Bodil

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by Bodil 14y ago
My initial reaction when hearing the soundtrack (I was a conference attendee) was to walk over to the stage to see if that was really Scooter playing. The lyrics just didn't seem nearly as offensive as most people apparently find them in li
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by Bodil 14y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, there was a fair bit of sexism in that performance, in the sense that whoever wrote it clearly has a very specific idea of what his audience is like: socially inept males. You know, developers. I was just too busy be
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by Bodil 14y ago
Just to clarify: That atrocity wasn't organised by the conference, they'd just agreed to give Microsoft (their biggest sponsor) the stage for a bit to do their big Azure announcement. There's certainly a lesson for conference organisers in
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Zed A. Shaw - The Web Will Die When OOP Dies [video](vimeo.com)
9 points by Bodil 14y ago|3 comments
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by Bodil 15y ago
Why would significant whitespace impede tooling? If the compiler can parse it, why can't your refactoring tools?
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by Bodil 15y ago
In the case of CoffeeScript, the appeal, in my mind, is that it's _not_ a brand new language, it's just an improved syntax and some extra language features over what is essentially plain old JavaScript. Anyone who already grasps the fundame
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by Bodil 15y ago
I never thought of it that way before. That's brilliant. :)
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by Bodil 15y ago
Oh, I'm absolutely not trying to bash Brendan. The fact that he managed to produce anything at all in the short time he had is profoundly impressive on its own, and the core of genius that exists in between the Bad Parts is worthy of all ki
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by Bodil 15y ago
In all fairness, Eclipse does have i-search, and on Ctrl-J it's not that difficult to discover.