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by mambodog 15y ago
Reminds me of WASTE: http://waste.sourceforge.net/
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by mambodog 15y ago
'Diss' is widely used in common vernacular. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/diss http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=diss See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diss_track
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I dunno, it would seem that upcoming SMAP support in Firefox and Webkit[1] comes pretty close to debugging the CoffeeScript directly. [1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascr...
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Dangers of Fracking: Parallax scrolling infographic website(dangersoffracking.com)
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If you are building desktop apps with web app technologies, you are really making compromises on a lot of important areas (native UI, responsiveness, runtime footprint, respecting platform conventions[1]). I can understand forgoing all of t
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by mambodog 15y ago
I imagine their behaviour of trying to chill security researchers into silence with a C&D[1] drew the ire of the HN crowd, but I certainly don't disagree with you about where the responsibility ultimately lies. [1] http://www.theverge.
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Also take a look at OpenResty, which bundles LuaJIT for Lua/nginx-based web app development, using the nginx event loop to do async I/O: OpenResty aims to run your server-side web app completely in the Nginx server, leveraging Nginx's even
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by mambodog 15y ago
Very cool, just a slight niggle about the 'lightroom' colour scheme (dark area surrounding the video) which I see being poorly implemented time and time again: it doesn't really work when you have elements of bright white on the page, becau
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by mambodog 15y ago
To be accurate, Commanche didn't have a true volumetric renderer, it was just raycasting a heightmap[1]; essentially just as much of a hollow shell as polygon rendering techniques. However, you are correct to point out that this tech is not
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by mambodog 15y ago
Perhaps this could be jQuery's Merb, encouraging the jQuery developers to reexamine the current monolithic package. I'd appreciate a modular version that can still be built as full-size jQuery for situations in which it is convenient.
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by mambodog 15y ago
Creative agreed to license the use of the "depth fail" technique to id, requiring in return that they implement support for Creative's EAX tech[1]. Perhaps Zenimax legal is not confident in that agreement extending to open source. [1] http
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by mambodog 15y ago
Here's to hoping the indies will drag the industry forward with FPS' that aren't modern warfare retreads. Upcoming titles such as Hawken[1] give me some modicum of hope. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEAEARD-Fo
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The point here is that progressive enhancement is baked in all the way through, eg. using the same URLs regardless of whether a page is being requested by the thick JS client, an old dumb browser, or search engine crawl. The realtime stuff
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by mambodog 15y ago
I would say a more accurate name would be the "fit window to content" button, as that is what it does. If you're looking at a document in Pages, clicking that button will fit the window to the document, not wasting any screen space with bla
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by mambodog 15y ago
Flex also includes an open source SWF compiler, letting you build Flash content without buying the Flash IDE.
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by mambodog 15y ago
Apple does not sell "hardware". Apple sells complete products that vertically integrate hardware, software and (more recently) services.
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by mambodog 15y ago
This link, posted here on HN, contains barely anything except a summary of another thread here on HN , which is barely even off the front page. Time to take a break, guys.
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If you're going to choose one of these high performance NoSQL DBs you are trading ACID for that performance . How hard is this to understand guys? If that doesn't suit your purposes, don't use it.
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by mambodog 15y ago
As a non-American, seeing people get upset about a bit of colourful language is quite amusing.
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by mambodog 15y ago
This is what happens when high design meets the real world. As much as it pains designers to realise, most people have shitty taste and as such, there are times when compromises must be made to get them on board. As Reichenstein notes, fo
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by mambodog 15y ago
The funny (sad) thing about DesignCrowd is that they're copying another Australian startup.
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by mambodog 15y ago
UI conventions established by what? Other Linux desktop environments? Established among whom? Old-hat Linux users? Perhaps that's not who they're targeting.
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In the context of audio or video this is usually called "scrubbing".
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Halloween 2011: a Mad Fold-In style responsive web design(orangecoat.com)
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If anything, I'd rather see more of this stuff on HN, the deeply interesting articles on wider ranging topics were what kept me coming back here in the first place.
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I think you're kind of missing the point of why the carrier crapware is bad. It isn't solely because you can't hide it or remove it, it's because in addition to that it is generally really poorly written software that has a terrible user ex
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Not much use without a US billing address.
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by mambodog 15y ago
I grew up here in Perth and while I'd love to stay here, I feel like I'll need to move to Melbourne (at the very least) sooner or later.
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by mambodog 15y ago
not a slavic devotion to a specific technology I'm thinking you mean: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slavish rather than: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples
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About this comic: My Obsession with Chess 1998-1999 My fourth online comic seemed to strike a chord with many readers, despite requiring side-scrolling as well as down-scrolling (which I'll admit, can be pretty annoying). This one's autobi

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