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by gerrit 3y ago
Sat in that same course. Nice to see Bremen people here
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by gerrit 5y ago
It’s a German company and “flix” is local slang for quick
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by gerrit 13y ago
Yes please
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by gerrit 13y ago
SoundCloud is using go lot: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/
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by gerrit 14y ago
it's not hardware and doesn't exactly what you'd like, but have a look at MIT's Junkyard Jumbotron: http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu Essentially a bit of software to add other devices (ipads, phones etc.) as virtual screens
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by gerrit 14y ago
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by gerrit 14y ago
Or simply flushing out the <head> of a html document before the body is generated so the browser can start pre-fetching resources. That's the main use case that motivated Rails to implement streaming.
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by gerrit 14y ago
I've been using hogan.js to compile mustache templates to JavaScript functions on the server-side and write them to a js file that is then served to the browser: Templates={} Templates['templatename']=function(){/*compiled template*/}
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by gerrit 14y ago
AOL wasnt sold to Time Warner, it was the other way around (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#2000 )
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by gerrit 14y ago
I guess the problem for a lot of people is, sometimes the samwers clone the execution too. In some cases even down to typos in the HTML source
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by gerrit 14y ago
Most German banks have been providing HBCI for over a decade, so that doesn't really narrow it down.
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by gerrit 14y ago
Have a look at Mirah[1] a statically typed ruby-like language that runs on the JVM, by Charles Nutter, the main jRuby developer. Here's an article [2] with short descriptions of Mirah and other Ruby-dialects or Ruby-inspired languages [1]
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by gerrit 14y ago
It's the account of Junio C Hamano who is the main maintainer of git
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by gerrit 14y ago
Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis. Even if it wasn't for historical characters that aren't part of Unicode, this will probably stay that way because of the inefficiencies o
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by gerrit 14y ago
The user experience when viewing webpages is improved by actually showing a lower-resolution image while the crisp high-resolution image is being downloaded (however slowly), similar to progressive JPEGs. Depending on the data contract, the
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by gerrit 15y ago
on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.
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by gerrit 15y ago
you can click on that gear icon in the top right to add/remove cities. The list of available ones is quite limited tough, and it’s very US-Centric
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by gerrit 15y ago
you can apply css to svg
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by gerrit 15y ago
Yes ruby threads will block on all IO
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by gerrit 15y ago
Apple introduced the -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2 media query parameter with the iPhone 4. But for HTML images that doesn't help
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by gerrit 15y ago
Except that designers might want to include 4x-sized bitmap assets to have their sites appear sharp on those retina displays. If that isn't done carefully, users with smaller displays might have to download those, wasting their bandwidth.
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by gerrit 15y ago
Some of the assets are mouse cursors. Unlikely we are going to see iOS mouse support, so that does suggest mac retina displays
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by gerrit 15y ago
You should check out etckeeper, a package that does exactly that. Additionally it will hook into apt-get and similar system tools and automate Some of the revisioning
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by gerrit 15y ago
Even with digital fonts, there are situations where certain character combinations, such as “ffi” touch/overlap each other. Ligatures are a special-case letterform for these situations that blends them more harmonically
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by gerrit 15y ago
On giffgaff too, any chance you could link to that thread?
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by gerrit 15y ago
Rack was inspired by pythons wsgi
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by gerrit 15y ago
That's a great quote as it shows aesthetics are part of what the product is, rather than something you can "add later". But most people's preconceptions are of design being primarily concerned with aesthetics and visuals. I find it helpful
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by gerrit 15y ago
Design is not just about how it looks (some would call that styling). Design will be able to help determine what to build and how it should work too.
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by gerrit 15y ago
There’s always git.io: https://github.com/blog/985-git-io-github-url-shortener
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by gerrit 15y ago
If youre using less.js, there's no need to write custom code to auto refresh the CSS, it has that feature built in: <link rel="stylesheet/less" href="/stylesheets/main.less" type="text/css" /> <script src="http://lesscss.g

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