fred2133
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @06:17AM (#10264201)
Interestingly, this is exactly the same method I use to weed out bad employers.
Maybe when the market's a bit worse I'll be forced to jump through one of these hoops. But right now...
Re:Flowchart.js – Simple SVG flow chart diagrams from textual represen...
on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @11:20AM (#10221138)
I might have started with DOT. I get that this is more specialized, though. Nice work.
Re:‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups
on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:56AM (#10203384)
Weird. Lived here all my life, only time I've ever heard it is in "look at those wacky Yanks" conversations. South coast/London here. Maybe it's regional?
Re:Ad Blockers and the Nuisance at the Heart of the Modern Web
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:33PM (#10089019)
Maybe "display this resource text-only" rather than "hide this resource" would be a reasonable compromise.
An acceptable ads standard, in other words.
Re:Things to commit just before leaving your job
on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @09:50AM (#10085385)
Subtle abuse of type juggling is the way to go in PHP
var_dump(true == 'false');
Re:Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:19AM (#10053543)
Yeah, but the BBC are rewriting an Assange press-release, not a Swedish press-release.
Re:Things I would build if I worked at GitHub
on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:55AM (#10015319)
Github Firehose if it was me.
Something to build tools on top of.
Re:Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015
on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:52PM (#9867011)
You should check your stats some time and see how many of your users fail to load your JS, rather than are capable of loading your JS. You might be surprised, especially if you have lots of mobile traffic.
Re:Sophie Wilson, Acorn and the development of ARM
on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @08:54AM (#9845074)
My college had an (experimental?) machine they got from Acorn that dual-booted into a 'nix OS. It got stuck in a corner and forgotten about, but if it had been a few years later I think it could have been an amazing project for them.
Re:I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American and failed
on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:52AM (#9765457)
Free movement of goods, labour and capital. Miss out one and you don't have a free market, you're just being scammed.
Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013)
on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:54AM (#9731438)
Somebody should build that.
Why should governments and corps have all the fun? (Insert sousveillance/transparent society/David Brin rant here).
Are there any decent open source number plate recognition libraries yet?