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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
The sequence of images that appear on the Guide are a reference to: - The Babel Fish - Earth's entry in the Guide - "Mostly Harmless" - "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the gr
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
The source of these images, http://www.soco.org.hk/cagehome/ , is an intriguing (if somewhat poorly executed) advocacy-cum-exhibition site. For those who don't want to click through, the site first present you with a fake Firefox popup, wi
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
In theory, Chrome sends your entire browsing history over to Google, since its unified omnibar doesn't distinguish between searching and typing in location. Firefox (and any browser that separates the location and search bar) doesn't have t
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I managed to capture a botnet control host, what do I do with it?(security.stackexchange.com)
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Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire(bbc.co.uk)
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A Post-Game Update from Tiny Speck(glitch.com)
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
The first thing you learn as a web developer with respect to (modern - ignoring IE 7 and even 8) cross browser compatibility is that all browsers have their quirks and all of them suck. Off the top of my head: Until recently, Chrome 'implem
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
Except ECMAScript isn't correct either. ECMAScript is the name of the standard. Each browser implements a (different) subset of it. JavaScript used to be what Mozilla's implementation was called; Microsoft implemented JScript. ActionScript,
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
> A blog where the author paraphrases or copies from the original article/webpage in an attempt to increase his or her own traffic. This becomes a waste of the reader's time forcing them to click through the blog to get to the actual ar
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
The idea is by no means new. localStorage is old. So is the AppCache specifications that actually allows an application to go 'offline'. Gmail did this as early as 2009: http://googlecode.blogspot.sg/2009/04/gmail-for-mobile-html5... Unfo
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
I'd agree, except there have been cases like this: > The judge, Paul A. Engelmayer of Federal District Court, ruled that the rejected ad was “not only protected speech — it is core political speech,” [...] As such, the judge held, the
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And CNET's side of the story corroborates with the Verge's report: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30677_3-57563877-244/the-2013-best... I suppose the only reason why she could reveal all of that now is because CBS' PR team is in damage contr
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
The style is commonly referred to as "metro", inspired by the design of metro signs. The idea is to reject skeuomorphism, and use large, clean typography to deliver something that is 'digitally native'. You could think of it as a direct rej
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
It's a set of slides about HTML5 written in HTML5. The slides not working properly on mobile devices with no fallback for non-webkit browsers show that the developers are either a. Lazy b. Incompetent, or c. Used proprietary webkit technolo
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
Just looking through the source of the site, it seems that whatever CMS you're using is inserting <p> tags everywhere, including around the opening and closing <section> tags: http://i.imgur.com/RkoFP.png . It's also causin
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
GitHub is unlikely to be blocked because of this - many projects and pages associated with the Firewall already exists there. Just Google site:github.com great firewall of china And anyway, if you're serious about surfing the net f
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Direct link to the donation page: https://archive.org/donate/
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Identifying IP address of filtering devices in the Great Firewall of China(github.com)
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It's nothing new - the same has been going on on Stack Overflow and other forums for ages. Here's a particularly egregious example of someone cheating on a Regional Olympiad level competition: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/155319/150097
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Google Chrome has always had this feature, yet it didn't stop it from gaining 20% market share. Neither does it stop the "why don't Firefox merge the search and location bar?" comment seen in almost every comment thread whenever Firefox
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In your example, $("ul").html(""); can be replaced with $("ul").empty(); The replacePlaceholdersInMessage function uses replace with string as the match, which means that in rare cases where more than one %F is present, for