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by nilliams 13y ago
Drag and drop pieces and the pieces can take each other, so you could use this to animate/play-back a full game, or as the basis for a chess game.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Thanks for that example, very handy (currently learning Ember) and illustrative w.r.t. Ractive.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Best attempt at this I've seen, looking forward to getting my hands on it. It states in the video this is a native app, but written with HTML/CSS. Would be interested to know if this was written in node-webkit (like Light Table),
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by nilliams 13y ago
Aha, it's quite possible it worked before I commented, but it doesn't change the URLs as you click on the checkboxes so I couldn't tell. I cannot guess the URLs for combinations of checkboxes, e.g. canvas+charting.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Nicely done. It'd be really great if I could link to javascriptoo.com/canvas and get that page with the canvas checkbox pre-selected, so I could link to it in presentations, email to my boss etc.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Eh, seems like you exaggerated the article/point only to then tear down your own extreme interpretation of it. >> After I switch some semantics, rearrange the deck chairs, etc, its now perfect in every way, invulnerable to bugs o
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by nilliams 13y ago
>> The folks who think that only Apple designers are leaps and bounds better Parent doesn't say that at all, or make any comparisons.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Knockout is an MVVM (MV*) framework, it is much more than a templating engine. If it had a standalone templating module, then that module could qualify for the comparison for sure, but as it stands it would not make much sense to include it
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by nilliams 13y ago
Hmm, I see why it could feel like that but I don't really agree. Here's another angle: Would you rather learn some (hopefully) very well worked-out library with good documentation and all the edge-cases slaved over, with multiple contributo
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by nilliams 13y ago
It's likely your graphics card/drivers. Type about:gpu in your address bar.
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by nilliams 13y ago
Thanks for this, did not know that could be done.
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by nilliams 13y ago
>> Making the file smaller doesn't reduce latency No, but I think the parent was making the case for combining everything into a single file (jQuery + app) which has benefits in reducing number of HTTP requests, especially important
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by nilliams 13y ago
Totally agree, for most production apps using a public CDN for jQuery just isn't worth it. Uglify it with your app and be done with it.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Probably a reserved word rather than an account.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Thanks for elaborating and I hope you also realise I was just using C as an example of another language (a type-safe one). I think a lot of us have encountered 'big ball of mud C code-bases' in our careers which is what tends to spring to
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by nilliams 14y ago
If there really are business-critical parts of the app that are too slow a good developer will drop down to C (as noted by others). That doesn't negate the reasons for using Python for the rest of the app. Your mentions of maintenance and r
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by nilliams 14y ago
A fairly moot point. Do you think most C developers can write safe C code? The 2 I've encountered in my short career basically have no idea what they're doing (which I suspect is partly why they stuck with C instead of exploring alternative
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by nilliams 14y ago
Aha thanks for the insight, I'll know what to suggest now when reporting this to site owners.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Seconded, this webfont (Lato light?) is not Windows friendly for whatever reason. Regular Lato from Google Web Fonts works fine btw, I've used it a lot. Edit: In fact all variations or Lato from GWF render fine on Windows so not sure if you
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by nilliams 14y ago
Wow, that's great. Especially love this route finder view: http://planefinder.net/route/EMA/
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by nilliams 14y ago
Oh, now I'm with you. I guess I've never tried that kind of build, in fact maybe I found a lucky vector into the optimizer the first time I came across it, as I now see if you read the optimizer docs from top to bottom it does initially gui
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by nilliams 14y ago
>> r.js has an inflexible build process. It tries to do everything and assumes you want it to be your only build tool, which fails with things like LESS files, custom image generation etc. I'm not sure I agree with that. I use r.js
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yes, except as that article shows the traditional for loop somehow ends up more palatable than the awkward `forEach.call()` voodoo you have to do to use it on a NodeList, which is a pretty sad state of affairs :/ (Note: I am aware you can a
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by nilliams 14y ago
True, but you can get bluetooth keyboards for tablets, and those keyboard-docking ASUS Transformer-esque tablets, which are likely to grow in popularity. (Sadly iPad plus bluetooth keyboard is currently fairly terrible due to a lack of the
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by nilliams 14y ago
There was a bit of snark in this comment with the "..." which I apologise for, but I think my point was fair. Trying to paint Node as an anti-framework ecosystem is disingenuous and this is clearly not a goal of either Node, npm or Express.
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by nilliams 14y ago
The whole point of Node is evented I/O in JavaScript. That's it - it doesn't take a stance on frameworks. The point of npm is ... to be a package manager. Express is a framework. I admittedly don't know much about it, but I believe it basic
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yep. 'Leaving things to chance' is a good way to put it. Thanks, I'm aware of Marionette and have also used Backbone.LayoutManager [1] before which solves some of the same issues, though I am wary of the cobbled-together stack I might end-u
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by nilliams 14y ago
The argument (as I see it) against choosing something like Backbone in order to avoid framework "conventions" is that you inevitably end up inventing your own conventions to fill in the gaps. Fine if you're a one-man team (although still ar
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by nilliams 14y ago
Yep exactly, this is making my layouts a lot easier lately.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Looking like a great resource, nice work. +1 on the suggestions to link to npm and cdnsjs. I did spot that searching for 'require' did not find 'requirejs' (searching 'requirejs' finds it).

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