September 2010
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Better Javascript Documentation!
A fantastic idea. Promote JS ✩ Get the best Javascript documentation up the search results!
Fantastic Mario/Luigi comic. →
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Reddit comments about the Scottish.
CantBelieveItsButter: isn't a book that Scotsmen profess to follow that says, specifically, that they should like haggis.
x82517: A true Scotsman disnae need a fuckin book tae tell him tae eat haggis.
BarroomBard: A true Scotsman dinnae read a fuckin' book
Zeek1: A true Scotsman FREEEEEEDOOOOOMMM
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Freelance Glasgow?
We seem to working more and more with Freelancers on projects these days. Pulling people in who have a particular skill set, as and when they are required. Sometimes for a day, more often for a project. But so far these hires have been limited to those people who I know via the usual channels, Tech Meetup, Web Centric, et al.
But am sure there are other very talented freelancers in Glasgow, and...
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todo.sh add "Make this real"
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TODO: Change my TODO manager.
I’ve been trying to use Things for a while, but am crap at remembering to add my tasks to it. So I tried to automate it a little. I wrote my own basic CLI interface to Things in Python, imaginatively called pyThings so I could script the inclusion of tasks.
but I still don’t use it as much as I should. I think it might be the over-head involved. I don’t need most of the...
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I am prejudiced.
I can’t help it. Whenever I see or hear someone talking about their belief in religion, homeopathy, astrology, seances, fortune tellers and other rubbish I immediately begin questioning their ability to think logically or rationally and sometimes it might raise questions about their intelligence as a whole.
They could be a lovely person, someone I respect or sometimes even admire. But as...
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Clean inbox.
If you have emailed me at any of home/personal accounts in the last week, sorry I might have archived it without reading. My inbox was getting out-of-hand. Hundreds of emails a day, dozens of filters (many either too greedy or not greedy enough) and so many labels!
So I’ve taken drastic measures,
Anything unread in my inbox has been archived. Hopefully I’d already picked out...
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“There’s a great street performer coming to Edinburgh. he’s a cross...”
– My friend Mark does the best FB statuses. Here’s his thoughts on the papal visit to Edinburgh later this month : atheism
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Atoms vs IPV6
In the pub after #barcampglasgow one of my fellow attendees was certain and unswayable that the number of IPV6 addresses was so HUGE that there were more IPV6 addresses than atoms in the earth. I smelt bullshit, and now I’m a little bit soberer lets look at the numbers.
Number of IPV6 addresses: 3.4×10^38 (340 trillion trillion trillion)
Number of atoms in the Earth: 1×10^50 atoms
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“the clickwheel could be a bit hard to navigate with accuracy, say, when jogging”
– And a touch screen with no tactile feedback at all is going to be easy to navigate? Without stopping to look? I don’t think they thought this through…
— Engadget reviews the new iPod Nano
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I respect @ryancarson & the work being produced by @carsonified and to be honest I don’t want to get into the whole “UX Professional is a bullshit job title” [tweet] [post] shit storm which is going on at the moment.
One thing I do take issue with is Ryan’s immediate leap to “experience trumps all” as that is complete bullshit. You are only as good as your last project, nothing more. And as...
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CSS optimisation, TO THE MAX!
@johnmcc did a great job with his 10KApart entry Video Poker. Highly addictive. In a competition where compression is so important his source is obviously quite ‘tight’.
But I thought I could reduce the CSS down a little bit more using a few micro-optomizations. Normally micro-optomization isn’t something that you should spend time on, as it will not be anywhere near the main...
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