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by wauter 3y ago
This article explains the reasoning pretty well: https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
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by wauter 3y ago
I hereby submit “regression to the population mean”.
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by wauter 3y ago
Great project!
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by wauter 6y ago
I think that’s exactly the kind of subtle thing he is trying to capture in this essay: we read ‘unorthodox’ and we get ready, almost as a subconscious reflex, to dismiss whatever comes next as, like you put it, ‘blatant Xism’, or as Paul pu
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by wauter 9y ago
Does what it needs to do, and in a pretty slick way as well! Nice work.
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by wauter 12y ago
So, is there an explanation somewhere of what they do?
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by wauter 12y ago
Also, the part to get from 'this demonstrates what I had in mind' to 'actual finished, truly functioning project', is just... Dull. It's bugfixing, stepping back and realizing there's security issues, and whatn
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Mixergy interview with Nikki Durkin about 99dresses' ups, downs and failure(mixergy.com)
3 points by wauter 12y ago|0 comments
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by wauter 12y ago
Just curious: why is there nothing anounced on 99dresses.com about this? Will the business go on after all? Are we in the final days and will it then just suddenly out of the blue shut down?
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Start Small, Think Big, Scale Fast, Leave Belgium(medium.com)
1 points by wauter 12y ago|0 comments
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In A Perfect World, This Is How Web Sites Would Handle Login Forms(woutersmet.com)
7 points by wauter 13y ago|16 comments
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XKCD Now - world time zone converter based on XKCD comic #1335(xkcdnow.com)
8 points by wauter 13y ago|4 comments
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A case for the infinite free trial.(woutersmet.com)
3 points by wauter 13y ago|1 comments
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by wauter 13y ago
Here's a great (and by now almost classic) article on that subject: http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/
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by wauter 13y ago
Thanks!
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Why the most important part of your app has the messiest code(woutersmet.com)
16 points by wauter 13y ago|2 comments
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My password strategy(woutersmet.com)
2 points by wauter 13y ago|0 comments
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Startup on a shoestring: building a poor man’s CRM yourself(woutersmet.com)
1 points by wauter 13y ago|0 comments
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Introduction To ElasticSearch(jurriaanpersyn.com)
3 points by wauter 13y ago|1 comments
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by wauter 13y ago
Soooo, does anybody else immediately think about Diaspora here? How does Layer compare to, say, e-mail on the one hand, and Diaspora on the other?
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by wauter 13y ago
Actually I don't really get why anaphora are considered so hard: the difference between We gave the bananas to the monkeys because they were hungry. and We gave the bananas to the monkeys because they were ripe. is simply to ch
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by wauter 13y ago
Very classy post, especially given that communicating this thoroughly and honestly is (sadly) still not the standard among tech companies.
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by wauter 14y ago
I personally like how it's not too easy to find subreddits, and how it happens mostly trough people mentioning them. It keeps many communities nice and small and protected from the 'lowest common denominator' effect. Of course this means I
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by wauter 14y ago
> Facebook can afford to throw money at the problem Aaah the good old circular reasoning of dismissing the big guy - they did get big enough to be able to afford money by using PHP too you know.
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by wauter 14y ago
Some background: I'm at a very early-stage start-up of 2, and we wanted a centralized tool to keep track of bugs, todos, ideas, potential testers and (oh my) leads/customers. And we don't need or want the overhead, and often cost (however s
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BarListo: online boards of lists (AKA a simpler, more information-dense Trello)(barlisto.com)
2 points by wauter 14y ago|1 comments
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by wauter 14y ago
I don't know for sure, but I would suspect that Facebook's description of "The Hacker Way" when they filed their IPO helped a bit to give it a positive connotation.
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by wauter 14y ago
Awesome! That's Thomas Fuchs from Scriptaculous, no? Scriptaculous is what caused me to learn JS, and by exention, to go from just dabbling with HTML-only static pages to actually doing web developing (which is now my career). I love that o
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by wauter 16y ago
Let's put them back on there and add a chapter titled 'controversy over Wikipedia deletion' - plenty of sources there :-) (I am only half kidding in fact, I remember something like this happening a while ago but don't remember what the prec
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by wauter 18y ago
Great read! For the same reason as Paul (i.e. it's fun) I'll put my own list here. Apart from the interesting fact that Paul is actually on - my - list (since long before I read this essay, really), so are some of his heroes so I guess that

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