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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
Wow, this is awful. Would you mind telling me what combination of settings/add-ons you have so that we can reproduce this? Our "no JS" fallback styles are not done in a very nice way at the moment: they rely on the browser re
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
The breaking news banner is a source of much internal conflict, at least within the engineering teams. I think most people agree that it's too big, and most people also agree that it's over-used. Unfortunately it's one of th
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
H2 support is happening at a much higher level (like, the BBC-wide infrastructure team level) but I think it's coming pretty soon. We did some testing and saw a positive impact on all front-end metrics: first paint, interactive, DOM co
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by wldlyinaccurate 9y ago
Agreed! Glad you mentioned the image fade-in. I was actually speaking to our UX team about it the other day, and I think we might get rid of it \o/
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
Some of these old Eastern Bloc countries have had fascinating changes in language and written script in the last hundreds years or so. Uzbekistan is another interesting one, which currently uses Cyrillic, Latin, and Arabic (actually Nastale
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
I don't mean to detract from the great back-end time that you've managed to achieve, but I think it's important to point out that web performance is about _so_ much more than the back-end. Using WebPagetest, you can test your
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
Am I missing something here? What about bread, cheese, and tomatoes? Even the Strawberries/Chocolate/Brie example in the article would not sound horrible to some people — I've had chocolate with cheese on many occasions.
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Indian tea workers' conditions remain very poor(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago|0 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
Cool, I'm glad to see there's a meta issue to track this stuff now. Couple of questions: Is there a strategy to tackle the CSS and JS bloat? Is performance something the front-end endboss folk consider important enough to delay fe
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
You only need to look at a DevTools timeline to see that it's the front-end which is slow: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/161021_08_XZF/ 600KB of CSS, 800KB of JS... That's fine on your MBP over WiFi
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
It's not as simple as that. Lodash is a great example of why the highlander rule doesn't work within the npm ecosystem: older versions are depended on by many widely-used packages which are now "complete" or abandoned. R
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
I know that this type of functionality is useful, but please consider the performance implications before doing anything like this. Non-native implementations (i.e. not IntersectionObserver) _always_ use properties and methods that cause st
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by wldlyinaccurate 10y ago
I personally find this "railway" approach (which is essentially a glorified Either) much less painful than dealing with exceptions. Did you really find the example imperative error handling code more elegant than the railway-style
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What are your thoughts on programmer/technologist professionalization?(lobste.rs)
1 points by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago|0 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
> It's really helped us distinguish developers who see work as a 9-5 job that they only do because they must and those developers who just love solving problems. The two aren't mutually exclusive. Many (most, even) of the best
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
"These requirements were crafted such that we don't expect you to finish" is exactly how we explain our coding tests to candidates, and it seems to work really well. We actually find that many candidates will spend their own
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
If this kind of approach to learning Git interests you, I took a similar approach with A Hacker's Guide To Git ( https://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/ ). It is much longer and goes into a bit more det
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
Protip: ?w=1 on GitHub is synonymous with git-diff's -w flag.
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
I'm really disappointed to see this happening. Studying computer science in Christchurch, New Zealand made Jade Software a well-known name to me. They've never been a modern or progressive company, but I used to respect them for t
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
Jade Software are a New Zealand-based company. They've been around for decades.
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
Make sure you are connecting the 5V power supply to the PWR IN port, not the USB port.
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“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)(queue.acm.org)
73 points by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago|140 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
You're right that your (very contrived) examples are different. But if anybody on my team writes code like this, it doesn't pass code review.
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
This reminded me of Wraith, a screenshot comparison tool which The BBC developed for integration testing: https://github.com/bbc-news/wraith
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by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago
I've found that Sourceforge is still the only place you can get a lot of good-but-unmaintained software. I was there just the other week for the Saxon project[1], and it was painful to see how low SF have sunk. I wonder if it would be
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Ireland same-sex referendum set to approve gay marriage(bbc.co.uk)
29 points by wldlyinaccurate 11y ago|16 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 12y ago
If you have never touched Haskell before, I would recommend reading the first 4 chapters of Learn You a Haskell [0] first. LYAH has a much more gentle introduction to Haskell, and really helped me grasp the basics. After those chapters I w
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Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane'(bbc.co.uk)
156 points by wldlyinaccurate 12y ago|271 comments
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by wldlyinaccurate 12y ago
I find it helps to browse popular user packages: https://packagecontrol.io/browse/popular Most of the productivity gains I get from Sublime are from packages like Emmet, DocBlockr and my own custom macros.
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by wldlyinaccurate 12y ago
I don't really understand what you're trying to convey. You cite many scenarios where you could die going about your everyday life, but then criticize free soloing as being significantly more risky and "reckless". The ma

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