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by ax 10y ago
The far future may be similar to Banks's Culture novels: each of us supports a cloud of thousands and thousands of micro-drones. As the ages pass countermeasures against these drones lead to counter-countermeasures lead to counter-cou
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by ax 10y ago
The tragedy of Galois is that he could have contributed so much more to mathematics if he'd only spent more time on his marksmanship.
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by ax 12y ago
Classes are in IE11 Technical Preview and, I believe, the latest versions of V8 as well.
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by ax 12y ago
I considered switching to sublime from vim just for sane line wrapping. If you have indents, vim forces you to hard wrap or else end up with an unreadable soup. Sublime, on the other hand, makes the sane choice of preserving indentation lev
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by ax 13y ago
Each function has its own this binding - the conceptual model for this is that its an implicit argument to every function call. There is no scope chain lookup for "this". Although, there is no way to observe any difference between
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by ax 13y ago
Both let and const are supported in IE11 as well!
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by ax 13y ago
I'm getting flashbacks to the VerizonMath Fiasco. http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2007/08/original-recording-o...
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by ax 13y ago
Yahoo did and does have a spot at the table because they are a dues-paying member of ECMA. They have as much weight in the committee as any other member (MS, Google, Mozilla, now Facebook, etc.) Presumably Yahoo cares because they have mill
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by ax 13y ago
I don't think "threw a fit" is an accurate description. More like, objected to many aspects for technical reasons. And, considering that TC-39 agreed at the Oslo meeting to pursue ES3.1 over ES4, presumably they had a pretty
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by ax 13y ago
This is explicitly about getting more sites to work /without/ forcing older sites to update their stuff. Older sites have ifIE() checks that return true and serve IE old legacy IE-specific code. IE11 is more compatible with standa
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by ax 13y ago
I could be wrong, but at one point I calculated that the HD280s meet OSHA requirements for hearing protection for certain noise levels.
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by ax 13y ago
I think BE is a fan of the max-min class proposal... At any rate, naming aside, ES6 classes are simple syntactic sugar for a very common pattern in JS development today. It makes sense to provide a syntactic sugar in this case that makes de
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by ax 14y ago
When I go to that page, I only see Linux installers (a .run file). Where are the installers for Mac/Windows?
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by ax 14y ago
Yes, IE 10 has IE 6 (Quirks), 7, 8, and 9 mode.
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by ax 14y ago
I'm sick of seeing Nitin fucking Gupta at every conference I go to. I'm glad TED is finally taking a stand and blacklisting him.
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by ax 14y ago
In truth, employees are not rated at all on whether their app gets downloads, unless maybe you're one of the in-box apps. Apps like the one linked above are covered under a moonlighting policy -- basically, feel free to create an awesome ap
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by ax 14y ago
How do I use typescript? I seem to be getting syntax errors.
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by ax 14y ago
> There is pretty much no other justification for this metro/desktop mashup possible. There are many, but one compelling reason is having the best of both worlds. You may disagree on whether it's possible or not, but that is the goal: t
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by ax 14y ago
Is there a way to view one of these tables without having to log in?
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by ax 14y ago
No surprise it's boggling your mind if you haven't used it. If you want to stay in desktop mode, you can, with the minor exception of having a start menu that displays more stuff and takes up one monitor worth of space. Windows key brings y
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by ax 14y ago
Users must install some software for this to work right? Some browser plugin of some kind?
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by ax 14y ago
The message is, just like every technology, there's an initial period where a vocal minority loves it and tries to use it for everything. Then, there's a backlash where a vocal minority hates it and thinks anyone who uses it is clearly an i
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by ax 14y ago
They'll probably add this. Windows 8 supports lock screen notifications as well. It's really great to see your next meeting and weather right on the lock screen.
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by ax 14y ago
There are roughly 1 million USD Bitcoin transactions per day.[1] The stolen transaction accounts for 10% of a single day's worth of transactions. 1. http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u... )
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by ax 14y ago
Members of the TC39 committee include representatives from Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Javascript engines from these vendors will almost surely implement the standard. Firefox has prototypes for a few new things already.
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by ax 14y ago
Good points, though I don't agree that Metaphore is an important criteria. It's intuition that's important, and metaphore is just one way to aid intuition. Metro design guidelines even advise against using metaphore in favor of being authen
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by ax 14y ago
You could also add -ms-transform, since that works as well in IE9+.
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by ax 15y ago
IE9/IE10 will have a goldbar at the bottom of the screen so the green arrow is a bit misleading...
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by ax 15y ago
I'm curious, what do you do differently from Kickstarter? What makes your product more ideal for small ticket items?
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by ax 15y ago
The services are still there right? This is just a name change?

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