adam77

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by adam77 9y ago
It's interesting that these recent posts from the FF top ranks don't address this bundling issue. It seems as though the world is moving to an 'appliance' plus app-store model. In that world the browser is part of the ap
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by adam77 9y ago
Sadly wkhtmltopdf's version of Webkit is ancient :( No flexbox, no es6, etc...
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by adam77 9y ago
is it really smaller and faster. i got the impression the payload size reduction might come at a cost to render performance?
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by adam77 10y ago
'Pretigious Technologies' typo?
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by adam77 10y ago
i got a taste after reading this... https://ia601208.us.archive.org/16/items/vmss16/titzer.pdf
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by adam77 10y ago
that's where the milestones can help; it gives concrete visibility to stakeholders of what the technical debt actually is "oh we've loads of technical debt, it's such a pain", becomes "well we ticked off 4 big
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by adam77 10y ago
have the team come up with a list of achievable meaningful milestones (eg. 'eliminate use of nasty obsolete library X'), ensure some time is spared to progress them; it'll become clear if the team is net paying off or accruin
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by adam77 12y ago
not just everyday but part of US legal framework... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
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by adam77 12y ago
No not in the constitutional sense [Article I, Section 8, Clause 11] but this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
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by adam77 12y ago
I think there's more to it than that, particularly legal interpretation of 'where is the battlefield' and 'preparing the battlefield'.
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by adam77 12y ago
I think technically the US is 'at war' with certain terrorist groups, allowing certain tools of war to be employed (esp. in the middle east). Something along the lines of: "In times of war... * the battlefield is wherever the
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by adam77 12y ago
[The reason the "War on Terror" is still treated as a war...] ...is for its legal status (empowering the US executive to carry out certain actions it otherwise couldn't). A number of laws were changed/reinterpreted follo
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by adam77 12y ago
Also, improvements in the Java language are eroding it's raison d'être.
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by adam77 12y ago
1. could make vote enticements illegal? 2. make any aggregate votes with greater than block size x (e.g. 100) public?