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by grayrest 16y ago
As you fall, be sure to miss the ground.
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by grayrest 16y ago
I jumped because I'm in NYC. I thought I'd be disappointed but I love the custom keyboards (swype) and that you can press and hold (aka long press) the search button and say "Directions to 88th and 2nd" or "hacker news" or "pizza" and it ma
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by grayrest 16y ago
While a lot of people will complain about the $11 price, I use and like Locale + Airplane Mode plugin. The other major items are a slider keyboard (liking SlideIT at the moment) and NewsRob for going through the RSS feeds.
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by grayrest 16y ago
Care to expound on that?
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by grayrest 16y ago
> But Firefox wins, against stereotype, for memory usage and page load speed (more so with ad blockers installed). I'll agree on memory, and that's one of the reasons I continue to use Firefox but memory is not speed. It's my impression
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by grayrest 16y ago
Of the people I know who have switched from Firefox to Chrome, the reason is always speed. Chrome is undeniably faster than Firefox. Unfortunately for the author of this article piece, the problem isn't putting a new frontend on Gecko, the
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by grayrest 16y ago
Georgia Tech started off doing this and switched over to a fake 9 digit number while I was there (2001?ish). Since I still remember/recognize it, I use it as my SSN more or less everywhere except for work/W2.
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by grayrest 16y ago
For shared hosting, I like webfaction. Only shared account I've seen that lets you create long running processes. The guys that run it are fairly involved in the Python OSS community, which I also consider a plus.
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by grayrest 16y ago
I'm also interested since I've never seen it benched faster than nginx. It's usually about 80% of the speed on echo benches, but there's an ongoing email thread about response latency causing major slowdowns, so perf improvements are ongoin
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by grayrest 16y ago
As a long time js developer (started hacking serious js on the Mozilla XPFE in 2001) I'll defend flash for the platform consistency and for providing an initial direction for the WHATWG efforts. I'll also note that Flex is more polished as
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by grayrest 16y ago
Sass has plugins that cover most of the CSS "frameworks" but to my knowledge doesn't have a lot of fully developed themes. The advantage to using a preprocessor is that you can apply the built in styles to the classes/ids of your choice ins
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by grayrest 16y ago
1) I started with HTML in '96 and, TI calculator programming aside, it wasn't until 2000 (college) that I got into programming. Mostly because I asked around and nobody knew where to tell me to start (Java -> Python -> Javascript).
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by grayrest 16y ago
To be more precise, I look at the poster if I'm hit/miss on reading the article. Who posted it has nothing to with how I vote.
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by grayrest 16y ago
If I'm hit/miss on an article, I'll look at the submitter. Otherwise, I don't really pay attention. I upvote only articles I really enjoy, which is roughly 2-3 a week so it's really not a factor.
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by grayrest 16y ago
The network isn't the only reason to pick an Android phone, though AT&T's lack of coverage in my apt completely eliminated the iPhone for my consideration. Android, as a platform, is less polished than the iphone. The UI guidelines and
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by grayrest 16y ago
A few specific examples (| is cursor position): * You have a function call: `|foo("blah", blah)` and want `bar()`. You type `c%bar()`. The `c` command means 'replace' while `%` searches forward for a matching character and jumps to the clos
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by grayrest 16y ago
> I am saying that you should try to accomplish the task on your own first, and if you get stuck, then ask for help. Don’t simply ask for help every time without first trying to solve the problem yourself. Chances are, you’ll find that
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by grayrest 16y ago
XSLT was created to allow for document tree translation in an implementation independent manner. The main problem I have with this concept is that document translation is that 99% of the time you're doing it, it's to get the document to the
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by grayrest 16y ago
How are you handling the legal issues around the fonts? My understanding of most foundries' rules is that pdf/flash embedding is ok but eot/otf embedding is not. I can see by playing with font families in firebug that you're subsetting heav
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by grayrest 16y ago
There are actually a bunch of these. I believe the most developed is 'jsinq' which has a for-reals LINQ parser and I seem to remember generating relatively efficient functions for the implementation.
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by grayrest 16y ago
I'll also toss in the back button as one of the greatest platform features out there.
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by grayrest 16y ago
I've always thought that the f and t motions along with I and A to switch to insert mode, and . (repeat) should be included in the basic motions and text objects should be the next step. They're relatively simple to remember and you can str
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by grayrest 16y ago
Vim's folding shows the first line, so it works fine there.
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by grayrest 16y ago
RoR was the "it" thing four years ago. The "it" thing today is server side JS with NoSQL. That said, RoR sounds like a better choice for your goals.
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by grayrest 16y ago
This isn't bad advice. In particular, when you see a piece of design figure out exactly what you like about it. Is it the color palette? composition? typography? copy? The goal is to learn the rules so you can decide when to follow/break th
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by grayrest 17y ago
The emphasis on functionality reflects the nature of the job. Software is generally like an iceberg in terms of time and complexity. The part you see is supported by a much larger chunk that's generally invisible. When you're starting out,
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by grayrest 17y ago
I'm suspicious of their sources when Delphi outranks Javascript as well...
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by grayrest 17y ago
There's an iphone simulator that comes as part of newer versions of xcode that's a much better environment for testing how web pages will work on the iphone. Things like touch events and the semi weird float behavior didn't work in iphoney
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by grayrest 17y ago
This depends entirely on your browser. Looks fine on all the mac browsers as well as firefox windows.
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by grayrest 17y ago
The linked post itself says it's mostly spiders following links from various place on the web to old/invalid URLs: > And the biggest performance boost of all: caching 404s and sending Cache-Control headers to the CDN on 404. Upwards of

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