akavlie

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by akavlie 15y ago
I've just played with Backbone.js myself, though I have shared your frustration with getting the hang of it, and the quality of available tutorials and examples. I've learned to mostly get the hang of it after repeated references to the off
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by akavlie 15y ago
Sounds like this may all be resolved with the new improved fixed toolbars/page transitions in iOS 5.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Major changes: - pushState support for clean URLs - beforechangepage event (for apps that generate HTML server-side) - Support for iOS 5's true fixed toolbars & better transitions
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JQuery Mobile Beta 3 released(jquerymobile.com)
46 points by akavlie 15y ago|14 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
This sounds more or less like Backbone.js. How does it compare to that? The name is amusing, but a bit silly -- "What are you guys using for all of your cool AJAXy stuff?" "Batman."
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by akavlie 15y ago
Any clue what the browser compatibility is like, and how well it holds together in older browsers? All they say is "only modern browsers in mind" -- but I see no details about that. If it holds together sans pretty effects that's fine.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Looks pretty nice. But how did this come out of twitter? I haven't seen half of these elements on twitter.com.
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by akavlie 15y ago
A lot of it is thanks to V8 I think. But an issue commonly raised with EventMachine (and gevent etc. on Python) is that many common libraries contain blocking code that you cant get rid of, whereas Node modules have all been programmed to a
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by akavlie 15y ago
"Also, the development time was unusually fast." That's surprising -- my impression has been that one tradeoff with Node.js vs. frameworks like Rails & Django is a lot more work to implement functionality they ship with out of the box -
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by akavlie 15y ago
The "Fork me on Github" is pretty common on a lot of sites (Github made those graphics), but that aside I agree -- I was thinking it was another Pocoo project until I saw the author. Looks like he just co-opted the theme (Pocoo might have i
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by akavlie 15y ago
Exactly. I've had a similar experience consulting, and wondered if it was the same for others... or if they're just loose with counting hours. The only time I've been able to rack up more than 20~25 hours is when I work at the client's offi
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by akavlie 15y ago
I think "support", for video codecs, would mean shipping with the browser. Adoption will be very limited as long as it requires a separate download and installation (unless the browser makes that seamless, with no admin password requirement
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by akavlie 15y ago
An employee's labor is purchased by the employer. A student in a university is not paid to attend a university however; the contrary is true. A student has far more claim on the works of professors than vice-versa.
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by akavlie 15y ago
Actually, to be fair, Microsoft isn't the only one missing.
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by akavlie 15y ago
"WebRTC is supported by Mozilla and Opera" -- hmm, someone is absent from that list
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by akavlie 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. Much as I prefer the Python/Ruby convention of underscores, this is not the JS convention, and consistency is important.
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by akavlie 15y ago
TL;DR -- Mafiaafire redirects you to an alternative domain when the primary domain is moved or seized. So basically the DHS is trying to suppress a workaround to their domain seizures. I'm not sure they have much of a legal argument here th
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by akavlie 15y ago
I just corrected the headline, don't know how I got "MediaaFire". Thanks.
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DHS asks Mozilla to take down MafiaaFire add-on(lockshot.wordpress.com)
368 points by akavlie 15y ago|75 comments
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by akavlie 15y ago
Survey taken. I'm concerned that any competitive bid site like this will lead to the foreigners underbidding Americans, a la elance & oDesk. How will your service avoid that?
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by akavlie 16y ago
Agreed, I find it's often very sparse myself. Compare to the Python standard library docs, which tend to be much more thorough.
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by akavlie 16y ago
So yeah, about that distributed DNS idea...
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by akavlie 16y ago
I run with a laptop (display on, but rarely used) connected to an external monitor. Linux assumes the laptop is the default, and changing the external to primary is next to impossible. Unity puts everything important on the laptop display i
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by akavlie 16y ago
Yep, it was rewritten in Cocoa for Snow Leopard: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a...
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by akavlie 16y ago
nm, it's back up right now, with a good chat going.
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by akavlie 16y ago
Not right now it's not. :-(
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by akavlie 16y ago
Don't consider it a legitimate interface? Really? It's the interface git was designed for.
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by akavlie 16y ago
Does the Senate seriously think THIS is the sort of reform we need in the patent system? Are they that out of touch? The article itself isn't much better, it barely touches on the real problems in patent law.
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by akavlie 16y ago
You say that as if it's too little... but really, one guy just on the installer?
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by akavlie 16y ago
Yep, you're right! The author works for Gitorious too. Despite the fact that this is a Microsoft blog, the content is about the furthest you can get from MS-centric development. Everything he endorses is open source, from sources other than

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