Alexx

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by Alexx 15y ago
Minimalism and 'getting rid of your possessions' has been one of those hot internet topics for as long as I can remember. The trend I notice is that the articles preaching the extreme end of this are almost always written by 20-something bl
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by Alexx 15y ago
As a pure technology demo, it's more impressive than a plain satellite view. But the product isn't comparable.
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by Alexx 15y ago
That's not really my experience, nor do I really understand why people seem to say knockout and backbone in the same breath so often. There is very little overlap in the goals of these two frameworks. The approach is fundamentally different
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by Alexx 15y ago
I don't really understand why you're comparing automation testing (Selenium) with Javascript unit testing?
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by Alexx 15y ago
It's a CSS3 transform. Code to the client is no more than a few bytes.
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by Alexx 15y ago
For some reason I've had the 'new style' facebook feeds and chat for a few weeks already. Usually when facebook releases updates and everyone has a little rant about it I just sit back and roll my eyes. These things usually have a long term
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by Alexx 15y ago
Is there a particular reason you went with short polling over sockets? I see your building on jetty at the moment, which is pretty tried and tested I guess, but pushing a huge volume of json objects around over the http.
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by Alexx 16y ago
I think you're hugely over estimating the competence of a large percentage of internet users.
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by Alexx 16y ago
While this is undoubtably true, it's important to consider the absolute razor thin margins that fierce competition and huge volume production creates. This interesting article on the manufacture of microSD gives a small glimpse; http://www
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by Alexx 16y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. The main theme of the reddit topic on this seemed to be people excited about 'only paying for what they want', yet by doing so you remove the main advantage of mass production; lower per unit price.
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by Alexx 16y ago
"Hopefully apple doesn't miss the social boat", I use social media tools as much as the next guy, but I don't believe that a company like apple really needs to get 'inside' the whole 'social media' movement. I think they're playing the righ
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by Alexx 16y ago
The main problem with this is that it would greatly increase the effectiveness of brute-force attacks. The secret username would have to be forced to be a long string without dictionary words, numbers, capitalization etc, which somewhat und