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by andywhite37 7y ago
Try looking again - maybe you caught a version that didn't render correctly. There is actually quite a bit of explanatory text, and it's quite good!
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by andywhite37 7y ago
It's probably a free-tier heroku app, being hugged to death right now. I've used this site quite a bit in the past on FireFox, Chrome, and Brave, and it has worked perfectly before.
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by andywhite37 13y ago
This article makes it sound like the slogan is just some marketing gimmick, but the slogan is actually just a fair description of the sad reality of the situation. HP is promoting Windows 7 over Windows 8 at this point - the default PC con
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by andywhite37 13y ago
We've been using Backbone+Marionette at my company, and in general I like it, and it's much cleaner than just vanilla Backbone, but I still feel like it falls short for medium-to-large sized apps, and requires you to write a subst
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by andywhite37 13y ago
Oh that's cool, thanks for the reply. I haven't looked at Q yet, but I've heard a lot about it. I guess it's time to have a look.
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by andywhite37 13y ago
I like your approach with your await library. You're probably aware of this, but the jQuery "Deferred" implementation of promises has a similar mechanism that I'm not sure is common in other JavaScript promise implement
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by andywhite37 14y ago
I used AttributeRouting for a fairly large ASP.NET MVC 3 project. I found it really clean and useful - I preferred having the routing information declared on the methods themselves, rather than in some generic routing table, or a single ca
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by andywhite37 14y ago
I tried on Chrome and got 6 days old. I then tried it on IE9 just out of curiosity, and got 579 days old. Also, the site doesn't seem to render or work correctly on IE9. The initial table appears at the very left-hand side of the screen,
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by andywhite37 14y ago
From what I understand, the HTML+Javascript WinRT APIs are really only supported on the "full" Windows RT/Metro environment, not Windows Phone 8. Windows Phone 8 supports C#/VB+XAML, C/C++, and you can use HTML and Javascript, but only in
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by andywhite37 14y ago
It could also mean that "mom and pop" companies can no longer get into the hardware game at all. If there is no margin for hardware sales, only companies that can afford to setup the manufacturing processes and operate them at little, no,
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by andywhite37 14y ago
Is that at the expense of the desktop and enterprise users? Only time will tell, but if the touch hardware ends up not working out, are they going to still have the desktop users to fall back on? I guess they probably will because they'll
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by andywhite37 14y ago
You could boil these observations down to "it's different," but that doesn't mean you're not also allowed to come to the conclusion that "it's awful" (or on the flip-side that "it's great"). Nobody would deny that the Windows 8/"Metro" UI
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by andywhite37 14y ago
The marketing churn surrounding Windows 8/Windows RT/WinRT/Metro style/Windows 8 style/etc. is just confounding and embarrassing. Maybe I'm over-reacting as a somewhat-interested software developer, but this just seems like a complete fail
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by andywhite37 14y ago
The thing I liked about oh-my-zsh when I switched from another shell was that it provided a wide variety of pre-built "plugin" scripts for customizing the shell for various environments/tasks. It's worth a try to just get a tour of some fe
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by andywhite37 14y ago
After spending a few weeks using the Windows 8 Release Preview (on a mouse and keyboard PC), I came to the same conclusions as this article. Metro is fine for touch devices, and Windows 7 is fine, if not great for desktop PCs, but the comb
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Final thoughts on Windows 8 - A Design Disaster(zdnet.com)
10 points by andywhite37 14y ago|6 comments
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by andywhite37 14y ago
That's a good point, the name is definitely memorable.
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by andywhite37 14y ago
I agree that the content is what matters, but I just feel like it's a crying shame that a service like DuckDuckGo will never be taken seriously because of its name.
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by andywhite37 14y ago
Am I the only one that struggles with the name "DuckDuckGo?" The unprofessional name makes it really hard for me to want to use the service, even if it has nice targeted results that may be more relevant or higher quality than Google's. M
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by andywhite37 14y ago
Separate vars is what I prefer to do, but JSLint actually recommends that you change multiple var statements to a single var with variables separated by commas (and with a semicolon at the end of course!). (And also all var declarations at
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by andywhite37 14y ago
Yeah, I agree, submodules prevent the copy and paste rot that can happen when you copy library code directly into your repo. We've been using submodules for most of our projects, and I don't think they are that bad as long as you are just
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by andywhite37 15y ago
Part of me wants to see this come into fruition, and I think that's the same part of me that wants to look at car accidents on the side of the road as I drive by.
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by andywhite37 15y ago
This is refreshing to read. I worked with ActiveMQ for about 2 years, and had nothing but problems with it. We probably lost thousands of dollars in sales because of lockups, corruptions, etc. I always assumed that we were "just doing so
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by andywhite37 15y ago
That site would be better if it was "cringe.ly"
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by andywhite37 15y ago
I think people need to just get over it. It's a free service. Almost every good, free service on the internet has some amount of annoying advertising.
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by andywhite37 16y ago
I think Git owes a ton of its success to github.com. Without this extremely well-designed, central repository for repositories, the uptake of Git would have been much slower, and faced much more resistance in the wild. Git is a great tool
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by andywhite37 16y ago
I agree, Quora has a pretty bad first-time user experience.
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by andywhite37 16y ago
I wish I didn't have to register/login just to see this allegedly great design. I've heard about Quora, and it sounds neat, but at this point I don't see a compelling reason to create an account. It would be nice to be able to see some of
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by andywhite37 16y ago
The real/imaginary concept is exactly what I use too. I sort of recall being able to use the real/imaginary concept with other Unix commands as well, but I can't recall which ones off the top of my head.
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by andywhite37 16y ago
I liked your sidebar comment: "One thing that's pretty obvious from the screenshots: I kept re-using the same $3 stock photo I purchased for one of my earlier ventures. Hey, it's generic enough that it works in pretty much any context." Ho

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