dmethvin

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by dmethvin 15y ago
Great analogy. Wonderful presentation. I've been using autotempest.com to search across several sources but it is like rocks to a hammer when you compare the UI. For rare makes (Triumph, Fiat, Delorean) I would like the ability to search o
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It doesn't work for keyboard access in the sense that you don't insert the redirect, but at least the link still takes them to the right place. Seems like the original link following the `url=` should be processed by encodeURIComponent or e
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Upvoted not for the humor, but for the aptness of the analogy. JavaScript is universal and free. If Adobe can create a sort-of-compatible environment that allows certain classes of apps like games to run better, great for them. Perhaps thei
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I wouldn't call this a rewrite of jQuery, it's more of a from-scratch implementation of a very small subset of jQuery APIs. The semantics of the subset vary significantly from jQuery as well. Take for example the show/hide implementation. `
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Aw c'mon, at least read the article and don't trot out a knee-jerk argument. It makes many valid points about how well Microsoft could really succeed in selling a Unix-hosted product when their heart was in Windows. Just by flipping the q
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Not for mounting a desk! For things like pictures where the stress is mostly shear (downward force), you can use something as simple as an angled nail and hang five or ten pounds of picture frame on it. Wall plugs, especially the ones that
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I've never seen a bracket meant to be intentionally mounted long-side-out, but I agree they seem to be advocating it there. You could do it if the loads were light, of course, but with a deep shelf and/or heavy loads it creates a lot of pul
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Before you trust a few thousand dollars of equipment to this desk... The brackets there are mounted backwards; the long end should go against the wall. When they rate the brackets to hold 1000 pounds, it's based on a load at the center of t
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I've seen Bob Parsons lording over an elephant's carcass as if his contrived conquest of nature by a man with superior force and unlimited money was an incredible accomplishment. I don't care if elephants are a pest in Zimbabwe, his glee ov
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There's also an object-based argument to addEventListener: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-E... More discussion here: http://ajaxian.com/archives/an-alternative-way-to-addeventli...
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Not at all! Lamar Smith's opinion on these issues is influenced by the people who pay to get face time with him and his staff. I hope that Google is getting what they pay for. If our democracy can be sold to the highest bidder, it's better
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> Why IE6 instead of some sane browser? Why a Motorola Razr instead of an iPhone 4S? Because the latter didn't exist. When IE6 came out more than a decade ago, it was the absolute best browser available. In 2004 when XP SP2 came out, it
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Do you mean a plugin as in the browser? No, you will need a plugin to run Silverlight in IE10 on the deskop, and you cannot use Silverlight (or Flash, or any other plugin) when IE10 is in its tablet-style Metro mode. The new WinRT API that
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There was even a PerlScript plugin that you could use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PerlScript
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> developers don’t need to use toolchains Sorry I don't get this. If Dart is delivered to the browser in source form, you'll still want script compressors and/or tools like Closure Compiler to eliminate unused code. Even if Dart is deli
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Let me give you a little background on this, I'm on the jQuery Board and a member of the core team. A new jQuery plugins site isn't too far away. We should have a blog post up in the next few days with the details, I won't steal the thunder
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> Does anyone actually think dojo has a future compared to the power that jquery gives to make your own "widgets" but far simpler than dojo? It really depends on what you're trying to do, I suspect. I'm on the jQuery core team and it's
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Based on our collective confusion it is clear that the number one obstacle to using Dwolla is their own web site. When the "how it works" page starts with "First there was bartering, then there was coinage, and of course paper tender follo
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iPhone owners are prohibited from going to any other store. It's a monopoly. Sure, Mussolini was a dictator, but he made the trains run on time.
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There are very few good managers, and when you think about it very few programmers work in software companies. Instead they work for trading firms, utilities, banks, government agencies, etc. When the business of the company isn't software,
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> Don't throw exceptions if you can handle the error and continue where you left off. Exceptions is for when you can't continue. Yes, although quoting that example doesn't support the assertion. JSON.parse is a library function. How can
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Zip codes can and do cross both state and city boundaries in some cases. That's not true of zip+4 but most people don't know their extra 4 digits. Then there is the expected rhythm of filling in the form as city,state,zip so putting zip fir
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The trigger here is hover, but the effects could be useful when triggered by other events, or as part of a timed presentation like a lightbox.
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Get out your magnifying glass and find Silverlight and .NET on this diagram from Build: http://blog.discountasp.net/build-conference-developers-have... With Microsoft diagrams, the importance of the technology is proportional to the size
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Building a Slimmer jQuery(blog.jquery.com)
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> Five years ago programs thought of JavaScript as a silly little non-language to add fantastic effects onto their serious back-end code. Back-end programmers may have felt that way five years ago, but there were plenty of people who we
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In the case that your prediction comes true, his (and my) concern that people need to know JS will probably not be as much of an issue. But then again, he'll be right about giving up on JS, and debugging in IE will still be a monster.
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CoffeeScript will mean giving up on JavaScript. The more popular CoffeeScript becomes, the less proficient the overall developer population will be at JavaScript,especially if they spend most of their time writing CS over JS. The problem
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Digg, Reddit, and now Hacker News.
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Yes! Whenever someone on the jQuery team wonders, "But who does that anyway?" we turn to Google Codesearch. Often, we don't like the answers we find. But at least we find the answers. For example, the 600 occurrences of `$("document")` that

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