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by idlewan 10y ago
Oh finally, inline videos are enabled. Took a long time! When the webkit-playsinline property is specified, Safari on iPhone allows videos to play inline. Videos without the property will commence playback in fullscreen, b
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by idlewan 11y ago
You'd have a good point, if all of those tiny but probably useful modules were given the use you're describing. Discoverability though is so poor that most of those modules are most likely just used by the author and the author&#x
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Good-Looking FOSS Database GUI - Directus(github.com)
7 points by idlewan 11y ago|0 comments
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by idlewan 11y ago
Opera 12.16 (the last Opera version) had both native support for vertical tab bar and toolbars (it already had it a decade ago) and a kind-of-okay "tab group" feature (groups of tabs could be collapsed so that they wouldn't t
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There’s an app for that: How NSA, allies exploit mobile app stores(arstechnica.com)
1 points by idlewan 11y ago|0 comments
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by idlewan 11y ago
It's getting there fast. We still need some niceties like hot code reload for the server, but experiments like [0] are on the way. I'd love to see Rust and Elixir perform well too for the next rounds! I recommend you to read the n
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Code Connect, a smarter way to explore and understand software(codeconnect.io)
1 points by idlewan 11y ago|0 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
According to the rules ( https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html ): Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News. Please remove the "Show HN" from the title if you're not the
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by idlewan 12y ago
An open media player is more useful than a locked down paperweight.
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by idlewan 12y ago
What do you mean, without DRM? Does Deezer provide you with mp3 files to put on your devices (ipod shuffle or similar)? Can you send a file to a friend? Or does Deezer forces you to be online and/or use Deezer's own app to listen
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by idlewan 12y ago
It's maybe to point out some of the irony of "Hey, let's accept another proprietary blob from Adobe" when it's not even needed anymore now.
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Steam Bug Erases All User Files on Linux Systems(readwrite.com)
3 points by idlewan 12y ago|1 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
It's really interesting to go back to my old notes and goals and, with hindsight, truly understand _why_ they didn't work out, and what it would take to make them work. It would be awesome if you could blog about it
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by idlewan 12y ago
Someone implemented this idea of typed units for the Nim programming language: https://github.com/def-/nim-units/blob/master/units.nim#L216
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by idlewan 12y ago
There's a lot more people than 1% that sometimes have javascript disabled: EVERYONE has javascript disabled until the js payload is downloaded. Which is extremely important on high-latency or slow network connections.
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by idlewan 12y ago
It allows you to use your own style everywhere, instead of relying on the specific styles of the library you used (so you don't end up in your code with camelCase AND snake_case). It's definitely unusual, but I think it works quit
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On professionalism in software(jakewins.com)
52 points by idlewan 12y ago|19 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
I used drop.io a bit while it was alive, and it was really useful. I was sad when it went away. I hope more sites like this (anonymous use, quick to create and share something) pop up!
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NixOS and Stateless Deployment(gfxmonk.net)
218 points by idlewan 12y ago|62 comments
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by idlewan 12y ago
They can earn a living in other ways. Some examples: - having a day job (this obviously means they won't have as much time to put in the site, I know) - Service As a Software Substitute (this doesn't work for sites that just displ
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by idlewan 12y ago
> he fact that one C++ implementation manages to outperform all the others (including other C and C++ implementations and of course Rust and Nim) by more than one order of magnitude leaves me perplex. This uses a "pruning" algo
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by idlewan 12y ago
That's exactly what Nim does, and it works quite well. The bindings are easy to create (there is an automated tool that does most of the work), they look like Nim function declaration and can add better typing checks on FFI calls. You
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by idlewan 12y ago
I recommend Nim http://nim-lang.org/ (the website docs don't look too good at the moment, but this has been fixed for the next version that will be out in a few days). Nim is an incredibly good language that compiles t
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by idlewan 12y ago
Given the dataset you have to serve, I don't think you'll be having any issues if most of the JSON parsers give you 32bit integers.
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by idlewan 12y ago
Is there a reason you're not using numbers in the json output? "vehicle_id": "1" is better represented as: "vehicle_id": 1
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by idlewan 12y ago
I removed all the useless promises, yes. The one remaining is the one after fetchData, which looks like it could be async and make use of a promise. It only yields equal speeds in chromium (good to know), although if you try in firefox, imp
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by idlewan 12y ago
Fixed for running a proper imperative version instead of the functional-oriented 'imperative' version of the original author: http://jsperf.com/oop-vs-ramda/4 TL;DR: Imperative is faster than functional. Func
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by idlewan 12y ago
The author is misrepresenting imperative code [0]. Instead of the 42 lines of code he thinks is imperative, but really is already functional-compatible, this is what I would write: var getIncompleteTaskSummariesForMember_imperative =
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by idlewan 12y ago
There is no syntax highlighting in the diff view, so I doubt it.
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Your free design work will end up in the trash(thenuschool.com)
6 points by idlewan 12y ago|0 comments

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