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by garethadams 13y ago
3. Safety
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by garethadams 13y ago
I assume this was numbered as a bitmask so people can represent their choices as a single integer?
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by garethadams 13y ago
Give me your phone number and your credit card number
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by garethadams 13y ago
Not a fan of the way the link jumps to the Disqus comments rather than just being at the top of the page
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by garethadams 13y ago
> If work was always enjoyable, then they wouldn't need to pay you to do it. I can't pay my bills with enjoyable.
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by garethadams 13y ago
Solving problems is interesting. Repetition is terrible. As programmers many of the things we build are to automate processing that other people would find repetitive and make errors doing. As a result, our work becomes repetitive and we
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by garethadams 13y ago
The example was "whitespace" but the point was "trivial subsequent change"
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by garethadams 13y ago
I don't think 'be forced' means what you think it means. If a site defaults its links to "same tab" then I can easily override that behaviour and open them in new tabs if I choose (just by using a different mouse bu
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by garethadams 13y ago
In an English locale (as the rest of the UI suggests), "Montag" isn't a day at all, let alone the current day. The incorrect text is a UI bug, certainly, but the underlying issue suggested in multiple places is, how can you
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by garethadams 13y ago
Actually, no. Click through to this recently answered question from Google's search results[1] and scroll down to see the answer. Then open the resulting link[2] in an incognito tab and poof no answer [1]: https://www.goog
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by garethadams 13y ago
I often use it when I'm running through code in a console. I put it in production code once, but removed it when I realised the "# This comma is important" comment was longer than just using `.first`
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by garethadams 13y ago
There's no such thing as a "CSS class". HTML has classes, and CSS has class selectors. So yes, since HTML is designed to describe its content, the class names should describe the content and the CSS should select that content
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by garethadams 13y ago
> This very same point could be made against Apple, for instance, but there hasn't been a single comment to that effect in any discussion of this article. See a couple of months ago (the context is iMessages but the level of implici
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by garethadams 13y ago
"No matter what kind of break you're looking for, with 2 mega-bites, 4 mega-bites or a chunky-bite option, we've got it covered"
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by garethadams 13y ago
> I'd go so far as to say that Nestlé are up there alongside The Sun (british newspaper) and Sky TV when it comes to 'most boycotted' here in the UK Given that The Sun is the most circulated paper in the UK [ http:/&#
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by garethadams 13y ago
This kind of ad-hoc innovation is something which is basically dead now. Back then the number of people involved in browser and web technology was small. Now, even the brightest mind will have any new idea critiqued and iterated by thousand
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by garethadams 13y ago
That `3` can be trivially replaced with a variable in a way that `(i, i, i)` cannot. But still, the refactoring of the iterator into a separate variable is the key step which reinforces that the same object is being passed 3 times
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by garethadams 13y ago
Wait, I see the problem! You've sorted by: [hr_score, tech_score] when you meant to sort by: [tech_score, hr_score]
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by garethadams 13y ago
The parent comment isn't relevant to me
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by garethadams 13y ago
Adding &output=classic to the URL will temporarily force classic maps mode if you've opted in to the new maps beta: https://www.google.com/maps?ll=51.466414,-0.151749&spn=0.300...
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by garethadams 13y ago
All American men? "“This isn’t about money,” the man would say. He’d be the one person in a thousand, or in ten thousand, who’d get angry about our fixed service charge" Maybe not all American men.
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by garethadams 13y ago
The default state for the web is usually "backward compatible".
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by garethadams 13y ago
"Unauthenticated" except for the time you told Keychain to "Always allow" requests from Chrome. However I'll admit that there's a big difference between what I expected Chrome to be using those passwords for (l
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by garethadams 13y ago
For completeness (I assume the answer is yes, but since you weren't clear): Does FireFox have a corresponding settings page with the list of all of the pages it knows a password for?
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by garethadams 13y ago
People remember who did something first, and who did something best. If you're neither of those people, then try making your ideas faster or better
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by garethadams 13y ago
Since this is Hacker News I think you can treat `$` as a placeholder variable for any word you want
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by garethadams 13y ago
Did I miss the bit where we're happy about the GUYS WHO MAKE FLASH replacing their own Flash-based site with an HTML5 implementation? Are we not impressed by that at all?
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(although Downton Abbey is an ITV programme)
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Because they have a vested interest in improving your productivity?
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by garethadams 13y ago
Generally speaking, you're allowed to manipulate windows as long as you spawned them

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