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by kapowaz 14y ago
Sexism is alive and well in the 21st Century. Look at how women are treated in the Middle East. Listen to stories of the rape culture in Delhi. Pay inequality the world over. A media industry which sees young women as commodities to sell th
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Whilst I agree with some of the sentiments the article conveys, I'm doubtful that many people who feel this strongly actually would bother to go through these steps. Of those news organisations whose sites you regularly read, which of them
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by kapowaz 14y ago
What would such a more sensible name be? I look at this as a trade-off between code readability and consistency. Particularly when assuming it is a predicate (without greater knowledge of the method) is not a dangerous assumption, I'd say
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by kapowaz 14y ago
I'd say that justifying it as because you can still determine the truthiness of a string is missing the point; defined? ( http://ruby-doc.org/docs/keywords/1.9/Object.html#method-i-d... ) can return one of a number of string values, or nil,
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by kapowaz 14y ago
He may not have been inspired by this particular magazine, but it's likely he was inspired by similar opening crawls that existed in cinema as early as the 30s, such as Flash Gordon: http://i.imgur.com/XNzi7.jpg . There are a whole bunch
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> I've never seen selector performance used as an argument for OOCSS. Harry Roberts is one of the most vociferous proponents of OOCSS, and he has written about it a few times, notably here: http://csswizardry.com/2011/09/writing-effici
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> One functionality of CSS often abused without awareness are selectors [...] How elements are selected within CSS affects performance, including how fast a page renders This assertion used to be thrown around as one of the supporting a
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by kapowaz 14y ago
I knew if I made this joke I'd get a wall of text explaining why I was wrong; thanks, HN — you delivered! On a more serious note, I use Sparrow every day. About the only quibble I have with it is some of the icons aren't retina versions (ha
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> Now that Sparrow is effectively dead Sparrow 1.6.4 was released on September 11, 2012. Mutt 1.5.21 was released on September 15, 2010. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
If by ‘relaxed’ you mean ‘tabloid’, sure. It seems to be a requirement that any Register article about Apple products has to be dismissive towards people who use them (even though that is most people who might read the article these days):
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> Don't sell cheap. Sell authentic, sell natural, sell one-of-a-kind, sell meaning, sell status, sell a story, etc. Basically: sell it better than De Beers has been doing for over half a century. i.e. best of luck!
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by kapowaz 14y ago
This sounds like more of an argument for why you shouldn't be distributing stuff in the form of screenshots (although the horrendous entropy of the web is a compelling argument in favour of that, I realise).
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Or me (en-GB, Safari, OS X Mountain Lion). I'm guessing it doesn't like how we invoke it with option-3 ?
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by kapowaz 14y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. It is infrastructure, but it's also subject to network effects.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
My comment wasn't made in my official capacity :) I'm mostly just remarking with bemusement that such a thing would garner attention. But I guess it takes all sorts.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> The article demonstrates the malleability of Ubuntu's CSS theming system. That doesn't make this newsworthy.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Really? > Rants about PHP are everywhere, and they even come from smart guys. When Jeff Atwood wrote yet another rant about PHP… That's not how it reads to me.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
It's like he didn't actually read Jeff Atwood's article, or if he did, he entirely missed the point. It wasn't a rant about PHP; it was a rant about people ranting about PHP ! So much heat; so little light.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
I think maybe you got the wrong end of the stick; I'd always rather go with Handlebars.js over Mustache. Plus you get nice things like helpers. Walrus looks to take it to a whole new level though, so I'm itching to try it out.
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by kapowaz 14y ago
My point wasn't that Mustache lacks these features, but that they're so essential as to make not handling them well feel like an omission. It needlessly bloats your template code to have to write within these constraints, and for what benef
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Conversely, my experience is that there are very good reasons not to use Mustache (and instead use Handlebars etc.) — there are just too many limitations that force you to push commonly required functionality into an awkward place within
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> I think it comes down to: You want to be a part of the culture. This is the crux of it, and why HBO et al are just completely behind the times. How people consume entertainment has changed drastically and pretending otherwise simply
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Ah, that famous HN logic; this doesn't bother me, so I don't see why it should bother you .
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> Waiting one week is not a big deal. It is when the show in question is Game of Thrones, a story which revolves greatly around plot twists which could easily be spoiled if you're forced to wait longer than others to watch it. I already
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by kapowaz 14y ago
It reminds me of some other similar device I can't quite put my finger on…
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Apple is a hardware company. They make money selling computers and other gadgets. Those computers and gadgets happen to run software, but that isn't what they make their money from (it's akin to a loss leader, even if it might not actually
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by kapowaz 14y ago
The gathered troops here were all cooing at this demo until the drop shadow was noticed as absent from the arrow. A real shame (although obviously the box-shadow being bounded by the rectangle makes it impossible to do this way). Maybe it's
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by kapowaz 14y ago
I wanted to find out more about this app when I saw it mentioned on DF, but opening the link on my iPhone I was automatically redirected to the App Store. There I was given a message about this only being available on the Mac App Store, a
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> The next conference of the day is Future of Web Design. I believe these tickets are well above £1000. She could have at least checked before making this nebulous claim; the most expensive ticket at FOWD London is £695+VAT, some way sh
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by kapowaz 14y ago
What I find amazing is that people find it so easy to dismiss the cost of running an online store with almost no downtime, delivering music, television episodes, movies and apps to customers all around the world, with fast download speeds,

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