benjoffe

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by benjoffe 13y ago
> In the second, the raster images are background image. Only the required image is downloaded. The author neglects to point out that every image will waste a http request downloading the svg file so this is going to give poorer perform
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by benjoffe 13y ago
> Currently the lottery has a 25% cut of the total amount in the lottery. This is used to pay for development, server costs and maintainence. Eventually, my goal is to decrease the fee to as small as possible to allow for the largest wi
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by benjoffe 14y ago
This looks like a clever solution to the problem for lichess, at least until someone plugs together a relatively simple bot with 100% success rates. Though, just because it can be cracked easily doesn't necessarily demerit it, perhaps their
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by benjoffe 14y ago
A rational North Korean state would not engage in nuclear war in just about any scenario as it would mean almost certain destruction for itself in response. To help persuade their enemies not to invade they try to appear as irrational as
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by benjoffe 14y ago
As far as I can tell that actually could work very well, though the implementation might be quite difficult: 15 different zoom levels (I think) that google uses probably wouldn't be enough to make transitions between each seamless, requirin
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Not to mention that it's illegal pretty much everywhere.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Did you click on any of the blue links in the comic? They contain articles on language features with sections: 'Synopsis', 'How it kills bugs', 'Explanation' and 'Weakness'.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
No. 5 on that list is not valid any longer, fixed font sizes were only an issue with IE6 where fonts specified in pixels wouldn't respond to the user's font size setting.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
While I don't doubt your assertion, I think the parent was looking for more evidence than a simple "yes".
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Looks like it only alternates between the two states (flashing and not flashing), so if the page is opened as a new tab (i.e. not focused to begin with) then the flashing occurs when the tab is not focused.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
While I agree it needs a proper introduction, example code can easily be found in the source of the compiler itself (the compiler is written in ESL): http://code.google.com/p/esl/source/browse/trunk/src
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Instead of prefixing protected attributes with underscore (_class) i would instead just wrap those in quotes (valid js, no extra logic), e.g. 'class': 'foo'.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
I wonder, do any routers, proxies or local internet exchanges filter requests based on TLDs that don't exist in a dictionary of valid TLDs? I'm guessing at least some do, which may give incorrect results.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
One of the most important things to get right with lightbox libraries is making sure they work well when the user has already scrolled down the page, this one fails in that case: http://i.imgur.com/Gh1Vd.png
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Most clients don't allow this option as it makes the network less efficient. The swarm is efficient due to the fact that users download the pieces randomly and therefore are able to re-seed pieces that a low percentage of other users have.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
That's still an interface (perhaps I'm being a bit too technical).
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by benjoffe 14y ago
At least with the JavaScript version you're serving actual text which can be read by screen readers, copy/pasted etc.
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by benjoffe 14y ago
I've been waiting for this since 1996! After ten years without any sequel I asked Adam in an email if I could make a free tribute sequel since it had appeared to become abandonware and got this reply: "Hi, We are planning to make it but hav
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Next Australian census primarily online - "savings will amount to $100 million"(canberratimes.com.au)
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Is it well known that we need to redefine well known?(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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by benjoffe 14y ago
The problem with your multiple device solution is that it puts burden on the recipient, who's highly likely to have any idea what NOFWD is. The fingerprinting solution you outline next is highly flakey as well, as it would require a critica
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by benjoffe 14y ago
Personally I would hate to receive email like this, if I viewed the email on my phone I won't be able to view it on my work computer. If I'm working from home the next day I won't be able to view the message (ever again!). If I want to view
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by benjoffe 15y ago
When I view ~10 year old web sites and forums it's rare enough that external links work at all, with all these link shorteners it's going to be even worse. I imagine in the not too distant future that link shorteners will no longer be used
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Ah I see, thanks, there are certainly better examples though, after a few minutes I found 'unshakeable'* which google tries to correct to the American version, yet is standard British English. * https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unshakeabl
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by benjoffe 15y ago
In that case the sequence should be 1, 1, 2, 720... as zero factorial equals one . https://www.google.com/search?q=0 !
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by benjoffe 15y ago
While the story at the end about the bug report is humourous, it's a pretty mean thing to do. Perhaps 3 days lost work was longer than the expected damage, but one would imagine it would waste at least a few hours of someone's time, which i
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by benjoffe 15y ago
It would be better if clicking in the gaps between day boxes would choose the nearest day box, so that the mouse would not flash between arrow and hand while sliding across it (this is a pretty common UX practice, I think it has a specific
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> Why not pass it and then never use? Separation of powers makes it difficult in many countries to do that (legislature and judiciary being separate).
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Now that I think about it this must be why iOS uses 9 minutes for the snooze interval, to avoid similar overlap (always wondered).
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by benjoffe 15y ago
There's also a rise in late adolescence when risk taking and suicide are much higher.

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