Yep :( Instead of firing up tethered Chrome in debug mode, grabbing a 7' St. Croix and going to a pier before sun sets ;) Time better spent, perhaps.
My hunch is it has to do with an implementation of EventTarget, the apparent source of all my Browser/JS problems this month. It did work on mobile prior to me refactoring things to the native event system, but, not since. My best suspect. I'll give it a look for an upcoming update, thanks for reminding me.
Though, honestly when it did work, the performance was ... garbage. I don't have too old of an Android phone or tablet, but it was still a performance struggle on both at simplest of settings and configurations. HTML5 + SVG + DND / touch libs simply weren't stellar for this sort of thing.
In the UK, I've helped run some of the ninja bookshop crawls. There are usually guided routes that take you through independent bookshops - they are always interesting and great for discovering bookshops and the cities themselves.
Independent and second hand shops have really benefitted from these events and they usually offer discounts and gift bags for crawlers
That's a wonderful initiative - I'm really intrigued by that, and might sign up for one of the subscriptions. Thank you for posting.
(Could you have words with your site designer, though? I honestly haven't seen Safari struggle with a site like that for months, even including the worst excesses of UK local newspaper sites or the Independent.)
It's a SaaS WYSIWYG site builder, the page is 300 requests and 20MB with aggressive adblocking turned on, and over a thousand requests with adblock turned off.
Almost every element is hard-positioned with absolute onto the page, or misusing flexbox in weird, overlapping, z-indexed ways
School is about a person who knows more than you on a topic, being over your shoulder, and telling you "that is right", "that is wrong", "you should do this via this method", etc.
School isn't just a funnel of knowledge being poured into your brain. It's about the people that teach you and verify that you are actually learning the right things. Sure, you can pick up books on cryptography, but who would you rather hire? A self-taught cryptographer, or a university-vetted cryptographer?
I have worked in transport for over 5 years in software and have read most of the technical books in the internal London Underground library. I generally have read >50 technical books a year.
In my blog I collect and distill what I have learnt. I write about transport, software development and things I feel others should know.
Do you have many transport projects on the go currently?
One that I always thought would be interesting is looking at optimisation of the distribution of the Santander Cycle Hire bikes. These are redistributed to expected demand, but movements are costly in terms of people and vans. I spent a week with the team a few years ago and they had a fairly rudimentary modelling system that a university had put together, which involved mostly manual tweaking of routes. This would make for an interesting Kaggle or similar.
Big company cultures seems to converge over time to a bureaucratic style so to me it seems like organisational transformations mostly just moves it in the conventional direction.
For example, Google wanted to transforms its organisation to be more friendly to business contracts. Seems like a good idea, but said transformation is destroying the generative culture and makes it more bureaucratic like Oracle or Microsoft.
Based on all the positivity in these comments, it does seem like the UK has at least a more laid back, sort of entry-level culture making hiring decisions than the US does at the moment... awesome ;)
More jobs? No. But 'more' doesn't really matter. It's hard enough to move to the US.
It's easier for him to find a tech job in the UK (there are plenty) than it is to move to the US and get a tech job (for which he'd need to get sponsored by a company).
The biggest difference between US and UK tech isn't job 'quantity', it's job 'quality' (the culture in the US is better imo). But I'm not sure that's OP's priority currently.
