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by halo 18y ago
The reason people use jQuery is because the default mechanism for accessing elements is longwinded and ugly. It's the exact same reason people use xml.etree.ElementTree over the W3C-style xml.dom.minidom in Python's standard library. Assumi
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by halo 18y ago
The problem is that it's harder to write good working code in an unclean language. Look at the Unicode situation for example.
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by halo 18y ago
I'm sure this wasn't 'inspired' by twitpay.me at all, released and announced here 15 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369568 )
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by halo 18y ago
I completely agree. I don't own an iPhone, but this would practically be a killer app for me. A relatively simple concept, but I think the iPhones user interface could be excellent at it, and I think it could be extremely popular within a n
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by halo 18y ago
It's a funny coincidence this turns up when I spent about 30 minutes trying and failing to get Git working with Github earlier. I'm not sure if it was the flaky Windows port or not, but it just wasn't happening.
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by halo 18y ago
Sure. But comparatively few of those samples represent things that you would actually want to use in the real world, while there is a lot of overly shiny eye-candy, poor user interfaces and non-native widgets - things that Flash has always
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by halo 18y ago
I think people probably would. But I am of the opinion that Flash is slowly but surely dying in favour of JavaScript and related technologies. Flash still has its niche for streaming audio and video and a few other things that would be othe
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by halo 18y ago
Nope. BitTorrent is just a protocol for transferring files. Much like other similar protocols like http, ftp etc it makes no attempt to limit the type of files relayed through it and is a little out of its scope.
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by halo 18y ago
This is a natural extension of an idea that dates back centuries. One old-fashioned way to build a suspension bridge is to use a bow-and-arrow to get an initial rope across. Once that's done, you can attach a stronger rope to the end of it
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by halo 18y ago
A few comments from using it: * The installer is utterly terrible and gave me no options whatsoever like installation location or where to put icons, which is just outright obnoxious in the Windows world. * The application installs it itsel
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by halo 18y ago
JavaScript syntax lets you write statements over multiple lines - if the first line cannot be parsed correctly it assumes you meant to continue over to the second line. This leads to odd error messages and JavaScript being harder to debug w
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by halo 18y ago
I've long wondered if classifieds may lead the path to profitability since Facebook inherently solves the difficult problem of trust - something that Craigslist and eBay have long struggled with.
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Joe Armstrong On Erlang(infoq.com)
2 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Fails the critical "I visit the site and know what it does without prior explanation" test. Add a subtitle that explains what the site does: "A new site each day" or something.
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by halo 18y ago
I note that on the website there seems to be no real screenshots of your application in action that give me a good idea of what it does and how it works. In my opinion, this is a huge mistake - I generally won't download /anything/ unless I
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by halo 18y ago
The actual 'liveblog' content is too low on the page - in fact, on my 1280x800 resolution, it's not even visible until I scroll down. When I visit a site, I want the main content to be the first thing I see and anything else should be secon
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by halo 18y ago
Online ad growth is tied to economic growth. News at 11.
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by halo 18y ago
>Since you took millions of free code for parsing all these pre-existing document formats, don't you think you owe to the community and should release your convert-to-flash code as well? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't iPaper descend
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by halo 18y ago
I don't see it happening. Webkit is LGPL, and Microsoft have always been anti-GPL. It'd be a major shift in their position to suddenly embrace it out of nowhere. The Internet Explorer's Trident engine is slowly but surely catching up with i
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by halo 18y ago
It's on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-4afdMalVA
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by halo 18y ago
Wow. How unexpected. A company criticising their main/only competitor.
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FSF releases GFDL 1.3 - with Creative Commons Share-Alike conversion clause for wikis(creativecommons.org)
4 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
>Think of the extreme case: each line is half a page apart. Clearly, the eye has no problem finding the next line. I don't see how that's a refutation at all - if anything I think it supports my case. If each line is half-a-page apart,
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by halo 18y ago
This presentation encourages a relatively large line-height and the presentation claims (without citation) that it makes paragraphs easier to read. Intuitively, this does not make any sense to me - the larger the leading then logically the
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by halo 18y ago
Do you actually need the legalese? Unless it's absolutely necessary for what you're trying to do I personally wouldn't even bother. The only times T&Cs have bothered me are for certain applications where privacy is vitally important (e.
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by halo 18y ago
I think TeX doesn't take more than a "reasonable amount of effort" otherwise I, and many others, would use the alternatives. And I'm interested where you got the "reasonable amount of effort thing" from. The TeXbook says nothing of the sort
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by halo 18y ago
I was browsing through some mathematics books earlier, and a large proportion of them were typeset in TeX - whether they be Introduction to Algorithms, Visual Complex Analysis or Guide2 Mechanics, and I'm sure plenty more books are done in
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by halo 18y ago
And Apple copied the dock from RISC OS...
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by halo 18y ago
I'd like to see Apple address that too in Snow Leopard - Leopard runs like a dog under VMWare which makes cross-platform development a pain.
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by halo 18y ago
These will all be made largely redundant in the coming years as HTML5 contains an input type for dates which will allow the browser to deal with the problem.

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