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IMO it's essentially marketing themselves. There can be good lessons there and they can be worth reading, but it's important to remember that the post itself is often there to "show expertise" rather than inform.

I love the illustrations in the slides. How long did it take you to learn flip chart drawing and how did you do the overlays in LaTeX?

This article conviced me decide to research and possibly try using Dexedrine/Dextroamphetamine. Wish me the best! I always wanted to try a potentially powerful nootropic.

There's an interview discussing that here, if you're interested: https://changelog.com/podcast/306

Reply to a deleted comment, mentioning that once the client wants to make edits themselves you end up back at wordpress:

Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust most of my clients with a wordpress login so that's never been an option. Coming from wordpress sites that clients have installed all manner of plugins on and I have to fix every two weeks, updating some text files manually is a minor issue. I will never go back to wordpress hell.

I am looking into online editing of the content files to address this issue, but I would rather stick with making the edits myself than see a client site with 5 H1s in a page.

IMO, just about any will do, but the simplest thing that'll get the job done is probably the best choice - less inertia.

If all you need is a markdown-powered blog, then choose something that does only that. I use Gatsby because I'm familiar with React and it does what I need it to do.

I provide a few small businesses with simple websites to advertise their services (opening times and the like) where wordpress would have been the "traditional" choice, and the main thing I've learned from this is to stay away from loads of plugins or extra functionality until you absolutely need it - it's just more maintenance overhead and things to mess about with/configure. When I update a client site, I simply edit some text and regenerate the site - no plugins to update or config files to edit.

I'll be honest, as I saw the big "NO", I thought "not another one of these" and closed the tab.

Perhaps seemingly showing a result before I've answered questions is an anti-pattern.

I might be a bit grumpy, but I'm getting really sick of these type of pages. There's no information, just a smart-arse "NO". It doesn't help anyone and it's so overdone I don't think it's funny anymore.

I like to use: `alias sp='vim ~/notes/scratchpad-$(date +"%m-%d-%Y-%T")'`

Their "twennybars" are good too. Perfect for hiking or generally being on the go all day, if a little expensive.

Nope, it doesn't. No hardware video out support at all AFAIK.

For what it's worth, using the solus steam runtime (SLI) I see noticable improvements over steam-native.

When I installed Solus around 4 months ago, steam was noticably faster on the same hardware than it was when installed on Ubuntu.

There are probably ways to get the same experience on Ubuntu, but if I were a non-technical user I think I'd only really care about which gave me the best experience out of the box.

It's not something I've used to any great extent, just that I use the steam runtime developed for it on my arch system and the lead developer has been a guest on a few podcasts I've listened to. That said, this is my impression of it so far:

Solus is a distribution built from scratch. I believe the main target is non-technical end users, rather than, say, servers or power users. What that quite equates to, I don't really know beyond missing certain development or server software from the base install and in some cases the repositories. I currently can't see a way to install external packages (like the AUR or PPAs). I've had a play with it for a couple of hours and it's pretty slick, with really fast start up times. It's probably not ready for you to hand to your Grandmother just yet, but it seems very user-friendly to me. I have it currently running on a laptop I gave to a friend around 4 months ago, and so far it's the only distribution I've been able to hand over to a non-technical user and not get called to fix/change/etc. every couple of weeks.

It's quite surprising that he doesn't mention Solus - quite a lot of effort has gone into making Steam run as well as possible. The readme at the following URL goes into detail about the problems with the steam-native-runtime, and how Solus tries to rectify the issues.

https://github.com/solus-project/linux-steam-integration

A fun exercise - while you might not _need_ JS, it's still the best option in a lot of cases.

I'd never even consider using most of these techniques in production - while they're interesting and showcase what CSS can do, they're practically unmaintainable.

You might be interested in mycroft, then: https://mycroft.ai/

That would be fantastic, and definitely something I'd use. The idea of meeting up with a dynamically composed group of people to go and do an activity really appeals to me - especially with hobbies where new views/insights are particularly valuable.

Does something like this already exist, anyone (I'm googling and not yet finding anything)?

I find this much less interested in getting clicks, and easier to read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus

Try them both, for at least a week each - and any others you've heard of that seem interesting to you.

Your editor is a very personal choice, and something you'll use a lot, so it's worth putting the time in to try a few before you stick with one.

I always try to put my personal assumptions aside and buy the person a meal - in the UK a lot of convenience stores have "meal deals" on that cost around £3 for sandwiches, a side and a drink. I usually go with that without asking them first, and then listen if they want to talk.

I think the worst thing about being in their situation would be that most people wouldn't listen, and sometimes that can be just enough to get you through the day.

I think this is the right idea, especially since the symbol's already in unicode - regardless, I think the two vertical lines on a B has gained too much traction to topple it at this stage.

Love the idea, but I don't really get the recipient field - whichever (valid) address I put in, I get an error. I also think it's a bit unclear on what should be entered here, a post/zip code, company name, etc.?

I actually don't mind this to an extent - I practice amateur rocketry as a hobby (and thus order some things that might be considered suspicious).

I'd rather the police knew exactly what I was doing than just see a small part and assume it was something bad. It's not an ideal situation, but given the whole terrorism excuse, but I'd rather be watched and know that I couldn't be confused with someone who has malicious intent.

We were told about them in school - I use them when looking at my phone with headphones in when walking around cities. Maybe telling people about them is now more relevant than it was when I was in school, for just this reason.

Still up for me at 3PM, Northwest UK.

Try to get them to open-source it. It's a long shot, but worth a go, it might just save what we love about fireworks and put it in the hands of people who use it: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/adobe-com-release-adob...

I'd recommend the screencast to anyone interested in frontend dev. Of high quality and very informative, taken at a good pace, well worth the $12.

I must admit that I find Chrome's devtools the easiest to use, but that's probably because it's what I'm most used to.

I work at a web dev company and there's a pretty obvious split between people who prefer FF or Chrome devtools. Every time someone says "but you can do this with x devtools but not in y devtools", it's met with a member of the other party saying something to the effect of "yes you can! it's here!". I think it's just a matter of opinion/what you're used to.

My few side projects are, at present, just fragments here and there - nothing really cohesive. I do intend to post them here when I actually get something worth showing finished.

I'm pretty new to completing my own side-projects, so that's the main thing I'm learning at the moment: how to find time to get personal projects done, and actually doing it. I'm getting there, but there's a lot more to learn just yet.

Best thing about IE10? "Automatically install updates" is an option, checked by default.