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by dmethvin 14y ago
It does seem sad. So many problems to be solved in the world, but the things getting financial reinforcement and attracting technical talent are compulsive gaming and nanosecond-level stock trades that are unrelated to productive work. Good
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Only a few publications like Consumer Reports actually buy the stuff they review, everyone else goes to the vendor and asks for a review copy or free membership. If their support team asks for license info or if it's linked to your email (e
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I used to work in the media. We would get special treatment because companies knew we were opinion influencers. We didn't know it was happening, but the license key or other information would be their tip-off to provide us with VIP service.
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On my system these are the results for the class selector test: 1.7.2 4,123 ops/s 242 microseconds/op 1.8.0 4,061 ops/s 246 microseconds/op Are you seeing some large difference? You'd need to be selecting things by clas
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A very large number of them were code refactors to take better advantage of gzip; Richard Gibson (gibson042) has become a master of that [1]. It turns out that a good style guide can actually help improve gzip compression as well [2]. Other
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It's much easier to make jQuery UI modular than it is to make jQuery core modular. You know that you're using autocomplete, tabs, sliders, or dialogs; you can see them on the screen. If you're including jQuery core with several jQuery plugi
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I hoped it was funny. I also hoped it would take some of the fury off the bug reports from people who hadn't tried any of the betas or RCs and now are finding problems. Like this one that just arrived: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/12232
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Nope, not without logging in. Probably need to clear cookies or something. But in any case, the grandparents are not lying or stupid afaict so stop downvoting them.
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It's more complicated than that. OEMs pay Microsoft for the OS, then take on the risk of trying to design and sell a product. The $35 or whatever OEMs pay for Windows 8 becomes part of their manufacturing costs. When Microsoft makes their o
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If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work,
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Perhaps if you assume that the person is already proficient in Microsoft Office, that might be true. But if you've ever watched someone go through the MS Office 2003 ==> 2007/2010 transition ("You do not like the ribbon? You must bear
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So are you saying Microsoft should force people to use either touch or mouse on a device, but not both? What if your device supports both touch and mouse, for example a notebook with a touch screen? Windows 8 will have to approach that head
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"Move fast and break things" should still require that you think through what you're doing. The problem seems to be that the complexity of Facebook's system is beyond the understanding of anyone who reviews these changes.
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> JQuery has just set a time limit on proper web access for an entire OS. What time limit? The blog post says jQuery 1.9 will be supported even after 2.0 is released, and that the two APIs will be the same.
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What do you mean dropping IE8 support? The jQuery Core team still supports IE 6, 7, and 8, and has not announced that they are dropping it. That's what jQuery 1.9 is about.
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If we remove the blank lines and comments, would the line count be less staggering? By that measure we definitely shouldn't include Closure Compiler annotation comments since they add lines. For better or worse, we've focused on min-gzip si
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Wouldn't you be using the callback or Promise for those cases?
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jQuery never really "supported" quirks mode, the unit tests were not ever run in quirks for example. A few of the offset and dimensional tests tried to account for quirks, but we gave up on that totally in 1.8 in favor of fully supporting t
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The lack of static types really comes into play not inside a library, but in the interface between the external code and a library. Note that at least a few of the bugs that were found involved invalid API inputs. From the library writer'
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So, don't trust reviews from sources you don't know. That's where social networks can help.
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Looks like a very useful set of functionality, but the name will need to change.
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Yeah, a literal case of voting with your feet.
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We got started down the wrong path when Apple defined touch events and heuristics for faking mouse events from them. As a transitional measure a library like this is about all we can do for Kinect, but it is not the right long-term soluti
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> It’s a lot easier to maintain an orthogonal design when your software isn’t being used. Software that gets used becomes less orthogonal and develops diagonal shortcuts. Yep, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Human language is ex
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The site is still slow, but at least it's a start. There are still quite a few external scripts loading in the head that have the potential to block the page. The waterfall diagram from a test at webpagetest.org [1] shows a pretty dramatic
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Microsoft doesn't sell a product, it sells a component. It's the OS that OEMs buy when building their products. If an OEM wants to build a low-end, high-end, or vertical-market product using Windows, Microsoft will gladly sell them the OS
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The 2004 DOJ-Microsoft consent decree explicitly prohibits Microsoft from tying Windows licenses to the OEM's ability to install other software. So Microsoft is not within its rights to do that.
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Let's not forget how we got here. In the mid-1990s the OEMs were up in arms about how Microsoft was trying to control the Windows user experience; the OEMs said it was their customer and they would install any damn thing they wanted before
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Who do you think is in the standards groups? The browser makers. There isn't enough representation from the people who actually will be using these features, and it seems that even when those people can get a word in edgewise it is ignored.
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It's human nature for browser makers to value ease of implementation over ease of use. But to basically tell developers to move the discussion elsewhere and then ignore that discussion is not right. There will only be about a half-dozen imp

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