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by marrs 13y ago
JavaScript polyfills to support new baseline HTML/CSS features are a necessity for sustainable future-and-past-proof development in the modern Web ecosystem. They're very important, but your site should still be usable
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by marrs 13y ago
I thought I'd somehow managed to switch tabs and had to scroll back to the top to confirm that I hadn't.
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by marrs 13y ago
I hear this kind of argument all the time and I don't buy it at all. How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours. Pasta costs next to nothing, as does rice, as do beans. Veg and dairy are
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by marrs 13y ago
That's not the only tricky part with this approach. Pages take ages to load because all rendering has to be done in the browser and can't be cached. The site completely breaks when JS isn't enabled, which discounts search eng
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by marrs 13y ago
What other interpretation is there? That Twitter puts companies' rights ahead of individuals'.
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by marrs 13y ago
How is he threatening them? He was telling repeat offenders that the police are going to be keeping a close eye on them. That's their job, isn't it? Or would you rather he tell them that the police will be away on holiday all nex
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by marrs 13y ago
Try running obscure file formats, like chiptune. Winamp reliably supports all of these with a very low barrier to entry.
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by marrs 13y ago
Maybe we need to think more carefully about how we archive historical data online. After all, suppose someone "discovers" an old manifesto that reveals something controversial: without proof that the content hasn't been alter
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by marrs 13y ago
Some devs would prefer that to be the case, but it really isn't, especially for a blog.
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by marrs 13y ago
From the screenshot it looks like that's what was happening. Update: I take it back. It looks like it's doing more than that. So there's a bug in this plugin. Even so, not relying omn disqus would have avoided this issue.
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by marrs 13y ago
Every time I use disqus I think that the site owner is being rather foolhardy, not only outsourcing a key component of his site to a 3rd party, but making Javascript a hard dependency as well. Seems a bit naive to then blame the user for &q
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by marrs 13y ago
Javascript comes from a school that most people simply didn't attend. But it's actually ahead of the curve by about 10 years, as evidenced by the emergence of Scala and co.
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by marrs 13y ago
I think this article needs to be split in two because it seems to be conflating 2 opinions. I'm not sure I really understand what the author is trying to say. Is it that OSS encourages a culture of being exploited and that GitHub is i
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by marrs 13y ago
No. Any thick client architecture has to deal with this problem. The current resource-oriented models (by which I mean they're focused on serving http resources) are severely limiting those of us who want to develop a web application.
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by marrs 13y ago
Mixing classes and IDs in CSS selectors causes headaches at scale because IDs change the order of precedence. These days I just avoid using them in CSS altogether.
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by marrs 13y ago
Why is this #1 on HN right now? Because it neatly demonstrates the power of these CSS tools, and by exploring how these complex images were created we can see more easily how to apply the same techniques to more commonplace elements
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by marrs 13y ago
Yep, that pretty accurately describes where I once worked. But I don't think this is a bad thing from the perspective of the board of directors, only for the likes of you and me. Remember, the goal is to spend as little money as possib
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by marrs 13y ago
It could also be because they thought you were going automate them out of a job. People who aren't in the business of change don't like it as a general rule.
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by marrs 13y ago
It shouldn't be extra work. It's actually less work because it encourages you to play to the browser's strengths and to separate your concerns. It keeps rendering speed high, it makes it easy to debug issues because you can
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by marrs 13y ago
So do some error checks. The first unit test I write for any function is that it handles arguments correctly.
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by marrs 13y ago
Yeah, same here. I have no difficulty writing large scale apps in JS because I play to its strengths and manage its weaknesses. These shit-for-brains "experts" can't, and somehow it's all the language's fault. Here&
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by marrs 13y ago
The message this sends to me as a potential hire is that they don't know how to identify a good candidate, which immediately puts me off applying for the role.
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by marrs 13y ago
Hot water will suffice
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by marrs 13y ago
Spoken like a true Islamic Extremist. Find the teachings that support your argument and then use them to brand everyone who disagrees with you as not being a true believer. It's a peculiar mind that can ignore the fundamental values of
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by marrs 13y ago
This is true, but besides the point. Laws on how to treat slaves are redundant in a country where slavery is illegal. And there is nothing in Islam to say that keeping slaves is compulsory or even desirable.
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by marrs 13y ago
Islam isn't a system of laws. Sharia is not Islam. I'm pretty amazed that I've just read this thread, to be honest.
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by marrs 13y ago
More likely than being sexist or ageist, the author probably had his granny in mind when he was trying to think of the label. I agree that it's not a very good one though; it's too specific. I don't really agree on your wide
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by marrs 13y ago
So what? The article isn't about those people. It's about the plenty of people who just want a computer for browsing the web, checking their email, and playing solitaire. They haven't heard of "Left for Dead" or &qu
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by marrs 13y ago
You're upset that the cover is obscuring the word "iPhone"? Or is "hon" a euphemism for something and I'm not getting it?
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by marrs 13y ago
Surely this is constructive. There is nothing there that cannot be acted upon. Any dev could treat these as a collection of bug reports.

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