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by gavinpc 12y ago
Edward Tufte tells us that we should strive for information-dense, multidimensional visuals. Bret Victor says, "What he said," and adds that these visuals should exploit the magical potential of dynamic displays. As several have
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by gavinpc 12y ago
How does this differ from "a same-domain policy for :visited links"?
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by gavinpc 12y ago
$CLASSPATH pain is one of the first things a new Java developer encounters — maybe the last, in many cases. The only reason it's not quite as bad in .NET is that it can usually reference at least the framework in a well-known location.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> It forces lurkers to participate This line of iambic pentameter is the first one that gets to the point of the OP.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
The worst part is that it's not the article, but the template that's killing it. I love the visualizations, but I think the author needs to reconsider including the parallax trickery on inner pages. There is enough to look at, and
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by gavinpc 12y ago
It's the aspartame. You can decide for yourself whether it's poison, but it's definitely the reason many people regard diet sodas as such. EDIT, I guess this should have gone on parent. At any rate, latch, I had the exact sa
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by gavinpc 12y ago
This is not limited to the US, either. I have an Azure account hosted in the North Europe datacenter (in Dublin), and our IP addresses are associated with Brazil in the GeoIP databases.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
While I completely agree with your principle, I find myself interested in shimming the not-yet-standard "sticky" positioning, which is in draft specifications and available in bleeding-edge [0]. Depending on how many items use it
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by gavinpc 12y ago
This was posted earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805144 What I'm wondering is, if you have a server than supports "both" methods (dynamic page and "fallback"), how do you kno
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by gavinpc 12y ago
MUSE will assemble a massive collection of chunks of code that can perform almost any task anybody could ever think of and tag all the code so it can automatically be found and assembled. Good luck with that. But seriously, "Art&quot
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Indeed, this is referenced explicitly in the piece that he quotes: As with the experience of the American Irish, Italians, Jews, and many other groups, the Asian experience shows that racial divisions and hostilities can subside over time.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
As long as we're off topic, I think the OP means to say that "The benefits of this particular modularization can’t be over stated"
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by gavinpc 12y ago
This Rory Blyth cartoon has been ungoogleable for at least ten years now, but I still check every so often. Now here it is! http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm What I was going to say before unexpectedly finding that,
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> Very few people could write or speak with such precision about the internals of Microsoft kit Indeed, he "wrote the book" on it, which is apparently freely available as PDF now [1]. As someone who knows nothing about OS'
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by gavinpc 12y ago
If anyone around here doesn't already know about it, Google must want it to be very out-of-the-way. I would love to see typical users' reactions to this killer feature: it would be perfect for one of those hidden-camera, person-o
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by gavinpc 12y ago
My most popular stackoverflow answer [1] includes a CSV writer and reader. Yeah, I'd clean it up a little if I were doing it now (return enumerator instead of array, etc). But people keep using it. It uses regex lookaheads to deal wi
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> Beware expiration times I'll never get bitten by this again, but alas the advice comes too late. TLDR, I left a hardcoded beta expiration date in a product that was submitted to NMCI for certification (it's a DoD thing, the
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by gavinpc 12y ago
But without whitelisting, I wouldn't know how much of the web is completely broken without cookies, where by "broken" I mean a blank page, or just a little strip of the template. This includes blogs, one-off demos, and other
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Um yeah, I'm out of the loop. The last video game I owned was Metroid.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> A Guitar Hero but with real music! The problem with Guitar Hero was not the music (bad as it often was), but the instruments. The idea that you can learn anything about playing music by pressing plastic buttons on some chintzy toy is
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> I believe that a FSF world is the way go, long term. I think that tax jurisdictions that promote all kinds of open source Yes, only FSF doesn't use the term "open source," except to disavow it. https://www.gnu
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Obligatory xkcd — oh, wait, this actually is just a population map.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
I have all cookies blocked except for the domains that I whitelist (where I need to login). This is built into all browsers (AFAIK). Why not just use that feature? What am I missing here?
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by gavinpc 12y ago
My family almost got killed once because of a bad judgement based on computer maps. My wife and I were on a cross-country bike trip, with our dogs in tow. On this particular day, we were shooting for the Chicago area and had a long way to
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Also, it is just me or is the donation page using HTTP instead of HTTPS? Maybe naive, but that's a showstopper for me.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> fewer blogs and more whitepapers Is there a Hacker News for whitepapers? Because I've heard this comment a few times now, and I'm ready to start.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
The author of GSAP made essentially the same argument over a year ago, with somewhat different points: http://css-tricks.com/myth-busting-css-animations-vs-javascr...
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by gavinpc 12y ago
I was interested to notice that Firefox (28) re-opened all of the pages except that one. But do open it in Chrome, it's lovely.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
In terms of engineering tradeoffs, this reminds me of a recent talk by Alan Kay where he says that to build the software of the future, you have to pay extra to get the hardware of the future today. [1] Joel Spolsky called it "throwin
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by gavinpc 12y ago
In fairness to whom?

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