pete_b

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by pete_b 11mo ago
Willison has an impressive record for coining terms. But feel like he may have missed it here. In the context, 'engineering' doesn't feel that different to 'coding'. The sloppy sounding part is 'vibe' and
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by pete_b 5y ago
Remember the EU started as the EEC. More feature creep in realm of transnational governance.
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by pete_b 5y ago
I hope it works out for Basecamp. It is simply not ok to allow anxious or bitter people to be wearing each other out with political beliefs when they are being paid well to do a job. The twitter parade of martyr complexes is predictable but
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by pete_b 6y ago
Agreed. I find it rather alarming that an influential member of the Chrome team is talking like this. All our e2e test suites are built around Chrome and XPath because of its expanded abilities over CSS
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by pete_b 7y ago
Is this even legal to sell in Europe? Looks like it is designed to slice objects on collision.
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by pete_b 7y ago
echo Hacker News | sed s/Hacker/Speciation/ Not that I mind, quite enjoying these articles.
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by pete_b 8y ago
Everyone has a plan right now in the UK parliament. Probably over half of parliament is hoping to push the UK into a 'cancel Brexit' scenario, despite claiming they respect the referendum result. Possibly a third of parliament hav
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by pete_b 8y ago
> Birds today share same genes as tyrannosaur rex Really? Surely this claim would require the sequencing of the T-Rex genome, which I'm guessing is an impossibility.
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by pete_b 8y ago
Guitologist channel on YouTube is great for walkthrough amp repairs and conversions
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by pete_b 9y ago
Angular 2 in beta made bold claims about being 'production ready' which reads 'almost done', it was frustrating just how long it then took to become what I would consider production ready. I consider Angular 4 the first
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by pete_b 10y ago
I wouldn't. Overturning a high turnout national referendum result would probably result in violent riots.
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by pete_b 10y ago
Pithy answer 2: because they are economically privileged. The headline is a broad generalisation, and as another broad generalisation poorer people are more religious and more conservative because they have harder lives, bleaker temporal ou
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by pete_b 10y ago
So the most ruthless mafia operate among international organizations, but from London, thus making Britain the most corrupt country in the world? Perhaps they never leave London, not old enough to travel alone, or they don't know how
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by pete_b 10y ago
It's usually inappropriate to draw in politics and religion when they are off topic, but sometimes they are involved. Ethics are involved frequently with technology, so politics and religion are not that far off. Though really, It&#x2
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by pete_b 10y ago
Somewhat earlier, ~1400 BC, the book of Leviticus chapters 13-14 detail quarantine procedures for infectious disease.
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by pete_b 11y ago
High level in many areas "full-stack" is not as mythical as is suggested, it just takes someone with the right aptitude, and a long time over a lot of roles to get there. Whether it does such a person any favours in the employment
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by pete_b 11y ago
Dense, opinionated and somewhat bewildering. Which in a way represents the world of "front-end" in 2015 very well.
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by pete_b 12y ago
You sound quite intolerant.
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by pete_b 13y ago
The design of the site is excellent, but... Vanilla CSS isn't that bad. Existing preprocessors have made it much nicer to use without changing the basic formula and workings of CSS. GSS is a fairly radical departure and as such it shou
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by pete_b 13y ago
Another solution to the 'elephant in the room' - that frontend workflows have become too complicated for frontend developers.
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by pete_b 13y ago
CSS source maps! Been waiting for this one
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by pete_b 13y ago
AKA a colorful and witty guide to being a self-assured and self-validated narsissist
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by pete_b 13y ago
https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/413669330216185856 No such thing as bad publicity?
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by pete_b 13y ago
There are, in-fact, and have been for a while several known ways do do this in CSS 2.1 this just being another with a similar long list of restrictions and context requirements. http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown
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by pete_b 13y ago
FWIW modern flexbox techniques also work in IE 10, you just need the right polyfill since that browser uses a slightly older version of flexbox syntax. For examples: http://the-echoplex.net/flexyboxes
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by pete_b 13y ago
As others have pointed out, well crafted or not, it doesn't add anything new to what people know can be done with CSS if you hack it hard enough; 5 years ago someone made a Homer Simpson in pure CSS (before border-radius) and it worked in I
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by pete_b 13y ago
Why see it as negativity? SVG is a core web standard that is woefully underused considering how well it is supported. These complex 'you can do this with CSS' demos are always impressive, but they have little practical use; considering the