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simons

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About simons

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    Comment #12217525

    > Tech companies always pretend it's impossible to find employees. That's not reality, though. That's a political strategy. Genuinely interested to hear an expansion of this. How w…

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    Comment #10544009

    But it's not just simply the "correctness" of a solution that changes, that 3rd party API you're having to interface with might not return data in the same way you were expecting, …

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    Comment #10543838

    "Working software over comprehensive documentation" over != instead of: "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more." And no, you …

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    Comment #9061668

    I believe it's unintentional - I expect it stems from JavaScript event tracking (e.preventDefault(); logEvent(e); window.location=e.target.href; Or something to that effect).

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    Comment #7156231

    and IE9: http://caniuse.com/css-transitions . Pedantry aside, your point stands, CSS transitions can use the GPU and degrade gracefully.

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    Comment #6655957

    You're talking in terms of pounds, $100k is approximately £63k. I'm inclined to agree with the parent here, good luck finding a place in a decent area in Manchester for less than £…

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    Comment #5651967

    There's a post here: http://artemave.github.io/2012/05/27/stub-like-a-surgeon-spy... that talks about using a similar service (the BBC's REST-assured https://github.com/BBC/REST-as…

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    Comment #3261021

    We've started doing something similar. We build a lot of sites upon WordPress and upload a basic version of the twentyeleven theme (with a few base plugins) and start getting conte…

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    Comment #2544113

    That only works with RSS feeds supplying full articles, rather than excerpts.

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    Comment #2127731

    I recently wrote a little throwaway blogpost that used the embed ability of jsFiddle ( http://breakfastdinnertea.co.uk/blog/keep-those-rows-line-li... - excuse the pig ugly design …