jallardice

8 ms·

1.
How we built our Covid-19 risk estimator(economist.com)
1 points by jallardice 6y ago|0 comments
2.
by jallardice 8y ago
I think it depends on the area - I've seen it happen twice in broad daylight on Clerkenwell Road near Farringdon station over the last couple of years and it's happened to a friend of mine near Waterloo.
3.
by jallardice 8y ago
I'm the co-founder of a web-focused consultancy which works with larger, "enterprise" type businesses to fund work with much smaller companies, usually pre-seed startups. We hire more experienced engineers to work on the grou
4.
Get good with git: bisect(orangejellyfish.com)
3 points by jallardice 8y ago|0 comments
5.
by jallardice 9y ago
We network at meetups, conferences and other events, so through word of mouth mainly. The active engineering community in London is fantastic at helping to spread opportunities.
6.
by jallardice 9y ago
A colleague and I left a large UK company and started orangejellyfish ( https://orangejellyfish.com ), a software consultancy with a focus on the web and JavaScript. The real push to start it came when we realised that much of wha
7.
by jallardice 9y ago
I chose a lab-grown diamond to have set in my fiancée's engagement ring. It looks stunning, is significantly larger than I would have been able to afford if sticking to "natural" stones, and nobody can tell the difference. I
8.
Bitcoin swings as civil war looms(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by jallardice 9y ago|0 comments
9.
by jallardice 11y ago
You don't even have to resolve the promise via a callback for that to be the case - you can use the static resolve method. This is really useful if you have a function that can sometimes return a promise and sometimes a "normal&qu
10.
by jallardice 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I recently had something from Amazon delivered by a woman (same as you mentioned, no uniform or any indication she was with Amazon at all) who turned up with 2 young children who got out of the car and were ru
11.
by jallardice 11y ago
Apparently so... I've never encountered pages like that on the BBC site before though: We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is
12.
In Pieces(species-in-pieces.com)
7 points by jallardice 12y ago|0 comments
13.
Writing Yeoman generators in ES6(mammal.io)
2 points by jallardice 12y ago|0 comments
14.
by jallardice 12y ago
You're right, this would have been a good final section. However it's pretty straightforward as Babel compiles `export` syntax to Node's `module.exports` format by default which means you can require them in the usual way. It
15.
by jallardice 12y ago
I've not had any problems with importing non-ES6 modules into ES6 code. To use Express for example you can simply do `import express from 'express'`. If you only need access to one or two properties of the exported object you
16.
Using ES6 with npm today(mammal.io)
23 points by jallardice 12y ago|7 comments
17.
The Finnish Concept of 'talkoot' in Software Development(mammal.io)
4 points by jallardice 12y ago|0 comments
18.
Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites(blog.keithclark.co.uk)
2 points by jallardice 12y ago|1 comments
19.
by jallardice 12y ago
I'm the maintainer of this site. It's been around for a while but has recently undergone a major update. ESLint is a new addition and more messages are now covered. A simple API has also been introduced to make it possible to get
20.
Show HN: JSLint, JSHint and ESLint Error Explanations(jslinterrors.com)
3 points by jallardice 12y ago|1 comments
21.
Inclusiveness at Mozilla(brendaneich.com)
137 points by jallardice 12y ago|187 comments
22.
by jallardice 13y ago
I think you need to view this from the perspective of the individual in question. She just posted this comment: > I have said "No" but being a Pakistani girl there's nothing I can do. I was even forced to marry that guy wh
23.
by jallardice 13y ago
I just got an email inviting me to download the beta. The only download link in there is a button labelled "Download For Mac".
24.
Early bird tickets now on sale for jQuery UK 2014(jqueryuk.com)
1 points by jallardice 13y ago|0 comments
25.
by jallardice 13y ago
The whole problem could have been avoided if the agnostic had just added a simple comment stating that the code intentionally only handles strings of 3 or 4 digits.
26.
Now available: ESLint v0.1.0(nczonline.net)
1 points by jallardice 13y ago|0 comments
27.
An introduction to ES6 Part 4: Parameters and Spread(globaldev.co.uk)
3 points by jallardice 13y ago|0 comments
28.
by jallardice 13y ago
Of course, but it's still an inconvenience. No time for delays! But then again I'm sitting here commenting on HN, so I can't really talk...
29.
by jallardice 13y ago
Rails Rumble weekend. Inconvenient for us too.
30.
by jallardice 13y ago
A community has to start somewhere. Ghost is a brand new platform but I'd be surprised if a strong, active community didn't grow relatively quickly. It's gained 800 stars on GitHub in the space of about 3 hours.

More ›