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by ben336 13y ago
Well, nobody's going to force you to upgrade either. The 2.* code will still work just fine.
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by ben336 13y ago
which only exists (in a full form) for Android. I think they're just focusing on a fast read only implementation, with the tradeoff being fewer features.
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by ben336 13y ago
Any examples of mobile being great for mid-longform text/code content? Github isn't an image site, and the type of content created on it is usually (not always) longer than 140 characters.
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by ben336 13y ago
Its generating static files from MD files. That requires a server-side language of some type. The weird part is that it appears to use both Node and PHP.
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by ben336 13y ago
I'm a Durham resident. The city as a whole does not have great accomodations for bikers on the roads. It has some great bike paths, but in places where that isn't an option you generally are on the road with cars and very little
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RSS Roundup(benmccormick.org)
1 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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RSS Roundup(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 13y ago
Uh... you're not building very complex projects then :) Before you get defensive, consider something like Amazon.com as an easy extreme example. Or a banking website or non-trivial html5 based onlline game as less extreme ones. None
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by ben336 13y ago
When companies make restrictions like that they almost always mean people in general with an upward limit on how many people to prevent abuse (a very generous 10 in this case)
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by ben336 13y ago
I think Marco is saying this is good from an independent ios developers perspective, not necessarily from a users perspective. As somebody who makes his living as an independent app developer, I'm sure he's thrilled about this.
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How I use Stack Overflow(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 13y ago
From Coffeescript's website: The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript". There was nothing at all coffeescript specific about his examples, other than the syntax. The issues he pointed out were javascri
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90% Done, Halfway There(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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Customer Culture Revisited(benmccormick.org)
1 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 13y ago
You're assuming this is generally true. All we know is that it seems to be true for this one guys site/picture. Google has access to ALL of the data for this feature. They're in a much better position to make an informed decision on its
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by ben336 13y ago
Looks like they're just formalizing the power-user label pattern to make it more accessible for new users/non-tweakers
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by ben336 13y ago
No they are not.
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by ben336 13y ago
I've seen a bunch of these noJQuery posts lately, but they've always focused on selectors. I'm curious what these people use for Ajax. Do they use the (very verbose) native syntax? Or are there any nice lighter weight libraries that sepa
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by ben336 13y ago
The javascript entry doubles as a Table of Contents for the jQuery API. Totally unsurprising
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by ben336 13y ago
"our Windows text rendering has been getting a new backend that we can hook up soon, greatly boosting the quality of webfont rendering there" That is nice anyway, as somebody who has to look at the sketchy fonts on chrome for windows every
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Paul Irish on Chrome moving to Blink(alistapart.com)
3 points by ben336 13y ago|2 comments
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by ben336 13y ago
Its not his site, he just wrote the tweets.
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Revertible Observables in KnockoutJS(benmccormick.org)
1 points by ben336 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 13y ago
The article starts with the primary assumption that programming is a commodity skill, then is astounded when the world doesn't back up his theory. Not exactly going to learn a lot like that.
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by ben336 13y ago
uh, the correlation goes the other way. They're sorted by page order. The popular ones get voted up.
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by ben336 13y ago
I'm curious what people think the market is for this type of programming book, the "how-to guide". Is there any place for it post-google?
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Book Review: Javascript Testing With Jasmine(benmccormick.org)
1 points by ben336 13y ago|1 comments
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by ben336 14y ago
I felt like the article did a good job of explaining the potential replacements, but failed to make a convincing case for why the perfomance benefits outweigh the simplicity of jQuery. There's a conversation to be had about balancing those
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by ben336 14y ago
you mean overstate? :)
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How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK(arstechnica.com)
405 points by ben336 14y ago|169 comments

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