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by gavinpc 11y ago
It was good enough for Shakespeare. There's "Malvolio," the discontent from Twelfth Night . "Horatio," the even-tempered observer in Hamlet . "Elbow," the drunken constable in Measure for Measure , a
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by gavinpc 11y ago
Not to mention archive.org. If they don't care about archival URL's, I'm not sure who does. Edit: the answer is probably http://longbets.org/
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> You are under no obligation to talk to the police if questioned. This is a great thing for white people to be aware of.
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by gavinpc 11y ago
To be clear, the OP is talking about expansion of the platform itself , not libraries. In my view, the real development burden is on the browser vendors, not the site authors. A site can always choose not to use some new feature. Imagine
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by gavinpc 11y ago
From the "I can't quit you, therefore we can't quit you" department. I find these love-hate posts interesting. This is the halfhearted rant of an Amazon junkie. Here is someone who uses Amazon so much that he keeps spar
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by gavinpc 11y ago
You might be interested in OMeta, whose goal is to make language experimentation quicker and more accessible by providing a kind of interface layer between a declarative grammar and a host language. I'm still reading the paper, so I c
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by gavinpc 11y ago
> Reproducible builds are useful for purposes other than security, though. I've been using an off-the-wall build system called Tup [0], which is designed to support optimally fast incremental builds (i.e. build times that don't
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by gavinpc 11y ago
I just wanted to thank you (belatedly) for a thoughtful reply. The truth is, I don't know anything about hardware and have just been on an Alan Kay binge. But Alan Kay is a researcher and doesn't seem to care as much about commo
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> It feels closer to the reality of how a computer operates. In an alternate reality, high-level languages would be wired directly into our "hardware", via microcode or FPGA's or what have you. Software systems would be d
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They are not "starting from scratch" if they had such a focus on past work and research. I hope they publish something on that.
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by gavinpc 11y ago
Sure! Took a little while for it to post.[0] This Android variant [1] also uses Crosswalk, which shields you from differences in the stock WebView. [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tenjin-technology-sampler&#x
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by gavinpc 11y ago
I wondered the same thing when submitting a Cordova app to Apple, which is about 2% wrapping and 98% web site. Just this morning it got through the review process with no problems, so... data point! That said, we did take pains beforehand
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by gavinpc 11y ago
Completely OT from this beautiful piece, but this is my first time noticing a web site using images with a "click to see smaller version" feature.
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by gavinpc 11y ago
I stumbled onto the new design about a month ago. I had mixed reactions to it, one side of which was like yours: "Oh no, they're going to ruin it." But then I found these amazing treasures that were so much better than what
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by gavinpc 11y ago
It's 85% pagespeed score and 92% YSlow [0]. It's not valid, but it's responsive. It has no jQuery dependency, but it uses Google Analytics. It's insecure HTTP but a "trusted" hostname. It's low contrast an
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by gavinpc 11y ago
So far, there are three comments, each with links to further reading. C'mon, guys. TL;DR: TL;DR
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by gavinpc 12y ago
It's all about "butter" vs "stutter". And as a Firefox fanboy, I'm sad to report that Firefox is on the latter end of the continuum. What you describe is my experience exactly -- except that it's not quit
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by gavinpc 12y ago
You're completely right — I stand corrected. The OP covers practical usages at the end of the piece, as well as in a follow-up piece for that sole purpose. Thanks.
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But what is the use of understanding monoids, other than as a step towards understanding monads? No criticism... I read all of these submissions. But the ones which only cover monoids [0] leave me wondering, Okay, now what? So I guess the
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Monoid != Monad There seems to be some confusion about which one is confusing. The hardest part of understanding monoids is accepting that yes, that's all there is to it. The fuss is about the other one.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
I'd go as far as to say that it was actually discussed. Meanwhile, I believe the submission guideline is to include the year (2007).
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Block cookies and it scrolls normally. Browsing without cookies means tons of things are broken — including things that break other things.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Exactly right. The author loses all credibility when suggesting that parents somehow view children in the same way that economists think people view commodities (which by the way is also mostly wrong, but that's another story).
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Good question. It was asked (but never answered) last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828207 Personally, I think it must be a joke. Besides the fact that it would have been noticed and correcte
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Material design is about semantics ; the documents make that clear [0]. When people "get it wrong," that's what they are usually missing. Even deeper than the semantics of material, though, is the ontology of the space. If
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by gavinpc 12y ago
> a good linter No doubt this is an evolution of Google Closure, which you might call a "very smart" linter. As the author of the O'Reilly book put it, If JSLint will hurt your feelings, Closure will put you into therapy.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
This hard-crashed my browser (Firefox 35 Window 7). Not the "script is taking a long time" or even the "(Not responding)", but some obscure little Windows fail intervention box that I can't say I've ever seen
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by gavinpc 12y ago
It has also joined the ranks of sites that don't work at all without cookies. Go ahead, try it.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
I used to have the same reaction, and your post made me realize that I don't even notice it anymore. EDIT : That said, I do agree with the post, as someone who is also twenty years in.
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by gavinpc 12y ago
Chris, as someone who respects you and your work, I'm interested to know how you would describe the "movement" aspect of coding-as-literacy. That's where I began to smell a strawman (even if not intentional). Follow the

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