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Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

Work with great people.
Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
Use your CDN for HTML too.
Don't always do as you are told.

	/**
	* A mixin which helps you to add depth to elements according to the Google Material Design spec:
	* http://www.google.com/design/spec/layout/layout-principles.html#layout-principles-dimensionality
	*
	* Please note that the values given in the specification cannot be used as is. To create the same visual experience
	* the blur parameter has to be doubled.
	*
	* Author: Florian Kutschera (@gefangenimnetz), Conceptboard GmbH (@conceptboardapp)
	*
	* Example usage:

	library(ggplot2)
	library(ggmap)
	library(plyr)
	library(grid)
	library(gridExtra)

	# read in cleaned up data
	dat <- read.table("quakes.dat", header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

	# map decimal magnitudes into an integer range

	#!/usr/bin/env perl
	#
	# http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder

	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
	use open IO => ":utf8", # UTF8 by default
	":std"; # Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR

	// =========================
	// Example 1: using a @mixin
	// =========================

	// SCSS:

	@mixin a_pink_box() {
	float: left;
	display: block;
	color: pink;