Yes, we sure are lucky that natural born Americans have never implemented anything poorly
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Yeah? I find raising ducks in dark sheds so you can kill them because you like the taste abhorrent, with or without force feeding.
Worked great until I updated Linux to discover that I could no longer install the stupid proprietary driver for the graphics, so lost hardware accelerated graphics. Was never able to downgrade successfully.
I've been idly looking for something modern to replace it but seems like there's nothing like that on the market now.
The _reason_ for the /posts/98765/my-dumplings-recipe pattern is SEO (ugh).
It is thought that search engines give extra weight to urls which contain relevant keywords.
You can invariably put anything after the id and still get the page. This has the bonus of freaking out the marketing team when they spot '/posts/98765/my-giant-butthole' in the analytics.
Eventually I hope to get funding for "Newly Married Women Who Feel Their Partner is Uncommitted Dislike Pretty Much Everything That Person Does".
Take it to La Palma, please. It needs the investment and construction jobs. Probably a few retired German hippies will complain, but no Palmeros.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_de_los_Muchachos_Observa...
And I don't buy their justification for going down the app route in the first place: "But by the middle of 2011, six months after we launched in our app, more than half of installed web browsers were still not HTML5 compliant."
Who cares? The app only targets iOS, so as long as mobile Safari rendered it, they were fine. And most of us here know that the app would be a pretty thin wrapper round a webview.
I suspect the real reason for going down the app route is because back in 2011 all the marketing types were screaming "WE MUST HAVE AN APP!!!1!!"
News International made the same mistake with "The Daily", which (probably) cost them over $60M.
The line length (measure) on that page is about 60 ems. This is much longer than the optimal value for readability, which is 30 - 40 ems.
> Ditto, I don't like the trend of higher and higher line heights - 1.2 is plenty, 1.5 is overkill, this site is 1.7;
As the measure increases, leading (line height) must also increase for legibility, because it's harder to track longer lines with the eye when 'returning' to the start of the next line.
A leading of 1.7 ems doesn't seem unreasonable to me for such a long measure.
For me, type on the web is a lot better than it used to be: tiny type on ridiculously long lines. There are some holdouts though; Hacker News for example.
Its like giving a dog a biscuit every time it pisses on the rug.
Still, I feel that the fair solution to both parties is to explain to the client why the important and urgent items are going to take much longer than he thinks.
OP could look on this gig as an opportunity to train himself in managing clients, and therefore walk away with some benefit.
Mine too, and I've been at this game for 16 years.
In fact, my usual experience is agencies coming to me with no design or functional specs (even back-of-an-envelope stuff) and wanting a price.
The only time I ever charge by the hour is for maintenance programming.
Certainly looks like it's there to me: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
The full list is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1Pv4v8j7
It contains such gems as "cockburger", "penispuffer", and -- the piece de resistance -- "twatwaffleunclefucker".
Is this a crude phishing attempt, or just a massive WTF?
I'm permanently on the move, so I've got it stored in my parents' attic. I told them to be careful with it, as it contains the entire universe.
The last step isn't usually necessary.
The party in power (Partido Popular) is on the right of Spanish politics, and sits with the right wing EPP group in the European Parliament.
For what it's worth, while the US tends to think of Europe as being socialist, I can't think of any EU countries with socialist governments except Austria and Denmark.
They charge you? These are free for me.
In fact, EU law says that your bank cannot charge you any more for a transfer to another EU account than to a domestic account.
I'm going to take this with a hug pinch of salt until I've read the transcripts, due to the involvement of famous publicity-hound Kevin Warwick.
I used work for a living in AppleScript nearly 20 years ago. Heavy drinking helps block out the memories.
There's a huge and active Laravel community, it's just that Taylor is the benevolent dictator.
If Taylor was hit by a bus, there would be plenty of others who would be willing and capable to take up the baton.
Seems to me pretty remarkable to rule out Laravel on this basis, yet keep CakePHP, ignoring all its other flaws.
A. At onDOMContentLoaded and B. Inside a setTimeout(func, 0) block
Then the browser's loading indicator will stop before the script has been loaded, executed and all its assets loaded.
Useful for social media widgets, etc.
At least, in Chrome.
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, which only had 1K or RAM, but there was 8K of ROM, and the BASIC interpreter was pretty, um basic.
> Sharing data with third parties
> We do not disclose an individual user’s data to third parties unless (1) you have given explicit consent to each such disclosure, (2) we are required to comply with a legal obligation or (3) if our business or assets, or parts of them, are acquired by a third party. [...]
Then goes on:
> Third parties will be bound by applicable data protection legislation and/or this privacy policy concerning the disclosed data.
Well, of course they will be bound by data protection legislation, which makes me feel the whole sentence is disingenuous and meant to give you the warm fuzzies while meaning nothing at all.
It's even cheaper in the bit in the middle where no-one lives.
Tax allowances in France mean you don't pay much (if anything) if you don't earn much.
No doubt the tax burden is higher in France than the US, but there's no political will to slash public services to US levels, nor would there be public support. Sarkozy tried to move in that direction, and despite being elected to do so, it was incredibly unpopular and he basically made no progress.
But I know from industry experience that some people who explicitly sign up to mailing lists then go on to report those emails as spam, and this dilutes the effectiveness of 'report as spam' features.
Absolutely, and what's worse is that people marking ham as spam means that email providers can't take a spam report as seriously as they otherwise might, thus reducing the potential benefits of a 'report as spam' feature.
So we all get more spam because some people misuse 'report as spam'.