kenbellows

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by kenbellows 7y ago
Nowadays many applications, and especially most big-name business application suites (G Suite, Microsoft Office online, etc), are converting all their web applications to Progressive Web Apps, adding Service Workers and such so that they wo
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Why I Care about the Semantic Web(dev.to)
3 points by kenbellows 7y ago|1 comments
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by kenbellows 8y ago
"Walled garden" in what sense?
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by kenbellows 8y ago
To be precise, similes are a type of analogy
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Which is ironic, given that English developed as basically French + German (or some old versions of those languages).
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Not sure what you mean, can you explain more? When I open my console, I get: > true == 1 -> true > false == 0 -> true Do you get something different? Or is the game claiming something different?
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by kenbellows 8y ago
In that sort of case I like to use explicit type casting, e.g. if (Number(myNum) === 2) {} For me this also extends to using `Boolean(val)` instead of `!!val`, etc.; though I understand the appeal of those nifty one-liners, I think
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Assuming you can include JS in the file, I imagine it would only run if the file was being parsed as HTML at the moment, not when parsed as a JPEG. That's the main point here: this file can be interpreted in two ways, but the data in i
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by kenbellows 8y ago
This won't answer the question directly, but these sorts of discussions always bring to my mind the famous quote from Jeremy Bentham: "The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Nah, I doubt it's actually a forgotten feature, it's probably got some known use cases. I bet it will stick around
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by kenbellows 8y ago
I mean, if you think about it, any time you run any installer, whether via brew install, apt-get install, or an .exe or .msi, you're effectively running someone else's unknown code on your system, often as a superuser (e.g. with s
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by kenbellows 8y ago
1/x as x -> 0 is a famously tricky expression because your statement that it "obviously increases exponentially as x approaches zero" is only true half the time, because it's only true if you approach zero from the po
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by kenbellows 8y ago
The OP didn't invent the definition of fields as defined by additional and multiplication, with division defined as the Inverse of multiplication. Even the Wikipedia article on fields ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Very good points. And thanks for the note about Object.getPrototypeOf(obj) and Object.setPrototypeOf(obj, newPrototype), I don't think I had ever actually looked that up!
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Ah, I see. The special thing here is the `new` keyword. When an object is created using `new myconstructor()`, the following steps occur (among others): 1. create a new empty object; call it `newObj` 2. call the constructor using `new
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by kenbellows 8y ago
Can you rephrase? The "prototype chain" refers to the whole sequence of objects that link to each other by the `__proto__` property, e.g.: let vertebrate = {hasSpine: true}, mammal = {hasHair: true}, dog = {s
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by kenbellows 8y ago
I love the idea of an x-height axis as demonstrated in Dunbar. Different x-heights can be used for really interesting effects in different design contexts.
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by kenbellows 9y ago
I can't speak for the spec authors, but IMHO, tags should be deprecated and eventually removed when they are deemed to be useless, especially when their functions and/or semantics are covered by another tag, and especially when
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by kenbellows 9y ago
or, if you prefer, every point is a 'knee' in the curve with a huge speedup afterward
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by kenbellows 9y ago
Hate to say it, but this is a rather naive perspective on human behavior and interaction. Like the GP said, the threat goes far beyond losing a job. For just one example, it is a very sad fact that transgender individuals face significantly
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by kenbellows 9y ago
I really hope not; I can't count the number of times I've lost a bunch of data because I hit backspace when I thought I was focused on a text field. Alt+Left is plenty convenient, I don't run the risk of data loss, and I alwa
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by kenbellows 9y ago
This is completely and totally true.
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by kenbellows 9y ago
Depends on the use application. For observing especially large objects[1][2], I agree, it would be very hard to use for anything beyond a quick demo. But on the other hand, I think the phone is a perfect viewport for on-the-fly smaller appl
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by kenbellows 9y ago
I don't agree with that description of what the brain does when you catch a ball, or with the principle it's proposing. I don't think the brain does any kind of calculations to figure out how to catch the ball; I think it&#x2
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by kenbellows 9y ago
I think the article is arguing that while age may not be necessary for quality, it is sufficient . A young(er) programmer may or may not have these qualities, but in order to survive in the programming industry beyond a certain point, yo
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by kenbellows 9y ago
> As some guy once said In case anyone's curious, it was Bo Burnham in a Conan interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JgG0ECp2U
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by kenbellows 9y ago
I would think that whitespace becomes significant inside string-delimiting square brackets for the same reason that whitespace is significant inside string-delimiting quotes: whitespace characters are characters like any other. I would expe
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by kenbellows 9y ago
Indexing into 2D containers is often an exception to the "x, then y" rule; indexes are very often specified with "row, then column"[1]. It's true that this is different to Cartesian coordinates, but grid cells aren&
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by kenbellows 9y ago
But... why? If you wanted to express their equation in terms of tau (that is, 2pi), you could just set the first term of the right hand side to 10/phi instead of 5/phi. In fact, throughout their derivation there are points where a
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by kenbellows 9y ago
He was referencing this statement from the GP: "Looped around a waist and the same person can get up to about 1.0-1.5x with cleats on turf." Point is, if tug-of-war players have been known to lose hands because the rope was wrapp

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