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Willison has an impressive record for coining terms. But feel like he may have missed it here. In the context, 'engineering' doesn't feel that different to 'coding'. The sloppy sou…

Remember the EU started as the EEC. More feature creep in realm of transnational governance.

I hope it works out for Basecamp. It is simply not ok to allow anxious or bitter people to be wearing each other out with political beliefs when they are being paid well to do a jo…

Agreed. I find it rather alarming that an influential member of the Chrome team is talking like this. All our e2e test suites are built around Chrome and XPath because of its expan…

Is this even legal to sell in Europe? Looks like it is designed to slice objects on collision.

echo Hacker News | sed s/Hacker/Speciation/ Not that I mind, quite enjoying these articles.

Everyone has a plan right now in the UK parliament. Probably over half of parliament is hoping to push the UK into a 'cancel Brexit' scenario, despite claiming they respect the ref…

> Birds today share same genes as tyrannosaur rex Really? Surely this claim would require the sequencing of the T-Rex genome, which I'm guessing is an impossibility.

Guitologist channel on YouTube is great for walkthrough amp repairs and conversions

Angular 2 in beta made bold claims about being 'production ready' which reads 'almost done', it was frustrating just how long it then took to become what I would consider productio…

I wouldn't. Overturning a high turnout national referendum result would probably result in violent riots.

Pithy answer 2: because they are economically privileged. The headline is a broad generalisation, and as another broad generalisation poorer people are more religious and more cons…

So the most ruthless mafia operate among international organizations, but from London, thus making Britain the most corrupt country in the world? Perhaps they never leave London, n…

It's usually inappropriate to draw in politics and religion when they are off topic, but sometimes they are involved. Ethics are involved frequently with technology, so politics an…

Somewhat earlier, ~1400 BC, the book of Leviticus chapters 13-14 detail quarantine procedures for infectious disease.

High level in many areas "full-stack" is not as mythical as is suggested, it just takes someone with the right aptitude, and a long time over a lot of roles to get there. Whether i…

Dense, opinionated and somewhat bewildering. Which in a way represents the world of "front-end" in 2015 very well.

Eygpt also has a blockade at its border with Gaza. Must be something to do with the terrorists that run Gaza, and were voted in by the populace.

You sound quite intolerant.

The design of the site is excellent, but... Vanilla CSS isn't that bad. Existing preprocessors have made it much nicer to use without changing the basic formula and workings of CSS…

Another solution to the 'elephant in the room' - that frontend workflows have become too complicated for frontend developers.

CSS source maps! Been waiting for this one

AKA a colorful and witty guide to being a self-assured and self-validated narsissist

https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/413669330216185856 No such thing as bad publicity?

There are, in-fact, and have been for a while several known ways do do this in CSS 2.1 this just being another with a similar long list of restrictions and context requirements. ht…