callum85

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   by callum85 13y ago

   > What "new features" exactly, and how do they have a "positive impact" on the end user? You've got to be joking? Even if it's true that you mostly use websites that don't make use of new features, th
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   by callum85 13y ago

   Thoreau 2.0 https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm
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   by callum85 13y ago

   Awesome! I am definitely going to use this now. Been looking for something like this for a while.
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   by callum85 13y ago

   Big caveat: this doesn't work in strict mode. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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   by callum85 13y ago

   Is this a rare occurrence? 198% of "very little" is still very little. I would've thought the figure often fluctuates by much more than this.
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   by callum85 13y ago

   Couldn't disagree more. We're all adults here. Expletives add colour and succinctness. Being a dick is the problem.
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   by callum85 13y ago

   You're wrong to imply that quote marks should never be used this way. You knew that the quote-marked text was just a rhetorical paraphrasing to make a point, and so would any reasonable person. The context makes it completely obvious t
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   by callum85 13y ago

   > I agree that the browser hacking is unlikely and probably shouldn't be mentioned. It's not that it's unlikely, it's just irrelevant. "We might accidentally introduce a security flaw" could be used as an ar
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   by callum85 13y ago

   There's nothing wrong with an article referencing something from another article in the same paper. It doesn't count as a circular reference if the articles are by separate, identifiable authors. Wikipedia needs stricter citation
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    by callum85 13y ago

    It's a bit sensational, but I don't think that counts as losing the plot.
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    At last, a law to stop almost anyone from doing almost anything(theguardian.com)

    266 points by callum85 13y ago|188 comments
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Why are you linking to this?
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Sorry to be negative, but I didn't find any real predictions here, just statements about what is happening now, each followed by "...and I think that will continue in 2014."
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    Santa brand book(quietroom.co.uk)

    3 points by callum85 13y ago|0 comments
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    by callum85 13y ago

    > "...absolute hell for anyone without an advanced mathematics background" I'm a good programmer in a well-paid job. I've never studied mathematics formally. I've picked up a little knowledge of it from books, bu
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    by callum85 13y ago

    29,388 words. Serious question: has anyone read the whole thing?
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Thanks, I missed that
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    by callum85 13y ago

    You don't need a licence to use a typeface in a design, only to install a font file on a computer. And OS X ships with a version of Helvetica so they might have just used that.
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    by callum85 13y ago

    I'm not sure if that applies in this case... There's nothing to 'understand' about the name Wally or Waldo. They're both just random, invented names, AFAICT.
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    by callum85 13y ago

    I think the margin of error for this kind of printing is usually only 3mm though, so they could still put him pretty close to the edge if they wanted to
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Slightly off topic, but I've always wondered... Is there any particular reason why they changed his name for the US editions? Is there something about "Wally" that sounds weird to Americans?
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    Gumby CSS framework(gumbyframework.com)

    1 points by callum85 13y ago|0 comments
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    Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years for Stratfor leak(theguardian.com)

    342 points by callum85 13y ago|237 comments
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Weird. It works pretty smoothly on Chrome (about 50Hz). Just tried on FF/Mac, it's ultra slow there too. I think it must be redrawing the SVG every frame, if it's that slow. But in the HTML5Rocks tutorial Paul Irish says &quo
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    by callum85 13y ago

    There isn't actually as much magic as I first thought. The SVG (which is loaded via data URI) actually loads the same cat image again, and blurs it. (The cat URL is hardcoded into that SVG string in the data URI). So you have to know t
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Thought of a way to do a materialization effect with good performance. Fake it. If you set a low opacity on the blurred element (ie, put "opacity: 0.5" on the ".glass::before", essentially mixing the blurred image with t
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    by callum85 13y ago

    I use Snapchat, and loads of my friends use it. I have never met a single Snapchat user who is under the false impression that there is any guarantee that their messages will be deleted. The 'self-destruct' feature is just a fun
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Worrying about this is like worrying that it's possible for your Scrabble Mobile opponent to secretly use a dictionary.
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Sold sold Sold.
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    by callum85 13y ago

    Just to clarify... Obviously it's not a pure allegory; there is an actual JS library being offered here. But I think the author intends it more as a reference implementation of some boilerplate to get you started with his DIY philoso