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by fforw 14y ago
Actually, my TV has rabbit ears again -- only they're for DVB-T now.
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by fforw 14y ago
Oh how I not miss dying all the time because I clicked 2 pixel in the wrong direction.
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by fforw 14y ago
As I said: in a Java environment, which rules out C/C++. 20 times the speed of JRuby based Less is not shabby though. edit: Performance was never the top motivation though. Architectural concerns and resilience were. Although based on a dec
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by fforw 14y ago
While we kind of like Less' approach to CSS, we were not thrilled with the performance and also found it not really enough for serious development. We opensourced our attempt at CSS generation in a java environment. The website is a little
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by fforw 14y ago
Sorry, but an awesome programmer does not only talk about programming, he does it.
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by fforw 15y ago
Breaking the internet with your javascript sounds a little like the "IP-Tracking in VB-GUI" thing.. wish his blog was a little more stable.
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by fforw 15y ago
Of course.. because a simple list is of course better than arbitrary nested data structures which are then directly translated into nested object structures.
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by fforw 15y ago
.. or look at the way men are often presented in chick flicks. Rich, handsome, without any own personality whatsoever apart from magically mirroring what the female character needs at that point.
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by fforw 15y ago
> and jealous institutions such as the constitutional court. The Bundesverfassungsgericht (federal constitutional court) is the only organ that reliably keeps doing its job, ensuring that the newly passed laws are in fact constitutional
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by fforw 16y ago
I've written a "json" command line tool with nodejs that offers transformation of JSON with modern javascript expressions (with support for Array.map, Array.reduce etc). http://fforw.de/post/scripting-json/
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by fforw 16y ago
Not to mention that their newest, more standards-compatible browser is not available for their older OSes, ensuring we still have a nice long ride with their old crap browsers.
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by fforw 16y ago
Cargo cult programming means copy and pasting code from examples and tutorials, often with a false or without deeper understanding of the code copied. The first remedy against that is to understand the stuff you have been copying. That alon
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by fforw 16y ago
isNaN() only exists because the real way to detect NaN is so counter intuitive. Lots of people will see "if (x !== x)" and will try to "optimize".
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by fforw 16y ago
Of course you also have 3.5 times the population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP... difference only 26%... guess you should move to Qatar or Luxembourg though -- but when you're not rich from oil or moving lar
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by fforw 16y ago
oh teh irony of an article about "less" a being wall of text / tldr.
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by fforw 16y ago
There's another way to deconstruct jQuery, which is often overlooked by people. jQuery's design, in large parts mirrors the needs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement . Once you reached enlightenment / chose progressive enh
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by fforw 16y ago
Every programmer is an executive in the sense that his code actually ends up doing business decisions -- all in a complexity far above the average managers head. I guess they'd be scared shitless if they'd understand it.
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by fforw 16y ago
> [Smart people] think the world isn’t complicated, period. um.. what!? The world is a complicated mess in just about every aspect except in those axiomatic systems we developed to create simplified models -- but the map is not the terr
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by fforw 16y ago
The puritans had "religious slogan names" like Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Barbon )
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by fforw 16y ago
brilliant comment. my new favorite quote -- right after "existence is stateful".
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by fforw 16y ago
One time, my kernel was crapping out and endlessly printing stuff I couldn't read because it was scrolling WAY to fast and ctrl+s did not work either, so I photographed my screen to be able to read what the kernel was trying to tell me (har
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by fforw 16y ago
I got my first paid programming job without having studied, without any references but a video tape of one my old Amiga demos.
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by fforw 17y ago
Don't like world hunger? Starve people yourself! Don't like murder? Start killing people!
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by fforw 17y ago
I have little experience with the others under "can't scale just like MySQL", but putting CouchDB under is more wrong than it is right and unfair in any case. First of all there's excellent single node scalability, the general architecture
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by fforw 17y ago
It's more like Aspect-Oriented Styling, because CSS is seriously lacking programming constructs. No variables, loops, conditions etc.
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by fforw 17y ago
Spring has support for both container based aspect, which applies to the beans under spring's control and "real" AOP based on AspectJ.
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by fforw 17y ago
This might be a stupid question, but has anyone ever considered that a higher intelligence or some other attribute might enable a species to just not end up fossilized so much? "Hey Grok, don't go there, the gods will kill you."