TheZenPsycho

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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
To review, it would seem that while you have a blog post from ian hickson making a passive reference to deprecating smil. Indeed he followed up by removing the feature from the ACID3 test. But the damage was already done: evidence of actual
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
and yet in spite of this http://caniuse.com/#search=smil Where have you heard or read that it is on the chopping block?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
yes declarative animation. That is a specific test in acid 3 and you need declarative animation in svg to pass 100 on that test. script animation is actually not supported when svg is used from an img tag. only declarative.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Thanks to the ACID3 test, all modern browsers support animation in SVG and svg in an img tag. Which means you can do extremely small vector based animations, or write an encoder that embeds jpegs and animates them like a film strip. You
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
... and that's the joke.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
I think the take away is not "do not optimise at all ever" it's about not just optimising your code, but optimise the time you spend optimising it. Do not spend 2 weeks micro-optimising a loop that, in reality, has no effect
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
so when you're trying to do something else is the time to be making these decisions?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
I think it just shows that you do computers wrong. Okay sorry that sounds snarky and unproductive- What I mean is, as a model for how human evolved navigation works- a persistant work space with effectively no need to "save" work
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
what if the manifest.appcache is content addressable ? e.g. manifest-[version-number].appcache the appcache semantics are convoluted enough that I must admit I don't know what would happen. Would you visit index.html and it loads the
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
It costs nothing to switch those GETs to POSTs (or fucking whatever method best describes the kind of side effect you're doing). why are we making excuses for doing the obviously wrong thing? I get what you're saying about the API
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Some of this is pedantic. But mostly, it's calling out, without much grace, that this API is a failure of a design. Not because it's not [insert buzzword] but because: 1. what happens if you visit a control panel page in chrome? D
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
What he means is, instead of having a file you name myscript.js you name it myscript-[sha1 hash of contents].js and you set its cache header to expire at some improbably point in the far far future. If you should happen to
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
The whole point is to enable the browser to be a full proper app platform- that includes enabling web apps to work OFFLINE. The behaviour of a browser without app cache is to fail to display content even if it is cached if your connection
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
but coffeescript IS exactly javascript with a bad syntax translator. It' not a "considerably better language" it's the same language.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
There are gaps in my knowledge, but my understanding is that to address 32-bits of memory requires the use of a "DOS extender". The reason being that DOS is barely an operating system at all- It never provided any 32-bit support b
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
the format permits frames with 0ms delays. the problem is that there has never ever been a browser that respects the 0ms delay. On the whole, the status quo is that any delay under 10ms gets upgraded to 10ms. Newer (current) browsers have
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
straight lines are straight in a photograph because of precision manufactured optics shaped specifically to achieve that effect, to reduce "chromatic aberrations" and "barrel distortion".
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
this is the perspective projection that we have with our eyes: spherical projection. detail here: http://www.treeshark.com/treeblog/?p=301 At any given moment we're only looking at a very small slice of that large
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Yeah, doesn't always have to be you teaching others that your way of programming is the "right" way.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Man, I hope when I have grandchildren, they won't want to throw a bundle of my life's work in the trash. Maybe github instead?
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Yeah I'm a bit confused by that part. She got the guy's attention but didn't really say what happened with him after that.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
this is a well known phenomenon called the "bystander effect" wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect long story short, what's going on in people's minds when they don&#x
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
brew install bash … really.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
There are constraints to asm.js that are restrictively difficult for a human to maintain. If your code doesn't pass the validator it runs as normal JS.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
The analogy was about ease of use and well known-ness. To suggest casually that people would en masse switch to ice weasel points to a kind of tone deafness.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
that was not my point.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
No, it changed the name to Laika.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
"But if the same artists had worked on the same Coraline with someone else's capital, would the outcome have been any different? Probably not. Did it matter if the money was branded Knight or someone else's?" this sectio
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
Just as people could install ubuntu and "just use wine" if they want to run windows programs without paying for windows.
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by TheZenPsycho 12y ago
It is hard to convince someone to fix what you see as a bug, when the author of the software is really so proud of this "feature" he's filed a patent on it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/commen

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