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I think the idea is that when the interface changes, even if someone else comes in and makes some naive updates later, it should still continue running.
I like the idea of being able to address content based on it's actual content. Perhaps I don't have a very good imagination, but if all you have is a hash of the content, how to you know
where to find it?
From within a single app it's easy, but what about in other apps or other machines. Would there be a (possibly distributed/voluntary) lookup service? Could comments or lookup "hints" be added to the spec?
I completely agree. I interviewed with a company, and did some whiteboard coding. Most of it was simple, but whenever I would stop for a moment to think about what I was doing, they would prompt me to find out "what are you thinking"?
Even when I'm working very closely with colleagues, we often spend long moments of silence thinking and working through issues. It's a part of the process.
Use this every day. Works great.
Posted by
anoxic on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @02:39PM
from the tools.ietf.org dept.
Posted by
anoxic on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:30PM
from the web.mit.edu dept.
"Rapid learning" and troubleshooting methods. The process for both of these is nearly identical, although some details differ. There are several books by Steve Litt that go over these and I found helped me troubleshoot problems faster than most of my co-workers, but the same principles helped me to understand a new code base much faster.
Available books by Steve Litt:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/index.htm
A nice book package, I recommend these to every developer I meet:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/recession_package_a...
His website isn't pretty, but the content is golden.
Posted by
anoxic on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @12:28PM
from the css-tricks.com dept.
Posted by
anoxic on Monday August 25, 2014 @01:05PM
from the jonathanpuckey.com dept.
I think it really means floppy bird IS an OS, albeit one that can get nothing done but a flopping bird
Cheerful and unexpected from a password article :-)
Just a nitpick: Why don't you stay consistent and use Open Sans for all the main text and the logotype at the top. Having "Haskell" in Ubuntu when the rest of the site is not stylized like that looks a little silly.
I didn't like the new iOS7 icons and I categorically dismissed the Yosemite icons as well. In light of this article, I realize, these icons /make sense/. More than that, it forced me to actually look closely at them. And I also realized that I don't like the icons in Mavericks either, I was just used to it already.
The consistency and pattern behind the new icons is well thought out, and the use of subtle lighting effects (the blue and orange undertones) is great art direction and seems to pull things together in a great way.
What I don't like is the bright colors and the undertone of a "default" feeling -- like how many of the icons feel like generic dingbats. But this also seems consistent with Apple's use of Helvetica, which gives me the same feeling. Which is somewhere between totally not noticing it's there, and feeling like it's an evil faceless government/corporation.
Made me think.
My mistake... I didn't look close enough at this.
I think I will have to make a hacker film just for this....
This actually makes sense in an unintuitive way.