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by bgarbiak 15y ago
What's the "correct" ("less funny"?) result of Array(16).join("wat" - 1) + " Batman!" ? Empty strings separated with NaN s look perfectly logical to me (I'm a JS guy though, so, well, bear with me).
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
I too think Chrome did that for a while - but it's gone in the current version. I definitely had it turned on for a while, used and actually liked the feature. Now it only works for search phrases and Google results.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Facebook (and, probably, some others too) redirects you from IP address to the domain anyway, so...
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
It's a great change not because of IE6 (which, most likely, won't be affected at all) but because of future versions of Internet Explorer. These are now supposed to be released annually, which could be a curse for developers if there was no
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Has anyone managed to get the 32GB/$150 version from that Developer Device Program announced in November?
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
For me: if it's not entirety - it doesn't count. Lala figured it out and I had hoped Apple will follow this path after they bought them. Sadly, they didn't.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Although some are claiming that Spotify's pricing is similar to the amount that the average person used to spend on CDs, so why are labels getting less from Spotify than they did from CDs/iTunes I'm guessing one of the reasons is that iTu
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
It’s true that iTunes is a place for people to purchase music, but it offers all the same benefits of Spotify in terms of discovery. Last time I've checked to discover music on iTunes you had to purchase it.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
The tutorial you've mentioned overcomplicate things a bit and uses tables for layout, which is a total no-go. However, even as a regular HTML5 defender I have to admit centering stuff in HTML/CSS in not exactly a trivial task. It's not very
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Who would still use HTML? There would be no upside at all, Flash has always had better tools. No upside at all? Open standards, semantic code, SEO optimization, separation of presentation and content, ability to look into the source code,
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
I deal with HTML and CSS everyday so I'm probably biased but for me all these cross-browser compatibility problems related to rendering stuff are grossly exaggerated. Aside from IE6 (which, I believe, should not be supported anymore) supp
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Agree, although I have to add it has some terrible performance issues. The site, especially the front page, is hardly usable on slower PCs (netbooks, for example). I guess all these custom fonts are at fault here.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Yes, EU only banned X-Ray scanners. As for the other technologies of full body scanning, well, these are actually green lighted, not banned: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15532933,00.html
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Well, one coud argue that developing one web app for a selected browsers is faster than developing a few native apps, each for different OS. Especially when you consider the fact that on mobile devices Webkit is a de facto standard and th
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Even before "Unreal" you could find the servers, check the ping, see the players' nicks, scores and statistics via browser in both "Quake" (technically: "QuakeWorld") and "Quake 2". The plugin to do that was called "QPlug"/"Q2Plug" and it w
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Agree with your point, although I wouldn't say our age is that poor in rhetoric. Obama had some really great speeches in his campaign and Jobs' product presentations were top notch too.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
That's why almost no one makes 'glitzy' apps in HTML5 - and this is, actually, a good thing . However, I expect it to change once Adobe tools for HTML5 will mature and gain traction. As was the case with Flash, these will be more popular a
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Completely agree. People hate Gates and Microsoft for some really silly reasons. Windows 95? It was a brave and revolutionary OS. Would world switch to Linux, Mac or BeOS if there was no Win95? No way it would, it would wait for Windows 4.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Without iTunes for Windows Zune would succeed.
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Compressing socialism to USSR and bankrupt countries is really a cheap kind of rhetoric. I could respond with a brief history of Chile or a tale about bankers living on a crisis - but that's kind of misses my point, which is that a comparis
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Yes, I know about these different connotations. However, painting a sort of a symmetry between these two labels is - in my humble opinion - a step too far. Imagine someone saying Arrington is a socialist. Such "accusation" would have comple
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
You're implying that being called a socialist is as damning as being called a racist? Really? What is so evil about these Danes and Swedes?
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HP to hold on to PC division, will finally kill webOS(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by bgarbiak 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Can't give you any hard numbers but I'm quite sure that "CSS images" this size load faster in most cases. But, once you load an actual raster image you're done with it: you can cache it, reuse it as many times as you want, manipulate it's p
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Comparing specs for phones with different OSes could be misleading. I think both iOS and Windows Phone are less hungry for RAM than Android. On the other hand, there is a rumor about another Nokia model, codenamed Ace, which is supposed to
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Nokia Lumia 800(nokia.com)
49 points by bgarbiak 15y ago|68 comments
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Nokia Maps 3D(maps.nokia.com)
2 points by bgarbiak 15y ago|0 comments
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
If the house is cooling down while you are away - don't you need more energy to warm it up again than you would use to just sustain the temperature? I'd say that an 'intelligent' thermostat has greater chance to balance this right than anyo
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by bgarbiak 15y ago
Comes out next week: http://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/159...
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Adobe demos amazing image deblurring technology(tv.adobe.com)
3 points by bgarbiak 15y ago|0 comments

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