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by evmar 15y ago
I found "The End of Education" ( http://www.amazon.com/End-Education-Redefining-Value-School/... ) an interesting (if not completely persuasive) argument that earlier education should be more about teaching values (for example, consider the
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by evmar 15y ago
I used to think this, but I did more Windows programming and discovered it's not as bad as the Unix viewpoint makes it out to be. It's true that on Windows a file descriptor for a socket has different APIs than for a file, but that's only b
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by evmar 15y ago
I saw your response late, sorry for missing it. That quote is a good one. I agree "76% of consumers who purchased a non-Apple tablet" is constructed to sound like a big number but is really a small one. Not sure why your comment shows up
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by evmar 15y ago
I don't use it, and prefer to host my own content. And because of that, my (non-techie) wife, who does read the posts that are conveniently collected and displayed to her in G+, doesn't read my blog. You can talk about Reader and how she n
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by evmar 15y ago
It's strange -- when misreporting mischaracterizes an underdog, I feel sympathy towards that underdog. But when someone calls out reporting like this, I find it more offensive than informative. In theory perhaps I should treat them the sam
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by evmar 15y ago
The reason it's confusing is that the spec is attempting to document the confused logic that browsers implement (almost certainly for backwards compatibility with bugs in older browsers). As an HTML author you shouldn't waste the brainspac
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by evmar 15y ago
The last example also doesn't actually memoize if the result of the computation is false -- it will recompute on each call.
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by evmar 15y ago
I believe the "fix" shell command is just git commit --amend
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by evmar 15y ago
It's only included in the last chart, with this explanation: "The Opera 12 alpha comes with hardware acceleration but since it's alpha I don't want to include its results yet - sometimes making software more reliable also means making it a
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by evmar 15y ago
This got me too -- I thought the reason the code was "the strangest" was because the double-loop was nested the wrong way.
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by evmar 15y ago
http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch#&exact_package=c... is a specific instance of codesearch for Chrome code. It even cross-references code to its users/implementations, something that it doesn't do for other code.
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by evmar 15y ago
To save you some time in deciding whether to read, you should know that this hyperbolic post title is a hypothesis and not a report of any new facts.
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by evmar 15y ago
I tried this, and began to doubt my stat -- I saw no instances of the problem. But then I tried to repro the problem and I see that history doesn't record it. E.g. search for [barack obam] (typo intentional). Then when it autocorrects, cl
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by evmar 15y ago
This example is perhaps better than they meant, because reading twitter from a phone is nearly impossible due to their stupid mobile interface rewrite. (Edit: I see the first commenter on their post wrote a similar thing.) I just timed it:
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by evmar 15y ago
You don't have a million yourself? The spell check fires 5 times a day for me and 4 of them are wrong.
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by evmar 15y ago
Is there any link to more information other than "it has been released"? I looked for docs or example code but could only find a tarball download.
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by evmar 15y ago
At first you might think "why should Chrome protect people who forget to firewall their intranet?" but the real problem browsers are defending against is some page doing a million <img src=' http://10.0.0.1:139&#62 ; against an internal
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by evmar 15y ago
I hate sites that highlight search keywords. I am sorry that this broke your feature, but overall glad that no site will be able to do it anymore.
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After a week-long visual deprivation experiment, Nikhil removes the blindfold(nikhil.superfacts.org)
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by evmar 15y ago
Chrome's custom Flash is better, because the Chrome generic plugin code is not very good. And that is due to [the plugin API being very complicated and full of bugs -- http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/05/plugins... .
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by evmar 15y ago
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/02Apple-Sues-HTC-for...
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by evmar 15y ago
Chrome's build system, gyp ( http://code.google.com/p/gyp/ ), is based on the google3 model at a high level. The nodejs guy seems pretty happy with it: http://twitter.com/#!/ryah/status/100019851803885570 http://twitter.com/#!/ryah/statu
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Syn retry in Firefox 6 (and Chrome)(plus.google.com)
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by evmar 15y ago
I think it's a bit unfair to call him willfully dishonest. I find Gruber's writing really fascinating in that he's clearly intelligent but he appears to have no awareness of the way he twists things like this. It seems more likely to me
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by evmar 15y ago
(I am a Chrome developer.) As far as I know we've never heard from the Awesomium developers; they don't mention which version of Chrome they're based on which makes me suspect they're not staying in sync with trunk. That suspicion comes fro
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by evmar 15y ago
Note that <script src>'ing from some random website means that site can XSS you any time it wants to. (I'm not saying the owners intend for this; a third party could just as well hack their site and do the same.)
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Lines spent(neugierig.org)
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by evmar 15y ago
The subject of article is more or less how IV's reasoning is flawed. Picking a quote from the beginning and saying "that is flawed" is just echoing the bulk of the article. I would guess your downmodders think you're not adding to the dis
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by evmar 15y ago
Also "You Are Not a Gadget".
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by evmar 15y ago
It's clear whoever put this together put a lot of effort into making the page fancy and there are some nice effects there, but it ultimately harms the message. Here is some concrete feedback: - WebKit lets you make custom scrollbars if that

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