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by currywurst 10y ago
In India, these forms of advertisements are still a primary way by which millions of couples meet each other. The parents are often involved in pre-filtering alliances. The electronic version of this (e.g. http://www.bharatmatrim
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by currywurst 10y ago
It is depressing to see such cavalier attitude towards backwards compatibility and older devices (flagships even, assuming you are talking about Snapdragon 800 devices). This is planned obsolescence at its worst .. :/ (At this point, A
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by currywurst 10y ago
A relevant previous HN discussion on Martin Fowler's "GUI Architectures" article ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770362 )
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by currywurst 10y ago
I really enjoyed this write up .. would be so great if research papers in general were commented on like this (what is interesting, what is the significance of the result etc)
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by currywurst 10y ago
Ensuring the integrity of the download (especially when served from mirrors) is not valuable? [No snark .. just genuinely curious]
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by currywurst 10y ago
In this case, most of the files pulled down are the development dependencies which are not going to be exposed to the production code. I would be perfectly fine if npm pulled down "distribution" versions for tools like gulp, types
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by currywurst 10y ago
Is there a "distribution" bundle convention for npm ? Analogous to static linking, it would be one .js file that would bind all dependencies into a bundle (e.g. gulp.dist.js) . In that case you would end up with a much smaller num
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by currywurst 10y ago
The one thing I've always wanted is for the browser to automatically verify the file hash if it is provided on the download page .. Any plans in this direction, Mozilla ?
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by currywurst 10y ago
I am always curious how Vannevar Bush would have perceived the Web ( "This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing." ) and projects like Wikipedia ( "Wholly new fo
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Next47: Siemens founds separate unit for startups (1 Billion EUR fund)(siemens.com)
2 points by currywurst 10y ago|0 comments
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by currywurst 10y ago
A "homescreened" PWA will still appear as a separate app though ..
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by currywurst 10y ago
I was among the folks who at first didn't care for the feature, but it quickly grew on me. Things I noticed (perhaps useful for UX folks) * In a default one-handed grip, it was easier to switch between tabs because the multitasking but
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by currywurst 11y ago
(From the docs:) "Backbone is an attempt to discover the minimal set of data-structuring (models and collections) and user interface (views and URLs) primitives that are generally useful when building web applications with JavaScript.&
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by currywurst 11y ago
Netbeans is actually a great IDE, and no doubt has come a long way. It works well "out of the box" compared to Eclipse, and feels lighter than IntelliJ but still comes with tons of project templates that actually work well without
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by currywurst 11y ago
The logical conclusion of this approach is the Vega visualization grammar : http://vega.github.io/vega/ It gives you a declarative means of specifying the visualization and comes from the the same lab that created d3
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RESTy long-ops, how to model long running processes in a REST API(billhiggins.us)
1 points by currywurst 11y ago|0 comments
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by currywurst 11y ago
This looks like template strings in ES6 [1], which is really well done ! I look forward to using f-strings [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by currywurst 11y ago
imho, the V8 runtime and the Chrome Dev Tools give a good enough approximation of a Smalltalk "live-coding" environment. Given that approaches like Typescript, Flow and the most likely adoption of type hinting in a coming ES201x v
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by currywurst 11y ago
I would encourage you to check out Windows 8.1 (soon to be Windows 10) tables like the Dell Venue 8 Pro ( http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-8-pro/pd ). They are essentially what the UMPC dream was about. And
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by currywurst 11y ago
I didn't say that it's not appropriate :) Just that as originally defined, a Controller object intercepts all user input. From the article, "The controller's job is to take the user's input and figure out what to
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by currywurst 11y ago
Really happy to see this link on the front page! Another great summary, with a nice visual overview of the evolution is by Aviad Ezra[1]. He summarizes an excellent paper by Mike Potel[2] , that introduces the original MVP pattern. Potel&#
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by currywurst 11y ago
Asking 10 people to explain what MVC is, and you'll get 11 answers ;) ! Having recently done a dive into this area, I would really recommend interested folks to patiently read this great article by Martin Fowler: http://mar
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by currywurst 11y ago
It can be learned, by the same techniques you use to learn system internals: You can first do a quick scout for the big items (e.g. grid systems, typography instead of data structures, algorithms) so that you get the big picture, and then s
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by currywurst 11y ago
It would really be great if people stop calling it the "Hamburger" icon, and just dub it as the "Menu" icon. When I ask someone (who is not clued into UX discussions, e.g. my parents) to look for the "Hamburger&quot
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by currywurst 11y ago
For UML, have you tried PlantUML? It's a brilliant little text-to-UML converter. Eg. Sequence Diagram ( http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/sequence.html )
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by currywurst 11y ago
Wonder why they uncharacteristically launched the Apple Watch in its current form, then.
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by currywurst 12y ago
But suppose you want to re-use the sub-view in another component, you would then need to clone the functionality and satisfy/remove all the directly coupled invocations. This is where you have to decide how much coupling to introduce t
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by currywurst 12y ago
This really resonated with my current preferences as well, but I would add Java as a close second to C/C++. And here is the most important quote (note to sigil-happy language designers ;) ): "I now feel much less strongly about p
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Another look at my programming language arsenal(eli.thegreenplace.net)
15 points by currywurst 12y ago|2 comments
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by currywurst 12y ago
Does anyone know of any good WebAudio based looper apps ?

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