Ben Birch @mobz

Engineering at Everest mobz.org Melbourne, Victoria Joined September 2008

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Ben Birch @mobz

4 years ago

@funkwit But you can keep it ‘mostly’ running with a skeleton crew, while the regime change occurs.

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4 years ago

@l_messerschmidt @haruki_zaemon You move the limits forward by exceeding them occasionally

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@SergeyBargamon @markdalgleish But you can see that’s not ideal - it’s a smell. You’ve picked an arbitrary number of ms that works (usually?) (also why can’t this 3rd party handle two api calls simultaneously???)

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4 years ago

@chendo !!firstChild will be true if the node contains a comment…

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Ben Birch @mobz

5 years ago

@brianleroux @swyx I was able to sell phonegap internally, because we _could_ build for simbian and blackberry, even though I knew we never would. Without that support, they would have gone with something (non-web) else.

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5 years ago

@ryanseddon @KetanJ0 So far north the sun comes in parallel to the ground?

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5 years ago

@chendo Woo!

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5 years ago

@johnallsopp Lockdown fatigue is real and can be exploited by the murdockoliberal empire. Dan won’t reopen, but his political capital is not infinite.

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5 years ago

@georginalaidlaw Welcome home!

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5 years ago

@bulkanevcimen We’ll be ok, just suffering an unnecessarily biased distribution of dirty arses

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5 years ago

How hard would it be to build a smoke detector into a toaster?

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5 years ago

@brown_note @neil_vass What industry can build something complex and bespoke, reliably on time and budget?

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5 years ago

@johnallsopp I did. What I found - first print use ~1672 implies it was a common expression even then. quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A44632.… "Battail Royal"