dmethvin

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by dmethvin 14y ago
> A delightful solution to this would be a similar degree of modularity as there is in, for example, jQuery UI Except that jQuery Core is a completely different thing. You know if you're using jQuery UI Menu but not jQuery UI Dialog s
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It really feels a lot like the shuttle disasters, with Boeing playing the part of NASA and delegating work out to contractors who feel they must get something out or risk losing the next big contract. God forbid if this does come down to
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by dmethvin 14y ago
It sucks when you run a bug tracker and it's spammed relentlessly because you allow anonymous comments. It sucks when someone files a legit bug anonymously and there's no way to reach them for followup or clarification.
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Buy.com is now Rakuten.com? Talk about choosing the wrong domain name to consolidate under!
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Let me give you one example that felt like magic. I was taking a trip to New York on business. At 4pm I come off the train at Penn Station and pull out my phone to look up the hotel confirmation I got two weeks before so I can get direction
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Actually, I think the article's point was that big feature branches should be merged --no-ff so that they would not be a fast forward commit. That way you can whack them out of master easily if needed. You can still rebase right before the
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by dmethvin 14y ago
That doesn't always fly for a large active project, and for regressions that aren't detected until weeks or perhaps months after they were introduced. I use exactly your technique and it works more than half the time, but for the rest it's
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by dmethvin 14y ago
I'd assume that as well. I have collected several Microsoft IDs by way of Hotmail/live.com/outlook.com but I only have one Facebook account.
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by dmethvin 14y ago
* Click on the hyperlink for the line where the message was generated. * Set a breakpoint. * Refresh the page. * View the stack trace(s). Adding stack traces to the plugin itself would be difficult, since that's not standardized functionali
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The State of jQuery 2013(blog.jquery.com)
155 points by dmethvin 14y ago|25 comments
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Reminds me of that bug back in 2007 when Google translate would take "sarkozy is chirac" and translate it into "Bush is classless" or other completely different text. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-stra...
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by dmethvin 14y ago
You've left out things like bundled crapware, impossible-to-remove stickers that advertise Intel on the palm rest, horrible tech support, the need for antivirus, the sleazy way the software autorenews at much higher rates, and retail stores
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by dmethvin 14y ago
So your server returns an HTTP 200 with an empty response, and you process the `null` in your success handler? Do you really want a `null` returned? Is this a server you control, or is it some third-party service? Just curious about the use
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by dmethvin 14y ago
> so very very many things changed in backwards incompatible ways jQuery has always made feature changes/additions on .x releases. We're saving the 2.0 moniker for removing oldIE because that is a much more significant change than these
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Sure, if you want to build it all yourself in JavaScript, but that's the point of a library isn't it? And as far as "not targeting old browsers" there are plenty of places where modern browsers differ and jQuery normalizes their behavior. C
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Kudos to Jamie and Jacky for proving that the problem isn't HTML5. Does anyone know if the code is available?
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JQuery 1.9 Beta 1 Released(blog.jquery.com)
3 points by dmethvin 14y ago|0 comments
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by dmethvin 14y ago
On #3 it does seem that Safari for Windows is either dead or very late. As a Windows web developer this means I can't test on the latest Safari anymore. At least with IE it's possible for Mac or Linux users to run IE in a VM. I'm pretty sur
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Funny, that's just the attitude Steve Jobs had about IBM in the 1980s. He was sure that IBM was the bad guy monopolist that stood in the way of Apple's success. He created the famous "1984" commercial as a result. You're looking in the wron
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Instead, think of ways to hijack it like the Iranians (supposedly) did. After all, you could sell it to the Chinese or Russians for a LOT of money. Go ahead I dare you. As a countermeasure, we would have a second-channel kill switch and sel
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by dmethvin 14y ago
There are "systems developers" and there are "applications developers". The two groups often use different tools, so JavaScript vs CoffeeScript isn't much more surprising than C vs C++ or Win32/COM vs .NET for that matter. Systems developer
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Larry has that wrong, IBM wasn't to blame. IBM licensed DOS from Microsoft. Microsoft bought DOS from Seattle Computer Products QDOS. That software got its command line switches using "/" from CP/M for compatibility reasons; originally, bot
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Yes, and several C/C++ conventions and types seemed to make that a safe choice, for example wchar_t. Let's face it, collectively we really screwed this one up. It's the biggest mistake since Microsoft chose the backslash as a path separator
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Yes and yes.
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Chrome's debugger is darned near a full dev environment at this point, it's just not documented all that well and a lot of the best stuff has only been added recently. You can even edit the files, run the edited code, and save the changes l
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by dmethvin 14y ago
There aren't a lot of Windows 7 touch devices, and the ones that do exist have proprietary drivers since Win7 doesn't support touch. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to spend a lot of time back-porting the whole touch system to Win7 and
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by dmethvin 14y ago
window.screen.availHeight and window.screen.availWidth look like the best bet.
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by dmethvin 14y ago
If you want to support this on IE 6/7, just add a shim that uses userData behaviors for localStorage. Here's one: https://github.com/mattpowell/localstorageshim
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Although the title talks about detecting the iPad Mini, the article makes it clear that the real dilemma is that there is no way to know the physical size of pixels as presented on the screen and size things accordingly. That's especially i
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by dmethvin 14y ago
Openness about the problem is good, but I am not sure that it helps to provide that much detail about the ways you detected the fraud. That just give the attacker more information about how to circumvent your detection.

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