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Amazon.com just closed my seller account. No warning, no details.(aaron.kavlie.net)
305 points by akavlie 15y ago|77 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
That makes sense. Still incredible that it had so much energy that it was still going after making it through a door and a wall. It's also surprising that it could bounce so high (at least once) after hitting a floor.
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by akavlie 15y ago
The physics at play here (at least as reported in the article) are hard to fathom. It went through the front door, bounced around the home, UP to the second floor, THROUGH the back wall... And enough energy still remained to send it across
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by akavlie 15y ago
The problem is, it's pretty useless without Firebug compared to Chrome, at least for me -- much of my browser use is for web development. (this may change with the built-in debug tools set for Firefox 10.0 -- let us hope) I'm also a bit per
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by akavlie 15y ago
Thanks for making a presentation that's useful to readers. While I'd still prefer to see video, this stands on its own. I see a lot of presentations hit Hacker News that aren't very useful on their own because they were meant to accompany a
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by akavlie 15y ago
Staying with IE6 is arguably less safe, considering all the popular sites (Youtube & Facebook among others) that no longer support it.
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Kindle Fire targeted in patent claims for audio player, downloadable playlists(engadget.com)
2 points by akavlie 15y ago|0 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
So it's based on inbound links (aka popularity)?
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Comparing Internationalization in web frameworks(aaron.kavlie.net)
3 points by akavlie 15y ago|0 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
I wish everyone who defends the patent status quo could read and understand this. The ideals they espouse have no resemblance to the reality you describe. Thanks for sharing your insight.
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by akavlie 15y ago
What did you use for all the UI and widgets that JQUI gives you? Did you find that a tough gap to fill in when you dropped JQUI?
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by akavlie 15y ago
It's close enough that it can be swapped for jQuery in Backbone.js, and many jQuery plugins work. (Disclaimer: haven't use it myself)
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by akavlie 15y ago
No, IE8 is not a modern browser by most definitions.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Rhino? http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
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by akavlie 15y ago
Then why does the Asus version look so much cheaper? That may explain the similar layout, honestly. But what strikes me the most about those pics is that the Asus internals look like a cheap toy version of the Air.
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by akavlie 15y ago
If you want colorful flow charts, there are plenty at the "Isomorphic" link: http://blog.nodejitsu.com/scaling-isomorphic-javascript-code The proposed Resource-View-Presenter model is a bit of a brain bender. Anyway, that aside, I agree -
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by akavlie 15y ago
I'm on a Spring project, and the devs seem to do all the variables in this superLongVerboseHardToReadStyle. Most of my work is Python/JavaScript/PHP, and in all three cases, the dev culture is mostly about short, succinct variable names. So
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by akavlie 15y ago
Open source software != free service -- in fact, even when the software is open source, you usually have to pay for a hosted, managed service.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Yeah, the cient looks pretty fantastic, but the apparent limitation of working with Grove-hosted servers does limit its usefulness. If you're interested, here's my client so far: http://web-irc.nodester.com/ https://github.com/akavlie/we
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by akavlie 15y ago
Hmm, I just started working on an open source web-based IRC client a couple of weeks ago. This takes a bit of the wind out of my sails.
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Jeremy Ashkenas's proposal for minimalist JS classes (gist.github.com)
70 points by akavlie 15y ago|16 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
Ah, of course. And it makes sense -- I think Flask is a much easier introduction to config and the VC of MVC development... but once you get to the M, well... SQLAlchemy is great, but the learning curve is steeper. And even though Flask has
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by akavlie 15y ago
Data? Can you explain that? Not sure what you mean.
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by akavlie 15y ago
No, nor IE9 support. Nor IE10 even. Microsoft isn't too keen on WebGL.
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by akavlie 15y ago
I want the semicolons to go away. Braces too.
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by akavlie 15y ago
If you're going to go to the trouble of creating a JavaScript replacement, making something more like Java is the wrong way to go IMO. CoffeeScript is a lot more palatable.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Selenium 1.x does, but 2.x talks straight to the web browser via WebDriver. That may not be a technically accurate description of what's going on, but to the developer that's what it looks like. No Java server to start up.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Pixels are the best way to get consistent cross-browser font sizes: http://css-tricks.com/2580-css-font-size/ Also, graphics are inherently bound to a fixed pixel size... so layouts often have to follow, if you don't want things getting o
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by akavlie 15y ago
or latest Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera
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by akavlie 15y ago
I just watched it all. It's a great video.

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