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My problem with encouraging people to break the law is that they can delude themselves into believing that there will be no consequences to them personally.

No matter how right you are to break the law, you will still have to face the consequences.

If someone is going to martyr themselves for their beliefs, I sure as hell hope they have a damn good team of lawyers behind them.

Re showing when things don't work. That's the best part of the egghead videos; showing things broken.

I forget sometimes how much you learn from doing it wrong before doing it right.

mental illness is an illness where something has gone wrong with the body in the same way that cancer is an illness where something has gone wrong with the body. Stigmatizing it in any way is not useful. Telling people to "just be happy!" isn't useful.

It's a lovely experience (I wouldn't use the word game).

We had a wander over the weekend, it was surprisingly good as a joint adventure and I'd definitely recommend going through it with at least one like-minded person.

One thing I've learned from having to do rapid prototype development is to just put fingers to keyboard and go.

If I find myself getting stuck in the cycle of "this can be written better, I'll just spend 2 hours improving it rather than finishing the framework" I stop, I think about it, then I leave the working-but-probably-crap code in place and move on.

Once the framework is in place, then I start making things better, one area at a time.

re directives

two places really helped me go from wtf to, "hey I can do that!" (and now I'm onto transclusions)

http://www.egghead.io as mentioned

and the Angular meetup video about directives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqmeI5fZcho

The documentation for Angular is dense. As in I've found myself having a lot of "ahah!" moments from reading 3 words.

I'm actually starting to annotate it on my blog as I find stuff out.

All that being said, I'm using Angular to make single page app prototype very quickly, coming from having no experience creating single page apps, but with a fair few years of MVC under my belt.

back from before the web was "serious business"

I do need to remember the exact number of that for the next time an interviewer asks me to name as many status codes as I can.

Amen.

After having been abused by employers who didn't understand why an employee wouldn't want to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, for months on end (I'm not exagerating here) I have a slight skepticism of people looking to abolish a finite work week.

Aye

From what I've heard reported[1] about periods of extreme caloric restriction is that it takes the body around 4 days or so to start dealing with the lack of carbohydrates. Until that point the person feels tired, grumpy, headachy, out of sorts, hungry.

[1]act 2: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/259/t...

There was a similar story in a This American Life episode about the PSA test for prostate cancer. There's a short interview in Act One with a doctor who was sued for malpractice for allowing a patient to choose to not have the test.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/391/m...

American in the UK.

I've had sexual harassment training in the US, and a lot of standards are different between the two countries.

At least 5 things happen at work every day, that if they happened at one of the companies I worked for in the US, the people involved would be brought to HR.

I find workmates in the UK to be more matey at work, where as in the US, you are co-workers at work, and mates only when you leave work.

I've got a boss, when he's talking something up, every other word out of his mouth is "fuck".

It's not abusive, but it isn't useful. Extolling the virtues of a product by saying "it's fucking awesome" doesn't tell me anything about that product or why it's so fucking awesome or why I should be so excited about it.

If by here you mean the US, there are still laws against incitement which could be dragged out depending on the circumstances.

your local pool has sessions?

Here you pay your money (or you have a monthly pass to the entire sports complex), you go swimming. Outside of swim practice, no one has ever mentioned times. Certainly no arm bands.

Perhaps we're lucky up North, I haven't had any nightmare dealings with government, and I'm including the Border Agency in that (so far).

It seems to be telling me it's 72F in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne at the moment.

I wish :'(

Either that or I'm assuming wrongly that because the demo is reading my location and localising the time, it would also be reading the weather.

In the overall argument, I find a distinction between citizen and government. I disagree with the Supreme Court's interpretation of the second amendment, so that gives a basis of where I come from when equating ownership of firearms for personal protection to a standing military.

However, I can't stop my eye's from rolling at someone telling me that if everyone had guns, there would be no nuclear threat from any person/group/country. I honestly don't understand how one can connect to the other.

After the watershed in the UK, strong language[1] may be used on telly.

[1, contains actual strong language]http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidance-langu...

I find this bit to be on the 'oh-please' side of crazy:

>They try to disarm the public in the name of safety while arming themselves to the teeth and solving every problem they have with the threat of violence.

because I have a friend who used this basic argument to say gun control increases the likelihood of a nuclear strike on DC by North Korea.

wasn't the point of the arson to terrorize people into doing what ELF wanted?

From what I remember, the arson wasn't committed by just some twisted fire starter.

I didn't mention a "right" tool, I actually made sure to use the term "better", because "right" has those negative connotations.

For our purposes, there are "better" tools available than those that were chosen. A pain that we're feeling now, a couple of years on, as we start to migrate a live application to those other platforms. That's a big loss of productivity for us because choices were made to use tools that were familiar instead of figuring out if they actual made the most sense.

My reply is that you may be able to drive a nail with a brick, but a hammer works much better.

Same for programming. The more you are aware of, the better able you are to chose the better way of proceeding on a project.

I'm probably scarred though, I work with people who believe that c# and sql server can solve all the world's programming problems. (I like c# and sql server, but they aren't always the best solution for a given problem)

if they just went to unlimited internet, they wouldn't need this thing.

I've always thought of reversing a linked list in a visual way.

In my mind, a link list is a bunch of nodes with arrows pointing right. To reverse the list, all I need to do is point the arrows to the left.

6(ish) lines of code later, and I've got a recursive reverse method.

I come from the medical apps field, so I find the idea of possibly not being able to talk about my work frightening.

Sex (any reference to the existence of sex, to crib from This American Life), not okay. Religion or politics, okay. Odd.

Personally, unless a statement against sexual language is qualified, I can't find myself ever agreeing with it.

Why? Say I'm working in sexual health and create apps and websites around sexual health. Does the sexual language prohibition mean that I must be incredibly careful to not discuss the actual content of my work, even in the most professional way?

looks like someone got the town name wrong. The pin is located at North Hampton (which is the town name they list), though the venue is indeed in Northampton.

chrome extension content scripts...

Had to hop around the site a bit since it wasn't mentioned on the page, but I'm assuming from the contact page that you're in London?

Ah well, good to see what you're up to at least :)

Free speech in the US says the government cannot make laws to curtail your speech in most circumstances.

Free speech does not, however, protect you from dealing with the consequences of your speech.

Being someone who's made a big mistake in the past and very nearly lost my job, I think the best thing is for an employer to care about an employee and try to help them work through what are often temporary problems.

That being said, I don't know what happened behind the doors of SendGrid. I'm not happy to hear anyone lose their job over this and I hope, for the sake of morale at SendGrid, it wasn't the company being scared of the internet.