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by callum85 12y ago
Can someone explain to me what problem this solves in layman's terms... How are version control systems are "impractical" for large files? Or to put another way, what problems will I run into if I just commit large media file
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by callum85 12y ago
Third party components (date pickers etc.) wouldn't know about the 'explicit' class so it would be up to the user to add this class to all non-semantic tables to 'undo' the Tacit CSS, but they won't know which
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Tech’s peculiar relationship with social justice(computerworld.com)
1 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
Here is another deep explanation of generators, by Kyle Simpson: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async... Both of them are really good, and come at it from slightly different angle
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by callum85 12y ago
I don't think googling is much of an issue here. Unless you're talking about the very first occasion that someone sees "function*", then OK, they can't google for that easily... But they can google "function wi
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by callum85 12y ago
This can't be about backwards compatibility. If it was, they wouldn't have been able to add 'yield, 'await' etc. I don't agree the keyword "generator" would have been ideal. It wouldn't work when
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by callum85 12y ago
I don't look at it while coding, but what about when you need to adjust the volume when watching a film?
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Needless lines in the sand(cartonerd.blogspot.com)
1 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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GitHub cleans up after cyber-attack(theguardian.com)
1 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
> Honest question, is this really possible? Yes, loads of things work without JS. You can use Wikipedia, even to edit articles, with JS disabled – it's all simple HTML forms. JS just makes the experience smoother (adding buttons to
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by callum85 12y ago
> the resulting JS is said to be more performant than raw JS. This claim always bugged me. The output of dart2js is raw JS. Same with CoffeeScript (which makes a similar claim). So these claims are totally reliant on parameters that ha
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by callum85 12y ago
> Best practice is to always add [async] or [defer] attributes. Can you give a reference for that? HTML5 Boilerplate, Yeoman's generator-webapp and Google's Web Starter Kit do not come with these script attributes OOTB. EDIT: h
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To.is(github.com)
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by callum85 12y ago
It's just you. Most people would agree 6-7 years counts as "many" in this industry.
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Intelligence and security committee report: the key findings(theguardian.com)
2 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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Detecting injected content from third-parties on your site(paul.kinlan.me)
8 points by callum85 12y ago|1 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
Several comments are misinterpreting the article, I think, as saying that your site will be slower than before when you switch to HTTP2 if you're still using the old techniques. In fact, nearly all sites will just magically speed up
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by callum85 12y ago
Who is downvoting this? Could you comment and explain why?
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Three-person babies now legal in the UK(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
Be very careful accusing people of racism. When you get it wrong, you undermine complaints about real racism.
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Eye-dropper in Chrome Devtools for quickly picking colors from the web page(paul.kinlan.me)
1 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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JavaScript console: lesser known features(medium.com)
4 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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HTML5 Datalist Element Dead on Arrival (2012)(lists.w3.org)
1 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
The complete list isn't public. Limited parts of the list have been given to relevant tax organisations in different countries. (Look up Hervé Falciani, the whistleblower, for more details.) This feature probably shouldn't be call
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GCHQ mass Internet surveillance 'was unlawful', tribunal rules(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by callum85 12y ago|4 comments
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American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist(wired.com)
67 points by callum85 12y ago|65 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
How could there be a placebo for meditation? A placebo has to replicate the experience of going through the 'real' treatment being trialled. How could you create the experience of meditation without the subject actually meditati
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Links are broken. These 3 alternatives improved our readers’ experience(medium.com)
3 points by callum85 12y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 12y ago
For some reason, 'tar|tar' is many times faster than 'cp -a' (at least, when you're copying thousands of small files in deeply nested directories, on OS X). I noticed this once through experimenation, tried to find
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The Tar Pipe (2010)(blog.extracheese.org)
10 points by callum85 12y ago|7 comments

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