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wilsonrocks

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About wilsonrocks

Math teacher and union offical turned web developer.

Blog at https://jameswilson.codes

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    Comment #27623970

    Same here. It's my only Windows machine and the only one that reliably prints some PDFs. If they cared that I'm printing out MLP RPG sheets to play with my daughter I'll have that …

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    Comment #27616071

    I'd forgotten all about this and used it for something once but I can't remember what now, but I liked it.

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    Comment #27547872

    I'm all in on prettifying... If it's done automatically. I find it such a good tradeoff to not have to think about it that I'm happy to accept the times when I think my discretion …

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    Comment #27388588

    Is opening the computer a possibility?

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    Comment #27246065

    Oooh createmodel is new to me - will check it out!

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    Comment #27245867

    I'm excited to try this. I've tried xstate many times and always struggled with the typescript, if this Just Works I'll be v happy

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    Comment #27235168

    I've listened to some of the podcast and it is really good, even in the car where you're highly unlikely to have devtools open.

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    Comment #27219398

    Same here, a happy customer.

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    Comment #27152979

    I don't think 'the game' refers to video games here.

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    Comment #27120487

    I've often thought that instead of an expensive coffee machine, ping pong table or playstation, I'd like a tea lady (or tea person as they would/should be called now)

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    Comment #27120473

    Good point! I was thinking of it more as the human right to a cup of tea (not meaning to belittle real human rights struggles)

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    Comment #27117252

    Didn't spot this till now, so you may have gone. Largely based on articles I read after watching the film Blood Diamond, actually.

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    Comment #27117116

    Tea and coffee ought to be a baseline in any office environment imo. I think it'd be worth it for companies to just pay for it, otherwise employees set up a tea club, spend work ti…

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    Comment #27114725

    I used to work with someone who had been a manager in 80s Britain (high unemployment) and he said they threw any applicable in a brown envelope in the bin. It wasn't about skills o…

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    Comment #27104099

    I'm glad you got out! I find that CEO level bosses (I used to be a teacher so am including heads/principals here) love to pontificate about stuff not related to the job. I've often…

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    Comment #27103925

    This sounds awful. It's amazing how workplaces can get in these kind of darkly comic places

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    Comment #27061504

    Or if you work with a CMS and you don't trust them to not allow script tags

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    Comment #27059863

    I know it uses JS but the customValidity stuff is pretty cool too!

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    Comment #27036380

    Luckily my wife wanted Peridots but I would not have bought diamonds on ethical grounds.

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    Comment #26996788

    It sounds a bit like the no-cors request that lets you see if the resource was available but won't let you see anything? I nearly tried to use it once to try and see if a react app…

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    Comment #26911741

    Binding auto format to the tab key has blown my mind!

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    Comment #26782647

    I am British and really don't like the monarchy, so I disapprove in general. But if you're going to make a (largely symbolic) gesture like this, it's inexcusable to abandon accessi…

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    Comment #26692049

    I guess this depends on 'musically diverse' === 'better' though, which isn't necessarily the case when people think about what makes the top 100 tracks for a year.

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    Comment #26631601

    Many memories of PKZip asking me to insert the last disk of a set :) Usually when copying a game...