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by cbs 15y ago
Easiest to read? The middle. The way I would write it for my own use is closest to the top, but the easiest to read is the middle. Always using braces, and giving them their own lines makes nesting as unambiguous as possible and the e
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by cbs 15y ago
Guys, no need to jump all over this, clean code and defensive programming are solid practices to advocate. "That's just the way we do C" isn't really a good defense to someone trying to point out the warts in the way we do C, even if it di
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by cbs 15y ago
When scrolling does not occur smoothly, that's a serious UX issue. For certain definitions of serious, where serious means "the most serious issue in a list containing completely inconsequential items", yes. Its a pet issue for people exa
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by cbs 15y ago
I was under the impresssion the first 10 amendaments were released with the constitution. The bill of rights was ratified more than three years after the constitution itself was ratified.
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by cbs 15y ago
Thats depressing. Then why do people listen to him?
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by cbs 15y ago
Just last week, I wrote that Google+ was going to mess up the Internet by turning Web search into a popularity contest. Didn't google revolutionize search over a decade ago by doing exactly that?
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by cbs 15y ago
Don't get me started on the logical hoops MG must jump through I don't think there are any hoops. This post is just plain and simple nerdbait. edit: Or at least I hope so. I'm not familiar with much of his other writing, but for someone
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by cbs 15y ago
Oh come on. I'm getting really sick of hearing about this. The problem win android ux is (and this also applies to gripes with ios ux for people coming the other direction) your own infamiliarity with it and a few pet issues that are lar
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by cbs 15y ago
It could be that, but I'm out of my depth and operating on old information. He moved down to the snowless south years ago, so he probably missed out on whatever modding came to that world.
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by cbs 15y ago
when you felt like you had power over the machine and today you’re just part of a mainstream movement This is something thats been scratching around in the my brain for a while and has driven me away from software. To me, software used t
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by cbs 15y ago
The respectable "modern" variant the "gourmet ghetto" in North Berkeley, for example. I also spent 4 years calling <5 floor dorm buildings "BuildingName Tower". It even caught on with other people, but that didn't change the defini
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by cbs 15y ago
Oh boy, another way to micromanage customers rather than just provide a good product.
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by cbs 15y ago
1. It should be open-source or Flexbook is a project working on this, the few books I've looked at are cc-by-nc-sa. www.ck12.org/flexbook/
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by cbs 15y ago
Didn't you hear? Once we used it to dethrone MSIE, we realized that we didn't actually give a shit about compatibility. It was just the best stick we had to beat IE with.
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by cbs 15y ago
I had the same problem too. I had no idea it was supposed to be a slide show, then once I gave my browser as much screen real estate as the site wanted I had to figure out how to navigate the damn thing. Whats so wrong with just sticking a
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by cbs 15y ago
If you haven't heard of it before, swig (swig.org) is pretty nice for generating code to bridge C and C++ code to a scripting language for you.
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by cbs 15y ago
Well yeah. Thats kind of my point. I was showing the silliness of the statement I was replying to, that somehow if I don't like the laws of my state, I can just up and move to one that does instead of having to try and affect legislative
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by cbs 15y ago
This bothers me too, I have a hard time sacrificing all the properties inherent to a ownership of physical book for the one convenience that the kindle offers. Instead I find myself returning to buying books and only using the kindle for r
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by cbs 15y ago
And when I'm out of states that share my views?
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by cbs 15y ago
Fair enough. I didn't see the legislation, as it was presented in the grandparent post just gave me a laugh at the apparent irony.
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by cbs 15y ago
I have an ipod classic (I need rockbox and physical controls for music). I don't have one of those condoms for it because I like that over time it gets a beaten-to-shit look. I don't want that for my phone. Maybe it only has a marginal im
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by cbs 15y ago
Gorilla glass is nice, but its not perfect. I don't use screen protectors but the only thing I carry in my phone pocket is my phone. By the time I get a new phone, the screens are always pretty beaten up.
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by cbs 15y ago
Current conventional wisdom is that after Iowa, Paul will leave the "top tier" of the Republican race. He has always been ignored by traditional media and this is the highest hes ever risen, so there is a possibility he may find the stayin
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by cbs 15y ago
promoted anti-abortion legislation at Federal level Ron Paul: States Rights, unless its something I'm against. Just like any politician I guess.
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by cbs 15y ago
Its not that they're hard per se, they're just another pain in the ass, especially when the alternative is a proven technology obtainable with a no-bullshit grab from a repository and then can be used whenever wherever for whatever.
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by cbs 15y ago
This is an interesting take on the long view of the smartphone market. I think the linked google plus comment is more insightful than the article itself, if you skipped it the first time go back and give it a read. Apple is building a luxu
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by cbs 15y ago
What surprises me is that it took the SOPA fiasco to get people to move their domains from GoDaddy Yeah, they suck, but in the last 5 years I've logged into godaddy exactly 5 times to renew all my domains and then forget about them for th
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by cbs 15y ago
When I find myself in a situation like this, I say "we're being pedantic, take a drink". It works great. It makes us both realize we're acting stupid, and the next day neither of us is going to write a blog post about how our pedantry didn
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by cbs 15y ago
If you know what you're doing, yeah. Running a fileserver should be pretty damn simple for anyone who stylized themselves a "hacker", but you're talking like maintaining file servers is some sort of black magic for which the simple solutio
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by cbs 15y ago
Even better than the I'm feeling lucky, one of my favorite features of the firefox address bar is that you can customize the address "X Y" to go to bookmark X, with the value of Y in the url. For example, firefox used to come with a bookmar

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