ionfish

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by ionfish 17y ago
I should have made that clearer. By "based on" I meant that it builds on, clarifies and extends his thesis (in my experience, books based on theses often fail to do this).
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by ionfish 17y ago
Okasaki's book of the same name, based on his thesis, is one of my favourites—I'd recommend it to all programmers, not just those doing a lot of functional programming. The explanations are lucid and insightful, and the book is full of help
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by ionfish 17y ago
Animation in FF 3.6 is noticeably smoother, apparently due to the improvements in GC. In other words, it may not have improved much in the specific areas these benchmarks measure, but it's important not to take that to mean that the JS engi
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by ionfish 17y ago
It does, but it also (in my experience) comes down to those "in the middle" working hard to better educate designers and back-end developers about the kind of thing you need from them (whether that's a design that can actually be implemente
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New GitHub status site(status.github.com)
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by ionfish 17y ago
Yes, we need to do some work to make things properly compatible with Chrome. Hopefully I'll have some spare time in the next couple of weeks to do that.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Ojay.Forms handles dynamic changes and supports IE6. You have to write your own styling, though, but generally one would have to do that with Uniform anyway. http://ojay.othermedia.org/articles/forms.html
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by ionfish 17y ago
Internet Explorer is a reason for some of us to care.
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by ionfish 17y ago
It had a bit more in the way of relevant, recent content when I last checked it (about a year ago). Just google "Silicon Roundabout" if the Ning group isn't helpful.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Lots of startups around Silicon Roundabout. http://siliconroundabout.ning.com/
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by ionfish 17y ago
Because XML is enterprise .
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by ionfish 17y ago
The object property is assigned with a name, not a (double-quoted) string. Well-formed JSON would look like this: {"foo": "bar"}
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by ionfish 17y ago
Automattic have bbPress. http://bbpress.org/
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by ionfish 17y ago
Articles lacking a last-modified date are annoying as well—'About' pages are a classic case in point.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Something like Scene7, but with a more focused set of features? http://www.scene7.com/
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by ionfish 17y ago
They might indeed, but the person filing the bug report in question (in their capacity as a user of PHP, at any rate) is not a customer of Yahoo! Inc., and thus Rasmus' employment there is irrelevant to the point at hand. That point, rhetor
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by ionfish 17y ago
Presumably the people in your company aren't unpaid volunteers .
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by ionfish 17y ago
Given all the discussions here recently about the unintended side-effects of changing incentive structures, it's worth bearing in mind that providing for one's children (including after one's own death) is an important—perhaps the importa
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by ionfish 17y ago
Egan is one of those SF writers who lend unfortunate credibility to the notion that the genre is about ideas, not people. The depth of his characters leaves much to be desired, as does his ability to tell a compelling story. However, he's t
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by ionfish 17y ago
No Bluff? MIT license, and the only dependencies are JS.Class and ExCanvas (both are bundled with it). http://bluff.jcoglan.com/
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by ionfish 17y ago
I've been running on trunk, with nightly updates, since 2.5, and only once had any issues.
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by ionfish 17y ago
These articles always make me think of this Eisenhower quote: "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
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by ionfish 17y ago
Obviously it depends where in Europe you are, but in the UK at least, the police need reasonable suspicion before they can search you (or certain other specific circumstances must obtain), and there are limits on what they are allowed to se
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by ionfish 17y ago
That's how jQuery.noConflict() works. http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L333...
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by ionfish 17y ago
If someone knows enough to do that, they probably also know to copy the file onto their own server.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Something else to do, something else to forget. You could run your own bookmark server for not much work too, but for the price of a round of drinks, I'm happy to let Maciej handle it for me.
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by ionfish 17y ago
As the API docs note, wait() can be problematic: "If any other promises are created and made to wait while the first promise waits, the first promise’s wait will not return until all others return. The benefit of this is a simple implementa
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by ionfish 17y ago
Indeed; pass by reference / pass by value is an irrelevant distinction in a referentially transparent language.
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by ionfish 17y ago
Safari feels fast to me, but it's an open question how much our respective views are shaped by our preconceptions about our respective preferred browsers. Are you using it on Windows, or on OS X? I don't know (because I don't use it on Wi
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by ionfish 17y ago
Very well. WebKit have a "zero-tolerance policy for performance regressions" [1], and it shows. They also have a very good incentive to improve JavaScript performance, since Mobile Safari also runs on WebKit/Nitro. [1] http://webkit.org/pr

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