FuzzyDunlop

Chrome isn't at fault for this, though. It's a combination of people wanted to test out and play with the new stuff (a good thing), and not being thorough enough to add all the extra vendor prefixes where possible (which is a waste of time on some things if it won't work anyway).

I wrote a library to abstract the code needed to access the user's webcam through the browser. I had to hold off an experimental launch for around 3 months before I could say it was widely supported, and not just by Chrome.

For experimental stuff, I don't think it's reasonable to hold back like that. It's a great way to check the robustness of an implementation, or the viability of an idea, before it becomes mainstream.

This is really cool. Only thing that confused me is the UI seems to have a mind of its own sometimes - songs suddenly change themselves, and the list scrolls, and I can't find my way back to where I was.

the web audio API isn't implemented in anything else. Firefox uses a proprietary thing that's been deprecated.

I find it interesting that development products/projects are probably the only place where no one will allow you to have a valid opinion as a non-contributing user. And people will defend this lunacy to amazing extremes, presumably because it's easier to tell everyone to fuck off than to filter and respond to the valid points.

I find this a bit disappointing because in any other situation, feedback and constructive criticism is welcome and typically acted on, even if you weren't involved in the production process. You might not be listened to, but you won't be silenced by your peers.

To use the silly analogy in the OP: you don't need to be a chef to say the food tastes like shit.

I don't think these are about learning to code or design. They're about learning to care or take pride in all aspects of the work you do.

Sane organisation, attention to detail, and knowing what looks good and bad all come under this, I think.

I actually think '5 Development Tips Every Designer Should Know' would be more useful. This is because a designer these days probably has to play with CSS and HTML, if not jQuery too.

A developer won't be handling the design themselves, but a designer might well be contributing some code on the front-end. And it's sometimes the case that such code isn't well (or consistently) formatted, or is too complicated, as writing code isn't the primary aspect of their job.

It's like poorly organised PSDs. You might be totally fine littering your file with spurious layers, bad names, and inconsistent groupings. The person you might share it with won't feel the same way, and it'll compel them to waste time figuring it out and possibly spend more time making it sane.

But for personal projects where a developer might want their own site, the advice here is good.

The point I take from it is that there's a clear demand for something that isn't being met. This is presumably because the industry prefers to focus on lobbying and litigation, and, to paraphrase, won't negotiate with pirates.

I also disagree with your point about playing the victim, because with the current state of affairs, legitimate consumers are the victim. They're the victim of criminalisation by private companies, who choose to employ all sorts of tactics to stop piracy, all of which affect the legitimate customer more than the pirate.

Entity theory isn't pedantry. Knowing the difference between accusing a company and accusing an individual is quite important.

For a start, the company can be unequivocally identified, because they bought a block of IP addresses. The individual cannot, because the specific IP cannot identify an individual.

This isn't cognitive dissonance, and the massive distinction here is that a company is being held to account, not an employee.

I find it interesting that the treatment of the digital analogue in legislation is contradictory. While it's beneficial to the government and businesses to remove the distinction between digital and physical when it comes to IP and copyright, it's just as beneficial to maintain that distinction for 'security' or 'anti-terrorism'.

'Modern' legislation doesn't feel all that progressive when it comes to technology.

Or the Retina display, or the 'more powerful GPU'...

Even apps like Pixelmator don't quite get enough in there to adequately replace Adobe's offerings.

In fact, I can only think of Dreamweaver as the prime example of something that has plenty of superior competition, attacking from a variety of angles.

Re: the first para, definitely. I still get emails from recruiters (probably left something up on an old CV site I've since forgotten about), and every single one up north involves PHP and MySQL. The more imaginative roles include a bit of jQuery.

I've never received offers for anything else.

If using Rails, then by default the environment specific config will (I believe) print emails to the log instead of actually sending them.

That's certainly nicer than the one I threw together (and never found time to update manually) at http://bootstrap-docs.org. I'd probably consider pointing the domain at one that was maintained properly :)

Your statement doesn't hold true because actual peers call each other out on bad moves, and the failure (or lack of attempt) to find an actual good move.

If we take your words as gospel, then we should be critical of them and we should take action.

This is also because Instagram as a business is not a peer, does not follow advice, and absolutely needs to be burnt at the stake (and salivated over?) to realise it made a mistake.

I imagine that dealing with the t.co URLs, and mentions by/conversations with Twitter users who aren't on App.net, or use a different name, would be a problem too.

Some of the questions are duplicate, in terms of both addressing the same characteristic, but leading it in either a positive or negative way.

Presumably this is to fit in the format of just clicking 'rank' or 'skip', for each question (which I think is also ambiguous).

Surely it would have worked better as 'statement -> yes/no[/skip]', cutting down the number of questions by about half (I'd guess) at the same time?

As a sufferer of clinical anxiety and depression, some of the things said here don't resonate at all. By the same token, some of them do.

> "in the moment it seems like it will never go away, but the truth is, that it always does."

The truth is, it always does for you. I'm not the same person pre- and post-diagnosis, and even when I'm not feeling down, I never feel quite as 'up' as I used to be. To that end, I don't feel like it's gone away. It's by no means as bad as some other people have it, but I feel like I'm stuck with it now.

Exercise, though, is definitely a good idea, and is a piece of advice I've been given from other depressed friends, my counsellor, and my GP. At the very least, doing a bit of it takes your mind off things, and has the benefit of keeping you in decent shape too.

Personally I don't think someone who is either depressed or feeling blue and is a member here should try and remedy those feelings by immersing themselves in even more startup doom and gloom, or success stories. Take your head out of the job, because it means fuck all compared to your own happiness and wellbeing.

And as has been said, consider change. A change of scenery could offer you some peace of mind.

So the guy who wrote it uses gmail. There's no ulterior motive there. Just a person who uses gmail who wanted to use it in vim

Everyone trots out that line in a cargo-cultish manner. Thing is, you're still 'the product being sold' once you become a paying customer.

How do you really annoy a web dev?

    <div id='element-container">
      <h2>header for paragraph of text</h2>
      <div id="element-container-container">
        <span>... paragraph of text...</span>
      </div>
    </div>

You're being downvoted because your comment (or any comment in the style of 'but Y does this already!') adds no value to the discussion.

I think your company should form its own culture, not try to synthesise one by propping up posters of vacuous bullshit that basically tries to tell you how to do your job.

It would be entirely the other way round if Larry Page announced a startup dedicated to giving children flu-jabs.

People have tried this idea before and it's never gone down well. There were those old Safari search plugins that injected Amazon affiliate links into the results, or otherwise replaced existing ones with their own. That caused outrage.

The other thing is, I don't want my experience on Amazon to be modified by the things I type into my OS's search box, which I would expect to be private. What if, in a fit of loneliness, I search for my porn directory, then get a bunch of related items appearing on my Amazon front page?

"Commit that shit", after watching the wire.

>> Zero a branch to do something radically different

There's another way to do this:

    git checkout --orphan new-branch

Agreed. That screen was my first impression, which hasn't made me at all curious enough to faff about with my browser to make it display properly. Since I use OS X, I have no reason to run my browser maximised.

Also, the mere presence of such a 'feature' just makes me think that the design wasn't thought through well enough. I actually don't know, because again there's no effort made to convince me otherwise.

The point was that using twitter encourages a mob mentality, which doesn't mean the mob is right if it isn't provoked.

The other point was that the mob in some part is more than capable of helping instead of getting out the pitchforks and torches. It simply chooses not to help (via the afoorementioned private channels).

The next step will be to use f instead of s