Zarel

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by Zarel 14y ago
The keynote and Apple website point out that all purchases of Macs from now on will come with a free upgrade to Mountain Lion once it's released. I wonder if the free upgrade will be the App Store version that allows you to install it on al
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by Zarel 14y ago
I don't think it's entirely fair to compare "then-and-now" screenshots for number of mentions of the phrase "open source". It seems to me that the redesigns simplify, and remove redundant text, which could also be a cause of the fewer menti
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by Zarel 14y ago
Hmm. I don't know why `pointer-events:none` is being made a big deal of. In the past, it was easy enough just to put the Like button on top, and set its opacity to 0; all `pointer-events:none` does is make that easier. More relevantly, we u
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by Zarel 15y ago
It appears to be branded "Microsoft Hotmail" or just "Hotmail" now. I think this is an improvement.
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by Zarel 15y ago
That's not true at all. The article says that you have three Facebook passwords, not that the passwords are case-insensitive. The three passwords in question are the password you typed, that password with its case toggled, and that password
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by Zarel 15y ago
Fitt's law is useful for two insights: The obvious one is that things you want to be easy to click should be large/close, but the less obvious one is that things you don't want to be easy to click should be small/far. The "..." dots is pr
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by Zarel 15y ago
It's interesting. Reading through the list, it was a lot of "things I learned a long time ago" interspersed with "things I learned fairly recently". Having started doing web development before Django and jQuery were released, I definitely l
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by Zarel 15y ago
Most of the gripes with PHP seem to do with its syntax, error messages, and inconsistent function naming. It seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to write an automatic converter from "PHP" to "Improved PHP", which might solve a lot of t
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by Zarel 15y ago
> I've written PHP for about 3 years and I've never once used the @ to suppress errors. Is it so wrong to use @? I've always used (@$_REQUEST['foo'] === 'bar') as a shorter way of writing (isset($_REQUEST['foo']) && $_REQUEST['f
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by Zarel 15y ago
Well, technically, it's valid; it's just unlikely to be what you meant to type. That sort of case should probably be handled separately.
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by Zarel 15y ago
I recently learned about a similar trick that gets around NoScript: http://citeomatic.com/_asdf.html (This one only works in Firefox and Opera, not Chrome, sadly)
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by Zarel 15y ago
It's interesting that he says: "There’s no way, as far as I know, to keep my IM windows synced between devices." Trillian introduced this feature around a year ago: http://blog.trillian.im/?p=1949 http://arstechnica.com/software/news/201
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by Zarel 15y ago
I think it makes sense. To extend your metaphor, you can do things such as turn on the radio without noticing a performance difference between the two cars. The idea with Photoshop is, sure, loading the entire thing will take much longer, b
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by Zarel 15y ago
I think I understand what he's saying. Sure, your Dodge Neon may take longer to go 0-60 (i.e. it's okay if Photoshop is slower overall), but there would be something wrong with it if it takes significantly longer just to get in the car (i.e
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by Zarel 15y ago
What about one common prefix in addition to vendor prefixes? Then you could write "-x-border-radius: 2px" in the majority of times where the property was compatible, but you'd still be able to write "-webkit-border-radius: 2px 4px; -moz-bor