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by _alastair 11y ago
Oh, damn. I think you've found a bug, sorry about that. I think it's expecting a touch event when it shouldn't be. Let me take a look at that. EDIT: should be fixed now. Apologies again, embarrassing bug caused by a last minu
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by _alastair 11y ago
Correct, it doesn't render all clicks (I dread to think how browsers would react if I tried) - all the results are put through a k-means cluster analysis at regular intervals to produce approximately 30 visible results. The percentages
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by _alastair 11y ago
That's the work of Sam Manchester, deputy editor on the Sports desk and chief Photoshop wizard. I believe most of it is just cloning different parts of the photo to cover up the ball, though it can get more complex. For example, on the
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by _alastair 11y ago
I'm one of the people that made this interactive - funny to see it on Hacker News! If anyone has any questions about it, let me know.
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Sharing in the World of the In-App Web View(medium.com)
2 points by _alastair 12y ago|0 comments
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by _alastair 12y ago
With regard to languages, there's a real mix. PHP is still probably the most widely used language (including on the main desktop site, and our blogs are powered by Wordpress), but the mobile site runs on Node, and Go is definitely bein
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by _alastair 12y ago
mobile.nytimes.com is written in CoffeeScript (frontend and backend) and is maintained by a team of around 8 people. AFAIK all of the developers are fine with it.
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Neuze – the future of news(neuze.co)
2 points by _alastair 12y ago|0 comments
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A browser plugin that could detect false images on Twitter(medium.com)
1 points by _alastair 12y ago|0 comments
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by _alastair 13y ago
At least it's given the world a new alternative to 'a to-do list' in demonstrating new technologies/languages/etc. There are ones for various different gaming frameworks: https://github.com/uralozden
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The minimal-ui meta tag in iOS 7.1(blogging.alastair.is)
1 points by _alastair 13y ago|0 comments
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WebRTC DataChannels or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Flap My Arms(blogging.alastair.is)
3 points by _alastair 13y ago|0 comments
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by _alastair 13y ago
But each frame is a separate JPEG, right? So I'm guessing the compression here is less than fantastic.
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Flappy Arms: Flappy Birds + your arms. An experiment.(experimenting.alastair.is)
3 points by _alastair 13y ago|0 comments