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by halo 18y ago
What a terrible, lazy article. Twitter doesn't need to add lots of largely unnecessary features (or "innovation") to their site. What it needs, and what their team is presumably working on, is focusing on ensuring that their core functional
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by halo 18y ago
When Microsoft provide software for low cost to education, it's an evil plot to get people to use their software and undermine the alternatives. When Apple do it, it's clever marketing.
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by halo 18y ago
Imagine you visit a website, where both links and non-links are shown by underlined black text. You quickly get confused by what you can and can't click on until you rollover them. I think we can both agree this is a bad thing, and that the
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by halo 18y ago
Slight hijack, but I last time I used it I thought Stack Overflow missed the value of simplicity. On Stack Overflow, at its core, you have posts, and people reply to that post. That's fine. You can do that whether you're logged in or not (a
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by halo 18y ago
It's a big deal. The holy grail here is "nice general-purpose closure syntax". So the first try is the obvious: function_name( def(e): print e def(f): print f ) Now, this isn't inherently terrible and quite easy to read
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by halo 18y ago
Arguably it's not a multi-line anonymous function, but several statement-level 'named variables' rather than block-level 'named variables'. Haskell doesn't really have the concept of "blocks" to begin with as it isn't an imperative language
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by halo 18y ago
The reason no other language does that is because no other mainstream language uses newline and indentation to indicate blocks, which makes all general-purpose multi-line anonymous function syntaxes inherently ugly and non-Pythonic: where s
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QuirksBlog: Testing mobile browser compatibility - the beginning(quirksmode.org)
2 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
I dislike the implication that corporations have some sort of right to advertise on Google's search engine. Should Wikipedia be worried about antitrust because they refuse to allow /any/ companies 'access to customers'?
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Seeking Success - Google in Asia(economist.com)
2 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Not really, because you could take any two products competing against each other on functionality and proclaim comparisons with the "browser war", no matter how low the stakes are.
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by halo 18y ago
I think use in formal writing slows it down most; the biggest changes from other Germanic languages such as loss of gender for nouns happened when English was a peasant language used under the French-speaking Norman aristocracy.
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by halo 18y ago
At JavaScript. When compared to the current stable version of Firefox 3 rather than the beta where it is approximately equally matched. Using a test suite designed by the writers of Webkit which the engine has almost certainly been optimise
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by halo 18y ago
What has Windows 7 copied from Mac OS X exactly? The new Start Menu takes more inspiration from the 20-year-old RISC OS Icon Bar than the Mac OS X dock, for example.
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by halo 18y ago
There's a slight lack of good readable documentation, practical examples and best practices about the canvas tag out there, and the HTML5 spec itself isn't very readable.
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by halo 18y ago
Erm, the font-face property was originally a proprietary IE property and Microsoft have supported it since IE4, the snag being you need to convert fonts to OTF format to use them.
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by halo 18y ago
Web server sends pages to client on request. Examples are Apache and IIS. Web server interacts with server-side scripting language. Examples are PHP and Ruby. Allows you to generate pages on the fly custom-designed for the user, and allows
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by halo 18y ago
Any chance of a version (or even a separate project) aiming at binary compatibility with Mac OS X? I think a Wine-style project for Mac OS X would more a more interesting and popular development than a niche platform.
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by halo 18y ago
What's so bad about it?
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by halo 18y ago
I think people moan too much. This is a reasonable compromise where most sites will continue to render in standards mode (which is a good thing for web standards) while older sites largely continue to work in IE8 (which is good for browser
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News of the world: France gives teens free newspaper subs, should others follow suit?(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Haiku is a seriously impressive piece of work. The reasoning to the "eternal pre-alpha" makes sense in my eyes since it lowers expectations. Criticism over lacking basic features (like SATA issues, CD-booting, partitioning, printing or even
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by halo 18y ago
Because its developers want to use it as an every-day operating system without the overhead of another. They don't see it as a "toy OS" but rather something actually useful that they want to use on a day-to-day basis. It's worth adding they
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by halo 18y ago
CustomizeGoogle, a free Firefox extension, lets you block certain sites from appearing in your Google results.
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by halo 18y ago
I think it's clear that none of the currently released products are anywhere near ideal and are all lacking basic features and poor design trade-offs. One company needs to come in from left-field and shake up the market with an overwhelming
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by halo 18y ago
>You mean like Notepad (or the other one in accessories, I forgot its name) or Paint? Well, no, because Wordpad, Notepad and Paint aren't really comparable to iPhoto or Pages and their commercial ilk, as the parent made clear.
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by halo 18y ago
I'm sure the EU who have took MS to task over Media Player and now IE would just love them to bundle a word processor or photo editor.
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by halo 18y ago
It depends how you define "user-friendly", which is not as obvious as it seems. The question is who is the 'user' that it's friendly to? The power-user who uses an application every day where the initial learning curve will consist of a rel
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by halo 18y ago
You might be interested in XMOS ( https://www.xmos.com/ ), a start-up ran by David May formerly the architect of the Transputer and the designer of Occam at INMos, who are creating new parallel processors based around a parallel variant of
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by halo 18y ago
I seriously hope this crashes and burns. Various industries are trying to encourage this particular business model, and it's undoubtedly terrible for the consumer as it limits choice. It's also worth wondering if ISPs could be accused of an

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