dmethvin

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by dmethvin 11y ago
Aspiring to communicate with developers as well as Apple does is a perverse goal. Microsoft for example has a status page for their browser work [1] just like Google does for Chrome [2]. (The Microsoft page lets people vote for their favori
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by dmethvin 11y ago
It can be as simple as a text file that is dropped into the content-free TEXTAREA that currently greets new issue reporters. Try running a big project like jQuery, Angular, or Babel and you'll understand how important a feature like th
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by dmethvin 11y ago
So if the current DOM APIs already solve those problems, what changes would you make? As I mentioned, renaming them just makes things harder.
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by dmethvin 11y ago
The success of jQuery, React, Angular, etc. makes it mostly unnecessary. There is no need to avoid JavaScript wrappers to the DOM API, and lots of good reasons to have them. External libs are more flexible and fixable than web platform APIs
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by dmethvin 11y ago
As an example, the all-business SAS flight from Houston to Norway was targeted at oil company employees [1]. It couldn't fly 7 days a week because they had to take the plane offline once a week for cleaning/maintenance and there w
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by dmethvin 11y ago
One of the insidious things about debuggers is that they let you be lazy when reasoning about the code you've written. When you don't have a debugger, you need to be more careful about what you do and really understand the compl
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by dmethvin 11y ago
> Coding is boring, unless… you're building something cool and meaningful. The problem comes when the people doing the coding don't consider the business goal of the software to be cool and meaningful. To everyone but the pro
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by dmethvin 11y ago
It's understandable that individual files would be slightly larger in aggregate than a single combined file, due to the compression issue that was mentioned. However, since there is no more head-of-line blocking the overhead of an extr
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by dmethvin 11y ago
The risk near Galveston would be primarily from hurricanes.
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by dmethvin 11y ago
You've grown up in what is probably the best place in the world to ride a bike, which makes your experience enviable but not typical. Here in the car-dominated USA it's a lot more dangerous to ride a bike because we're "
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by dmethvin 11y ago
So the same government that is spending money to prosecute you gets to determine how much money they will spend on a public defender for you? We've covered this ground before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101777
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by dmethvin 11y ago
...and this is the unspoken truth of advertising. There is no reason for advertisers to reach that majority who cannot or will not pay for whatever is being advertised. However the publishers resent ad blockers because they reduce the p
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by dmethvin 11y ago
This seems like a great approach when the client devices are all friendly and collaborating. What sort of countermeasures do you need when some of them might be malicious attackers?
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by dmethvin 11y ago
The programmers writing embedded software in the US aren't being paid all that much in respect or money either. It's not glamorous, you're basically invisible. Given all the money paid in the valley to develop the next Uber f
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by dmethvin 11y ago
In this particular case, 150-foot skid marks indicate that the driver was trying pretty hard to stop. No doubt there are accelerator-brake confusions in many of these cases, especially with older drivers. I'm really hesitant to say the
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by dmethvin 11y ago
This is where a junior developer can really help, even if it's junior in the sense that they are not as familiar with the project as you are. There is no better way to become familiar with the true problems and priorities of a project
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by dmethvin 11y ago
I really like the wireless charging on my Nexus 5 as well. Going back to the cable would be fine with me but I would prefer something that takes a little less effort to insert and I'm always concerned about breaking the connector. I ju
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by dmethvin 11y ago
If the layout isn't "dirty" from a change, then it doesn't need to reflow.
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by dmethvin 11y ago
For specifics on which CSS properties affect layout, see csstriggers.com .
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by dmethvin 11y ago
This kind of philosophy bothers me: > “There’s a tax that comes with interoperability and what can be seen as complexity, which is it can actually be an impediment to innovation.” Yes, it's possible that standards can become too com
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by dmethvin 11y ago
Perhaps the gp meant this case? something().then(function(){ setTimeout(function(){ whoops_not_a_function(); }, 1000); }).catch(function(){ // nope, nothing to catch });
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by dmethvin 11y ago
What a great writer, and the article seems well researched. I note that he's got a Kickstarter to go to Antarctica, just chipped in for that.
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by dmethvin 11y ago
Flying on Southwest is actually the most pleasant experience that I've had, compared to the other carriers. They allow two free checked bags for example, and their employees are much friendlier and helpful. They give out free beer and
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by dmethvin 11y ago
On the Windows side, there was a lot of tense discussion between Intel and Microsoft regarding Intel's popular integrated-graphics chipset being shipped at the time of Vista's release. The chipset didn't have hardware DirectX
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by dmethvin 11y ago
The article did say it's less efficient, but you can put twice as many in the same space which supposedly more than makes up for the power deficit. Plus no noise pollution or threat to birds and lower maintenance costs. Obviously a lot
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by dmethvin 11y ago
These have been around for a few years, I remember seeing a video of the "helmet" inflating. Here's the one I could find, which is a lot more annoying than the one I recall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD
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by dmethvin 11y ago
My thought is that you should speak to a lawyer who is experienced in these kind of disputes. Bringing in a lawyer to represent you pretty much burns the bridge but it sounds like you will either want or have to leave anyway. If this is a l
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by dmethvin 11y ago
The author may be correct, which is of course the best kind of correct. Yet I have written code for more than 25 years that depends on the behavior exemplified in the `offsetof()` macro referenced there. When writing low-level code it'
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by dmethvin 12y ago
If sweating from the exertion is a problem, you could use something like an electric unicycle. They go up to 25km/h for 20km, can take hills, and are good for the "last mile" problem of getting to/from the train or metro
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by dmethvin 12y ago
The comments in the current jQuery source are pretty good about explaining the strange things that need to be done to work around bugs in browsers. Look for the `// Supports:` comments.

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