OriginalSyn

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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I don't see how finding JavaScript programmers is going to be a problem in 10 years... even if they started now it would take, at least, that long to fully deprecate the language out of the browser. NodeJS may go away but I think betting on
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Well that link works but the filtering doesn't... If I search for "Javascript" W3Schools is top result despite the fact I blocked it.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
They filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which means they don't have to fully liquidate to their creditors and also means their debt is not absolved, merely that there is a trustee appointed to oversee their assets while allowing the business to
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Experts Exchange, W3Schools and Quora started showing up in my s
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
BTW Angular supports prefixing your 'ng-' attributes with 'data-' if you want valid HTML.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Generally speaking you don't need to own and test all devices, the emulator does just fine. There are a few quirks here and there but as cryptoz alludes to I've never had more headaches than trying to support all the versions of IE and mode
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Or only allow downloading in background when connected to a charger.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
The problem is if you're using 3rd party libs, especially if the 3rd party code is coming from developers with the philosophy that ASI is a good thing and intentionally leave out the semi-colons from their code. Adding the semi-colon to the
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
After having my account locked down because I didn't want to use my full name I closed my account, shortly after they turned into a more modern looking experts exchange and I wasn't so sore about not being able to contribute to the site.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I would hazard a guess that we're roughly the same age because I grew up with the same mixture of units but I think it's less to do with growing up in a rural area than the fact that your parents and grandparents were educated on imperial u
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Maybe you have friends, family or loved ones that use iphones that may be at your home that want to charge their phones? No. Then this product isn't for you. I personally am in love with a woman that comes from a family of mac users, perhap
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
International ecommerce, including China, I can't speak to the exact numbers but the revenue from 6 and 7 is in the millions so we're not quite out of that maintenance cost to revenue hasn't quite tipped yet. Though we do display the ie6cou
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
The Humble Bundle may have allowed them to file Chapter 11, which means they don't plan to shutdown, instead of Chapter 7, which would have required total liquidation of the company.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
The end user shouldn't care or know what version the browser for anything but troubleshooting anyways, to them it's just "Firefox" and "Chrome" no more of this stupid bullshit like IE6/7/8/9/10 that will held back progress for the last deca
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Should but from what I understand IE6/7 still account for fairly large portion of our revenue.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I love foundation it really does straddle the difference between bootstrap and skeleton, light and flexible while being fairly full featured. Plus the grid system is the tits.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I may have been thinking of a edge case in CoffeeScript when I wrote that, but you're right.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
In team environments you typically sacrifice convenience for maintainability and while you may not have a problem with optional parenthesis, it invites ambiguity and a more junior programmer may make a mistake because of it so the idea is t
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Proof for the downvoter: http://www.amazon.com/Rovio-Mobile-Angry-Birds/dp/B004SBQGHS... and http://phandroid.com/2011/03/30/after-brief-amazon-exclusivi...
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
That's because Amazon locked Rovio into an exclusive deal, you could only get the Ad free version from the Amazon App Store.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I can't think of an instance that I've had an app that is ad supported that doesn't have a "pro" version that often does nothing more than removes the ads.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
I drink at about 8 8 oz cups of coffee a day during the week plus a couple cans of soda. I also poop once a day, withing 45 minutes of 4:30pm. I am scared of what the implications would be if I stopped consuming so much caffeine
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
No, I don't attribute it to being agile, I attribute it to dev being involved near the start of project planning and having input along the way. It just happened that when the company decided on being an agile shop this happened as well. So
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Exactly, I can't count the times I've butted heads with our marketing, design and business development teams over silly, annoying and outright ridiculous features they had charged us with implementing... before we became a more agile shop t
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
It works like twitter, you type "+username blah blah blah", if you want it to be a completely private message, remove any other people/circles in the share to box.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Google's ui elements have a slight gradient and border to them giving them the appearance of an actionable element on the page..
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Exactly, by default the metro app labelled as desktop feels more like the equivalent of the command prompt in earlier version of Windows than an actual desktop... a power user/administration feature that is shamefully pushed off to the side
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
But Windows 8 is and the store for RT and 8 is shared.
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Yes. People fuck up all the time. My employer has been in the eCommerce for almost 12 years and we still have feature launches that destroy our website. I'd say I work with some of the brightest people I've ever had the chance to work with,
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by OriginalSyn 14y ago
Yes. Anyone and everyone is, has been and can be "Anonymous"

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