davidlumley

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by davidlumley 14y ago
Could you expand on that at all? I realise that Zepto covers a (very) small subset of jQuery functions, but I thought that in a lot of use cases it would be an appropriate substitute?
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Is it? There are other JavaScript libraries available, and 1.9 will still support IE.
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by davidlumley 14y ago
It's interesting seeing so many people defending PHP by suggesting that because Facebook use it, it's good enough for anyone. From what I understand, Facebook continue to use PHP because it's heavily embedded in all of their systems, and t
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I'm very interested to understand why they have a monthly fee - surely having an easy to implement payment API would mean AU developers flock to it given our lacklustre other choices?
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I think it's less about Dota vs LoL, and more about Dota 2 vs HoN. While LoL appeals to a large amount of players who don't enjoy how hard the original DotA was, the competitive scene isn't there (for many reasons, but amongst them it's jus
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> Is rails your first language? Sorry to nitpick, Rails is a framework, Ruby is the language :)
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Have been playing for five years. The game itself revolved around PvP. Combat drives the market, which drives production, which creates ships, which get destroyed and so on and so forth. Because of this, EVE has the best economy I've ever s
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Being a micro framework it's more similar to Sinatra than Rails. In terms of main differences, it's PHP rather than Ruby which means it's verbose rather than terse and it's less automagical than Sinatra / DataMapper. If you need to use PHP
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> Interesting question, but a shitty website that split it up over 13 shitty pages. This. Twitter's ability to quickly and efficiently provide streams of data as things happen is worth a "HAHAHA" yet RIM's failing product line is of pri
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by davidlumley 14y ago
> developers couldn’t resist the siren song of ‘It Just Works’ married to a Unix kernel For me, it's more than just a Unix kernel. It's the usability of the system as a whole, the application ecosystem I use, the tools that are preinsta
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by davidlumley 14y ago
From what I understand, yes. I believe the point the author is trying to make however, is that Python allows you to think more about the structure/function of your code rather than worrying if a variable should be an integer, a float, or a
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by davidlumley 14y ago
iOS allows you to select text using markers that are dragged as well:. The blue markers you see in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw2Y7FP8qko can be dragged to change the selection area. The magnifying glass is used to set the exact curso
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by davidlumley 14y ago
I write emails and messages using both my iPad and my iPhone and would argue that such activity (which includes editing text) is an intended use case. Anything that increases how easy it is to do this is a huge win for both the users and Ap
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by davidlumley 14y ago
Would love to see some fonts from Font Squirrel and other freely available sources.
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by davidlumley 15y ago
I've been following the design of this on dribbble for a while now, glad to see it's finally getting there!
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by davidlumley 15y ago
That's how I felt, it's not scannable or readable at all :(
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by davidlumley 15y ago
I enjoy linked lists like daringfireball.net and parislemon.com While the commentary is frequently biased (whose isn't?) I find being able to read the original articles helps get a great overall view of an issue. Also, theverge.com