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Active Markdown - literate CoffeeScript meets Tangle(github.com)
4 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I'm considering actually using the Tangle controls for the interactivity. They do a really good job of being accessible and unobtrusive. Right now the controls are just vanilla jQuery UI. I started with native `<input type="range">`
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Active Markdown: an experiment(show-em.net)
5 points by alecperkins 14y ago|1 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Given that the technology in that film was designed by actual interface researchers, based on their research, it's no surprise that it continues to resonate so well. Also, sci-fi does have a tendency to inspire, or at least be inspired by,
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The idea that small font sizes are acceptable because “users can zoom” is fucking ridiculous , and I am extremely disappointed to see it suggested here. That is absolutely the wrong attitude. If a user has to go out of their way to use you
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Same. A hint that appears after a wrong attempt at the "before you move on" steps and a full explanation that appears after two would be very helpful, especially with steps 7+. Without those it feels like a puzzle instead of a tutorial.
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Django-simplestatic - opinionated static file management(github.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
That's a condition of selling on the Amazon platform. Doctorow also makes his most of his books available on his site, for free even, under a Creative Commons license in basically every format imaginable, eg: http://craphound.com/down/down
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by alecperkins 14y ago
It's a running joke that Sheldon and others look down on Leonard as a scientist. The claim is often that his work is very "derivative". Even Leonard's own mother criticized the originality of his science fair experiments as a child. Also, t
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by alecperkins 14y ago
A analogy even more accurate to this case would be: "Let's suppose you let someone store their stuff at your house, and they have previously pointed out a problem with the lock . You come back home and find them picking on your door lock w
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Show HN: Show'em - Sometimes you just need to serve some files(show-em.net)
3 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
There are "stories" to the right that are really pro-Scientology ads, but not marked as "advertisement". The whole thing feels slimy, not even considering the subject.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I'm afraid you ask too much of the Internet.
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Hexbright: Open source, Arduino-compatible LED flashlight(hexbright.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The criticism of drones isn't of the technology, but the attitude of those operating them. The article mentions that it doesn't put the operator's own people at risk, and is trying to point out that this creates a detachment from the conseq
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Odd. It looks perfectly fine to me, in both mobile Safari and mobile Chrome. The text is completely visible, with a little padding on either side, and videos all slide nicely into the text column.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I like to take this one step further and return referenced objects with both their ID and their URL as actual objects instead of strings. This is incredibly helpful for working with the API in something like Backbone.js, because then there'
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by alecperkins 14y ago
> If I had to run a monolingual web stack, I would choose Objective-C for the sole language. This article is severely undermined by its conflating internet and web. Objective-C doesn't have a significant presence in the browser, and i
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Entrepreneurship is not sexy(anotherjaylee.com)
3 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
It's less about ensuring that students are at school, but ensuring that they are counted . The school district receives funding from the state dependent on attendance. That's what is meant in the article by "it's all about money". With the
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The catch in this is that having proof of voting a particular way makes a voter susceptible to bullying, or gives them the ability to sell their vote. The Wombat Voting system attempts to address this with a public-key approach: http://www
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution(sivers.org)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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Proto - front-end web prototyping tool using CoffeeScript, Stylus, and Jade(github.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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For 3 - a standard gesture for navigation(bureau.tsailly.net)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Are you sure you're looking at the redesign? It looks less like GitHub now. There are still similarities, but Bitbucket is thankfully starting to take on its own style.
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The 3D Printers of Maker Faire & Beyond(marquee.by)
4 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I didn't mean to say "Python does it, so CoffeeScript is not a problem", but rather that both can suffer from too much indentation. CoffeeScript is a little more prone, given the callback-heavy nature of JavaScript, but similar treatment
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I do every day, both in CoffeeScript and in Python. I find things like braces frustrating, because I already keep it indented, and have to then manage the openings and closings. With proper 'aesthetics', indentation is perfectly readable. P
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by alecperkins 14y ago
If you use anonymous functions a lot, it's amazing: result = _.map object, (val, key) -> foo(val) is much cleaner than var result = _.map(object, function(val, key) { return foo(val) }); I t
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by alecperkins 14y ago
It's funny, because as a big fan of Python who has had to do a lot of CoffeeScript lately, I find CoffeeScript very similar to Python, and very readable. It's certainly more readable than JavaScript, when you don't get fancy. It's called "U

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