ben336

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by ben336 12y ago
They make their money off the hardware though. And plenty of people use Apple hardware without using Apple services. I have an iPhone/iPad/Mac, and don't use Apple services for email/document/storage/photo ba
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Underscore vs. Lo-Dash(benmccormick.org)
3 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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Vim Workflows: File Switching(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Angular 2.0(benmccormick.org)
5 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
> How big is the "full" set of polyfills anyway? Google's polyfills for custom elements that they ship with Polymer weigh in at around ~151Kb of JavaScript, around 10x the size of a small library like Underscore, and 4-5x
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by ben336 12y ago
Agreed, feature detecting afterwards makes sense. Others seem to be suggesting feature detecting before requesting the polyfill script.
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by ben336 12y ago
Quick and simple meaning... are you checking for every feature back to ES3? The point of this service is that its not requiring the user to know what feature to look for. They'll polyfill anything thats needed. To do feature detection
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by ben336 12y ago
You can't use feature detection with a simple script tag. It's calling in a script and the cdn chooses the file to send based on the user-agent. No Javascript is run that would allow it to feature detect before choosing to send
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Microsoft Office Now Free on iOS and Android(theverge.com)
50 points by ben336 12y ago|1 comments
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Dropbox is in your Office(blog.dropbox.com)
348 points by ben336 12y ago|195 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
I think people who are doing nothing right now, or have their own ad-hoc organization scheme using email will love Inbox. People who have a more disciplined system for calendar/todos/emails will not want to use the reminder/
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A Quick Review of Google Inbox(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 12y ago|2 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
Windsor Circle http://www.windsorcircle.com/ - Durham NC Front End Developer & Python Developer ===================================== We're hiring developers on the front end and backend to join our funded startup
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by ben336 12y ago
Twitter is the best real time news source I've ever seen. Any discussion of it's utility that ignores that is missing how a huge percentage of its users actually interact with it. Yes its bad for conversations. Yes it is poor at
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by ben336 12y ago
They just became available recently.
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by ben336 12y ago
Note that Tapbots still hasn't been able to produce a Tweetbot 3 version for iPad, presumably because of the work required to switch the visuals when iOS8 made their aesthetic feel more out of date.
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Setting Up Your Text Editor for JavaScript Development(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
Windsor Circle http://www.windsorcircle.com/ - Durham NC Front End Developer & Python Developer ===================================== We're hiring developers on the front end and backend to join our funded startup
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by ben336 12y ago
"From the beginning" in this case going back to the mid 90s. Pretty sure "Modern template systems" have mostly been written since then.
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by ben336 12y ago
I've really enjoyed Marionette as a more (but still not very) opinionated approach to Backbone development. You mentioned the messenger protocols, definitely checkout Backbone.Radio [1], it's being created to replace Wreqr, the c
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by ben336 12y ago
I think the phrase "lines of code" is missing in there somewhere :)
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Learning Vim in 2014(benmccormick.org)
5 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
actually he worked for Twitter :) 2 different people under discussion here.
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by ben336 12y ago
Windsor Circle http://www.windsorcircle.com/ - Durham NC Front End Developer & Python Developer ======================================= We're hiring developers on the front end and backend to join our funded startu
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Custom Elements by Example(benmccormick.org)
1 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments
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by ben336 12y ago
looked at pouet.net. Not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing?
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by ben336 12y ago
the dev releases are hidden on the website. You have to look to find them. The website by default directs you to the very stable 2 version. If you look you can find the stable 3 builds. If you dig deeper you can find the dev builds. Ea
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by ben336 12y ago
It is new on Windows.
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by ben336 12y ago
> If you don't understand how to use sharp tools, you may hurt yourself and others. It's still bad API design when naively handling an error case kills everything. Is there an inherent reason that the error value for a pid has
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The Debugging Toolbox(benmccormick.org)
2 points by ben336 12y ago|0 comments

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