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by joahua 14y ago
Oh, come on. As someone who's developed for both platforms, and worked with plenty of other devs (who ought to neither be ignorant nor prejudicial about the situation at hand as their job depends upon it) make quips of this sort all the tim
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Free Product Returns Have Major Impact On Future Sales, Study Finds(sciencedaily.com)
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by joahua 14y ago
You're right that PNG optimizers will yield better results, but PNG8 isn't the same in both products. Photoshop won't do 8 bit opacity (as opposed to hard transparency), whereas Fireworks will.
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by joahua 14y ago
Love this article. As someone who builds mobile websites for a news organization (not the BBC, but prominent in my country) the prospect of properly assessing a website in terms of its global accessiblity is daunting but incredibly exciting
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by joahua 14y ago
In part this is probably due to discrepancies in the performance of Safari vs. UIWebView browsers. Apple require a different JS engine due to sandboxing concerns in native app contexts - apparently it benchmarks to around 1/3 the performanc
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by joahua 14y ago
There's a webkit bug that is pertinent here. We can't accelerate animation on a mobile app that uses position:fixed for persistent headers due to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20574 This makes for some jerky transitio
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by joahua 14y ago
If in doubt, download and turn flight mode on before running, then uninstall?
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by joahua 14y ago
Xmen?
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by joahua 14y ago
Search replace? :) Agree that if you've got well defined color variables setup the preprocessor route is potentially simpler.
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by joahua 14y ago
I don't think the author's suggesting GoDaddy purchase every domain, but it'd be reasonable to think they might determine the relative value of domains to purchase based on search volumes. Dubiously ethical, but technically straightforward
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Bullet time used in Olympic coverage(youtube.com)
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by joahua 14y ago
I dunno - obviously different projects diverge on required backwards compatibility (Python 2/3?), but SSH isn't called Telnet v2. For something as fundamental as HTTP the author argues changes need to be radical to drive adoption, but at th
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by joahua 14y ago
Not sure whether you were aware of this, but CCTV are a real network - it's China's state owned TV company, which also produces global and English language content - so saying you're from a global TV network is probably not that blink-worth
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by joahua 14y ago
Wouldn't there be contention issues around writes to EBS in this case? I know very little about this, but I keep hearing about EC2's relatively poor IO performance and imagine that there would be a big fat traffic jam if every running insta
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by joahua 14y ago
Relatively high. Also from east coast AU latency is better to west coast US than much of Asia in my experience. We just got AWS cloudfront in Aus which might serve as a decent barometer for the relative cost of bandwidth: http://aws.amazon
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by joahua 14y ago
Also, if you're unfamiliar with CSS generally, the 'conventional' approach (as opposed to img tags in markup, or characters in an icon font) would be to use a sprite. This is also advantageous from a frontend performance standpoint as you a
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The Facebook Fallacy(technologyreview.com)
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by joahua 15y ago
That is strictly true, but I've possibly found a way around this and have posted a CC licensed version (the most open I was able to find) on GitHub accordingly. https://github.com/joahua/AusPostcode
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by joahua 15y ago
The idea behind vendor prefixes is that they are implementations of ideas before conventions have been established. When two vendors implement something simultaneously but pre-spec, it's hard to tell which one will end up being canonical. Y
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YaCy - Decentralised web search(yacy.net)
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Optimizing your pages for speculative parsing(developer.mozilla.org)
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HP will announce ARM-based servers next month, reports claim(linuxfordevices.com)
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by joahua 15y ago
Nevermind the part where it's an Android clone (isn't it?). It seems that time after time domestic (Chinese) businesses trump foreign competitors - but they're hardly operating from a position of strength. The fund is privately held (murky
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Alibaba Unit, Yunfeng Start CNY1 Billion Cloud Computing Fund(news.morningstar.com)
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Handling Multi-touch and Mouse Input in All Browsers(blogs.msdn.com)
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by joahua 15y ago
We do, but have found - particularly in IE variants - that performance is so haltingly slow that we may as well not bother lazyloading at all. There are also some Flash of Unstyled Content/Unloaded JS issues - but we should probably fix thi
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by joahua 15y ago
We've got some pages that implement a gazillion Facebook iframes (via their JS approach, but they still iframe everything in) and, quite apart from just having to trust them on things like this, it makes everything slow as a dog. Latency is
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by joahua 15y ago
https://twitter.com/#!/textfiles/status/121436177298493440 (clicking on "x minutes ago" does it)
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by joahua 15y ago
It's (probably, as I didn't build it - Radeon HD3400 for those who know better) 3D capable but apparently not on the WebGL support list of FF/Chrome/whatever.
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by joahua 15y ago
Working on an old PC without supported graphics drivers/hardware - any chance of a video?

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