Encosia

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by Encosia 11y ago
I only have Win10 handy right now, but the built-in "Reader" app there has an option for fitting a single page, two pages side-by-side, and continuous vertical pages. It's missing an automatic option to fit the page width-wis
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by Encosia 11y ago
> PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install. The built-in viewer that shipped with 8 is no-frills (like Chrome's), but works well enough. If you have touch/poi
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by Encosia 11y ago
Outlook got conversation grouping and good search (long as you let Windows Search index your mail) a couple versions back, IIRC.
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by Encosia 11y ago
Yeah, a quality CPU cooler with a large fan makes a big difference in noise level. Getting that and the GPU setup right is key.
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by Encosia 11y ago
My current desktop build is a fast i7[0] with a GTX 970, but I can't hear it at all right now. You can have great performance without fans or with large diameter fans that turn slowly and quietly under normal load. This is especially t
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by Encosia 12y ago
I run Visual Studio and Web/PhpStorm (essentially built on IntelliJ, I think?) on a Surface Pro 3 often. Mine's an i7 with 8gb RAM. More powerful than the 13" Ultrabook I replaced with it, and much more powerful than the Ma
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by Encosia 12y ago
I don't remember when exactly, but they fixed that at some point. I just ran this simple test in IE (without ever opening the dev tools) and got the alert: http://jsbin.com/hodavocuwu/1/edit
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by Encosia 12y ago
Well, everyone knows that any site outside of the top 10 is just a hobbyist site that no one reads. Scoff! Thankfully, I don't need to discuss with you whether or not I need XCache. More thankfully, I didn't see your poor advice b
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by Encosia 12y ago
If you'd spent even a few minutes researching the traffic that my "hobbyist blog that likely no one reads" gets or actually reading my previous comment (why would I care about XCache on apt, when that was my whole problem to
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by Encosia 12y ago
> The difference is that on Linux/OSX you don't need to install extra tools like mysysgit/cgywin or a different terminal emulator (ie, Cmndr or other 'Terminal' replacement on OSX), because the toolset is already
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by Encosia 12y ago
I'm not sure if there is a difference. I was using the terms interchangeably (maybe incorrectly?).
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by Encosia 12y ago
The thing that makes my life difficult is that even if you (and I) choose not to work directly with/for those laggard companies, their locked down userbase is still on the web and impacts the requirements of sites I build for completel
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by Encosia 12y ago
You can choose either Cmder by itself or a bundled installer that includes msysgit. I set my default "new console" to that bundled bash and things work pretty great. Start + "cmd" and I'm at a bash prompt in a fairl
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by Encosia 12y ago
What do you mean? Sparta.
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by Encosia 12y ago
For what it's worth, recent versions of IE are already evergreen and auto-update by default. The real culprit behind us still having to support IE8 for some clients is your average enterprise IT department. They'll find ways to
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by Encosia 12y ago
I'm reading this in Sparta. Pressing Ctrl + L just now did focus the address bar.
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by Encosia 12y ago
> realized it was cheaper to just hand all the developers Mac Books than to either train them on installing Unix tool chains on Windows, or on "properly" using Linux Did you try Cmder? That gets you a pretty reasonable bash env
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by Encosia 12y ago
Install either the WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache plugin. Enable static caching in either plugin and your site won't have any trouble with HN levels of traffic.
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by Encosia 12y ago
It's a simple implementation of an Ember/Glimmer demo[0], which is a reimplementation of this React demo[1] from this React Conf talk[2]. [0] https://dbmonster.firebaseapp.com/ [1] http://run.plnkr.co&#
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by Encosia 12y ago
On my machine, Chrome Beta channel scores 51% in 52ms and IE TP scores 44% in 41ms. If no browser is even making a passing grade on that test yet, it seems more aspirational than anything.
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by Encosia 12y ago
So, you're telling me that Chrome running poorly on an i7 processor (while Photoshop, Visual Studio, WebStorm, Firefox, and IE all manage to run fine) is the Surface's fault? It's awfully hard to take any of your points serio
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by Encosia 12y ago
You can use this API onclick to do the same thing: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh673542%28v=vs.... Now, let's talk about Chrome's pointer events support...
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by Encosia 12y ago
Definitely, that's probably one of the biggest dangers of opening IE up to more extensions. On Windows at least, the divide between Chrome/FF and IE is more fundamental though. Last month, I spent a week really seriously trying to
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by Encosia 12y ago
Err, Chrome's absolute #1 selling point for at least the first year or so was speed, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7VNjGuSK_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNpWJY9SEs https://www
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by Encosia 12y ago
To second what Navarr said, I don't really see IE issues these days unless it's on a site that needs to support versions prior to IE9. As often as not, issues in modern IE are due to developers writing code that targets only a sin
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by Encosia 12y ago
Have you used IE in the past few years? IE is (by far) already the fastest browser on my two Windows 10 machines right now. That was also the case when they were running Windows 8 and 8.1 in the past. The latest versions of IE make Chrome f
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by Encosia 12y ago
It's definitely not perfect. Like I mentioned, it was developed on an incredibly tight budget/timeframe. I wish I'd had budget to polish several things like that throughout the site. I do still think a user that searches the
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by Encosia 12y ago
I agree with you, but you could say that about any site migration though, right? It's never easy to pull an old site forward to a new design/structure, responsive or not. That's been a huge pain point for as long as large sit
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by Encosia 12y ago
To underbluewaters' example of just getting a simple recipe on the screen, building a mobile-friendly page to display that kind of content is certainly not hard. For example, this is a recipe page that I personally worked on a few mont
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by Encosia 12y ago
I was always under the impression that the backlight is a lot of the power that displays consume, which is why LED displays use so much less power than CCFC displays. That would remain constant with resolution, right? If that's the cas

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