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by dylan-m 14y ago
Sadly, social media widgets have been undoing a lot of forward progress to this end. "Modern" websites are littered with tiny little iframes that suck in massive DOMs from external sources. We don't have the navigation issues but they look
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by dylan-m 14y ago
I agree. I've been noticing community people at Canonical (especially Mark) doing this kind of thing a lot. It's making it a lot harder for me to respect them or their project, even though I'd like to. One of the reasons I started using Ubu
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by dylan-m 14y ago
That bit is nice to see, but I'm pretty suspicious of it. They're going to have to write _a lot_ of software to fill the gaps, now, if they mean to have Qt everywhere. GNOME provides a lot of functionality beyond the UI toolkit and the shel
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by dylan-m 14y ago
The author is correct. But comput ing science sure is one. Yeah, I'm opening that can of worms. There's a reason biology isn't called "microscope science." The author's mistake is thinking that computing science (incorrectly referred to as
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by dylan-m 14y ago
It would make software developers' lives a lot easier if so many people weren't scared out of their wits by computers. I think even basic programming knowledge can really help with that, because it makes it abundantly clear that a computer
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by dylan-m 14y ago
My new hobby: Inspecting the source of blog posts that act like prefixed CSS styles are healthy standards that must be conformed to, and finding -o and -webkit prefixes without -dylans-browser equivalents. Less sarcastic version: This is on
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by dylan-m 14y ago
I totally agree with you here, but I just need to correct you on something. Webkit is based on KHTML, which was available with the LGPL license. Of course, it's much more Webkit than KHTML at this point, but it isn't so much that Apple shar
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by dylan-m 14y ago
I've never seen the software on the other side of a tech support email, but I have trouble imagining that in practice. When I am trying to interact with a customer service rep that only communicates through canned responses, it will inevita
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by dylan-m 14y ago
When I bump into a country selector, I always type the first bit of my country's name so the cursor will jump to it. I doubt I'm the only one. In effect, for me, it _is_ a text field. Just a really bad one that doesn't always work how I exp
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by dylan-m 14y ago
I use a text editor that was made this decade, so I don't really mind either way, as long as you pick _one_ for indenting with! And I don't mean "use the same in all of your files." That's fine, but it's common sense. (And indenting is not
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by dylan-m 14y ago
If you're trying to line things up with tabs, you're doing it wrong. Tabs are for indentation. Lining up columns is not indenting. (I'd also argue that trying to line stuff up like that is, nine times out of ten, doing it wrong: it inevitab
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by dylan-m 14y ago
So, I'm an introvert, and I'm not antisocial. I don't agree with the author's argument at all. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his opinion doesn't end there, either, and it's to get people talking and thinking
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by dylan-m 14y ago
The first thing I noticed was that your header text is part of the same JPEG image that has each background image: http://redstamp.ca/wp-content/themes/redstamp/images/layout/... . This is especially visible with the red text, which is tho