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by _greim_ 13y ago
> A very strong circumstantial case shouldn't be dismissed just because we can't think of a mechanism. On the other hand, if a convincing causal chain can't be identified, it shouldn't be assumed true either. It shoul
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by _greim_ 13y ago
It's unsurprising that the kinds of threats that are most common nowadays are the ones that get around automated security, which is essentially what AV software is. That doesn't mean that automated security has no future. It just
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Didn't it just relaunch? I imagine many people even now are furiously coding their submissions.
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Yay! Zen Garden. 059 reporting in.
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Well that's a very subjective statement. So easy to criticize when there's no objective standard. I think a more useful observation would be that most of the designs are dominated by one or more completely non-interactive visual e
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by _greim_ 13y ago
My main point is that Promises don't have any concept of parallelism; all() is specific to the Q library, not part of Promises/A+. Obviously that's the intent—low-level building blocks—but it leaves one feeling like Promises
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My beef with JS Promises (uppercase "P") is that, as a programming idiom, I prefer once I have X, Y and Z, do something with X, Y and Z over get X, then get Y, then get Z . In the former case, the provisioning logic is a separa
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Oh weird. I remember trying out FlexBox three years ago and having it work in FF. Does this just mean they dropped the -moz- prefix requirement?
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So where are the Republicans when you need them, to shout down this new government regulation ?
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> Don't look for talent Isn't talent the ability to do things well? Or maybe I lack a nuanced definition of "talent". Or maybe the headline is trying to be sensational.
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What would be some examples? Low-level (sax-style?) access to the HTML parser is something I looked for years ago and never found. Would we be able to extend native CSS selectors, kind of like how you can do with jQuery selectors now? It so
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There is also the fact that Wordpress is written in PHP. Arguably, the number of Perl dabblers looking to make a buck freelance web-designing isn't anywhere near the number of PHP ones.
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There's a strong chaotic component to mass popularity, so arguably there isn't even a meritocracy of people who are good at becoming popular, among popular people.
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> In that case it seems that we need something new to replace CSS for layout There's so much that CSS (and browsers in general) do that we take for granted, which is good in one sense but bad since you can't dip below those abstractions