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by k3n 14y ago
You could probably wire something up in JS to handle it with reduced timeouts, e.g. an AJAX call that automatically fails after 50-100ms and proceeds to load the local version.
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by k3n 14y ago
I think the idea is that hosts like Google (and ostensibly, Mircosoft) are going to have availability that far exceeds your run-of-the-mill website. Those big hosts generally are going to provide five 9's (or more) availability, whereas %yo
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by k3n 14y ago
Do note, and I'm not sure if this differs from what you're referring to, but that the link was never even posted to the site; rather, it was placed into a chat box but never sent. Small difference but I think it's an interesting point. &#62
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by k3n 14y ago
An interesting experiment is that if you have FB on your smartphone, you can use the "Find Friends" feature to dig up all sorts of profiles for the contacts on your phone. I think it uses a combination of phone #'s and email addys from GMai
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by k3n 14y ago
It lets me see the content even though I'm logged into Google, and I have G+ disabled on the domain level.
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by k3n 14y ago
[\s\S]* Doesn't this match every possible character, 0 to infinity times?
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by k3n 14y ago
I think it's due to poor management of the product and its release. From my experience, Vista was hated due to very poor driver support, the ever-annoying UAC, and the fact that the new Aero UI (along with misc. other system services) took
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by k3n 14y ago
Not sure how much profit it'd be able to squeeze out of the IR thermometer[1] market, which are already in fairly common use (the building maintenance people at work use them) and it looks like you can get one for as little as $25. 1. htt
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by k3n 14y ago
Aye, perhaps it's my perception then, because I've been seeing lots of awesome code out there recently. There used to be a few exciting JS projects, though many of them were redundant in some ways, and they were still fairly basic by today'
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by k3n 14y ago
It may only mention libraries in passing, but I seemed to remember that many of the techniques were used in jQuery (where applicable). I don't mean any offense by relating that to memoirs; rather, it was very helpful to see many of your exa
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by k3n 14y ago
> asides from ES5 and promises [...] CommonJS what the hell is that ? Perhaps you should learn what you're criticizing before you criticize it; CommonJS has put forth a lot of effort to try and standardize API's across platforms (browse
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by k3n 14y ago
> [...] an overview of cross platform javascript issues from 3-4 years ago that someone who wanted to clone jquery would need to know. Ugh! I have his prior book, Pro JavaScript Techniques (Apress, 2006), and that's basically how I've a
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by k3n 14y ago
Perhaps, but lacking a formal ToC and using the "review" that's listed on Amazon, I'm not seeing any indication of: * ES5 * CommonJS * promises/deferreds * AMD/UMD/etc. * NodeJS * asynchronous concerns such as call
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by k3n 14y ago
Considering the date, it seems as if it might've been pushed out the door to satisfy contractual obligations. I'm not sure just how relevant it will be, now that the JS ecosystem has exploded -- seriously, 4 years is _eons_ in the JS world,
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by k3n 14y ago
When I was your age I was making ~25k/yr. (in today's money) working in a soul-sucking callcenter. Hopefully, you're better off than I was.
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by k3n 14y ago
That's a profound thought that transcends technology, thanks.
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by k3n 14y ago
Actually they do warn you after the fact -- you should get a "welcome back" email: Hey k3n, The Facebook account associated with facebook@example.org was recently reactivated. If you were not the one who reactivated this acc
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by k3n 14y ago
Yes, but he mentioned that it was virtually unusable on his mobile device. Instead of a download app they could have just made the website mobile-friendly.
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by k3n 14y ago
Yeah I don't believe I use any of those. I'm confused about your statement, though -- are you saying that that specific MS page requires SL, or that the sites listed require SL? If it's the former, well, that's expected as it is a MS site
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by k3n 14y ago
Silverlight -- how many other sites than Netflix do you know that use it? That is the only non-MS site that I've ever seen it used on. Anyways, there's been lots of talk of SL dying[1]. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/8929362/84473
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by k3n 14y ago
Technically, even if you are targeting old browsers, you don't need jQuery; it's written in Javascript, after all. There's nothing they do that you can't do with vanilla JS. You can also mow your lawn with a pair of scissors, which is abo
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by k3n 14y ago
It sounds like you knew it was bad practice, and yet you did it anyways...?
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by k3n 14y ago
Isn't splat() just an implementation of partial application around a specific function (map)?
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by k3n 14y ago
> If the posts are upvoted by the community, then it should be seen as a good and not a negative. The problem with this thinking is that vote fraud runs rampant and is sometimes nearly impossible to detect.
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by k3n 14y ago
Thanks, and I truly mean no ill will. To play conspiracy theorist though, I doubt anyone -- save for a select few high-level execs -- would even have a clue if something shady like that was even happening. But that's just privacy paranoia t
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by k3n 14y ago
I've never heard of them....and I'm far from a spring chicken. What guarantees can you give that they don't do something like that today -- other than anecdotal evidence as a complete outsider? Regardless, my concern is still there and I wi
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by k3n 14y ago
Is this a hosted service? If so, in light of the article[1] posted here yesterday, I think I'll pass. Not that I have any suspicion that these guys would abuse my data, but it'd be all-to-easy... 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907
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by k3n 14y ago
I liked the use of progressive responsiveness! 0. http://responsiveurl.co.uk/while/were/making/every/damn/thing/responsive/lets/not/forget/about/the/url/ 1. http://responsiveurl.co.uk/while/were/making/everything/responsive/lets
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by k3n 14y ago
I suspected that, but then I considered if he went to the trouble to obscure it on his blog post then he probably wouldn't divulge it here [publicly]. But I could be completely wrong; is the guy who relpied with the rx Darren?
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by k3n 14y ago
You're not, and it's why I largely avoid (at all costs) turnkey solutions that certain websites employ for parts of their site. For instance, the sites that use something like zoho.com or disqus.com for blog comments; even though they're ov

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