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20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web book is now open source(code.google.com)
3 points by goblin89 15y ago|1 comments
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by goblin89 15y ago
> If you're a pet food manufacturer that needs a website, ...then you better hire somebody who will analyze your business requirements, tell you what's better for you (how to place your company on the web, how to integrate sit
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by goblin89 16y ago
Person feel obliged to register their opinion on some question. And upvoting appears the only acceptable way to do this (since "me too"-kind responses get downvoted quickly). So I think the ways to increase voting quality are: 1) allow to r
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by goblin89 16y ago
tl;dr: site seems to be mostly about <meta name="robots" content="noarchive">, its alternatives and background. (I guess it may not be obvious from submission's title.)
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by goblin89 16y ago
You're right, it isn't about living longer. It's about our cognitive abilities, perhaps. Using your metaphor… I think, variable X is going to infinity _in both cases_. It's just that we operate in an environment where the infinity equals to
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by goblin89 16y ago
Aren't we already immortal? See, two possibilities exist. 1 There's no life after death: You don't exist before or after your life.[1] You only perceive anything during your lifespan. Since you can't perceive anything before or after, your
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by goblin89 16y ago
1. Interesting. They certainly might be more careful. But then another (bored?) group of people may develop warrior's mindset. Given infinite lifespan, these guys might invent very destructive weapons, so ‘careful people’ may not have a cha
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by goblin89 16y ago
Seems like it could be made either a) easier to read / skim through comments ---with points shown, or b) easier to cast a fair vote, and thus contribute to HN ---with points hidden. Thinking of it this way, maybe we should have two differen
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by goblin89 16y ago
Isn't using automatic translation for this kind of information... a bit risky? UPD. They say in terms that ‘translation errors may be manually corrected,’ so maybe a human is checking each message.
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by goblin89 16y ago
While I agree that it's probably impossible to produce a whole web application in 3 hours, I think the point here is more about incremental delivery_. Note that in the post, OP is actually talking about 3-hour features , not entire apps (a
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by goblin89 16y ago
I decided it's going to be really useful, so I saved & unzipped .crx to see what code it wants to inject into pages. Looks like fine javascript, so I have it installed. (Though, of course, it can be updated with some evilness later. Unf
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by goblin89 16y ago
People believe that dark background makes extensive reading from the screen easier for the eyes, and many advanced users accustomed themselves to it while working without GUI. So yes, light text on dark background is and always has been esp