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by mcav 6y ago
From that article: > Blinded clinical trials show that people with MCS react as often and as strongly to placebos as they do to chemical stimuli; the existence and severity of symptoms is seemingly related to perception that a chemical
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by mcav 6y ago
Windows XP was released in 2001.
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by mcav 6y ago
> The intent of React is to drive new developers away from the building blocks of the web. That’s not React’s intent.
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MRI of the ex vivo human brain at 100 micron resolution(biorxiv.org)
2 points by mcav 7y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 8y ago
That's brain-chemistry-related, with psychedelics competing with the SSRI for your serotonin receptors.
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by mcav 8y ago
Building a powerful sandbox that maintains anonymity is a difficult problem. The statement that CSS is overpowered is clickbait for a different argument.
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by mcav 8y ago
Your criticism might be better understood with less prejudice; perhaps something like this instead: "Websites should not unnecessarily require JavaScript."
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by mcav 9y ago
Quantity of smoke inhaled is several orders of magnitude smaller than with cigarettes. There's some evidence to suggest that, whether due to quantity or other factors, smoking marijuana casually does not substantially harm lung functio
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by mcav 10y ago
The JS behavior regarding 1/0, etc, is the same as C: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-a...
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Haitz’s Law(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mcav 10y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 10y ago
Most browsers support user stylesheets, either built-in (Firefox/Safari) or as an extension, which can accomplish this.
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by mcav 10y ago
49.0.1
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by mcav 10y ago
On Safari, both of these examples flash the underlying panel before the transition takes place. On Firefox, the transition is quite choppy. Is this just me? (I'm sure there's a simple fix, i.e. maybe one of the layers isn't g
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by mcav 10y ago
I think they're referring to any non-web language, e.g. if I could host and distribute C apps with the ease of the web. (Getting end-users to actually run and use a program with one click, rather than having to download a binary, run
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by mcav 10y ago
This (somewhat insane) linter prohibits unnecessary semicolons: http://standardjs.com
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by mcav 11y ago
A sample could fall under fair use.
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by mcav 11y ago
That's the same thing.
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by mcav 11y ago
TextDecoder/TextEncoder is the emerging standard way to do this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoder
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Livestreaming events isn't cool. It's theft(money.cnn.com)
1 points by mcav 11y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 11y ago
Really well done. Nice job!
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by mcav 12y ago
In this title, 'everywhere' means 'across browsers', not 'throughout all JS execution'.
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by mcav 12y ago
Did it say which are supported?
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by mcav 12y ago
Not every app can load instantly. Better to have a reasonable loading screen than an ugly, flickery, reflowy startup experience.
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by mcav 12y ago
PUT and DELETE are standardized. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
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by mcav 12y ago
I'm from Des Moines (now in SF); it has really matured in the last twenty years. It's a great place to live: inexpensive, nice people, plenty of space, definitely worth overlooking the stereotypes. Weather? You got it: feet of sno
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by mcav 12y ago
Yeah, but only in the most trivial sense. Generators are a very, very poor substitute for proper yield support, just as they were when Python devs used them in Twisted.
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by mcav 12y ago
The opinions of one group do not represent the individuals therein.
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by mcav 12y ago
That's silly. All of the methods are side-effect-free. It'd be useless and confusing to suffix some methods and not others.
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by mcav 12y ago
We're using their EmailJS libraries for Firefox OS, and they've worked quite well so far.
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by mcav 12y ago
(and/or "cheap")

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