An elephant stepped on my foot when I was a child causing me to lose feeling in three of my toes which is why I drive without a shoe on my right foot. What is something that has happened to you which sounds made up? A real life event that sounds like it was taken out of a bad comedy movie.

The_Five · 1 day

I cannot explain why I laughed so much at this.

God_Wills_It · 3 days

Seriously? And stores selling knives (or nail clippers) should follow their customers around in case they decide to kill someone?

thesnarkyone · 5 days

Shampoo is not that expensive. I pay about €17 every couple of months for a shampoo and a conditioner (700ml each). I haven't had a hair cut in the last three years and I think the last time I've been to the barber's shop was in 2007.

In other words, having long hair is not as expensive as many people think.

ElvisMilhouse · 1 month

You can buy download credits for yourself:

If your download credits drop to zero, your music will still be available, but your free tracks and albums will automatically switch to paid. You can avoid this by either a) buying more download credits for a modest fee, below, or b) selling music (we add 1,000 credits for every $500 USD in sales).

Go into your Tools area and see Download Credits

isurfbecause · 1 month

Read through the Google Javascript Style Guide to get an idea on how to format and style your code.

You should use any existing code conventions your new team uses.

Make sure you write comments that explain why as opposed to what your code does (I can understand what, but I want to know why).

Feel free to send me specific samples or questions you may have.

chocolatelightning · 1 month

Not speaking from experience, the best way to make from your music to play it live, have people pay to come and listen to you, and sell t-shirts and other merch.

Kinda_Pagan · 1 month

Kinda_Pagan · 1 month

I've been redditing since 2006 and this is the first time I actually laughed so much at something. Priceless.

zcom8 · 2 months

I was going to edit and add UX in the list but I changed my mind. Given the choice between UX, usability, and accessibility, if I was asked to pick just two I would leave UX out. For a beginner, UX may be a bit too much.

ALPHAMENSCH · 2 months

You'd be surprised by how many people pretend to smoke but they actually don't. Just light the damn thing and put it in your mouth every once in a while. Just don't inhale and get the smoke out quickly.

zcom8 · 2 months

Focus on web standards. HTML, CSS and JavaScript. All three are very important and will be in the future.
Focus on the whys as well as the hows. Learn as much as you can about usability and accessibility. Read Jacob Nielsen (useit.com).
Set some goals and do whatever it takes to achieve them. Baby steps. Create a photo gallery from scratch. You will need HTML and CSS. Then add some javascript. Refine your gallery until there is nothing more to learn from it. Then move to the next goal.
Read read read. But be careful what you read. There are some very smart guys writing some very good books. Read books at first and then read the blogs. It will help you get the big picture.
Spend as much time as you like. It should be fun for you, it shouldn't be a chore.
Learn as much as you can a particular topic or language to reach your goal. You don't have to be an expert on everything. At some point you will become something like an expert on the things you really like (you said PHO but you may find out later that its Python). Don't limit yourself.
Do not start a blog unless you discover something great.
The demand for good team players is always high. To be a good team player you will need to be able to understand marketing-speak, designer-speak, and programming-speak, and how these come together to achieve a goal.
Have an opinion and don't be afraid to express it. Keep an open mind and don't be afraid to change opinions.
At some point you will have to do mindless little things (eg. setting up wordpress sites for small businesses) for money. It's OK. Just don't forget that you have a goal and that isn't it.

Have fun. Enjoy yourself. Make mistakes. Learn. Welcome to the party.

takethemoneyrun · 2 months

pingish is right. There is no dream job.

Exactly the same thing happened to me just about a year ago. I put so much effort when I sent my resume and portfolio, waited for a couple of months and no reply, contacted someone directly, did something like a pre-test, and I got my self an interview.

Next day I'm given the lamest, most off-the-mark excuse I could get (I lack passion in what I do) and that's it. I was very disappointed to say the least. But you know what? Fuck them. Perhaps they were right, perhaps they were wrong. I don't know, I don't care. I continued to search for the kind of job I would be happy doing and a few months ago I found it. And to be honest, I really think I'm much better off. Smaller company, smart people, good communication, don't have to relocate, I work when I want, the way I want.

One thing I realised is that doing well in job interviews is a skill you need to work on. Don't wait for your next dream job to apply to. Apply to other jobs as well. You'll get the necessary experience so that when the time comes you'll be prepared.

Jiert · 2 months

One thing I noticed is that web designers and web developers who focus on usability and accessibility first and everything else later have no problems in communicating and being on the same page.

People always say that designers should learn HTML & CSS so that they "feel the pain". I disagree. The main problem with designs made by graphic designers or print designers or any other kind of designer other than a web designer is that they are not focused on usability and accessibility. Once your designer understands these two concepts then, as a developer, you have no problem in making a website out of a design.

In other words, you cannot call yourself a web designer if usability and accessibility are not your #1 priority.

kumarldh · 2 months

That example isn't about using jquery. I know.. I'm talking about before jquery, where you had to do events "manually". Back then $ meant dollars.

kumarldh · 2 months

I remember a time when your first example was about binding a click event instead of using jQuery. You don't see those any more.

kumarldh · 2 months

It's like what they say about Vegas.. Whatever is declared in a function, stays within a function.

KerrickLong · 2 months

The source of this is also very interesting: http://blog.intercom.io/criticism-and-two-way-streets/

takethemoneyrun · 3 months

That is exactly what I wanted to test and the results don't actually show that effect. When I was the only tester the results where very different - Chrome would perform better in the examples with multiple functions rather than the first two cases. That was why I was so surprised with the results. Apparently it was just me.

takethemoneyrun · 3 months

Indeed, and that is why the first two cases should be the same (outside, same scope & inside) but they are not. The interesting part is when you introduce nested functions and having to look up multiple scopes for where x is declared. It should be slower but in many cases but it is not.

takethemoneyrun · 3 months

I am testing whether is best to declare the variable within a for loop or outside (declaring variables at the beginning of your function). I wanted to see if its generally a better practice to declare loop variables within the loop so that you don't have to worry about performance if you have nested functions.

The Opera performance chart is what seems most logical to me. Less nested functions means less variable look ups => better performance. But apparently that's not the case.

BlitzTech · 3 months

Good work you did there. I didn't know you were still supporting it (at some point taffydb.com gave me a 404). I made something similar, meelo-store.js

SaiMan · 4 months

I wanted to point out that the hit(s) of a band does not necessarily give a full picture of what the band is capable of. Anyways, we just disagree, even though Hallowed be thy name is my favourite Maiden song and one of my favourites ever.

SaiMan · 4 months

So,

Pink Floyd = Another brick in the wall

Led Zeppelin = Stairway to heaven

Jimi Hendrix = All along the watchtower

Iron Maiden = Fear of the Dark

Metallica = Nothing else matters

Black Sabbath = Paranoid

MasterBurd · 5 months

and BEFORE you brake or slow down

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