dmethvin

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by dmethvin 12y ago
> IE for example still does not support Touch Events, even on WP. Yes they do. However, IE11 doesn't support Touch Events on desktop because there is already too much code out there that makes stupid assumptions about Touch Events
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Here are some I'm aware of: https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/issues/290 https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/issues/2081 https://github.com/jquery/
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by dmethvin 12y ago
This is why semver is not a silver bullet. It only covers what the project maintainers think are breaking changes. Their unit tests don't consist of all programs that use their code. When you use undocumented behavior, is it correct to
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> Also remember that Google brought us HTTP/2 when Microsoft and Apple were completely ignoring the web. You only have that half-right, Microsoft hasn't been ignoring the web for several years, but Apple still is. The problem f
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Not only expensive to run things underground, it introduces maintenance nightmares. Overhead lines can easily be inspected and even repaired while in service [1]. Underground lines cannot easily be inspected or repaired. Even when there a
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I wonder if malicious plugins are modifying the page and injecting things? I've encountered ones that physically change Google results pages, it looks like the page came from Google but the results are from some scam network.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I don't have any quantitative data, agreed. The Internet certainly provides a lot more visibility for such contemplation, and I can't recall seeing a lot of it.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Stuhlinger's thoughtful reply seems like something very few people would do today. Not just the part about taking time to reply to a random letter, but the part about deeply considering the role of their work and its effect on humanity
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> Which, incidentally, here on step two indicates why the NASA standards are from such a different world from the web browser that they don't much matter. Other than the mention of recursion, everything else is about predictable and
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by dmethvin 12y ago
You could build a custom jQuery copy that eliminated whatever methods you don't need. Since plugins use unknown parts of jQuery and Closure Compiler can't always detect that, you really need to do some manual labor to pull in what
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I think the answer to that is "yes", since our technology is advancing all the time. The question this made me wonder about is, "If this new 2015 engine was given to the 1970s engineers, would they be able to understand how i
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Contrast the design and price with the electric unicycles like Solowheel, Airwheel, Rockwheel and various knockoffs that have been around a while. I got a Uni-wheel [1] for $300 last month and it's pretty fun to ride. The specs for the
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I think yours is the traditional take on frameworks vs. libraries, so you're not alone. We have a lot of frameworks in JavaScript because we're still expanding and exploring the space where they can work. Eventually I think we&#x2
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> Time passes and your application becomes multi-threaded. Is it realistic to think that any app starting with a bunch of assumptions about being single-threaded can ever just "become multi-threaded" without bloodshed?
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JQuery Foundation Gets Polymer's Pointer Events Polyfill(blog.jquery.com)
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by dmethvin 12y ago
You're aware of jQuery custom builds? Leave out what you don't use. It's in the README file.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
That won't work on Android 2.x, which doesn't support `.classList`. Performance isn't even an issue here since changing classes will cause a reapply-styles and layout.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Just in case you'd like to look at their financials before donating, they are at faqs.org [1]. I couldn't find the official IRS Form 990 online. [1] http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/CA/Internet-Archive.html
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> Ben does have a JD from Harvard law that I forgot about A major omission when attacking someone's legal qualifications. > When he's not writing antitrust papers, he's busy writing scare papers about click fraud, or on
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by dmethvin 12y ago
That's not true. If you look at http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ you'll see IE11 preview (their "canary") has more green than any other browser including Chrome or Firefox. Yes, even m
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I think that's a key point, the earlier you can catch the problem the less frustrating for both sides. There is https://www.npmjs.org/package/commitplease for commit hooks but it's still handy to have somethi
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by dmethvin 12y ago
At the moment, they provide two very different views of email. Actually I guess you could say the old GMail client offers two different views itself, since it has both standard and priority inbox. It's not clear that Inbox is the right
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by dmethvin 12y ago
TypeScript compiles out all the overhead, AtScript will need to leave at least some overhead so that it can support RTTI. The AtScript design acknowledges and borrows from TypeScript, ideally I would prefer it to be a superset so we don&#x2
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Google and Microsoft do this too when you enable real-time searching via the address bar, but both are pretty good at letting you know it happens. Doesn't Safari have some kind of first-run experience where the user gets some notice on
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by dmethvin 12y ago
The other problem is what little vetting the ad platforms do is easy to circumvent when they allow advertisers to host their own content. A few years ago the New York Times was serving out malware because they approved an ad and later the a
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Even better, they can bid based on the IP address range and only pay for the suckers they target. Why go to the trouble of making a harmless ad when you'll never need to show it?
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by dmethvin 12y ago
IE12 isn't released so I doubt the feature set is fully established. The status.modern.ie site has been mentioned on HN a few times though, and it does have some info. https://status.modern.ie/?term=hsts
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by dmethvin 12y ago
It's a question of who gets the last word, though. Originally I thought that web devs should have the last word about IE document mode, because darn it, they own their site. After seeing so many sites that seem to be unmaintained (or m
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I use Google's voice dictation frequently for text and email, because my fat fingers don't like onscreen keyboards. It often gets the dictation of an entire paragraph totally right. It's impressive.
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JQuery.com September 2014 Security Retrospective(blog.jquery.com)
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