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by jsdalton 15y ago
> ...but it is not the library that Id choose first. Which library/libraries would you choose first, over jQuery?
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by jsdalton 15y ago
What syntax should one use to define link relationships in a RESTful service? Most of the examples I've seen extolling the virtues of HATEOAS use XML, specifically the <link uri="..." rel="..." /> element. That's great for a single
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by jsdalton 15y ago
> Remember you are testing what it does, not how it does it. While I tend to agree with you (I strongly prefer black-box testing over white-box testing), this is a hotly debated topic and many people feel quite strongly the opposite. Yo
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Lengthy previous discussion (still on the front page): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3528138
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by jsdalton 15y ago
A bit of context (I didn't get what this was at first): "Google Web Fonts is an awesome source of free, open source fonts hooked up to a world-class CDN. It’s also, sadly, filled with one-off novelty fonts vying for the title of “the new
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by jsdalton 15y ago
That's Earl Blumenauer, who represents Oregon's 3rd congressional district, which encompasses the east side of Portland (where I live): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0oD5oF4... (link to Google cache since Wikipeida
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by jsdalton 15y ago
My view is perhaps even more cynical than yours: I think his longevity is primarily due to luck. He also, if I understand correctly, has a different variant of ALS that doesn't progress as quickly. While money might have been a necessary pr
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by jsdalton 15y ago
TIL. Thanks for disabusing me of the notion that this is a good idea. I have seen it used in numerous places which is what led me to assume it was the "right" way. I assume, then, that the developers of this site could have used pushState()
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I continue to enjoy keeping an eye on these single-page style web apps for very basic content applications. I have a feeling this was pretty quick and easy for the developers to put together. That said, a few things jump out at me that make
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Yeah, my point wasn't so much that there are not exceptions, but that there are frequent patterns in the English language. Rather than throwing up your hands in defeat and saying, "The English language is totally inconsistent; the only way
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by jsdalton 15y ago
This is true, although the "rule" in this case isn't entirely inconsistent: life -> lives wife -> wives elf -> elves half -> halves leaf -> leaves
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with the ambiguity of language or English. It does, however, like the Monty Hall problem, require you to make assumptions about how/why a speaker presents certain information. Think of it like this. Wha
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by jsdalton 15y ago
> the last 10% accounts for nearly all the polish required to make a web app feel awesome. personally, i think that's important for 1.0. I couldn't agree more. I'm less disappointed with the lack of progress here than I am with the fact
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I think I wrote up something very similar the last time jQuery Mobile was posted here, but I'm afraid it hasn't improved much since then. This is exactly what happens when I touch a menu item using my iPhone: 1. The Safari address bar momen
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I confess to not understanding how this is possible. Both Javascript and Flash are severely limited (if not outright blocked) in most email clients. How are they doing it? And if it's a proprietary technology, is that a good thing?
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by jsdalton 15y ago
I found none that made me particularly happy. I actually waited for what seemed like an eternity for Balsamiq's online product to come out (I really had zero interest in the desktop product). When it finally did I tried it and found it was
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Thanks for this clarification. I was wondering why I was looking at a picture labeled "control panel" that didn't have any actual controls.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
It's incredibly meaningful in deciding whether it makes sense for us to continue supporting IE6 or not. And IE7 appears to be not far behind.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
It had been a while since I stepped back and looked at IE6 usage, so I pulled some numbers off of a site I manage just now to see where things were. In January 2007 IE6 represented 64% of total site visits. In October 2011, IE6 represente
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by jsdalton 15y ago
As a further aside, there's a recent PEP that proposes to incorporate the concept of virtual environments into Python itself: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404/
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Does Haskell offer any tangible, practical advantages or benefits over other languages in the context of a web framework, aside from just "if you prefer a functional style of programming and you're working on a web project, here's a way to
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by jsdalton 15y ago
In that vein, I think the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) are too wishy-washy: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Well, you can view all of the comments you've made on Disqus-powered sites in one place, and I imagine that Disqus would very much like to become the Twitter of blog comments.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Yes, thanks for the clarification.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
For what it's worth, that's the company press release you just linked to. (Business Wire is a service that broadcasts press releases and regulatory filings.) Compare: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=iro...
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Agreed. This would make a better killer feature of Mint than it does a standalone product. For now I'll sit around wishing Mint would acquire them.
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Cute litte story, but the moral the author takes away from it is actually wrong. The factory didn't remove the onions from the recipe because no one could remember why they were there. They were removed because Levi asked why they were ther
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Reddit account deleted too: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/f545e/i_am_a_fourtime_...
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by jsdalton 15y ago
Check out this thread and the associated article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1842582
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by jsdalton 15y ago
> If you want to ignore a % of your users, that's fine. Developer time spent supporting IE6 is developer time that could have been spent addressing feature requests or other issues impacting the rest of your user base. Or perhaps it c

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