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Linkdump for October 29th

by Rob Friesel
  • Useful little utility by James Padolsey. (Side note: this is one thing about the jQuery API docs that bugs the shit out of me: that you can't jump to the source code. This appears to solve that problem.)
    (tagged: jQuery JavaScript )
  • Reda Lemeden, writing at Smashing Coding with a round-up of a few techniques for dealing with images in the era of "Retina" displays.
  • Paul Carr:

    I’m actually embarrassed that it took me until then to make the connection, particularly given I used to host the startup competition at a technology conference called “TechCrunch Disrupt.” The original Silicon Valley meaning of a disruptive company was one that used its small size to shake up a bigger industry or bloated competitor. Increasingly, though, the conference stage was filled with brash, Millennial entrepreneurs vowing to “Disrupt” real-world laws and regulations in the same way that me stealing your dog is Disrupting the idea of pet ownership.

    Also:

    I’ve written before that to be truly disruptive (small ‘d’) the startups must have a moral dimension, even when that jars with the pursuit of profit.

    Fascinating read.

    (tagged: essay )
  • A long and thorough look into JavaScript prototype-based OOP model with a special emphasis on the ES5 approach by Quildreen Motta (at Sorella'a Basement).
  • Great piece by Allspaw. tl;dr: Being a senior engineer really means being a mature engineer (and not just being an expert at something).

About Rob Friesel

Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove. View all posts by Rob Friesel →

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