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by gamache 16y ago
Thanks for the tips! I never spent much time making XP look better, I mostly just turn off all the piss-me-off stuff the first day I run the machine, and forget it. I'm glad it was a mixture of XP and PEBKAC causing the output to look bad.
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by gamache 16y ago
Yes, good point. I am on Windows XP; you are on Mac and SURPRISE! things look much better for you. I should have mentioned OS in my original post. http://ftso.net/scribd-chrome5-winxp.gif shows what I am seeing (zoomed in for a little m
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by gamache 16y ago
At best, what you see is as useful as a Google cache of the Wikipedia page. It is non-editable, and quite possibly out of date compared to the actual content. Its only purpose is to encourage communities -- er, sorry, I mean to mine a new
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by gamache 16y ago
I applaud their effort, but when I look at real documents in both formats (e.g. http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5 like ZeroGravitas posted here), the HTML5 version looks very noticeably worse than Flash (tested in Chrome 5, Safari
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by gamache 16y ago
You are basically talking about the World Wide Web itself.
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by gamache 16y ago
I remember a similar situation a couple years back, when I was thinking of working in EE. Many calls with the recruiter, two in-persons, and then crickets. Nothing. It frustrated me at the time, at least until I came to my senses and got
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by gamache 16y ago
I don't think Ted's ignoring that; it's just not his responsibility. If Ubuntu wants wizard-level fixes at short deadlines, they need to hire and retain wizards, and that's that.
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by gamache 16y ago
You could do CSS in a templating system, sure. First off, you'd want to cache it, but that's a solved problem. And you'd be well served to cook up some subtemplates/helpers/whatever that automated away some of the drudgery. Pretty soon y
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by gamache 16y ago
Finishing move: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by gamache 16y ago
I can't believe it; a screed against CSS constants, published on April 1st, and it claims not to be a joke.
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by gamache 16y ago
Why do you need to be "into Ruby" to run a tool written in Ruby? LESS and Sass are both fully usable from the command line.
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by gamache 16y ago
Key functionality is still missing in the HTML5 stack. E.g. try and write Chatroulette in pure HTML5, CSS and JavaScript; you just can't. That's a justification for the product space Silverlight and Flash are in. And classic MS, they wer
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by gamache 16y ago
I don't think it's hurting their computer business, except for iPad sales cutting into imaginary MacBook Air sales.
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by gamache 16y ago
Get out.
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by gamache 16y ago
I think the primary interactors with this data will be the browsers themselves, and browsers tend to have XML parsers handy. It'd be no sweat for the browser to JSONify this data for the DOM, anyway.
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by gamache 17y ago
+1 for Sass. Sass allows me to apply the same modularity and reuse principles to my CSS that I do to my code, so writing it is much faster and editing it is much easier. I played with a few other CSS processors over the last few years (Les
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by gamache 17y ago
SVG is currently supported in all major browsers except IE, and SVG 1.1 support is slated for IE9. (AFAIK, Chrome Frame also supports SVG, as a stopgap for pre-9 IE.) It would seem that SVG has a bright future.
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by gamache 17y ago
It is highly arguable that Gizmodo came upon the iPhone prototype legally. And in the case that you can run a story on an iPhone prototype for $5000, gaining 20M+ page views without stomping all over any laws, I would say that any smart te
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by gamache 17y ago
Can't disagree more. You're saying Steve is going to go on stage and pretend like he's "unveiling" something everyone knows everyone in the room has seen? Nope, he's going to go on stage and deliver a presentation which will whip the fanb
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by gamache 17y ago
The article fails to make a convincing case on exactly what Gizmodo damaged by releasing information about the phone. Leak or no, this phone is most likely going to sell like hotcakes, and the builders at Apple should do just fine. It's no
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by gamache 17y ago
LOOP is a good example of syntax creeping its way into Lisp (defclass, not all that much IMO). As a counterexample that almost makes LOOP syntax look quaint, consider Perl regexes. That is some syntax right there.
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by gamache 17y ago
Hold Common Lisp next to Perl 5, and you tell me which one has "a lot" of syntax. I realize that Lisp has some syntax, and of course the fact that everything fits into S-exps is important, but I would not say that it has "a lot" of syntax c
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by gamache 17y ago
Perl has a lot of syntax, and Lisp has almost none. Which one is better just depends on your opinion about syntax itself.
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by gamache 17y ago
My point is that their agenda, while useful to know, mean nothing in the long run, because as long as that clause is active, Apple has the ability to enforce it capriciously. Whether or not they "mean" things like PhoneGap are dead, etc., i
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by gamache 17y ago
We have something official, more official than any press release: the developer contract. No matter what Apple says in the next few days, nothing short of removing the new clause can prevent Apple from enforcing it at will.
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by gamache 17y ago
> Parser and state machine generators? This is an actual consideration.
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by gamache 17y ago
The scientific basis, according to the article, is that the platters shrink ever so slightly in the extreme cold, and that this slight shrinking can be the difference between a clean read and a head crash.
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by gamache 17y ago
You post to HN about your impeccable backup practices
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by gamache 17y ago
I think the basic advice offered in the article is solid. It's not in the most aesthetically pleasing style, but what are you gonna do. I guess I just don't hate minor sentences as much as you do.
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by gamache 17y ago
If a public discussion on what could be a massive internet authentication breakdown does not constitute "greater scrutiny and security", I wonder what does.

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