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811.
by chime 15y ago
The proper way to avoid the return _results is just put a blank return statement in the last line of the function. (x, y) -> for game_piece in @game_pieces if game_piece.is_at x, y @held_item = game_piece
812.
by chime 15y ago
They also recently shut down their free and quite wonderful dictionary.
813.
by chime 15y ago
> Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011. > Note that it can take several days to download your copy of the Tweets2011. Why does Twitter make it so cumb
814.
by chime 15y ago
> iAd has reportedly been underperforming since its release in 2010; The reason why I don't use iAd is because I can't. I wanted to put an ad banner across the top (or bottom) of my Landscape app at all times. My app used UISplitViewCon
815.
by chime 15y ago
I keep coming back to this idea over and over. DabbleDB was sort of like this but it closed shop after a talent acquisition. Formstack.com (formerly hosted at formspring.com) had very cool table-building tools but it appears they pivoted to
816.
by chime 15y ago
From their FAQ: http://www.raspberrypi.org/?page_id=8 > Is PoE (power over ethernet) possible? > Not in the base device, but it’s been a very commonly requested feature, so we’re examining options for later releases. PoE would mak
817.
by chime 15y ago
I love Pencil for Firefox. It's seriously underrated: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pencil/
818.
by chime 15y ago
If you'd rather have it be offline, drop me a line from the contact page and I'll send you an Excel version.
819.
by chime 15y ago
I remember reading the original paper years ago. http://www.recolored.com/ is based off that research.
820.
by chime 15y ago
If you use Chrome, get https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pidkbnhjgdngcfcaik... Then uncheck the Following circle. Let me know if you have any problems with it. I'm in the process of making it work with multiple-accounts so if you
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August 27, 2011 is the ten-year anniversary of IE6(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by chime 15y ago|0 comments
822.
by chime 15y ago
The author didn't mention it but there is a scale for measuring the level of technological advancement called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale that takes the energy consumption of the civilization into account. According to th
823.
by chime 15y ago
Then why is everyone here complaining about the lack of dynamic objects?
824.
by chime 15y ago
I can understand that adding dynamic objects/shadows is difficult and their videos do not show them being capable of doing that yet. However, why can't 90% of the objects be rendered in the new static way like they do (statues, buildings, t
825.
by chime 15y ago
Just want to reiterate that regardless of my opposition to JS-TTS right now, I think this library is brilliant and it works in Chrome on OS X perfectly. Maybe in a few more years, JS performance for such tasks will be commonplace just like
826.
by chime 15y ago
> You will get different results depending on the OS. Would be no different than making web pages. Even JS isn't same across browsers. The big question is do I want to use a JS-TTS library or native and I think native will always be bet
827.
by chime 15y ago
* If you want low performance, give me low money. * If you want high performance, give me high money. * If you want loyalty/passion, give me equity/profit sharing. You can buy my performance i.e. time with money. You can buy my passion i.e.
828.
by chime 15y ago
While I think this client library is brilliant, this is the worst possible approach to the problem. I'm working on an iPad app using PhoneGap to help people with speech+motor disabilities communicate ( http://ktype.net ). All I want is a wi
829.
by chime 15y ago
> Due to the gravitational influence of other planets and the significant contribution of chaos to an asteroid’s orbit, it is impossible to accurately predict 2010 TK7’s behavior over more than a 250 year span, so it may not continue th
830.
by chime 15y ago
I agree with you. I recently took a weekend vacation by the beach and did my very best to use AirBnB. The fact that email is the only way to communicate with the host made it really difficult for me to get a good feel for the place I was re
831.
by chime 15y ago
A few years ago, I decided that I wanted to make a really good Wikipedia search engine. I downloaded the entire Wikipedia dataset, I downloaded DBPedia, I setup graph database, wrote code to query everything using SPARQL/RDF, and after much
832.
by chime 15y ago
That was #9: int isPowerOfTwo (unsigned int x) { return ((x != 0) && !(x & (x - 1))); }
833.
by chime 15y ago
How does exception/error handling work if you code like this? I'd love to be able to do the same in CoffeeScript.
834.
by chime 15y ago
I did some stuff one afternoon about 4-5 years ago and it continues to pay my mortgage ever since. It's the goose that lays the golden egg and under no circumstances do I mess with it.
835.
by chime 15y ago
> Any ad that contains a character from a predefined blacklist of special characters is automatically flagged for manual review and promptly denied by Google's approvals department. I can understand the use of blacklist for flagging for
836.
by chime 15y ago
Why does Google use a blacklist of characters and not a whitelist? Only letters, numbers, punctuations in targeted languages should be allowed.
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My Chrome ext. lets you hide specific Circles from Stream, mark posts as read(chrome.google.com)
3 points by chime 15y ago|0 comments
838.
by chime 15y ago
This is perfect. I was looking for something exactly like this. How are you reading the posts? How often?
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by chime 15y ago
It sounds EXACTLY like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_tag_(Microsoft) to me, except on a mobile device. Does anyone know if Pocket IE6 had Smart Tags?
840.
by chime 15y ago
Can't say about others but this one has background-attachment fixed, which always slows scrolling.

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