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by ninkendo 13y ago
> Unfortunately governments are obliged to reveal their 'secrets' despite any misgivings What if the electorate decides that a government should keep certain things secret from them? Directly at the ballot box or through their
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by ninkendo 13y ago
> I think that's a shame, and it doesn't work very well either. Mercurial does the same thing incidentally (unless facebook have somehow solved that), so it's no better there. The way I interpreted the reddit post from the
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by ninkendo 13y ago
Then what about high-DPI devices? Should they just render it really tiny? Should your content look 25% the size on a retina MBP?
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by ninkendo 13y ago
I think that's what he meant... it shows how much code quality contributes to success: not much at all.
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by ninkendo 13y ago
You can't do that. That's one of the upshots of the way Linux handles filenames. Linus has talked about this in the past... because of the fact that Linux only cares about 1 "special" character (the ASCII slash), the on
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by ninkendo 13y ago
> then runs on the client and only calls back to the server to get/post data. And what's running on the server to handle those GET's/POST's?
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by ninkendo 13y ago
What I've never understood about this phenomenon, and what this article fails to clear up is: the phrase "freezes faster" is ambiguous. It could be interpreted as hot water "drops in temperature at a faster rate than co
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by ninkendo 13y ago
I think the same mentality was probably held about AJAX before google maps was out.
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by ninkendo 14y ago
Well, Linus still ultimately pulls from his lieutenants' repos though. Nobody has direct push access to Linus's repository but Linus (if I recall, at least.) That's functionally equivalent to github's pull request system. What's better ab