February 2012
17 posts
Codecademy →
blackbutshining: Nope. So you should use a different characteristic to talk about string matching. Do not erase my gender because “it’s too complicated”. And, having gone through an architectural education, I would say that it is always more important to understand the why of what you do, than the specific implementation of it. Javascript will not be around forever - that’s the thing about de...
Feb 29th
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Codecademy →
blackbutshining: the gender = binary section of this is teaching programmers to a) be stupid b) to not think critically c) to fail to understand the social implications of their programming. raising another generation of zuckerbergs is not fucking progress. You’re right. A programming tutorial should spend time making sure it’s gender choices are politically correct instead of,...
Feb 29th
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Feb 26th
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Adding Pinterest's "Pin It" Button →
Recently, I decided to add Pinterest’s “Pin It” button to the row of social widgets. Adding it was considerably harder than the others.
Feb 26th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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How Four Characters Caused 579 Errors →
If you like reading about me screw up at work, you’ll love this.
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 10th
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History of the browser user-agent string →
Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla
Feb 7th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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