adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
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adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Salesforce.com Announces Two $1 Million Winning Teams for Hackathon
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Data Visualization with JavaScript without D3
And I've also found HighCharts extremely limiting. I ended up having to break things in HighCharts to meet some requirements. Granted that's a project problem not a HC problem, but D3 made much more sense for me.
To each their own :)
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Twitter Bootstrap without all the debt
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work
As it's not so much the occasional 'Crap, we need X stat!' that is a problem, it's the constant assumption that your boss can call on you any time and _expect_ you will comply.
That's just a shitty boss. Regardless of their title.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Why GitHub is not your CV
If I change it at that point then I'm either being disingenuous or taking away the aspect he wanted to talk about.
All that said, if I put my github url on the resume then it's fair game to _talk about_. My point is (same as the articles) using it as a filter is generally a bad idea.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Why GitHub is not your CV
I realize this is anecdotal, but 95% of the public code in my git repo is stuff I did as fun. I didn't care about being right, or care about memory issues or being thread safe or anything other than 'I wonder if...'
In that instance, and I suspect a lot of other people public where they aren't contributing to something using the repo code as a talking point is counter-productive.
Why did I do it that way? Because I wanted to see what would happen.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
The presumption that he's trying to destroy the original developers livelihood is naive at best.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Engineer's Solution: Neutral Redistricting so Reelection is Less Assured
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
However if you insist on focusing one a singular viewpoint then I will remove myself from the conversation.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
Of if you live in a majority of the US, when you change the clocks, change the batteries.
Neither of these schedules will sneak up on you. If you don't change them and it wakes you, it's your own fault.
Sorry to sound snarky, but it's not _that_ complicated.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: How To Lose Your Best Employees
1. "I hear you about X but we are doing Y anyway."
2. "I hear you about X and understand you viewpoint, however we need to go with Y because..."
I'm okay with #2. #1 will drive me away. And it should. It's disrespectful and basically tells the other person that you have no regard for their opinion and that you only ask to satisfy a rule or expectation. If you are aren't going to have a discussion about why Y is the solution and were going to do it regardless of what anyone else said, then why bother even asking?
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Working hours: Get a life
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Working hours: Get a life
Do you have so much work that it can't be done with your current staff in 40 hours/week? Hire more.
Is your management so inept that your employees are forced to work more to keep up? Training will help.
Many people will willingly work extra when they need to (trying to squash that one last bug or trying to squeeze in that new feature) but rail when it's expected and demanded for no legitimate reason.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI
Calling something Semantic UI and comparing it to another library, that more follows the actually meaning of semantic, is silly. Yes you can change the class name but setting up the name as something meaningful, something semantic, such as 'submitButton' lets you redefine it in the CSS.
If I'm building something that multiple clients will use I don't want each client having buttons with class names specific to the client, but something I can modify easily in the CSS to get the look and feel they want.
It's ass backwards.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: No Bread, Beer or Biscuits: How I Lost 63lbs in 100 Days
That said, he (and anyone doing it) should probably check in with the doc just to make sure something internal isn't getting out of whack.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life
Someone suggested this and all I can say is that after a few years I don't have the allergy attacks anymore. Not even when I mow the lawn.
Since I stopped taking Claritin or anything like it I can only assume the honey did _something_.
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: GitHub is not your new résumé
No, all it shows is that they wrote some code and put it on a website.
The developer that has just a resume might be just as (or more) skilled that the one that uses github but for whatever reason can't post code up like that. To exclude someone simply because they don't have an active github is foolish.
However did you screen, interview, and hire people before github came along?
adeaver | 12 years ago | on: You're Smart. So What?: Examining the Importance of Soft Skills
Fairly anti-climatic. For someone that it comes easy too there is no real emotion or sense of accomplishment.
It would be like trying to explain the color green to someone that was born blind.
Hint: Phone functions