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Re:Ask HN: Please preface April Fools day stories with 4/1:? on Saturday March 31, 2012 @11:56PM (#3782597)
Agreed.
Re:Http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to/random on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:13AM (#3616703)
http://shits.jpg.to

(NSFW)

Re:Show HN: Mothereffinanimatedgif on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:40AM (#3602319)
The 24-hour conception to launch is more impressive than the end-result, which is still pretty damned impressive.
Re:An update on the Google bar on Thursday February 09, 2012 @09:34PM (#3574209)
Apparently google fired all of its designers. "Where should we put this?" "STICK IT IN A BIG LIST."

Imagine if every program had a "File" menu and nothing else, with all the same options.

Re:Poll: What mobile HTML5 framework do you use? on Friday February 03, 2012 @07:22PM (#3549723)
Same. I voted for both.
Re:Did Mark Zuckerberg just accidentally leak the new newsfeed design? on Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:21AM (#3542993)
This is a good catch. This is almost certainly a development version of facebook that gets rolled out internally before it hits the world, or even A/B testing.
Re:Ask HN: Do startups hire 50+ year old programmers?(US) on Saturday January 07, 2012 @02:34PM (#3437857)
If you don't see the value of Git, I doubt you learned anything at all. You may know some git commands, but you didn't learn anything.

You sound exactly like the stereotype the original post describes.

Re:HTML5 in, binaries out. Playing with the PhoneGap:Build API on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @04:34PM (#3421394)
That's very weird. I'm seeing the same thing from any new machine from which I hit the page. If you search google, that's definitely the landing page. If you refresh the message goes away.

Sounds like the site has a bug.

Re:Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops on Monday January 02, 2012 @09:37PM (#3418369)
Sherlock was a private detective. Note the private bit.
Re:Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops on Monday January 02, 2012 @08:14PM (#3418180)
If his IQ were any higher, he might have considered intentionally doing poorly on the IQ test. I guess he's just in no man's land.
Re:GoDaddy Now Firmly Against SOPA on Thursday December 29, 2011 @06:32PM (#3405909)
"Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities"

What bullshit. That's the exact opposite of "strongly opposed." That's the equivalent of "We're opposed to it because you are?"

GoDaddy can go burn. Hopefully they collapse as a company.

Re:Free Credit Card Icons for Download on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @11:53PM (#3398661)
The proprietary license makes the images all but useless.

I guess I can look at them without fear of being sued. That's something.

Re:Don't use the jQuery .data() method. Use .attr() instead. on Sunday December 18, 2011 @05:52PM (#3367765)
Agreed that localStorage should throw errors. This is particularly fun:

localStorage['a'] = {a:1}; localStorage['a'] -> "[object Object]"

Crap.

Re:Read this book: The Art of Readable Code on Sunday December 18, 2011 @01:12PM (#3367098)
Clean Code seems quite a bit more relevant and in-depth than this.

http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsman...

Re:Your hard drive is too big on Saturday December 17, 2011 @07:33PM (#3365495)
Purchasers need to get their heads out of their asses. It's awesome that you got a stipend, but I've born witness to the following phenomenon.

"I need a $300 SSD." "No, here's another $1200 desktop instead. Does that work?"

Until every developer is crying out in revolt, companies and individuals will keep making this same mistake. It is unacceptable to throttle a Core i7 with 16GB+ of DDR3 RAM with a 7200RPM hard drive for costing concerns.

Re:Your hard drive is too big on Saturday December 17, 2011 @07:20PM (#3365470)
Price per GB is a crap metric; price per used GB would be more relevant. If your test data is terabytes, you externalize to servers or lock yourself into only being able to work off a desktop. I also question whether or not a subset of that data could be run locally, and the CI system could run a full stack.

This just sounds like a justification of a bad test environment.

I also can't think of any project that compiles "in a second or two". Compilation and tests usually run build time into the minutes quickly, and time grows linearly, or possibly superlinearly with a project assuming even mild test coverage.

If you're locked into a desktop, you're locked into a network, and you can stick big data on a NAS or centralized server for re-use and testing. Or do you copy and paste the terabyte of data to every new developer?

Re:Poll: Do you use an adblocker? on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @04:41PM (#3326200)
I've gotten some value out of targeted ads.
Re:Why your coding standards document is crap, and probably misses the... on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @04:21PM (#3326080)
Intelli-J -> Auto-format on check-in, and I auto-format as I go. I have software to write, and I refuse to waste my time on your wild notions of column spacing you haven't codified into a tool or language.

I honestly don't care what format is used, so long as a format is used and it's automatic. Whitespace-important languages are nice I guess, but I still feel bad dicking with whitespace. It's faster just to throw down all the required bits, or let the IDE do it for you, and then auto-format or let the commit auto-format later.

"Coding Standards" should apply to the topics discussed in Clean Code - smaller classes, methods, proper design, etc. Meetings based around discussing whitespace convention are worse than setting cash on fire.

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