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by alxndr 11y ago
I created a reminder for myself so that every six months I write an email to GitHub asking for someone to create a user option for this whitespace setting.
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An Invitation to the Free-Software Community for Real Dialog(w3.org)
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by alxndr 11y ago
Instead of injecting something into the page, what about having the snapshotter running an is-it-done-yet callback periodically to see whether it returns true? That would allow some basic checks like "is this particular DOM element vis
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by alxndr 11y ago
How about an RSS feed?
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by alxndr 11y ago
Programming classes are uncommon in American high schools: > "There currently are just over 42,000 high schools in the United States. But only 2,100 of them were certified to teach the AP computer science course in 2011" http:
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by alxndr 11y ago
> "Where did this idea come from that we should build infrastructure for our inanimate property, anyway?" As the comment you're replying to points out: the car industry. On the Wikipedia page for Jaywalking: > Origin of
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by alxndr 11y ago
To achieve the same result, I've now got a browser shortcut (aka omnibox search engine) for an "I Feel Lucky" Google search restricted to the MDN site for whatever keywords I'm looking for. This means I type "mdn js
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by alxndr 11y ago
I had used that extension for ages to prevent w3schools from appearing in my search results, but removed it when I eventually got tired of seeing search results jump around. (Because the extension works on a JS level, it needs to wait for t
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by alxndr 11y ago
I also greatly respect Jeremy for the work he's done on Backbone, CoffeeScript, and Underscore. I'm confused by his stance on versioning, however: he's very much against semver, which means these tools can be tricky to use wi
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by alxndr 11y ago
I'm 31 and can also see pretty clearly in freshwater; don't recall trying to see in sea water though.
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by alxndr 11y ago
The black market is noticing; the article ends with this: > "The cartels, of course, are adapting to the new reality. Seizure data appears to indicate that with marijuana profits tumbling, they're switching over to heroin and m
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by alxndr 11y ago
The actual article is at http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedias-secret-google-co...
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by alxndr 11y ago
Does this support email addresses with plus signs in them?
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by alxndr 11y ago
h/t to jordigh, interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10938550
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Penney's game(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by alxndr 11y ago|1 comments
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by alxndr 11y ago
Unrelated (sorta): love the appropriateness of your username
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Snark attack: Cornell students teach software to detect sarcasm(arstechnica.com)
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by alxndr 11y ago
If you're referring to Yahoo Pipes, I wholeheartedly agree!
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by alxndr 11y ago
> "life's amplitudes are greatly magnified by little ones." Is it a given that magnifying life's amplitudes is a good thing?
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by alxndr 11y ago
> "Anywhere else, that behavior would be shut down quick." Based on what I hear come out of the mouths of politicians, that's emphatically not true.
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by alxndr 11y ago
Blaise Pascal, in 1657: "I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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by alxndr 11y ago
Too bad we don't have a saying like that for driving cars.
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by alxndr 11y ago
I have the same use case; been using Spectacle for years now.
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by alxndr 11y ago
An escrow system for political donations!
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by alxndr 11y ago
The reason articles about studies leave out a link to the paper is that the software doesn't support it? Why not just put the URL in, or just cite it normally?
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by alxndr 11y ago
I managed to use Escape to disable search highlight: https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/ce0e18cb40f52f0c60d1...
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FCC rule threatens Oakland mesh network, Wi-Fi projects(oaklandnorth.net)
2 points by alxndr 11y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 11y ago
If you're not looking forward to doing the soldering yourself, check out the Ergodox EZ campaign (funded but still open): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ergodox-ez-an-incredible-...
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by alxndr 11y ago
Ah, that's a pretty significant distinction.
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by alxndr 11y ago
Exercism.io also has a ton of little Elixir exercises (complete with failing test suite) to get your feet wet. (Lots of other languages too!)

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