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by nxn 5y ago
I'd ignore excitement -- if you are actually dying to work on something then put the motivation to fruition. If the problem you're working on isn't fulfilling then challenge yourself by trying to solve it by using a non-conve
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by nxn 13y ago
I'm sort of confused, because TLS 1.1/1.2 support across browsers looks to be quite poor at the moment. Especially when given a large number of IE visitors that will likely upgrade to IE11 (first version that will have TLS 1.1&#x2
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by nxn 13y ago
Trying to pick between omgrofl and lolcode with one life left can be likened to deciding which color wire to snip.
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by nxn 13y ago
There is an "Oldest First" button that resorts the timeline.
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by nxn 13y ago
BBC's Tiger Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of humans (especially compared to what many
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by nxn 13y ago
My guesses are: 1) maybe it's a mockery of the redundancy of using "www" in URLs, 2) a clever prank on anyone that attempts to communicate the site's address verbally and doesn't know that the sub-domain portion is
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by nxn 13y ago
Yeah, it really gets interesting if you compare his recent press conferences on the matter against what his speeches sounded like in 2007; here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix4sy25wF-E
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by nxn 13y ago
Same is true for drivebyacct2
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by nxn 13y ago
Which is not the same thing as node's modules. There's nothing stopping me from making global variables within a module "pattern". Contrast that with a node.js module where even if a variable declaration leaves out a &#x
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by nxn 13y ago
I think the author means that it's not implemented in all the browsers that have a significant share of the browser market.
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by nxn 13y ago
> On WebGL, we can reinvent presentation and styling entirely without sacrificing performance. Maybe keep parts of HTML, and ditch CSS entirely in favour of something better, and use a JS lib to render it all on GLES hardware, the same
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by nxn 13y ago
Not sure if this is relevant these days, but the Emscripten FAQ mentions the need to use "-s ASM_JS=1" as an argument to emcc in order for it to actually output asm.js style code. See "Q. How fast will the compiled code be?&q
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by nxn 13y ago
If I was in charge of Toptal's marketing department I would have responded with a new set of ads featuring shirtless Fabio lookalikes.
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by nxn 13y ago
Similar question and answer on another site: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jfufh/the_entir...
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by nxn 13y ago
It's the same figure which was in the leaked documents from 2008 that points to some NSA/CSSM 1-52 document from 2007 as a basis. Perhaps they feel that this is the only justifiable piece of "statistics" they can provide
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by nxn 13y ago
What do you mean by query? Are talking about using the 'keys' command to figure out what data you need? Because that's completely discouraged for everything except maintenance tasks, and for those I think it makes sense to ke
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by nxn 13y ago
Delete your nytimes.com cookies, refresh.
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by nxn 13y ago
This "rant" is exceptionally incoherent/convoluted -- at times arguing against itself: > The fact web browser technology are mostly the same across browsers is great for developers, but users never cared: because the mark
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by nxn 13y ago
I must say, I quite enjoy how so many countries are eagerly playing a game of "pass the Snowden" by throwing him over U.S. reach. It just goes to show that the behavior of the U.S. post 911 isn't winning over many friends --
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by nxn 13y ago
Strange, I believe I tried that after receiving a bunch of gift cards for Christmas -- I even tried entering in the exact title that's below the CC number on the card, but had no luck.
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by nxn 13y ago
Most online services, in my experience at least, will reject credit cards that are not associated with a name.
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by nxn 13y ago
Depends on the type of game, the field is very broad. For example, if I had the intention of creating an online card game, I think SVG via d3.js would actually be my very first choice.
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by nxn 13y ago
My concern, in this particular case, is that foreignObject isn't exactly a new addition to this spec, it's been mentioned in SVG specs since at least 2001, and the IE team apparently made the deliberate decision of not implementing it. I'm
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by nxn 13y ago
I actually implemented a very primitive word wrap function specifically for wrapping text in SVGs about two weeks ago. I took the approach of keeping an single canvas object in memory (completely detached from the DOM, 1x1 pixel dimensions)
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by nxn 13y ago
That only gives you the option of how you'd like to see it clipped (ex: ellipsis, an indication that the full text is not shown), it will not enable you to wrap the text onto another line. As per word wrap itself, the spec states it is not
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by nxn 13y ago
I am not sure if I am more upset at this not providing any native means of word wrap, or IE not supporting foreignObject. Seriously, a large use case for using SVG on the web is data visualization -- where you will often find yourself displ
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by nxn 14y ago
Isn't Windows 7 in a large way a refinement of Vista where they did get the "details" right? It's probably overkill to say that Microsoft never gets the details right, but I do agree that their first version product which introduces their i
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by nxn 14y ago
Hmm, I actually really like the "Metro as an add-on" idea: If you're buying a touch based device the add-on would just be pre-installed on the device for you (since it actually makes sense on those devices), but you'd still have the option
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by nxn 14y ago
Sorry, I added a more complete explanation in an edit. To reiterate though: the only thing the user would have to learn is to forget about having to close apps themselves because it will be done for them as needed. This would not prevent yo
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by nxn 14y ago
If I'm not mistaken they don't expect every day users to learn that on account of metro apps automatically being suspended and then closed for you based on your usage. EDIT: This describes a metro app's life cycle: http://msdn.microsoft.co

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