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by drifkin 13y ago
Since HTML5 canvas has support for drawing Bezier splines, another approach to drawing smooth lines through points is to use a Catmull-Rom spline. This gives the benefit of using the browser's native curve drawing routines. This might
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by drifkin 13y ago
I think optional typing is better than no typing. It's useful for allowing APIs to be self documenting. It seems as if optional typing is going to get more and more popular. For example, see Google's optional typing in dart, where
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by drifkin 13y ago
Apple marketed the Gorilla Glass strength pretty hard. And phone cases seem really popular: (random link I dug up) https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/pr... But yeah, I&#x
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by drifkin 13y ago
Also check out gitit ( http://gitit.net ), written by the same author as pandoc. It's a git-backed wiki that uses pandoc to let you write in a variety of formats. Markdown + latex for math works well for taking notes in a wik
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by drifkin 13y ago
Border images are great for making resizable buttons. I've used them often in places where support is guaranteed (e.g., Chrome extensions).
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by drifkin 13y ago
On physical keyboards Qwerty isn't very good, but it turns out that touch screen devices have different keyboard layout needs. Since autocorrect finds potential mistypes by looking at adjacent keys to the one tapped, clustering high frequen
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by drifkin 14y ago
Various Coursera courses have a self study option, which lets you go through the videos & assignments, but there's no certificate at the end. I believe that all Udacity courses are now self-paced. You can go through the lectures/quizzes
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by drifkin 14y ago
Whether or not it was scrapped when he first came back, R&D doesn't seem like a new thing for Apple. For example, I remember coming across someone working on touch R&D for Apple: http://murderandcreate.com/ From the page: "In 2007
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by drifkin 14y ago
iPhone 4 doesn't have turn by turn, only iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 has that feature
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by drifkin 14y ago
Ben Sandofsky of Twitter wrote a well-reasoned take on the whole HTML5 vs. native apps debate: http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html I've had very similar experiences working on both HTML5 and native apps.
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by drifkin 14y ago
"Indeterminate" seems more like "don't know" instead of "don't care"
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by drifkin 14y ago
Do other languages have a word for this?
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by drifkin 14y ago
They look good, particularly the grouped buttons. The shadows from the neighboring grouped buttons are a nice touch. I think it might look a little bit better if the noise pattern didn't disappear on the buttons' down states. The noise patt
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by drifkin 14y ago
Lowering the brightness helps, but there's more to it than that. Changing the color temperature is one of the cool features of both f.lux and this bulb. The idea is a warmer color temperature at night acts less like the sun.
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by drifkin 14y ago
It turns out the header file actually has a pretty nice explanation of the algorithm: http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/ui/gfx/color_analysis....
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by drifkin 14y ago
Google uses k-means clustering in Chrome on their new tab page (though they use RGB). The most visited section shows a color strip below each site, with a color chosen from the site's favicon. Here's the code: http://src.chromium.org/svn/t
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by drifkin 15y ago
JS static analysis tools can help you find mistakes that are often more serious than a missing semicolon. I've run into something like this before: for (var i = 0, len = items.length; i < len; i++) { var item = items[i]; /
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by drifkin 19y ago
Viral strategies have been pretty intriguing lately, especially what Trent Reznor did with his latest CD. I see viral marketing becoming a lot more prevalent in the near future though, which will dilute its effect quite a bit. I think I'l
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by drifkin 19y ago
I'm sorry, I read the title very quickly and misread it. My opinion on the actual question is that I generally like it when the log in is the email address and there is a separate display name. This way the username is easy to remember, b
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by drifkin 19y ago
Requiring it is more convenient for the users. I know that I'm always trying to be safer by using different passwords for different sites. However, if I stop using a site and come back a year later, I probably won't remember my password a