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by chairface 16y ago
I hate "wide screens" with a passion - I call them short screens instead. My pet theory is that the LCD manufacturers like short screens better because they can sell fewer pixels while still advertising the same diagonal length.
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by chairface 16y ago
"Chrome Frame doesn't turn IE into Chrome, it turns IE into something similar to Chrome when on YouTube. When not browsing YouTube, it's still good old IE." I'm afraid you're mistaken. Chrome Frame replaces Trident, and renders any page ju
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by chairface 16y ago
It's been on the front page of the programming reddit many, many times.
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by chairface 16y ago
There's already an implementation of hardware accelerated SVG, in IE9: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/07/a-closer-look-at... There's also a toggle in Firefox's about:config that turns on hardware acceleration on Windows.
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by chairface 16y ago
I'm in enthusiastic agreement. I tried to use Raphael for a hobby project that required efficient scaling of a lot of elements, and I thought Raphael would be ideal for this. Unfortunately, Raphael's list-like data structure (I forget exa
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by chairface 17y ago
I think this was an April Fool's joke: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem edit: In response to the downvotes - it appears that it was an April Fool's joke, but because of the response he got, Armin decided to try it ou
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by chairface 17y ago
The sentiment is expressed in the article's fourth paragraph, so at least it's not a misrepresentation. It is not, however, a very interesting article.
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by chairface 17y ago
Seems to me that the opposite is true. With an exclusive, a publisher knows they can spend more time on a story, and publish it later. Without an exclusive, publishers are running the risk of being scooped, so they rush it more.
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by chairface 17y ago
My problem with your conjecture is that exclusives create an artificial scarcity of information, which I don't count as real value creation. Further, for the general reader, there is the added cost of having to subscribe, or at the very le
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by chairface 17y ago
How does a reader benefit from news that is available from fewer sources? Also, if you're more likely to print a story when given an exclusive, then newsworthiness is not your only criterion in deciding what to print.
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by chairface 17y ago
If the law is there to help prosecute bootleggers, then why aren't the laws against bootlegging enough? The law against making copies of DVDs is superfluous, by your own reasoning. Why isn't a good idea to challenge laws like this?
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by chairface 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that's the motivation. I'm also pretty sure it doesn't work.
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by chairface 17y ago
Wait - I thought it was dotfiles.org? It went down a few months ago and hasn't returned. I'm not getting a response from dotfiles.com either.
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by chairface 17y ago
True, but I'm pretty sure mapping to C-m also maps it to the enter key.
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by chairface 17y ago
Just another vote for keeping the name. I smiled when I saw it.
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by chairface 17y ago
I think it makes sense. Some generations are bigger than others, and the bigger ones (like the one this guy is complaining about) can throw their weight around at the expense of the others. They carry more political weight. I, for instanc
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by chairface 17y ago
The big thing for me that's missing from Django's ORM is being able to map a model to an arbitrary select. It offers so much flexibility.
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by chairface 17y ago
I'm what wikipedia calls a "Cold Y" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Y_Generation ), and the only time I ever visit twitter is when someone posts a link to a particular tweet from reddit or something. It just seems like such a time in
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by chairface 17y ago
Well, the thing about percentages in an election is that a lot of them don't _have_ last digits. Further, if the percentages came out to nice numbers like 57% and 65%, we wouldn't even be having this discussion - it would be really, really
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by chairface 17y ago
Well, for me, it is a good point. For some reason it's just much easier for me to remember a particular language's way of doing something when there's only one way. Also, I'm a little obsessive about my code consistency, so I dislike havin
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by chairface 17y ago
I took him to mean all the built in special variables, like $$ and $! and $?. I don't see them too often in Ruby, but I'm pretty sure the language supports pretty close to Perl's full set. Not a great argument though, unless most of the R
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by chairface 17y ago
I believe the phrase he used was "materially correct". Which it was. User data that originated at last.fm was given to the RIAA. It's hard to say the original story was flat wrong.
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by chairface 17y ago
Yes that's true, but even so, you can't fit all those characters into 8 bits, which is basically the point of that first section. Also, I don't see how mapping to the same codepoint would mean that Chinese has thousands of characters, whil
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by chairface 17y ago
Also, now that I am reading focusing on your words and not trying to figure out what you mean, a lexicon is a collection of words, not a collection of characters. The concepts overlap somewhat in the case of Chinese, but katakana, for inst
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by chairface 17y ago
I am having trouble seeing what you're claiming. Are you saying that there are not thousands of characters in Japanese and Korean because they borrowed from the Chinese? If so, I'd say your correction is misplaced. These characters must
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by chairface 17y ago
It's awkward, but I believe they intend "you're" and "people" to refer to the same entity(s). But I see what you're saying.
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by chairface 17y ago
Well, that's a pretty decent analysis for not having thought about it before. I agree that as a child, it seemed that adults had a penchant for denying that they are anything like children, and I think that was a mistake on their part. Any
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by chairface 17y ago
> Either way, your response was snide and still hasn't addressed what I said in that point. Well, for what it's worth, I wasn't trying to be snide. If the problem was solved, it really would be egalitarian bliss. I really don't know h
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by chairface 17y ago
> I think it's silly of you to say it's "much more helpful" to "focus more on what is _done_ to the unpopular" when we've all been over that ad nauseam. When I say it's more helpful to focus on what is done to the unpopular, I am speaki
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by chairface 17y ago
Well, that's what discussions are made of. I think it's silly of you to suggest that I shouldn't say anything without making sure to reiterate the original author's points.

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