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2 points by alanh 14y ago|0 comments
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by alanh 14y ago
You are describing the status quo as you see it, as if it were a rebuttal to the ideal towards which we should be striving.
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by alanh 14y ago
Amen. A thousand times, amen. If your stack requires tight coupling with URL structure, you have doomed yourself already.
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by alanh 14y ago
Agreed. That’s a rule I mention in my piece, “URL as UI”, which I really want everyone to read. (If it feels like self-promotion, then please kindly ignore my username / blog masthead. I only care about these ideas.) http://alanhogan.com/u
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by alanh 14y ago
Or Cog, which handles FLAC just fine.
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by alanh 14y ago
Oh, so you are the guy who has been causing all those 404s that I bump into. And nice strawman, by the way. I have had some EXTREMELY popular blog posts that I bookmarked (remember NVIE’s post on git branching?) 404 just because the site ch
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by alanh 14y ago
I am 99% sure the distinction, as it matters to the Catholic Church or anyone else using the term, is that “embryonic” refers to having been harvested from an embryo.
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by alanh 14y ago
> Although famed for his cerebral powers, Turing had also always shown an experimental bent, … Nit-picky of me, but experimentation is hardly counter to cerebral activity, but rather a reflection of it.
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by alanh 14y ago
It might have been 0.03W. I’ll need to check again… It was either 0.3 or 0.03.
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by alanh 14y ago
I tested a preview unit. It was something like 0.3 watts, if I recall correctly.
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by alanh 14y ago
Wow, look at the Microsoft “logo” in the bottom right. Is that their new wordmark? Microsoft.com is still using the gashed-O wordmark.
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by alanh 14y ago
> Moore’s Law: RAM and SSD Not true with RAM, at least for capacity! My late-2008 MacBook Pro has been upgraded to 8GB of RAM, which is the maximum available for all current MacBook Pros except the new Retina edition (16GB). Just barely
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by alanh 14y ago
Freezes when you hit enter without filling out a velocity (presumably also with a value of 0). Someone mentioned a bug when you hit enter while enjoying victory. It makes me think that perhaps a mini state machine would be apropros. Perhaps
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by alanh 14y ago
Freezes when you hit enter without filling out a velocity (presumably also with a value of 0).
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by alanh 14y ago
Absolutely disingenuous and/or dickish to call the preference for maintainability/extensibility/hackability/repairability “Luddite.” Not to mention, throwaway culture is short-term anti-environment thinking.
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by alanh 14y ago
Are you on Windows? I eventually tried in Opera 12 and it does not seem to be fixed. Now I’m not sure why you say it doesn’t work in Chrome at all. Because at least on my platform (OS X), it does, and it looks beautiful and hi-res.
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by alanh 14y ago
Yep, and you should expect massive savings with ImageOptim, too!
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by alanh 14y ago
Interesting post, and I think the Bootstrap example might be the least reasonable of the bunch, but certainly as a “list”, “justify”, or “vertical drag” icon I have never found it confusing.
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by alanh 14y ago
cloud.engineyard.com isn’t loading either. edit : I meant literally the EngineYard website at that address. Some EngineYard websites were up and some were down, no doubt based on region.
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by alanh 14y ago
But it does not look checked, right? One should be checked. Also, clicking it has no (visual) effect (though it will toggle the checked attribute in the DOM). It’s a truly terrible bug, and a strong argument that Opera should not use -webki
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by alanh 14y ago
My connection sucks. Have they fixed this? http://jsfiddle.net/alanhogan/twCXt/
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by alanh 14y ago
No, it was never “every year and a half”! It was more like like every two years for hardcore gamers and at least 3 years for real people.
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by alanh 14y ago
A significant number of apps require the latest version of the OS. The utility really does drop off if you are a major OS version or two behind. Trash? Maybe not, but definitely worth much, much less. I agree that 2.5 years is far too soon
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by alanh 14y ago
"Dead in the water" means no progress will be made. http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/dead+in+the+wat...
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by alanh 14y ago
To be fair, it is really bizarre that the article chooses to phrasing “the flame.” “Flames” would make more sense.
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by alanh 14y ago
I saw The Andromeda Strain a while back but it was kinda boring compared to the book. I don’t get the point of the “sliver of paper getting between the bell and the ringer” reference. Anyone know?
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by alanh 14y ago
On that note — avoid Yellow Cab. They don’t give a hoot about either customers nor cab drivers.
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by alanh 14y ago
Yes, but the same is true of SVG.
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by alanh 14y ago
How so?
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by alanh 14y ago
I have personally experienced and seen Chrome get “stuck” and kind of just fail to update itself until a manual re-download of the installer is performed. It does usually work, but sometimes just stops. For example, I recently saw a bug rep

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