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Seems like you're rationalizing your assumptions instead of taking it upon yourself to understand the experience he's trying to convey.

> It seems Jeff has put no effort into it

From the article: "I have had games where I worked very hard to improve the graphics, spending a lot of time and money"

> he'd have enough sense to direct art himself in some way

He does direct art himself in some way: "That is why all of my games have a more generic fantasy style. I have to work with a lot of different artists. It's the nature of the business. Thus I have to write games in a way that the artists can be replaced. The generic style this requires is not ideal, but it is necessary."

I don't use Chrome. Or Gmail. Am I SOL?

Also, I used to use Contactually for this a few years ago, was great with email integration and FB before they killed the API. Good luck!

I'm in a similar place as you. Best advice I got was that you learn to make great tracks by making lots of crappy tracks. Don't sweat it, just keep going, keep improving. So ignore your ego and just make a damn song already.

+1. Really a well structured and written article, with a good mix of clear prose & graphics to keep it interesting.

I'm in awe of folks who make the time for the kind of effort this requires.

IBM has a division which produces technical books based on internal staff, business partner and client contributions. They've been doing this for quite a long time (I participated in one almost 20 years ago). Historically they had red covers and so to this day they are called the Redbooks. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com

That's awesome! A similar landing page would take me 2 days, I'be agonizing over every detail, and the result wouldn't be half as good. Well done!

From the article: "A luxury watch is an expression, just like your car, or your house. It is an expression of your being."

This looks awesome, thanks for mentioning it!

For anyone (like me) not familar with WebRender, here's a great writeup: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

Also a great read for anyone interested in long-form technical articles that try to serve a wide range of reader types.

The lead organizer of this effort, Floyd Marinescu, is a longtime member of the software community with contributions dating back to the early days of J2EE through his site The Server Side. More recently he is the founder and CEO of the company behind InfoQ and the QCon series of developer conferences worldwide.

Monit is a gem that doesn't get enough attention. The developers also have a web app you can easily install to aggregate a bunch of monit instances with a nice web interface, alerting, and historical statistics. Absolutely the best value in systems monitoring for small-to-medium environments. https://mmonit.com

I encountered PDFBox for the first time last week and although it looks promising I was discouraged by the lack of documentation. Was there something you found particularly useful, or should I just start browsing the source? Thanks!

I'm "hourly attentive" to email, or maybe "convenience attentive" if I'm waiting in line or something. For me, turning on notifications for email would eliminate the distinction between email and chat. I understand some people use it that way, but I expect lots of folks keep the distinction.

I wonder how much of that is just maturity of the ORM frameworks and their being hidden/built into other web or app stacks.

> But what am I supposed to do? Saw my ankles off?

I don't see how that would help your femur-length problem.

Genuinely curious: what's not junk? (Ideally for use cases similar to what CockroachDB targets.)

Parent might be a tiny minority, but if so I'm right there with him.

Agreed. The distinction between cliche and idiom is arbitrary. We have an idiom of using 'result' for many methods that return a value (e.g. derived getters, builders) making it clear that this thing we just introduced is what will ultimately be returned. As with any set of guidelines, apply common sense to suit your needs.

I though it was a way to trademark and cash in on the practice of Sociocracy, which dates from the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

Reminds me of their switch from Xen to KVM from RHEL 5 to 6, so I wouldn't put it past them to change course.

There are a number of second-generation sites/agencies out there now that focus on ensuring a quality of both freelancer and client (e.g. toptal.com for devs), or that simply provide matchmaking services (e.g. folyo.me for designers).

I think your first possibility is most likely (which implies that the fourth is too, de facto).

When I started coding professionally I used IBM's VisualAge for Java (which was actually a multi-language tool based on Smalltalk) and it did exactly that: all Java classes were managed as code artefacts held in the IDE's internal repository. You had to export from the IDE if you wanted your standard files-in-directores source/objects. It worked very naturally and when IBM moved to Eclipse instead I found it to be quite a step backwards in terms of working with my code. But the drawback was was you could do exactly what the VisualAge IDE supported and not much more.

The file-based model gives a level of low-cost interoperability that's pretty hard to beat.

I love the fact that this same MS patent also references "Method of exercising a cat" http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5443036.

You work with what you've got, right? The goal of a school site is to provide easy access to information of use to students, parents, community at large, and on that count this seems to be doing pretty okay.

How about a single pixel of your favourite colour? It might be a bit bland but I'd like to see them screw that one up.

But given the overwhelming landslide-class majority by which the measure was rejected I think he'd need to be a grade-A asshat to try it again any time soon.

While this is certainly makes the request's intent more clear, I suspect there isn't much gained here over simply POSTing the patch content. Other request methods can be implemented by the HTTP server itself in terms of the filesystem (e.g. PUT "simply" writes the content stream to a local file), but PATCH would require the server itself to have specific knowledge of the patch format and how to apply it in order to be useful. This could be farmed out a plugin or external program, but such a thing could just as easily live as a POST processor in [insert favourite language here] without needing to make any changes to the HTTP server or standards.