andrewf

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by andrewf 16y ago
Some use the convention that jQuery objects should be prefixed with $, so: var $d = $('#elm'); $d.color('red'); $d.text('new text'); I do this, and like it, despite my classic aversion to both Systems Hungarian and GW-BASIC.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think a lot of it comes down to SOAP, and related standards, being ambiguous and changing enough over time that even if you follow the standards, it isn't necessarily clear what you can and should do. Take a look at WS-I, the standard whi
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by andrewf 16y ago
Also, SOAP libraries (e.g. Soap4r) are problematic (doesn't talk to Micro$soft's version of SOAP properly). I feel this point never quite lands home with people who've never tried to use SOAP across ecosystems (ie not .NET-.NET, Glassfish
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by andrewf 16y ago
If you intend to keep things this way, then don't call it a Money Back Guarantee. Instead, be really clear that users have a trial, and billing is in arrears. Something like: YOUR CREDIT CARD WILL NOT BE CHARGED! We collect credit
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by andrewf 16y ago
The iPad doesn't have the concept of a hover, so websites pretty much have to work without it. It'd be nice if Apple could turn around and kill the hover in Safari when somebody's using the zoom feature. It'd be even nicer if you could togg
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by andrewf 16y ago
(This is an academic point for me right now - I'm building an app in Facebook, and Facebook requires Javascript.) It seems like your zoom software interacts badly with behaviour that's common on some websites. Disabling Javascript seems lik
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by andrewf 16y ago
If anyone wanted to burn their relationship with me, spying on what most would consider to be unwatched activity, involving something as specific and interpersonal as email, would be a pretty good way. It's just... creepy. If you have a leg
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by andrewf 16y ago
Perth, Australia is substantially the same. If you're really eating ramen or beans and rice, food could be a bit less. Figure about $100/month for comfortable use of electricity and gas.
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by andrewf 16y ago
GitHub isn't just for OSS (you'll have to pay though)
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by andrewf 16y ago
It's been a while since I've done this; but: * Install your different Firefox versions in different locations (so one doesn't overwrite the other) * Use "firefox -ProfileManager" to create at least one different 'profile', which is Firefox'
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by andrewf 16y ago
In my experience with things like postgres, yes. If your working set (the data that you are touching regularly) grows past available RAM, you very rapidly switch from a system where disk access plays no part in most queries, to a system whe
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by andrewf 16y ago
"Preview" is part of Mac OS X and works well enough that third party viewers aren't popular.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I would have thought that the antitrust concerns would go the other way this time - the combined company using the dominance of Photoshop to prop up Windows (by cancelling the Mac version), or the dominance of Flash to prop up Windows Mobil
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by andrewf 16y ago
FSMs can't handle nested tags. Pushdown Automata can.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Or keep a pitcher of water on your desk, and you'll have to go to the bathroom every once in a while. This is one of the reasons staying hydrated is recommended on long flights - it forces you to get up and move at some point.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I wonder if this is more for the sake of C++ than C, where primitive values are more likely to be 'boxed' into a struct/class along with some methods. For instance, with a typical non-debug standard library, vector<int>::iterator ha
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by andrewf 16y ago
On my desktop - yes. Thanks to fixplay.ninemsn.com.au - one of the Australian TV network's "watch our shows over the Internet" site. On my two laptops: no.
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by andrewf 16y ago
IIRC Reddit's "in" with Conde Nast (who eventually purchased them) was a social networking site targeted at women, owned and branded by CN, with Reddit's tech.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I doubt it will ever change. There's a generation of kids growing up right now who think that's an icon which means "save" - they've never seen a floppy.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I don't think most pictures on the Internet come from a camera verbatim. If you look at something like cnn.com or arstechnica.com - most images on that page have been scaled, cropped, composited with other images and finally re-encoded.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I recently ported my app back to the old Javascript API; I wish I could say that it was for the superior older documentation, but it was actually because the new API randomly stopped returning my calls from time to time. All of the big mone
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think doing more than one UI upfront is an optimistic mistake. Pick a primary platform and optimise it. Maybe do a less-than-awesome port, if you're eager. If, down the road, your experience with the primary platform leads you to believe
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by andrewf 16y ago
Realistically, you'd also have to track the allocation, and deallocation, of the range the file is being mmap(2)d into. sendfile(2) (it appears, I don't really spend time in the Linux kernel) piggybacks on the kernel's pipe code; it allocat
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by andrewf 16y ago
Google tried this with Wave. Nobody stepped up to write a decent client, and the product was judged (unfavorably) on the merits of the reference implementation.
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by andrewf 16y ago
I think most adults will fail to meet your standard for maturity, from time to time.
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by andrewf 16y ago
Firstly, Facebook really do "move fast and break stuff," and dealing with their APIs is both slow and aggravating. The app I'm working on has a lot of social functionality, which is why I'm bothering. (You may have similar plans). I've neve
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by andrewf 16y ago
If you don't actually want to learn another language, look at http://www.realsoftware.com/ RealStudio is what used to be called RealBasic - essentially an enhanced, cross-platform VB6 clone
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by andrewf 16y ago
I'm actually endeared by the story being a dump of everything the author witnessed, rather than being carefully engineered (with some stuff expanded on, some stuff dropped) to provoke a particular reaction in the reader.
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Exposing Io's true colors(planetary.org)
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by andrewf 16y ago
It's this: http://nakkaya.com/2010/08/24/a-micro-manual-for-lisp-implem... I suspect Red Hat's gcc is aligning structure members on 64-bit boundaries.

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