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padolsey
4,464karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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Yeh, let's all roll over. Who would want to do the right thing when you can do the easy thing?
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I don't believe this is "the most practical explanation of closures out there" as the author claims, but it does present a use-case. The most important thing to grasp if you're fus…
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I agree. Autumn and Winter in the UK are beautiful and I share that same melancholy bliss. I think my ideal living/working conditions are probably: hot beverage, crackling fire, rain outside, jaz…
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Oh, clever you.
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Isn't one crucial problem with this that ES object-literal syntax does not guarantee order? And order is pretty important in CSS, no?
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It's worth noting that one can still be conscious of performance without knowing about big-O or other academic nomenclature. In my experience as a self-taught programmer -- it became quickly evid…
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Not really sure what problem this is trying to solve. I am more enthused about the potential of Web Components, shadow-dom etc. [1] Take a look at Polymer [2]. By abstracting away the concept of the c…
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A versioned JSON API is awesome, I am not denying that. I also don't deny that the current state of the HTML markup on most sites is semantically rubbish. Regardless of this entire PE debate, we …
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That could work -- if the JSON is intended for public consumption, and if it is documented as so. The problem, I'd argue, with JSON is that it does not intentionally facilitate semantic annotatio…
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> Don’t be ashamed to build 100% JavaScript applications. You may get some incensed priests vituperating you in their blogs. But there will be an army of users (like me) who will fall in love with…
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OP seems to be hovering around DH5/DH6. I don't see the problem.
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Even comparing Backbone (by itself) to these two is futile. It's thin, doesn't prescribe much, and doesn't even promise to offer what Emb/Ang do, so to compare them is unfair to al…
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Get your business idea funded and immigrate to Canada **permanently**
... What happens if my business fails? [1]
Failure of your business will not affect your permanent
residen…
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> I think this is a really pathetic reason to be depressed. AFAIK Depression isn't something one reasons oneself into.
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No doubt, but unfortunately it's probably not as simple as placing the 'gifted' ones in one room and the 'ungifted' ones in another. Surely its a spectrum?
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I found the OP's style of introspection refreshing. I am not sure why it matters how many times he used the word 'I', after all, it is a post about the OP himself. Yours is not even a…
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SEEKING WORK, London, Remote Skill set - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MooTools, Underscore/lodash, Backbone, AngularJS, Canvas, SVG CV: http://padolsey.net/cv/cv.pdf
Github: http://github.com/p…
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This is good news for an ambitious startup, but I have to say: this whole thing seems like a bit of a shame. If Carson truly is motivated by by the proliferation of knowledge to the underprivileged, t…
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> On desktops, it's not clear until you hover that it's even an interactive element. Have you considered that this is due to you and others being conditioned to believe that beveled/3d elements in…
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Hmm, 6 & 7 are the same. And I think you meant Thai, not Chinese.
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Tu quoque... However, it is curious to discover they have quite hefty JS files loading in their own HEAD element.
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Yeh, both viable solutions. Tbh, I can't think of any other reason to have JS in the HEAD.
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For example, setting up event delegation on enhanced elements is best done in the HEAD before the elements load. If you setup all your user-event listeners in the bottom of BODY then your users will h…
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It's amazing how something so seemingly minor can make such a huge difference. I feel like I'm traversing the web of yesteryear (true yesteryear, not the animated gif'd web of 1997). Thanks for the li…
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You're assuming the whole thing isn't staged.
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Doesn't this necessitate lots of individual templates? (in this example: inputTemplate, labelTemplate...) Is there an easy way to manage this? From what I've seen it's typical to have one template per…
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Hulu does this: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/239987206482169856/pho...