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by joegaudet 16y ago
Forgive my ignorance, could someone let me know how older non HTML 5 browsers will treat <header> <article> etc? Will they just lay them out as divs? If not this seems like a pretty serious barrier to entry for HTML5.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
In all honesty (said as a Canadian with a Computer Engineering degree -- I should note we take the term engineering a bit more serious here in Canada, we don't allow people with CS degrees for instance to call them selves engineers) I don't
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by joegaudet 16y ago
As I understand it, canadian CANDU reactors use a robotic system to perform online refueling. They also use heavy water as a moderator, and burn unrefined uranium / [can] spent fuel from other reactors pretty impressive machines I think.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
From the looks of the diff, it appears as though all they did was add clarity. Not really revise any of the facts.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
The reasoning here of course being that they had not yet discovered transistors (Though some work had been done in devices similar), and MOSFETs were still a long way out, so it was reasonable at this point to assume that computers of any v
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by joegaudet 16y ago
The _reason_ everyone decided to kill Flash, is because it, combined with pdf reading, is responsible for the majority of browser crashes. The push here is to eliminate an unnecessary layer from the web stack. And I would point out that whi
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by joegaudet 16y ago
I love being able rename tabs, I just wish that they would unify the move the cursor keys with the standard OS X keys. ie: beginning of line -> command + left arrow. I realize that people are probably used to it, but personally I like m
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by joegaudet 16y ago
SproutCore Todos: 2.675 MB Uncompressed, onLoad in 1470 milliseconds (loading from localhost). This is not an exactly fair comparison, a lot changes between the developer mode and actual build for deploy mode. Both in terms of performance,
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Didn't think it was particularly awful, so much as... new.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
There was a star trek original series episode about this. Two planets who had evolved warfare to the point that it was completely carried out in simulations, and casualties were executed by each respective side. I believe kirk ended the sho
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by joegaudet 16y ago
While I am no history scholar (most of my info comes from reading the Wiki and watching the history channel) I think the 1000 year thing is a bit of an overstatement. The western roman empire (The part that actually had rome in it) only las
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by joegaudet 16y ago
An API that would allow for small snapshot images would be useful as well. Say for posting a formula blurb to a forum for instance, would be pretty handy as well. .joe
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Total aside, the resistor turing test at the bottom of the page was awesome. That is all.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Didn't google try this with Wave ?
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by joegaudet 16y ago
All I know is a friend of the family under only Canadian health care was covered for a quadruple bypass surgery something I am told in the US would effectively bankrupt any normal non-insured citizen, and has made a full recovery to the poi
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by joegaudet 16y ago
I never understand this generality, when the US stands as the only 'developed' nation without universal health care? In Canada we have universal health care, and it works reasonably well. Some would argue waiting lines and all that, I've ne
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by joegaudet 16y ago
"Time to move on and invent something great. Leave his shadow (and don't name your products Face or Book)." Was this related to: https://www.facecash.com/individuals.html ?
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by joegaudet 16y ago
People still write client side Java? shudder I love Java, but good god would I never write an Applet again.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
It might be just sybtactical sugar, but I would really like to see some sort of annotation for auto generating setters and getters at compile. Eclipse makes it pretty easy to make these, but it sure would clean up class clutter.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
I thought the issue was due to the binary representation of numbers like 0.1, 0.01, 0.001 being in fact non terminating fractions ala: 1/3 thus the longer the system ran the more small amounts of round off error it accumulated but adding tw
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Couldn't agree more, that's why I am a computer engineer :P
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by joegaudet 16y ago
You could determine all of that information with regards to the MAC address by examining the packets from the user. But form the video it appears that he mostly leverages lazy network admins, and the fact that routers are all configured wit
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by joegaudet 16y ago
I suppose that's true, I took computer engineering so a great deal of time was spent understanding the guts of the computer. Also realistically understand cache organization is pretty handy for optimizing software execution.
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Senate Approves NASA Bill, Extra Space Shuttle Flight (space.com)
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by joegaudet 16y ago
What school did you go to? We did piles on networking, dcom, everything in the OSI stack actually. (I went to a canadian university, UNB). While I agree undergrad uni isn't going to be on the cutting edge, I think that learning the basics,
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by joegaudet 16y ago
I have never found the fidelity of online learning to be _anywhere_ in the ball park of in-institution learning. Especially in the areas of humanities and so forth, but also in Engineering (I hold a BSCEng, and am currently a Masters studen
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by joegaudet 16y ago
For a remedy to the "sucky side" if you have a mac + TextMate, it all _just works_. You do everything you would normally do, and then hit cmd + R which will run the typesetter. My buddy during my undergrad used LaTeX, at the time the though
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by joegaudet 16y ago
"If I make something private, it means that no matter how desperately you need to call it, I should be able to prevent you from doing so, even long after I've gone to the grave." I am pretty sure this can be defeated without taking private
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Can't we have one conversation on HN that doesn't turn into an Apple / iPhone conversation... This article was about something totally unrelated.
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by joegaudet 16y ago
Is this a feature ??? Seems a lot more verbose than it needs to be, and would likely be slower too :P

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