puppybeard

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by puppybeard 14y ago
> It passes boredom So does cutting your toenails > It maintains friendships, > It resurrects old friendships, > It sparks new friendships No, people do those things. It's a medium for that interactions, but hardly the only
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by puppybeard 14y ago
tl;dr = "Turns out people who've been doing this longer than us actually know what they're talking about"
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by puppybeard 14y ago
> "Because FF and Chrome are cross-platform, I and my fellow developers can test on our OS of choice." Speaking from experience, you can't always. Having done a lot of browser-testing, I've seen the same version of the same browser beha
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by puppybeard 14y ago
Graceful Degradation - look it up. The baseline compatibility should be "functional but not necessarily beautiful". Not wasting time getting pixel-perfection in IE is wise. Blocking IE is retarded. The fact that you haven't even considered
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by puppybeard 14y ago
I would say this list is a bit shocking, but I own a Kindle, and I've never highlighted a flippin thing. I don't see myself ever getting in the habit either. Looks like the data set is quite young, I'd be surprised if their info is older th
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by puppybeard 14y ago
It might. It might also suggest that he hasn't developed any embarassment about thinking out loud and openly contemplating various aspects of our lives. That's not a bad thing if you're in the storytelling business.
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by puppybeard 14y ago
Aye, he's a lot more deriviative than he lets on.
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by puppybeard 14y ago
I quite Like Jon Blow's creative activity, but my god the author of that article must never play any game that costs less than €50. Blockbuster games have as much intellectual requirement as blockbuster films. The films advertised on billbo
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by puppybeard 14y ago
You have a good point. All the skills listed are good things to have, but you wouldn't look for half of them in my current job, a lot of it would be useless. And an understanding of design and usability is vital, even though we're not the d
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by puppybeard 14y ago
As someone who works with Linux and Windows, I agree with what you're saying here. I hate Putty though. I use Aptana for writing my code, and quite like the built-in terminal in that for SSH. You may already have tried Aptana, but I find
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by puppybeard 14y ago
Aye, I'd agree that the things shouldn't be too net-dependent. It should be a simple matter to pre-load the things with a full curriculum of textbooks, in electronic form. I don't see anyone arguing that OLPC is the complete solution to edu
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by puppybeard 14y ago
I had one class that taught anything about computers in my teenage years (the laughable ECDL course), and I got kicked out on the first day. Nothing I knew about computers manifested in any of my exams in other subjects, but I loved the thi
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by puppybeard 14y ago
The abstract of the actual research: "Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-sca
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by puppybeard 14y ago
Yep. What makes this apology convincing, compared to some others, is that they were improving their system, rather than fucking with people's data without their consent.
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by puppybeard 14y ago
I regard them as instructions to be processed by something which can actually evaluate those instructions, like a browser. Writing css and html is no more programming than writing a word doc is. The resulting file has information and layout
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by puppybeard 14y ago
Mozilla Developer Network already is the replacement for W3Schools. Even for experts, it's a great reference. https://developer.mozilla.org/ You'd have to be very green to find w3schools to be any use, and even still, it would you bad adv
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by puppybeard 14y ago
I like the look of it, and I like the idea behind it. It's not for me, but it's still nice. I don't see how it's supposed to be a Panacea though. Are there people out there who have great difficulty blogging?
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Honestly, I got as far as hovering the link, saw it was a .pdf by the status bar, and was instantly alienated. What decade was this fictional start-up created in? 1870?
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Yeah, if I installed Windows 8, I'd probably take the time the time to learn how the new things work. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it's bad. What I don't like is how consumption-oriented Metro is. It doesn't matter how slick
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Etsy wins.
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Argument which apparently led to the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2082965 I love how oslic describes a dev who maintains their right to say how their work is used as a "protestor". Surely putting in the hard work, and being e
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by puppybeard 15y ago
That one really bewildered me too. Suddenly there's no motive for having a unique element on a page, and styling it's children accordingly? Nonsense.
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Don't consumer operating systems always offer a virtual tour of how to use them?
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by puppybeard 15y ago
The "teeth itch" thing: It feels too much like over-ornamentation. It just wouldn't suit my style of work. I find it much faster to scan css when everything is vertically aligned. If I have to scan left and right as well as up and down, it
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Some nice ideas, but not many new ones. And the new ones don't always make sense: "For each level of markup nesting, try and indent your CSS to match" <= that made my teeth itch. Mostly just down to personal taste, but I really find it
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by puppybeard 15y ago
I agree with you, and MG Siegler, by extension, that most tech writing is crap. The best writing I've seen is always by technical professionals, rather than journalists assigned to write about technology. However I count Siegler as in the l
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by puppybeard 15y ago
tl;dr = "Company Not That Bad, says man working for Investment Fund with stake in the First Company" Let's not question that source! TechCrunch has the most punchable "journalists" I've ever seen, not including tabloids. As for one of their
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by puppybeard 15y ago
Remember this rule: design and coding are two separate processes, each of which needs it's own workflow. If you style a site by adding bits of css now and again while you build the backend of a site, it will look like crap. I know, because
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by puppybeard 15y ago
I've never made a startup, so I'm talking as a consumer, but here's my honest opinion. I don't want to use your service, I have no need for it. I have four other services I can use to vent, and I only use 2 of them. Are you addressing a nee
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by puppybeard 15y ago
This could be handy for something like starting a template from scratch for a CMS. However it needs more work. Multiple classes are broken. .post-5 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-products post { } Also, it mis

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