dmethvin

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by dmethvin 13y ago
One of the reasons that IE marketshare is so hard to measure is that it depends on whether business users visit the site. You can see this if you can get data that isn't filtered. The only public data I know like that is Clicky [1]. No
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Right, it's basically "the cost of doing business" overhead that encompasses unsavory costs like bribes, extortion, dishonest employees, etc. As long as the parasites in the process don't get too greedy, it's still
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> Google is stuck behind a rock and a hard place. If they don't try to create incentives for a unified experience, they get bashed for encouraging fragmentation, if they do assert a level of control, they get bashed for not being co
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Looks pretty good in the immediate area: http://www.walkscore.com/score/253-ne-2nd-st-miami-fl-33132
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> One of the biggest shocks I faced when I arrived to the Valley was finding out that it was a very suburban environment. Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale are completely suburban. I suppose it depends on your definition of "subur
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Their expense ratios are pretty decent: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/vanguard/all?sort=nam... And, the idea of the target funds is that they become more conservative as you reach the target. The pur
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Unfortunately, Android 2.3 is not fully ES5 compatible either. Since that's about one-third of all Android I doubt that ES5 compat was the driving force for this move. More likely it was the non-W3C event model and general non-use of I
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Ad popups - Separate windows with ads based on your browsing history or even whatever they find installed on your system. Ad injection - Putting ads on web pages they didn't write, such as Google search results. Ad substitution - Repla
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> Congrats Javascript--on almost being as good at data-binding and layout as VB6! That's total garbage. The browser does awesome presentation and layout with the markup you give it and you can control what happens via declarative CS
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These are very high voltages. The Tesla is 375 volts and the Prius is 275 volts.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
In the US, labor laws are pretty clear about when an internship can be unpaid. The position needs to be an experience similar to an academic class for the intern and can't displace a paid position for example. That Facebook post is ask
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by dmethvin 13y ago
If you just need the selection/traversal/manipulation of jQuery then just make a custom jQuery build with that. If that is still "too big" then use the alternate (qSA minimally wrapped) selector engine instead of Sizzle.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Popular in what sense? Because developers like it, or because developers have to use it in order to reach their audience? By the latter measure, Ticketmaster is the most popular ticket vendor.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
These are just engineering tradeoffs. Sure you need to weigh them carefully, but the fact that we spend more on software than hardware does not indicate a horrible failure in the industry. For example, processing power, communication speed,
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Have you ever worked on e-commerce sites? Bad email validation or the requirement for a confirmation email can kill business. If a user buys a product but types `sally@yahhhoo.com` and then doesn't get their purchase or shipping confir
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Where's the error handling? The `yield` calls are definitely simplifying the no-errors case, but it looks like any of those yields can throw an error back to the enclosing function. All the errors from all the yields end up in the same
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Apple was able to do it the way they did because there are so few choices in Apple hardware. Sure the "double-or-nothing" approach simplifies things but it's not a practical approach for large ecosystems like Windows or Andro
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by dmethvin 13y ago
I'd agree that some of the causes are unsolvable if you want a design completely unconstrained by the performance limits of HTML rendering environments. This is why some people build HTML apps that look like some native app they had an
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> There's only one way to make a tiny page that loads super fast - and that's to make every single decision with an eye towards efficiency. That sounds dangerously like premature optimization. For example, why spend the time cr
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> Is there anyone on HN who actually doesn't already know that? I see a lot of discussion here based on the premise that this smaller script will make a big difference in overall page load time. It's why the audience in that vi
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Delegated events let you handle events for child elements that aren't even in the DOM at the time you attach the handler. The jQuery docs explain it: api.jquery.com/on/#direct-and-delegated-events > Delegated events have t
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> Now that jQuery 2.x drops IE 8- support, a credible question is whether such libraries (which are more in the 95KB range, minified) are even necessary at all. Well my answer to the credible question is that jQuery has to normalize and
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by dmethvin 13y ago
I know it's awfully tempting to obsess on something that is easy to measure , like file size. I also know it's tempting to imply things like "twice the file size means twice the page load time". But it's not true.
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That's not exactly the same at all.
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Agreed. A symbolic assembler was just a convenient way of managing names and jump targets. To reverse engineer it wasn't too hard to write down the bytes and translate to symbols because the instruction sets were relatively simple and
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> no Southwest = no deal for me Agreed, although I always thought the sticking point for SWA was paying commissions and not data access. For a sample search from BWI-SFO their price was only about $20 more expensive than the lowest fare
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As if elected officials have the best interests of the poor in mind? I suppose they do, but only to the extent that they need those votes. Whether the goal of the Gates Foundation is simply to redeem the image of Microsoft's founder or not,
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by dmethvin 13y ago
I can't speak for the other projects, but the data is completely wrong and misleading for jQuery. It looks like this code only counts a pull request as merged if it's landed with a merge commit. It's much more common for us to touch up the
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by dmethvin 13y ago
> This is like an argument against integers because integers can express so many things: age, number of arms, days of the year, and so forth. Yes, and just like the strings case it shows how useless most primitive types are from a progr
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Its great to see a large site like GitHub start work on deploying CSP. I don't know how many times I've had to argue with people about bad practices like inline event handlers. With CSP there's a way for a site to prevent them from being us

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