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12y ago
That file is probably going to stay at v1.11.1 forever now: http://blog.jquery.com/2014/07/03/dont-use-jquery-latest-js/ (The blog post talks about /jquery-latest.js, but I'd imagine the same g
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12y ago
There is an fi ligature between the i and the c, perhaps those PDF renderers don't support them? Could be some sort of font loading issue.
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12y ago
It is 17px for me, but most browsers support zooming into a page, that will make text easier to read on almost any site, but could make it more difficult if accidentally zoomed out.
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12y ago
> If A changes to no longer deal with that event, will B block forever? No, A would just no-op, and control will return to B. This is all written in the context of JavaScript, with a synchronous dispatcher and no threads which can block.
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12y ago
> implicit property dependency graph How similar is Ember's dependency tracking to Knockout's? With Knockout I've had exactly the problem described in the article, where properties end up depending on eachother in a chain,
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12y ago
The smallest responsive version of the logo says "coke", rather than "coca-cola", which I've not seen before. I couldn't see any use of "coke" by itself, when used for "diet coke" they use a
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12y ago
> Is it an amorphous blob like an oil spill? That's certainly how it works in the Lego Movie! The title sounds fine to me. I would say "a Lego block" rather than "a Lego" too, similar to how I wouldn't say,
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12y ago
Yea, unnecessarily controversial title. The point is that if you want to link to some code, link to a particular version of that code, not the latest version of that code. The whole file could be deleted, let alone a change in line position
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12y ago
Here's Wikimedia's confirmation of exemption letter. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/9/90/501%2... To go further, I'd look up exactly what "Public Charity Status 170
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12y ago
Multiple modes allows the same keys to do different things in different modes, there isn't much more to it than that. Say, at a Bash shell prompt in a terminal window, pressing Ctrl+R starts "reverse command search" mode, so
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12y ago
There's a bit of back and forth between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, where an external reward can reduce intrinsic motivation more than it increases extrinsic motivation. That is, if the reward is known but small, someone could
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12y ago
> Also related, OSX menu items have a gap between them; clicking on that gap closes the menu (I think). There isn't a gap between every menu item, but clicking on the horizontal dividers or disabled menu items does close the menu wi
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12y ago
Taking that a step further: it is like an exterminator going around different of restaurants, then crawling under customer's tables while they are eating, saying, "Don't mind me, just looking from rat droppings." A more
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12y ago
The practical difference is that if you write an application which gets wide scale adoption which uses Microsoft's undocumented APIs, then Microsoft might choose to support those as-is in future versions of the OS, whereas with Apple y
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12y ago
> There is no GUI to hint at how to do anything. No toolbars, no application menus, no context menus or buttons. The Vim GUIs have all those things, try gvim on Windows or MacVim on OS X. Though admittedly I turn them all off except for
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12y ago
> the more nebulous concept of whether animals experience emotions Is there debate about that? I suppose I took it as a given, hence all the efforts people go through to treat lab animals humanely.
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12y ago
Won't that only happen if a state change has been made? That is, the diffing algorithm will only get invoked once every 16ms if the state changes faster than once every 16ms.
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12y ago
> and using string concatenation React.js uses a "virtual DOM" made up of JavaScript objects, so there isn't any concatenation of HTML strings, just generation of virtual DOM objects. The next step up from that is their Ja
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13y ago
Step 2 in the reproduction case also includes shutting down the new instance, so I think there is only ever a maximum of two instances at a one time. Seems that the unusual bit is that 70 instances are opened without ever closing the very f
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13y ago
It seems that each stage will need to know about at least two directories, an input directory and an output directory. If it was implemented with a chain type and a stage type, the "run it" command would presumably have to read th
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13y ago
Mercurial's seem to assume less knowledge, the bisect pages are a good example. Mercurial bisect: This command helps to find changesets which introduce problems. Git bisect: Find by binary search the change that introduc
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13y ago
> He just didn't have the right culture fit for Mozilla. I find that hard to believe, his Wikipedia page says he started working for Netscape in 1995, founded mozilla.org in 1998, and helped found the Mozilla Foundation in 2003. If
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That's roughly what happens when TypeScript gets compiled to JavaScript, it can use the browser's GC. asm.js is used to avoid the browser's GC, either when the original code doesn't need a GC since it uses manual memory
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13y ago
Yea, that's fair. They could want something impossible, or they could want something possible but are describing it so imprecisely that what they end up asking for is impossible. They may not be able to tell the difference between the
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13y ago
> But at least pip, npm and gems are a breeze compared to cabal. I've not really used the others, but Gemfiles have the concept of upper bounds: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5170547/what-does-tilde-g.
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13y ago
Every time you move, another tile gets added to the board. In the original version, it would usually be a 2 which gets added on every move (larger depending on how well you are doing). In this version, a 2048 tile gets added every time you
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13y ago
Multiplication is a way to do adding faster, and division is a way to do subtraction faster. Pretty cool if kids are being encouraged to realise that relationship. It was only when I watched videos of those mechanical "fire control&quo
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13y ago
1e99 is valid JSON, that isn't what he is complaining about. See: http://json.org/number.gif
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We had a bug once when some logger output happened to get passed through JSON. The receiving code expected arrays of strings, but at some point one of the records happened to just contain a date. That ended up getting deserialised as a real
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Presumably JSMin removes optional quotes in object laterals, so it probably doesn't output valid JSON.
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