netnichols

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by netnichols 9y ago
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It might not actually be my first choice, but this one of the few on my short list that no one else has mentioned. I read it in my mid teens (not too long after we stopped playing Ra
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by netnichols 10y ago
Hehe, exactly. "We had yuge crowds! The biggest crowds! At least when compared to Bush..."
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by netnichols 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. I laughed out loud a couple of times at the hysteria permeating this article.
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by netnichols 11y ago
It took me ages to get used to the old new design (that dropped the tabs on top). Glad they're switching back... definitely a more intuitive structure for me.
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by netnichols 11y ago
Did you read it? A large section of the review was complaining about bugs and software shortcomings. That's not being a very good "fanboy".
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by netnichols 11y ago
Funny, before I read the article I thought that "on accident" must be some British English bastardization since it sounds so weird to my American ears. But I was born in the late 70's and haven't lived in the US since 20
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by netnichols 11y ago
They probably don't care about that content. My first guess would be that they snapshot the DOM in the JS tick immediately after window.onload completes. Maybe they have a short pause to let any fast timeouts or callbacks complete, but
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by netnichols 12y ago
Panic is actually more well known as a company that makes Mac apps. Many would call them the preeminent developers for the Mac platform (along with Omni). So think of it like this... A hugely popular (for its market), established, independe
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by netnichols 12y ago
My first thoughts as well when scanning the homepage.
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by netnichols 12y ago
That is a nice competitive advantage over Flask, but Bottle has no dependencies whatsoever. And besides a slight performance advantage over Bottle, I don't see any significant reason for me to switch to Falcon.
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by netnichols 12y ago
Funnily enough I was just today checking out Transit[1] for a project I'm working on. Has anyone gone through the process of picking Velocity vs. Transit? What made you pick one or the other? [1]: http://ricostacruz.com&#x2F
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by netnichols 12y ago
Thanks! It was hard to get the point of how cool this is from the animation/description in the Wikipedia article.
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by netnichols 12y ago
My German apartment has drafty, unsealed wooden window frames, and the window in the kitchen is a single large sheet of glass. We have to hang a rug over that window in the winter, as it feels like you've left a freezer door open if yo
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by netnichols 12y ago
That's a great point. It's fascinating to think where he would have ended up after 20 or 40 more years of study and contemplation.
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by netnichols 12y ago
Nice job! Just missing a Facebook icon for my Facebook SSB.
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by netnichols 12y ago
When I'm in a place where these folks will follow you around, I turn as robotic as possible and answer once (or maybe twice to make things perfectly clear) with a simple "no". I try to leave no room for interpreting playfulne
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by netnichols 12y ago
It wasn't quite that bad... I could cancel for any reason, but only up to something like a month before the next billing cycle. I of course realized this around 2 weeks before the next billing cycle, so I would have been forced to pa
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by netnichols 12y ago
Nice idea, so long as you're in the US where you don't really have an 'official' location... I tried to do this once in Berlin to cancel a gym membership outside of the contractual limits. They required showing an offici
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by netnichols 12y ago
This has nothing to do with the actual product, which may be great, but... I am so ready for the trend of hyper-animated websites to start dying down. I scrolled through the whole website, and while it looked great, by the time I got to t
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by netnichols 12y ago
Ugh, I hear you. I had to disable iMessage on my girlfriend's iPad because it kept 'stealing' every SMS I tried to send her.
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by netnichols 12y ago
More likely a Rocky reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_distance_(boxing) ;-)
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by netnichols 12y ago
That was another patient, not the main focus of the article: > Another Canadian patient, Steven Graham, was able to demonstrate that he had laid down new memories since his brain injury.
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by netnichols 12y ago
I really like the simplicity and the 'guaranteed to self destruct' feature. But... converting PNGs to JPGs makes it unusable for many many use cases.
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by netnichols 12y ago
Yeah, on my rMBP the timeline examples look fine, but the graph examples are distractingly blurry. I look forward to a day when all of these high PPI growing pains are behind us.
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by netnichols 12y ago
Agreed. Or at least a description of what technologies are used (e.g. Canvas, SVG, VML, etc).
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by netnichols 12y ago
Congrats to them. I remember the days of running IlohaMail on a VPS for my family's mail and was very impressed when Roundcube came out. I eventually decided that hosting my own email wasn't for me, but would certainly encourage a
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by netnichols 12y ago
Ugh... yeah, I'd give my pinky finger to only have to worry about IE9 and up.
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by netnichols 13y ago
As others have mentioned, a grid of 6 columns by 4 rows, like the resolution of a display.
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by netnichols 13y ago
Exactly. I kept waiting for that to come up in the story and it never did. Would love for someone less lazy than myself to look at the actual paper and find out if this is addressed.
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by netnichols 13y ago
> I don't see how Gruber can come to this conclusion unless he has suddenly changed position and thinks the open web will eventually win out over native apps. How does his statement have anything to do with 'open web' vs.

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