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by bgarbiak 12y ago
Just a note: the system was never actually used in any Grand Prix. Williams had problems with packaging and weight balance (safety was also a concern). They later followed other teams and settled on battery-based solution. Flywheel had only
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
...and here's a response from Ken Clarke, a politician, defending the TTIP: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/eu-us-t... In short, he names the parts of the TTIP that are dangerou
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European commission to investigate tax affairs of Apple(theguardian.com)
2 points by bgarbiak 12y ago|0 comments
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
Who needs quality in comments? Certainly, not the old media. All they need are clicks, views and users' engagement. It's quite often to see an obvious flamebait promoted to a "featured comment", etc.
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
I've disabled AdBlock after recent "revelations" about its memory consumption. I use only Ghostery for now. So, websites/advertisers are free to show me ads, as long as they won't track me. Guess how many ads I see.
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
Here's the selection of various artists' demands/riders: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage Sometimes these riders serve a purpose (Van Halen's case), sometimes they are indeed a caprice, or a joke.
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
Well, it is surprising, but between all these lists of funny gifs and celebrity photos lie a solid, proper journalism stuff. For example, they recently started a political ruckus with a single article: http://www.buzzfeed.com&#x2
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
You're being downvoted - probably - for blaming "former eastern-bloc countries" for the state of things in UK. Well, it's just not that simple. From purely economical point of view the recent arrival of labor from Easter
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by bgarbiak 12y ago
This form of presentation (a specific layout for a single longform article) got really popular recently. That "snowy thing NYT did" happened a few years ago, if I recall correctly, and indeed, it might be considered the trend star
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
I share the anxiety with the author, but what else one can choose if no Firefox? Chrome now pushes Google Now down every throat, Opera has Google set as a default search engine and doesn't allow to change that, Safari is Mac only, IE i
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Samsung's War at Home(businessweek.com)
7 points by bgarbiak 13y ago|2 comments
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
In my humble opinion the best solution for layouts is CSS is the CSS Grid Layout Module[1]. Both powerful and easy to grasp. Sadly, it works only in IE (from version number 10, I believe)[2], but others[3][4][5] are getting there. And, of c
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
Sony is quite close to that idea with Smart Bluetooth® Handset SBH52: http://youtu.be/aSp8yHUDhZc If only they would give it a bit of personality (a proper name, for starters) - could be a hit.
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
having some experience with unions by hearing stories and watching the news That's not really an experience, is it? Yeah, I heard lot of dark stories about unions as well (corruption, nepotism, violence, dirty politics, mafia connect
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
A few of "Silicon Valley stories" that showed up lately (this one, the one about jobless Satoshi Nakamoto, the one about sexism and harassment in GitHub, or about Google/Apple wages conspiracy, or falling FX studios in Hollyw
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
What about Attlassian's JIRA + Stash + Confluence combo?
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
For example: Internet as we know it today was in large part shaped by Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Bruce Lehman - they are behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. There would be no YouTube, no Facebook, and no others if not for "safe
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
It's an open question if Apps are more like documents, or more like raster (canvas), vector (SVG) or 3D (WebGL) graphics? I could argue that in most cases the former is the right answer. Calculating DOM is (well, I'm just guessing
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Vert.x - a high performance application platform(vertx.io)
1 points by bgarbiak 13y ago|0 comments
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The Dubious Arguments for India’s Ban on Gay Sex(newyorker.com)
1 points by bgarbiak 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Cloud Platform(cloud.google.com)
15 points by bgarbiak 13y ago|1 comments
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
Zepto has an IE10 branch: https://github.com/madrobby/zepto/tree/ie10
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by bgarbiak 13y ago
It works great on basically any browser on a system with the Apple's Magic Mouse. I'm still wondering why there's no some sort of smoothing polyfill in wide use.
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
According to the official blog post at http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/ Opera 14 for Android is based on AppleWebKit/537.22 and Chrome/25.0.1364.123 but with added support for: input type=color Microdata WebGL 3D context C
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
"Pure CSS" icons have smaller footprint, don't require additional request to the server, don't interfere with screen readers. Unless you need some more sophisticated shapes they are the way to go. IMHO. In these other cases, I'd argue that
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
Well, you can get some real secrets by combining user agents with other data. For example: screen resolution.
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Facebook tests free voice calling in Messenger app(theverge.com)
1 points by bgarbiak 14y ago|0 comments
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
A minimal HTML5 boilerplate of my choice: http://csswizardry.com/2011/01/the-real-html5-boilerplate/ I never really got why would anyone need things like image replacement or Google Analytics in a HTML5 template. The KISS principle comes
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
Well, I can't see how "killing elephants" is different than "exploiting the natives; killing rare animals". Safari is phonetically a very nice name, however it still bears negative connotations. At least for some people.
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by bgarbiak 14y ago
Crockford called it "Lisp in C's Clothing" and then created this: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/little.html

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