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   by cakeface 17y ago

   How does this work with whitespace? Do you have to indent if you are going multi-line?
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   by cakeface 17y ago

   I read it as the EFF just picking a fight. They don't mention any current cases in the article and I couldn't find one on google.
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   by cakeface 17y ago

   I'm kind of surprised Boston isn't on this list. I've always felt like it is a fairly expensive city for what it is, especially with regards to real estate.
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   by cakeface 17y ago

   I wonder if they could start reprocessing some of the waste that has already been stored at Yucca mountain.
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   by cakeface 17y ago

   There are really two ways in which runners "hit the wall". One is when lactic acid builds up in muscles causing not only pain but decreased performance. This is due to muscles using anaerobic metabolism when there is not enough oxygen bein
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   by cakeface 17y ago

   There are a bunch of images that can get repeated across pages for a web site that are completely vital to cache. Think rounded corner images or background images or icons.
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   by cakeface 18y ago

   Firebug lets you change CSS and HTML and displays the result immediately on your screen. Sometimes with a strange display bug I'll go through and make a number of CSS changes until some combination of them have magically fixed my bug. Thi
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   by cakeface 18y ago

   Unless page load times are affecting your browsing experience, why bother optimizing when a regular expression is so clear and simple.
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   by cakeface 18y ago

   That would be fantastic. It would be so cool if you could launch a python, or even java dyno. I think most webapps could be structured to fit into this architecture, with the caveat of using ruby specific management tools such as rake.
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    Actually there is some very good evidence that a generalized device for ebooks actually can win out. I'd recommend that anyone interested in ebooks read this article. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/02/the-once-and-fut...
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    I think that Urchin was the basis for GA. Urchin is still available from google here though http://www.google.com/urchin/ . The main difference that I know of between them is that Urchin has the ability to parse server logs as well as tr
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    Yes they are cutting off other search analytic packages. If there is no tracking of the search term in the referring url then the analytics package has no way to determine what keywords were used to bring a user to the page. Since google p
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    Ask HN: Whats the most popular web scripting language?

    3 points by cakeface 18y ago|3 comments
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    I've always been confused by google's use of tables and inline styles in their homepage also. Is it to shrink the file size and send less over the wire? Is it to maintain support for IE 4 or some other archaic browser? Using one of the cs
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    Is this available as an option when you upload a video or is it only available to videos that Youtube has decided are downloadable?
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    Interesting article. If this was originally written in 1999 then someone must have tried to create a fractal generator on historical market data for the Dow or Nasdaq. I wonder if it helped anyone prepare for the current stock market trou
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    by cakeface 18y ago

    Don't most of the fastest 'cubers use the petras method ( http://lar5.com/cube/ ) nowdays?