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by duncans 13y ago
This is a useful indicator: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Displays
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by duncans 13y ago
From the article: > If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone.
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by duncans 13y ago
Kind of surprised there wasn't a bookmarklet. Here you go: javascript:if(/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([^&]+)/.test(location)){location='http://www.youtubeskip.com/watch?v='+RegExp.$1;}
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by duncans 13y ago
Superb demo pages! I can see a lot of thought has gone into this. Love the comparisons with other plugins. Well done.
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by duncans 13y ago
"chromeless" Chrome windows have been in Chrome since the start as far as I can remember: Tools > Create Application Shortcuts.
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by duncans 13y ago
> ... they now screenshot the text, blur it ... I think the blurred text is generic.
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by duncans 13y ago
Here's Steve "Code Complete" McConnell in 2000 on Cargo Cult Software Engineering: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ieeesoftware/eic10.htm
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Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie(secretgeek.net)
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by duncans 13y ago
Pretty sure it isn't - some of it looks like old ExtJS if anything. The more worrying thing is that they're still apparently using IE6. [EDIT: OK the presentation is from 2008 but still !]
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by duncans 13y ago
Postgres has been getting a bit of interest from a few people in the MS dev community recently, e.g. http://datachomp.com/archives/im-leaving-sql-server-for-post...
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by duncans 13y ago
Security through obscurity?
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by duncans 13y ago
Incorrect handling I'd say. If you're filtering apostrophes from your user input you're doing it wrong.
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by duncans 13y ago
Alt-3 for # working fine here (in the UK). You might have non-standard shortcuts set up in System Prefs > Mission Control or an odd keyboard layout installed.
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by duncans 13y ago
Well I'm sorry Infinum, at least their site does something when I click the tabs across the top. OK, looks like you're doing some sort of pjaxing of the content; problem being there is none of the usual browser feedback that sugge
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by duncans 13y ago
This. It's very fashionable to be "NoJQuery" these days, but I just don't have the time to worry that there may be a particular quirk for getting, say, the selected value of a dropdown list for a particular version of Safari during a full m
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by duncans 13y ago
Actually this affects the main news items list also. In addition, when I'm part way down the list I can't tell whether the grey "x Points ... y seconds ago by zzz" separator bar applies to the item above or below it. Maybe adjusting the sha
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by duncans 13y ago
Very nice, thanks. One thing that is odd/slightly annoying is the way the comments initially scroll up. The issue is that the comments list scrolls at a different speed to the speed at which I'm dragging it due to the simultaneous scrolling
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by duncans 13y ago
try `nslookup -querytype=MX google.com`
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by duncans 13y ago
The typography is screwed because of the seemingly faulty font stack in: .ncDcParagraph { font-size: 14px; font-family: Segoe,Verdana,sans serif; } I think it should be "Segoe UI" which is a very nice font (on Win
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by duncans 13y ago
Obligatory Charlie Brooker "How To Report The News" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4
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by duncans 14y ago
Maybe your client was wanting ubiquitous Excel-compatible export/import - not for the back end to actually be Excel? Making any table in your app exportable to at least CSV is pretty straightforward.
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by duncans 14y ago
Mitigating factor, the attacker would need to have been granted access to your network in the first place?
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by duncans 14y ago
In that case you use `history.replaceState()`, or just plain old `window.location.replace('url')`
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by duncans 14y ago
Hey everybody, callahad is on a plane!
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by duncans 14y ago
Moral of the story: having "www." in your canonical site URL is back in fashion?
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by duncans 14y ago
Very nice. It's missing using the volume buttons as a record button though.
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by duncans 14y ago
the cost of the bandwidth
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by duncans 14y ago
I could have done without the colour "correction" nonsense that PNG introduced: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/
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by duncans 14y ago
TypeScript (Microsoft's equivalent of CoffeeScript, kind of) has async/await planned for version 1.0: http://typescript.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Roadmap
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by duncans 14y ago
6. Huge pointless graphics at the start of blog posts

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