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by morkbot 12y ago
I was at Rijsksmuseum a couple of weeks ago and didn't really have any idea what those post-its are all about. I tried to read some of them in the beginning but found their content banal and poorly written (only a couple of days after
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by morkbot 12y ago
Does Hetzner has any proper competitor somewhere, with similar power/price ratio? Especially interested in some on the US side of the pond. They seem to be a go-to company for everyone that wants to host stuff on his/her own.
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by morkbot 12y ago
James Long from Mozilla has his answer for this: Aren't you tired of having to query the DOM tree and manually manage the structure to create UIs? Web Components doesn't solve this at all, it just tries to encapsulate the work. T
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by morkbot 12y ago
This is targeted in the same article, although no clear answer is given: Questions were raised as to why Malaysia Airlines had continued to fly over such a volatile region, where separatists were known to be shooting at aircraft. Qantas, t
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by morkbot 12y ago
But Polymer depends, for example, on Shadow DOM, which is currently only supported by Chrome, Opera (Chrome-based) and Android browser - not even by Firefox yet ( http://caniuse.com/#search=shadow%20dom ). There are pollyfill
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by morkbot 12y ago
The European air traffic control body, Eurocontrol, said Ukrainian authorities had banned aircraft from flying at 32,000ft or below and the doomed aircraft had been cruising above that, at 33,000ft – however this apparently still left it w
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by morkbot 12y ago
For those wondering what's wrong with TTIP, a while ago Geroge Monibot wrote a well documented piece about it: http://www.monbiot.com/2013/11/04/a-global-ban-on-left-wing-...
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by morkbot 12y ago
It's not how the rest of the world sees your country, it's for what the rest of the world loves your country :)
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by morkbot 12y ago
From the linked article (OK, press release): It will, however, run (...) on the platforms that support SIMD. This includes both the client platforms (...) as well as servers that run JavaScript, for example through the Node.js V8 engine.
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by morkbot 12y ago
That's a bit of an off-topic but may I ask, why Haskell over Clojure. What are the differences? You partly asked that in the 2nd part, but I would like to know more. I never did any serious FP so would love to know where to start: Scal
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by morkbot 12y ago
Anyone knows more about "doing the rendering in web workers" part? Is it really possible? Someone doing it already? Any real benefits of that (web workers have their own overhead)?
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Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by morkbot 12y ago|0 comments
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by morkbot 12y ago
Pirated files? I thought that's what vk.com is used for and Russian gov doesn't seem to have any problems with it AFAIK.
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How Mike Judge and Co. Are Turning "Silicon Valley" Into the Next "Spinal Tap"(motherjones.com)
63 points by morkbot 12y ago|63 comments
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by morkbot 12y ago
The intention behind the introduction of KERS and now ERS and current fuel restrictions was mostly to: a) make F1 more "green" b) make F1 a platform for development of technologies that are relevant for the road cars. Active aero
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by morkbot 12y ago
You can try Pinta - http://pinta-project.com/download.ashx
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by morkbot 13y ago
...and in that new, great Internet you will get the natural monopolies, same as we have them today (Google, Facebook), only this time they won't be under supervision of any democratic government.
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by morkbot 13y ago
Some here are quick to dismiss it as another attempt at "evil government seizing the control over oh-so-free Internet", whereas if you actually read what's there it's more about taking the governance over Internet out of
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by morkbot 13y ago
Seems that Hacker News' duplicate detection is seriously flawed, this was a huge story yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7209397
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by morkbot 13y ago
Did any of the "old media" pick up the story yet? I haven't seen anything about it on either NYT, The Post, BBC or Guardian.
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by morkbot 13y ago
Would be great if instead they would implement CSS Books "standard" http://books.spec.whatwg.org/
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by morkbot 13y ago
"Data privacy is not highly legislated or regulated in the U.S.. Although partial regulations exist, there is no all-encompassing law regulating the acquisition, storage, or use of personal data in the U.S. In general terms, in the U.S
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by morkbot 13y ago
What start ups and companies wish for is not always what is in the best interest of the citizen. This is not about NSA. Private companies gather more and more data about us without any control (especially the US-ones), so it's good tha
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by morkbot 13y ago
1st thing EU should do is to quit the Safe Harbor fiction, preferably by walking out from that deal.
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by morkbot 13y ago
"NodeJS isn’t really functional, but if everything’s a callback and you’re single threaded, who cares?" Anyone could elaborate on what this actually means?
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by morkbot 13y ago
Quora link where you don't have to register/log-in: http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-fo...
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by morkbot 13y ago
It's not that they don't do anything about it. In 2012 they emission of carbon dioxide raised by 3%, but that increase was at least lower than in previous years, where it oscillated around 10% ( http://www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F
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Microsoft will encrypt user content, traffic between data centers(blogs.technet.com)
11 points by morkbot 13y ago|0 comments
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by morkbot 13y ago
Try "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin. But also remember that there's no one proper way of doing these things, it's all heuristics, not laws written in stone.
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by morkbot 13y ago
Tried to use disconnect.me as well but found it lacking in terms of features and number of trackers it's blocking, at least when compared with Ghostery. It has its' round of issues, OP is the best example, but clicking "Allow

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