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   by bgrainger 7y ago

   "Rendering" in this context is turning an abstract representation of the content of your page (or state of your application) into HTML (either as bytes delivered in an HTTP response from a server, or as DOM nodes created by JavaSc
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   Civility Still Matters to Some in Cyberspace(news.utexas.edu)

   3 points by bgrainger 7y ago|0 comments
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   by bgrainger 7y ago

   _What's Expected of Us_ was originally published in 2005 and is available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a _The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling_ was originally published in 2013 and is available h
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   by bgrainger 7y ago

   There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > This Chrome browser extension helps cut through to the chase when browsing food blogs. It is born out of my frustration in h
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   by bgrainger 7y ago

   There's a Chrome extension to fix that: https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter > It is born out of my frustration in having to scroll through a prolix life story before getting to the recipe card that I re
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   by bgrainger 8y ago

   Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15140908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15211604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18422095
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   by bgrainger 8y ago

   Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992640
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   by bgrainger 8y ago

   I wrote some guidelines (with a specific focus on .NET) recently: http://faithlife.codes/blog/2017/10/mysql_best_practices_for...
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   by bgrainger 8y ago

   Previously posted under a different URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16190648
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    Learning in a World Where Programming Skills Aren’t That Important(daedtech.com)

    1 points by bgrainger 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bgrainger 9y ago

    This was an interesting read on why many appliances are no longer built to last: https://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/ Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.co
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    by bgrainger 9y ago

    The best set of arguments I've seen against it: http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/
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    by bgrainger 10y ago

    It’s “GNU\NT 10.0”.
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    by bgrainger 10y ago

    For completeness, we should add 542393671 (0x20544547) and 1347703880 (0x50545448), i.e., the little endian versions, to the list. Googling those numbers also turns up a lot of people with strange error messages (caused by deserializing &qu
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    by bgrainger 10y ago

    I've developed a fully async, independent, MIT-licensed MySQL ADO.NET provider for .NET and .NET Core: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector
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    by bgrainger 11y ago

    Discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10985709
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    by bgrainger 11y ago

    Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882762
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    by bgrainger 11y ago

    Discussion on NZ news article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781610
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    by bgrainger 12y ago

    The SQLite Encryption Extension is another encryption library for SQLite (under a commercial license): http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/see.html It's created by the authors of SQLite, so purchasing it helps sup
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    by bgrainger 13y ago

    Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6974494
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    by bgrainger 13y ago

    A significant problem is that once .NET 4.5 is installed, a developer can no longer test how an app behaves under .NET 4, even if the app still has its target framework set to .NET 4. There are several major WPF bugs fixed in .NET 4.5; deve
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    by bgrainger 13y ago

    > GitHub won't let you control this option They do, in GitHub Enterprise. However, the option is not in the "public" Repo Settings page; it's in a special site-admin-only settings page. So it seems possible that this
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    by bgrainger 13y ago

    Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column that popularized this game also included a description of a variant: Brussels Sprouts ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)#Brussels_Sprouts ), played w
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    An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong(openmymind.net)

    32 points by bgrainger 13y ago|53 comments
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    by bgrainger 14y ago

    Similarly, many commenters on the TSA's blog post announcing this change opposed it: http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/03/small-pocket-knives-more-support...
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    by bgrainger 14y ago

    I found it interesting to read the comments on the blog post where the TSA announced they would stop confiscating pocketknives (effective April 25): http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/03/small-pocket-knives-more-support... Instead of celebrating th
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    Write code that matters - dev recruiting [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by bgrainger 14y ago|0 comments
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    by bgrainger 14y ago

    The link at the bottom ("I believe HyperDex documentation to incorporate these principles") is wrong: it should be /doc/, not /docs/.
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    by bgrainger 14y ago

    The list of proposed solutions is missing the single-element enum type approach: http://stackoverflow.com/a/71399
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    by bgrainger 14y ago

    Turn off the ALL CAPS menus with this registry value: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...