content-type and character encoding should actually apply to any particular document.
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Web browsers already have this, and it sucks. There's XML mode, HTML standards mode, HTML quirks mode and HTML almost standards mode. It's horrible to test and maintain.
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by wilhelm 16y ago
You can still write the HTML5 vocabulary as XHTML if you really want to. That's perfectly valid, and defined in the spec. The HTML5 parsing algorithm is what the browser vendors want and need, however. Since HTML was never specified properl
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by wilhelm 16y ago
What do you need the rest of the world for? Seriously - Croatia has four million people. Isn't there enough of a customer base locally? Build the best available product in your language, and you have purple cow.
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by wilhelm 16y ago
This is of course completely subjective, but, from the top of my head: Painful user interface. No good package management system. Instability and unreasonable hardware requirements for even simple tasks. Missing good command line tools and
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Quite the contrary. Having an education and relevant technical experience are all good, but what separates the merely good candidates from the excellent is that the latter have proven that they can get stuff done by their own initiative, th
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Be where they are. Discuss with them. Exchange code with them. When you find the best, the ones you're interested in hiring, ask them to come work for you. I've hired a dozen excellent people to my department in the past couple of years. On
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Indeed it does. Thanks a lot. I'll check out the names you mentioned. I don't have any volume yet, but I might find useful inspiration there. (c:
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Thanks for your input! No, I won't be storing card numbers. I'll just store a hash I can use to bill again. The PCI certification is cumbersome and costs money I don't have yet, and I'd really prefer if those numbers are on someone elses's
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Ask HN: How do you organize the monthly payments from your users?
16 points by wilhelm 16y ago|6 comments
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Sure. wilhelm at e-tjenesten dot org. Note that I have no experience with webkit, but have worked for a direct competitor. The work should be very similar, though. (c:
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by wilhelm 16y ago
I've worked with browser development and testing for the past six years. Each part of the development chain has its interesting parts. Getting the browser engine to work and giving it a usable UI for an exciting new platform is great fun. W
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by wilhelm 16y ago
Let me tell you a bit about how this works on the other side of the fence. I'm 26, and for the past three years I've worked as department manager in a well-known Norwegian software company, responsible for hiring in my group. I've evaluated