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   by molf 14y ago

   Usually it's pretty irrelevant which servers are accessible except the ones that host your app/back-end. So that's what you should check when implementing such a feature.
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   by molf 14y ago

   They should have made policy to require a certain level of security and fund efforts to implement such a system/standard. The policy would have been valid even after other systems (or newer, exportable browsers) appeared that offered simila
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   Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios(voormedia.com)

   6 points by molf 14y ago|0 comments
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   by molf 14y ago

   Yeah, Webkit support is disappointing. As mentioned in the article that is mostly because of a bug that prevents many effects from being rendered when used in an HTML document. Opening SVG files in a new window will render those effects cor
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   Creating SVG vector graphics for maximum browser compatibility(voormedia.com)

   57 points by molf 14y ago|35 comments
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   How to display and detect browser support for SVG images(voormedia.com)

   4 points by molf 14y ago|1 comments
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   by molf 14y ago

   This graph might tempt you to believe lower IQ implies higher religiosity. In reality it's much more likely that poverty leads to both lower IQ [1] and higher religiosity [2]. Correlation does not imply causation. [1]: http://scienceblogs.
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   by molf 14y ago

   I can't believe this line is considered good practice: collection.should have(2).items It illustrates what I believe is wrong with RSpec: the assertion style is completely disconnected from the API that is being tested. There's no
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   by molf 14y ago

   Emoji work in most browsers. The problem is that many fonts are missing the corresponding characters. You just need to pick a good font. You'll be missing full color icons, though. Example page with an emoji character that works almost ever
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    by molf 14y ago

    Worth mentioning as well is TinyPNG - http://tinypng.org/ , a free web service that uses lossy compression to shrink PNG images.
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    by molf 14y ago

    I think the point is that in reality the user should be protected from the service -- which may be trying to validate their input and telling them their perfectly valid email address (or address, postal code, name, password) cannot possibly
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    by molf 14y ago

    Mostly pngquant (the new version), optipng and advpng. We are still tuning parameters and swapping in and out tools based on our benchmarks and testing suite.
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    by molf 14y ago

    The tools you mention use lossless compression. For 24-bit PNG files that means they probably won't come close the kind of lossy compression used by TinyPNG.
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    by molf 14y ago

    We plan to release an API. The compression code is a combination of a couple of open source tools with some careful tuning and heuristics for optimal result.
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    by molf 14y ago

    Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! We're still working on making TinyPNG easier to use and removing some of the kinks. Keep the comments coming! We created this service because we (our web agency) were building a couple of sites that us
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    by molf 14y ago

    Most likely all information was gathered automatically. According to their FAQ (on the right side of the page) they check the homepage and attempt to detect the presence of any of the listed technologies. I agree pie charts are probably the
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    by molf 14y ago

    This sounds a lot like a "lattice" organisation. It was invented by Bill Gore, founder of W.L. Gore & Associates (famous for their Gore-Tex fabric). At Gore, apparently everyone is an associate with no specific job title. There are no c
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    by molf 15y ago

    I'm not a lawyer, but it appears to be covered in the Berne Convention [1] as "works of applied art". The copied design we saw this morning was probably "substantially similar" [2] to the original. Apparently designs are copyrighted in the
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    by molf 15y ago

    Under European law this would be copyright infringement on account of copying the design. Don't believe it holds in the US, but I'm not 100% sure.
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    by molf 15y ago

    I agree 100% with you that there is a large difference between search engine use by hackers/power users and by casual users. But given the frequency of the problems that I have, I definitely believe that 1) I can impossibly be the only one
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    by molf 15y ago

    I have stopped using Google Search entirely very recently. The main reason is that Google too often misinterprets my search queries, and I got tired of typing quotes around the search terms. I should stress that like any software developer