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by aristus 16y ago
Yes, you've found the five-word phase that mentions that there are extensions in the selector engine. There is no documentation on which things are, or are, not, extensions. Now that we've gone all the way down the pedantry slide, have yo
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by aristus 16y ago
Undocumented as in "we included it in our 'CSS3-compliant selector engine' but do not mention anywhere that it is not actually part of the CSS3 spec, just something we thought was cool".
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by aristus 16y ago
Well, you may have a different experience. I've also noticed a new trend in complex applications, eg JavelinJS and Yahoo's "Minty" mail app, that moves away from jQuery's or YUI's model. They feature a centralized controller/arbiter and a s
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by aristus 16y ago
One can always argue "you're doing it wrong". People say the same about ror and perl. But in my experience, even with a good mvc and object model, and world-class folks, complex applications in jquery tend to become hard to maintain. I beli
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by aristus 16y ago
jQuery as commonly used leads, in my personal experience, to hard-to-maintain programs. Just like Ruby on Rails, or Perl. There is also anecdotal evidence that jQuery qua jQuery has some fundamental limits. I worked on a largish jQuery appl
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by aristus 16y ago
It's probably the greatest motivator, pound-for-pound, that I've come across. Status signals are important and useful in tribe-sized groups of people, and they work best when they can't be bought or faked. It doesn't really mater what form
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by aristus 16y ago
I host the "open hacker house" out of Sugarlump cafe on 24th st & Bryant, every Wednesday. Usually it's me plus a few folks from facebook, yahoo, and random startups. Come by anytime, my email is in my profile.
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by aristus 16y ago
This reads like a distillation of years of "desktop publishing" articles I encountered in the early 90s. Good work.
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by aristus 16y ago
That is a much, much higher standard than TechCrunch itself seems to use. On one hand you claim inaccuracies are "2%" and acceptable, and that a few phone calls is enough research before going to press. On the other hand you demand a 6-poin
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by aristus 16y ago
I collected a few thoughts about that from friends who do touch apps for a living: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/05/wysiwyt.html
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by aristus 16y ago
nonprofit doesn't guarantee reasonable prices. The Computer Society arm of IEEE boasts 80K members, and over $200 million dollars cash reserves: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/co/200...
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by aristus 16y ago
Someone asked this question 4 years ago today. PG joked about getting Trevor to build him a robot: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554
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by aristus 16y ago
http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-full-...
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by aristus 16y ago
With that cover, Sarah Lacy learned that you can sell magazines if you treat founders like rock stars or athletes. (This was not original, viz Fanning on the cover of Time 6 years earlier.) Tech trade journalism has become about having a pa
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by aristus 16y ago
This is the same game of chicken as played between sports teams and municipalities. It's interesting because it's highflyin startups instead of the New York^W^W San Francisco Giants, but the outline is the same. Muni wants to keep tax base
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by aristus 16y ago
The same thing happens with optimizing code for speed/efficiency/etc. People want rules of thumb and they don't want to hear the truth, which is "Rules of thumb are usually bullshit. You need to measure, change something, then measure again
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by aristus 16y ago
This is very off-topic, but I am curious about this cultural habit of Japan. Does spending 2X more hours at the office actually get 2X more work done? I tend to lose focus rapidly after 9 or 10 hours.
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by aristus 16y ago
I understand you are busy and I would love to read that article if and when. How are things in Tunisia, in a paragraph?
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by aristus 16y ago
I'm going to assume that Spanish is not one of your languages, so why does it matter to you one way or another that this site exists? These arguments sound like bikeshedding, not real objections. Does having a Polish or Portuguese section o
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by aristus 16y ago
Two possibilities: 1) `ls -la .` to show "hidden" files. 2) Some process is still running, and it has an open handle on some deleted file(s). Deleted file space is not reclaimed until all open handles are released.
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by aristus 16y ago
I think hashbang URLs are a temporary phase, one abstraction poking out into another, like a sharp cliff being pushed up by the forces below. Eventually it will sort itself out. No one is breaking the internet forever and ever. I agree with
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by aristus 16y ago
"Christianity was the prototypical religion of the Book..." Er, that would be Judaism.
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by aristus 16y ago
Isn't this always the case? Startups exploit media or approaches that are new, overlooked, or both. If they weren't doing something odd they wouldn't be startups. When they succeed, that focuses attention on the new media and techniques, an
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by aristus 16y ago
If you spell out the errors you saw, perhaps...
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by aristus 16y ago
He was a troll back then, too. Alan Kay used to joke that arrogance in computer science is measured in nanodijkstras. EWD could back it up because he was a genius, but it didn't win him friends. Either way, some of the aphorisms are less de
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by aristus 16y ago
Assuming such a time capsule is feasible, I'd save the locations and contents of all other known time capsules. eg, http://www.paperinternet.org The biggest problem with time capsules is that people forget where the damned things are.
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by aristus 16y ago
4) Linkbait articles on how YOU TOO can be successful.
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by aristus 16y ago
"properly understood" is the whole point. That's the hard problem they are trying to solve.
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by aristus 16y ago
You are confusing your generations. The people currently in power are 50-70 years old, ie born in 1940-1960. They were children during the WWII era and Eisenhower administration, and had nothing to do with the Bomb, the Apollo program or in
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by aristus 16y ago
Several female journalist friends of mine were extremely offended about how the story was presented. It seemed like every story had the most salacious pictures of her they could find. I think it's too glib to blame people for being too ea

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