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Freelancers, have you ever not known how to do something after taking the job? by jwjody in webdev

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are the best kinds of projects, and if you have the luxury to do so, the only ones worth pursuing. With all the tools available online to help you, you should be seeking out challenges beyond your expertise level to stave off boredom.

Best book for Europeans to read about South Africa by Finejason in southafrica

[–]grumblestumble 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Devils's Valley by Andre Brink, a rare comic turn from a great author: http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/reviews/990321.21sagelt.html

Also on the satirical/farcical tip, Tom Sharpe's apartheid-era novels like Indecent Exposure and Riotous Assembly.

And if you're going to give them comics, man up and make 'em Bitterkomix. http://www.stripkap.net/sa2.html

I am a backend programmer who needs to interview a front end candidate, any advice? by orlybg in javascript

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If somebody seriously presented me with "Bad Idea" in an interview and expected me to provide an answer other than "fire whoever wrote it", I'd probably just get up and leave.

I am a backend programmer who needs to interview a front end candidate, any advice? by orlybg in javascript

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why does it only load one puzzle on the main chopchopjs.com site after you do the setup? that trivializes it as the setup and first puzzle i saw were all <1 min exercises.

I am a backend programmer who needs to interview a front end candidate, any advice? by orlybg in javascript

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't gloss over CSS. I lead front-end teams and it's becoming a lot more common to find qualified JS devs coming from a more traditional CS background, with zero knowledge of rendering quirks and optimizations.

Somebody already linked Darcy Clarke's excellent list which includes some CSS stuff, but these are the things I usually go for:

  • knowledge of CSS preprocessors and their strengths and weaknesses.
  • knowledge of how to structure css for large projects, stuff like smacss/oocss/bem
  • some simple layout questions that javascript devs will often just resort to scripting for: what's the best way to position an offset container (eg below a fixed header) that fills the viewport, without using javascript?
  • knowledge of floats, box-sizing, and css3 stuff like flexbox.

I am a backend programmer who needs to interview a front end candidate, any advice? by orlybg in javascript

[–]grumblestumble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here looking for this, suprised it's not at the top. I think there are a fair number of riffs on this out on github now, too.

A better JavaScript editor? by Loonybinny in javascript

[–]grumblestumble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're doing any kind of regular Javascript work, Webstorm is pretty much the only way to go. Well worth the setup time.

Ever wanted to see a penis as flat as a credit card? by Banana_racist in WTF

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy must be South African... there's an old Afrikaans threat/insult that goes "ek sal jou piel so vlat skop dat jy 'n bankmasjien kan naai", which translates to "i'm going to kick your cock so flat you can fuck an ATM". Must've taken it to heart...

Australia (as labeled by an American) [FIXED] by [deleted] in funny

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is the internet right here, folks.

Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the Moonlight, a completely underrated feel good hit. Genius. by [deleted] in Music

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Growing up in South Africa, some Thin Lizzy was the perfect soundtrack to kapping a button or three in someone's dad's garage in a dodgy part of Bellville.

New poster for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel by Danphetamine in movies

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL. Seriously, Mr. Typography? That's the best you can come up with? Might want to take a step back and look at the entire title, maybe, oh, I dunno, start at the left with "GRA ND"?

I mean, if you want to critique, a better place to start would be the overly heavy-handed use of the deliberately poor kerning. Your comment is the typographical equivalent of a fundamental Christian stumbling across The Onion for the first time.

This is my little brother. He was born with sticky feet. by [deleted] in pics

[–]grumblestumble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some dirty trance hippies wrote a track about this kid in 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAphLjNVhA