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by maggit 14y ago
It is also a matter of subpixel anti-aliasing, and that makes a surprisingly big difference in my experience! http://i.imgur.com/sFrFT.png
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by maggit 14y ago
OK, then we have different understandings of what makes a language. You said: "the fact that very few people code pure javascript (...) goes to show how much people like it!" I argue that using jQuery does not change the "pure JavaScript"-n
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by maggit 14y ago
jQuery is big and important and has lots of features that you can use or decide not to use. However, if you decide to implement simple animations yourself in a situation where jQuery would have been a fit, you are likely wasting time and ef
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by maggit 14y ago
Sorry, your point about jQuery is off the mark. jQuery is a library (not a framework), and if you are not using libraries you are most likely doing it wrong, in any language! jQuery does nothing to alter the language, so people using it are
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by maggit 14y ago
Having English as a second language I am always reluctant to make a screencast. My spoken English would be distracting, if not for the brokenness then at least for my lack of confidence when speaking it. This looks like a great alternative!
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by maggit 14y ago
That's addressed directly in TFA: > The European Commissioner responsible for the treaty, Karel de Gucht, has said that he will ignore any rejections and re-table it before the European Parliament until it passes. That’s not going to ha
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by maggit 14y ago
I misread your comment several times before I consulted Wikipedia to find some clarifications. It might be the case that others need the same clarifications as me, so I might as well post them here: * Quake was released June 1996 * Quake II
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by maggit 14y ago
This is definitely subjective. I recently replayed Doom 2 with a couple of friends, and for us this is definitely a legendary game. I have lots of fond memories of Doom 1 as well. While I also spent a lot of time with Duke Nukem 3D, I never
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by maggit 14y ago
It doesn't seem to load, but it looks like I've found Google's cache of it here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...
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by maggit 14y ago
The value returned by POSIX time is commonly said to be "POSIX time" or "UNIX time". This names a time system other than UTC. In my experience, programmers don't seem to confuse these two systems. I have seen good programmers be surprised b
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by maggit 14y ago
I thought about the same thing. I choose to read the title as "Falsehoods programmers seem to believe about time". Or "act as if they believe" in place of "seem to believe". I can easily imagine somebody introducing a bug that relies on a 2
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by maggit 14y ago
In the "Advanced" tab in Opera's preferences it is possible to uncheck "Reuse current tab". In my opinion it would be a much better default to have this unchecked. With this configuration change "Right click->Search" will open a new tab
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by maggit 14y ago
Unfortunately, I cannot claim that I have tried it, but I know Opera supports remote debugging. You get to run Dragonfly on your desktop and debug whatever's running in Opera Mobile on your device. There seems to be documentation here: htt
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by maggit 14y ago
Related: It is an absolutely fantastic journey through fun forms and emails to go shopping at http://topatoco.com/
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by maggit 14y ago
As a counterexample, let's consider Google's blocking of Opera. Google routinely blocks Opera when rolling out new stuff. I kind of get it, because of your point 1. However, they sometimes offer a "try anyway"-link and sometimes not. The ti
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by maggit 14y ago
Samsung builds the Galaxy Nexus, which has a 316 ppi display. Now, we still have a way to go before high ppi displays are ubiquitous, but there you have one example at least :)
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by maggit 15y ago
Well, the thing is two cores running at, say, 800MHz burns less battery than one core running at 1.6GHz. So you get the similar (but not quite the same) processing power for less battery power. You also get less heat dissipation. Great cloc
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by maggit 15y ago
The point of cramming lots of cores into mobile devices is apparently to reduce battery drain, not to gain processing power. This might or might not be new to you, but to me, short battery life is still an inconvenience :) (Random corrobora
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by maggit 15y ago
There is in fact no duality involved, unless you try to describe the world in classical physics. But classical physics is just an approximation of quantum physics, which describes this phenomenon by the same rules that it explains phenomena
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by maggit 15y ago
No, that would change the experiment into "Which slit does the object pass through?", instead of the current experiment "How does a beam of objects manipulate the wall behind these slits?" Observing the object in either one of the slits wou
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by maggit 15y ago
As a matter of fact this causes google.com to take me to google.no, contrary to what my settings say (that are active when I'm not in an incognito window). This is also independent of what my browser language preferences are. I'm not exactl
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by maggit 15y ago
>> People don't hate personalized search > I hate personalized search That's what it's about. Just a counter example to a sweeping statement. Although, now it seems that "personalized search" might mean different things to diffe
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by maggit 15y ago
I'm a person, and I hate personalized search exactly because of what personalized search is. I don't want to live in a filter bubble. If I search for my name, I obviously want to know what other people would see about me. The same goes for
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by maggit 15y ago
Corrected link: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Skitt%27s_Law Were you trolling for this? ;)
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by maggit 15y ago
If I understand you correctly, Ctrl+Left/Right normally does that in Windows and Linux. Alt+Left/Right for the same thing on OS X.
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by maggit 15y ago
Those are two different characters. They are not interchangeable. It looks like the guy's name is Anton, a Swedish name. Thus he will create names with "å"-s in them if he wants to. Will this cause any problems? It might. That still does no
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by maggit 15y ago
Four times a year, with up to two seconds added each time should put an upper bound for adjustments accumulated over 500 years to: 500 years * 4 updates/year * 2 seconds/update = 4000 seconds = 66 2/3 minutes So an hour in 500 years seems t
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by maggit 15y ago
They have a "Where to buy"-link near the top right corner: http://www.daskeyboard.com/where-to-buy/ I've successfully bought a Das Keyboard from GetDigital: http://www.getdigital.de/products/Das_Keyboard_Model_S It even let me brush up
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by maggit 15y ago
> the author is taking advantage of hardware variance and picking larger images. I think an even more honest way to look at it is that the author uses the Galaxy Neuxs as the Android reference device in all examples, including the scree
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by maggit 15y ago
There seems to be some controversy as to whether or not the D-Wave machines actually are quantum computers. I don't understand this fully myself (so please elaborate if you can!), but it seems incredible that this 84 qubit quantum computer

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