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by no_more_death 13y ago
PDF.js is used by Firefox to render PDFs in the browser.
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Fonzie -- Build and Share Modular Sass Components(github.com)
1 points by no_more_death 13y ago|0 comments
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Come on! This is one of the most remarkably run companies around today. They never do anything halfway. If you balk at $350, you either aren't their target market or you don't think very highly of Dropbox. $350 is about an hour and a half o
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Yeah, in high school in the early 00s I was a big Oberon fan. I had booted the system from diskette on my windows computer. I also had Blackbox and built some really basic things. Overall it was a huge amount of fun, and I have fond memorie
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by no_more_death 13y ago
It's not that extreme of a groupon. I think that businesses typically get 25% or less of the cost of a groupon, so it's closer than you think.
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by no_more_death 13y ago
They don't want to report daily revenue because it would average out to a lot less than $900 million a year, I think. Two weeks ago they were making over 1 million a day, now it's over 2 million a day.[1] To me, that growth rate at this kin
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Valve doesn't have a CEO. It's an undifferentiated mass of people, at least as far as power structure goes -- sort of like a slime mold. I think that's a lot different than having a CEO who prides himself on being an inspirer instead of a c
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Seivan, I apologize deeply for getting your comment off track, and I hope others will not follow this further from your main point. However, I would just offer a quick point of advice. Don't spend keystrokes saying you might be down-voted f
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Installing a new Android home launcher, setting up llama, etc on Android is NOTHING like trying to work through an automanual and make changes to your car. This analogy is utterly wrong..
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by no_more_death 13y ago
...or you could get an Android for much cheaper and install some home screen widgets. Apple fanboys insist that Android features, such as widgets, are unnecessary. Then they go crazy over iPad dashboard apps that weakly simulate Android fun
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Broken Promises(sealedabstract.com)
2 points by no_more_death 13y ago|0 comments
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by no_more_death 13y ago
Hmmm, could someone build a text "scrambler" that would intentionally create broken English? I have also noticed that "broken English" is more effective by some measures than ordinary English. Note also that the broken English here is not t
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Step 1: Learn to use the CSS profiler in Chrome. Also, here are some articles I found in my links list: CSS Stress Tester Bookmarklet (Copy into a bookmarklet. Then it will tell you the rules that are causing the most lag.) javascript:(func
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by no_more_death 14y ago
I think it works great on desktop via keyboard shortcuts. I use it all the time and I hate it when I have to use other systems.
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Uninstalled. I checked, and Facebook took up more memory than any other application I have installed, even more than TSF Shell. (By the way, a MUCH more "feature-rich," useful, and snappy app than facebook!) Facebook isn't doing anything co
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by no_more_death 14y ago
NodeJS is written from a MUCH different approach than Rails. An example quotation from Isaac Schlueter (and he says this OVER AND OVER): We like dull models. They're easier to reason about. Programs should be boring dull things tha
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NodeJS about to pass WordPress in number of extensions
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by no_more_death 14y ago
There are 100000 perl modules, all backed up by an extensive test suite. About jobs: knowing a popular language guarantees you a job, but it doesn't guarantee you a good job. Those shooting for a higher level can pick what language they w
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by no_more_death 14y ago
I find that really doubtful. I used to believe it, but it seems like you still need operators to run things. Programming tools may become much more powerful, but when it goes wrong, you will need an incredibly intelligent person to sort out
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Well, currently birth rates are declining not because people have too little, but because they have too much. We only want as many children as we can have without degrading our quality of living or theirs. E.g., a typical family cannot have
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Two possibilities: continuation of existing trends, leading to a hyper focus on education, or a sudden reversal, where we live in a post-technological world. Some are speculating about needing to work less or not at all. I would argue that
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Yes, this is really a great example of how most things that we attribute to brilliance are due more to preparation and foresight.
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Right. It's not correct that people will blithely accept an error like "Error: this image failed to load." These people don't think about errors the same way we do. To them all errors are the same and mean there's a catastrophic failure. De
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Yeah, as a contrary piece of information, Fred Brooks considered his single most significant act, ever, to be sending E. F. Codd to further education. Codd devised "Codd's 12 Rules," and invented the relational database.
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by no_more_death 14y ago
This submission is absolutely first-rate. Must-see for serious javascript developers. Note http://media.tojicode.com/sfjs-vectors/#35 in particular and remember that TypedArrays are not a silver bullet. It's a shame I'm (apparently) the o
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Yeah. Interestingly I got all the way to the download with Chrome 25 Beta (for Android) but then it couldn't handle the data URI.
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by no_more_death 14y ago
It's unfair to say that the core language is flawed. Maintainability depends on how the language features are utilized. Some code uses monkey-patching gratuitously and that can harm maintainability, but judicious use of monkey patching is n
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Android innovates on connections between apps more than the interface design itself. For the most part, the interface design is simply a modified desktop approach. However, I would note that Google changed the old search button into a "swip
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by no_more_death 14y ago
I've noticed that most large companies go for a sterile look. Google, Microsoft, etc. I've always thought of Apple design as sterile as well. Getting off track, Apple design is simply not a monolithic, "zen" one-stroke entity. Apple design
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by no_more_death 14y ago
Thank you for a thoughtful and probing post. It is bold to write on a spiritual topic to this audience. I don't usually talk at length about spiritual matters, but everyone else here seems to be doing so and so I think it's appropriate. I w

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