bgruber

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HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete(github.com)
152 points by bgruber 16y ago|87 comments
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by bgruber 16y ago
my sister recently plugged a usb cable into an ethernet port. don't assume that because something seems like a massive amount of kludgery to you that a user won't do it anyway.
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by bgruber 16y ago
this bit of thread makes me feel like it's time for neal stephenson to write a sequel to in the beginning was the command line, only this time the car companies are apple, google and facebook instead of microsoft, apple, be, and linux.
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by bgruber 16y ago
my pedantry for the day: this isn't a macro.
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by bgruber 16y ago
"But since then, very few non-geeks know about individual Android handsets. They change so frequently, and are so numerous, that there’s never much of an opportunity for a meaningful buzz to generate around any of them. Nobody’s lining up t
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by bgruber 16y ago
Frankly, just doing the actual rejection makes you less of an asshole than pretty much everyone else. I've applied for a handful of positions over the last few years, and the fraction of people who actually bothered to tell me I was rejecte
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by bgruber 16y ago
it's odd that tv and movies haven't fixed this problem. i'm always surprised when i see people talking to the cabbie before they get in, because a) i'm from queens and therefore would never do that and b) have they ever seen someone in a mo
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by bgruber 16y ago
being a mac user; having an 800x600 monitor; keeping your browser window at 575px; being blind. one of these things is not like the others.
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by bgruber 16y ago
To argue that having an Apple supported JVM was good, or that it doesn't matter because you'll just have a 3rd-party JVM instead, misses the fact that it's the change itself that will be cause the of problems. As crap as Apple's Java supp
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by bgruber 16y ago
> Do you think they have janitors on their payroll on full time basis? I don't think so. Absolutely they do. Most (all?) schools in NYC have (at least) a full-time custodial engineer and a full-time janitor. And they do a heck of a lot
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by bgruber 16y ago
also, google employs one of the most innovative eyes-free developers on the planet, t.v. raman, to do work on android. check out the results of his work (and of his collaborator charles chen) at http://code.google.com/p/eyes-free/ , demos