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by dmethvin 15y ago
Back in September, Microsoft demoed a similar Windows 8 thing they called "semantic zoom". Obviously it requires the app to understand when zooming is taking place so that it's possible to do something smarter with it than just magnifying t
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Keyboard shortcuts are great--take that with a grain of salt since I like vim too. Unfortunately, the emphasis of Word has always been to make it so a new user can manage to do those things by browsing around the menus and toolbars. It's no
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Don't blame jQuery Mobile for that. It's a result of a bunch of time-based heuristics that sometimes don't work the way you expect. You can always override them (at your peril) by going for the immediate events like touchstart.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I went through this very same left-at-the-altar scenario a decade ago with a startup. It can be very difficult to prove that the company used the NDA information they had in their possession. Clearly the tech staff in the big company saw
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Microsoft stops providing XP security patches in April 2014. Any organization that wants to use XP after that will need to pay Microsoft to maintain support. Any organization that continues to use XP without support is irresponsible.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Where's the nonsense? This doesn't seem to debunk the claim that if the batteries go totally dead you are screwed, out a $40K battery pack. > Tesla batteries can remain unplugged for weeks (or even months), without reaching zero state o
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I think the reasoning of P3P was that a site would declare what it uses the information for, and if it was found otherwise the liars would be dealt with by conventional legal means. Theoretically that should work well for legitimate compani
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Nope, programmer time is indeed not free. But so many of the people reading HN are trying to "go wide" and appeal to very large audiences. Quite often they are services offered in some sort of freemium model where you hope that the user com
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I completely agree that web sites should be accessible to all visitors. The problem seems to be that the developers on many sites have infrastructure that is half a decade old and they are only making minor tweaks. It's easier for them to c
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by dmethvin 15y ago
And the blacklist message would go something like this: > "Warning: The site you are about to open may be guilty of encouraging or facilitating copyright infringement or other illegal acts. Your use of this site may be used against you
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Once the GIS data has been collected, there are no additional costs beyond some simple file copying which the requestors were willing to pay. Letting someone use a stadium involves many additional costs beyond someone turning a key in a loc
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Just a guess, but Microsoft makes a lot of money from Office so I suspect the Office group insisted on being there at release to show existing customers their commitment. No doubt there are currently a lot of restrictions about what you c
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> When the feature is standardized the prefixes are dropped. More accurately, when the feature is standardized most browsers recognize both the the prefixed and unprefixed versions. This is still a significant competitive advantage for
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by dmethvin 15y ago
If the browsers available to the general public support vendor-specific sheets, the problem won't be solved at all. At some point Firefox and IE will see that there are a lot of pages out there on the web written with "text/css+webkit" and
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by dmethvin 15y ago
"A lot" isn't really true, here is some quantification: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Layout/CSS_Compatibility Long-standing ones like border-radius are unprefixed but most of the recent ones like transition are not. And the overhangi
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Because, hey, monopoly and monoculture, what could possibly go wrong? If Webkit's codebase defines the "standard" then the decision-making process is no longer open, even if the source code (eventually) is. It is controlled by a small numbe
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Exactly the problem. There was a proposal to make vendor-prefixed features only available on experimental builds, but as long as they escape to the wild and do cool things developers will use them
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Prefixing just did not work. We should push the standards bodies to drop that nonsense ASAP. Making all of us blindly insert 5 or 6 duplicate declarations in every CSS rule is not a solution, and in fact circumvents the original purpose of
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Yep, I've followed it for many years: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/15.70.html#subj3.1 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.39.html#subj9.1
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by dmethvin 15y ago
The fate of the Challenger engineers is depressing because they were essentially kicked out of their profession for knowing the right and moral answer. Thankfully, very few of us will be faced with these honestly life-or-death technical dec
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> http://jsperf.com/modern-js-vs-jquery-append This is a trap that a lot of people fall into when benchmarking with jsperf. It is perfectly valid to say that the bare DOM functions are TEN times faster than jQuery at this particular t
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Exactly. It would simplify the documentation to simply deprecate everything but .on() but would that justify breaking all the existing code out there? Not to me. The old APIs need to stay around so that code continues to work.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Absolutely it will limit what studios allow--as in the major studios will allow nothing. HTML5 video only supports standard HTTP download of a single unencrypted stream, and I'm not clear on how a token scheme will provide any real security
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I like some of those abstractions, like the finger vs. hand and one/two/... fingers. Apple doesn't seem interested in playing ball with the W3C to standardize touch events: http://www.w3.org/2012/01/touch-pag-charter Presumably for that r
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by dmethvin 15y ago
On a touch device, side-scrolling feels very natural. The problem is that Apple is trying to create a consistent set of rules for devices that are inconsistent (with very good reasons) in their UI designs. A touchpad is not the same as a
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Yep, it really comes down to money. If you are running a consumer retail site that gets traffic from Fortune 500 employees buying stuff on their lunch hour, you will either support IE7 or lose business. Sure IE7 has problems, but they are w
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> When sites get larger, both in members and staff, the gap tends to grow between the people that build the site and the people that use it. If you want to know why products slowly degrade and eventually die, that is the best answer you
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The problem is the ecosystem. Those low-paying slavish jobs support the next layer of skilled middle-class engineers and infrastructure. If there is no manufacturing in the USA there is no need for manufacturing process engineers. As the ar
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> I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. Still it seems this is just coming down to communication. Is it possible that the less successful ones were doing things in areas where you personally had less expertise?
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I am assuming because it took 2 years to get to this point. With SOPA and PIPA in place there is no need for a takedown involving the federal authorities. Copyright holders can achieve the same much more quickly by using PIPA and SOPA to st

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