FuzzyDunlop

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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I think the killer feature of git -- which applies to any other DVCS -- is that you're not dependent on github if you're well prepared. There's absolutely nothing stopping you adding redundant remotes so you always have somewhere to push/pu
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
Probably because the former article feels relevant to a wider audience here than something about GCC does. There are probably more Americans than C developers on HN.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I think the only mistake made with this patch release was merging in 250+ commits, ranging from last year to the present day. Maybe that's standard for such a large project, but it feels like a hell of a lot of tweaks for a minor release. A
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
> We also noticed that users dislike the NASCAR-style > plastering of branded login buttons. This reminds me quite vividly of Stack Overflow's login page. I can never remember if I signed up direct, with OpenID, or Google, or whatev
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I think the OP in that thread wrote a pretty amazing post, in all honesty. Unlike your typical "it doesn't work" or "this sucks", the frustrated individual still takes care to detail, step by step, exactly what felt wrong or what was missin
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I would hope or presume that Firefox's tools eventually do get this level of polish, though. Chrome (and even Safari) has had quite a bit of a head-start, and neither of those were shining examples of great UX at the beginning.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
In spite of arguing about this 'objective' readability, it doesn't address the issue that CoffeeScript is no more readable than Javascript is, because it introduces its own plethora of quirks and crypticness. Given the choice between the tw
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
Hardly, considering its appearance in many programming languages. Although I would argue similarly that, if the ternary operator is terse and cryptic and needs to be changed to 'if ... then ... else ...'; then '->' and '=>' are equa
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
It's not an improvement though. I find it pointlessly verbose.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
isLargerThanSix = if x > 6 then yes else no You don't need CoffeeScript to do something as redundant as that, since comparison operators return a boolean: var isLargerThanSix = x > 6 Of course, CoffeeScript doesn'
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
There are still things like the Raspberry Pi, and all the things you can wire into it, which obviate the need to spend a few hundred quid on a full on desktop PC.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
After that forum post where the user claimed Dropbox had leaked their email to spammers, I have severe reservations about giving them the actual credentials to my email account, whether or not the allegations were correct.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
This feels a bit sneaky: http://cl.ly/image/3c0A471T1K1X
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
My faith in this post continually diminished as I clicked to links I thought contained relevant facts. Instead, they were just image macros. They could easily have been embedded direct, for what little value they offer. As it stands, it's j
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I actually think there's something more remarkable about figuring this out by hand, in the command line. And writing about it, just the fact that you can capture the exact steps taken with a simple copy and paste blows the GUI approach well
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
There's a detailed write up from the author about how it all works at: http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2013/02/26/full-text-search-in-...
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
This makes me think about why I've been receiving spam at my professional email, which I tend to use quite sparingly.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
They're referring to the actual demo page: http://typeplate.com/demo.html
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
There was a post here a while ago about a language that didn't use 'super' inside subclassed methods, but instead had something used in the parent class method to call the same one in any subclass. I quite liked the idea of that. Looks like
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
Does Apple own the word 'Mail'?
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I was wondering about Native Client, and if it did catch on, if people would settle for just using JS as glue code between the DOM and your NaCl extension. It would open up the opportunity to use any language that can be embedded, but might
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
Javascript is probably an excellent example of something written without any consideration of how it would work at scale (which is exactly what we tend to promote). The idea of it suddenly being used for writing single page applications and
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I've used HAML and Jade a fair bit, and I've also had the joy of converting them back to HTML. I've experience the opposite to you, where we've had a much easier time with plain HTML than a specific abstraction of it. I've also had the joy
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I agree, and it's also the reason I dislike HAML and all the other things that want to use significant whitespace. Writing plain old HTML is fucking simple. Abstracting it out into another 'language' just means you have to deal with a whole
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What could possibly be more entertaining than X-Factor?(blog.new-bamboo.co.uk)
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I believe the same thing is happening with Play.com too, which has all the Rakuten branding applied.
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I guess it's not quite as easy as whacking up something in HTML and CSS, which might justify the recent trend towards supporting that in as many things possible. I also think that the attractiveness of one of these projects can vary quite h
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
This isn't the BBC screwing people over. This is likely a constraint introduced by licensing American (or foreign) exports for broadcast over here. If the licensors want DRM as part of the agreement, then there's not much choice left for th
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
I think that's an issue of moving from Objective-C (and pure C), to what is normally a dynamic language. Using nil as a final argument (also called the 'sentinel') is fine for C to mark the end of a variable length array like it expects wit
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by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
The major concern I have with something like RubyMotion is that Objective-C - the language it stands in for - is not a difficult language. The Cocoa/CocoaTouch API and its verbosity is the real problem, and I think that trying to map the

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