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by nollidge 13y ago
That SE page is 2 years old. Also, "performant" doesn't have any great synonyms, so unless there's a strong risk of being misunderstood (unlikely in this context), there's no reason not to use it.
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by nollidge 13y ago
(To be fair, you did start your comment pretty harshly: I doubt this is the worst product site you've ever seen.)
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by nollidge 13y ago
1) I doubt most people know what "Incognito Mode" is. 2) Why does the background & image move around with the mouse? It doesn't have anything to do with the app.
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by nollidge 13y ago
I'll add "menu navigation that relies on mouseover".
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by nollidge 13y ago
Not on Twitter it won't, because when you hit "back", there's 65 new tweets at the top of your timeline, so your position is not the same.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Do the Forms from Google Docs come anywhere close? (Serious question having not really used either product much.)
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by nollidge 13y ago
Still haven't found anything that beats Consolas (at least on Windows machines). Inconsolata comes close, but the strokes are a bit thin and spacing is too crowded. EDIT: OK actually I just tried the hinted TTF version of Inconsolata f
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by nollidge 13y ago
Text-only cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:k4GBqYS...
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by nollidge 13y ago
Sorry, I downvoted this. Great code doesn't need no comments. Lots of comments is definitely a code smell, but anything of reasonable cognitive complexity will almost certainly require some comments. I can't be certain about you
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by nollidge 13y ago
Also I'd argue one shouldn't be considered an expert programmer until they've been forced to maintain lots of legacy code. It's an incredible lesson in what not to do, knowing when to comment and when not, proper namin
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by nollidge 13y ago
Similarly, this is a major problem with Chrome showing settings in a browser page.
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by nollidge 13y ago
At what point did they say that was supposed to be the end of the discussion?
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by nollidge 13y ago
Dunno about average, but certainly the median.
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by nollidge 13y ago
We're not talking about worst case. We're talking about 100 rows and 10 rows, which is what @pradocchia means by "selective". Indexing shouldn't follow the theoretical worst case, it should follow what's actual
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by nollidge 13y ago
How could you possibly not mean to come off as snobbish? There is no other way to interpret your comment other than snobbery. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, necessarily, but at least be honest with us (and your
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by nollidge 13y ago
You're not stating a fact, you're stating an opinion as though it were a fact. Don't be surprised when nobody's fooled.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Another strong possibility is that it's not a selective adaptation at all.
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by nollidge 13y ago
OK? I'm not sure what that's supposed to do with the post I replied to.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Nobody mentions it because there's no evidence for that fact being an influence on the design. There's historical evidence for the other reasons. Yours is a just-so story.
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by nollidge 13y ago
That's one of those words that sound formal to American English speakers but not most others.
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by nollidge 13y ago
In its first year on Mars, Curiosity only travelled about 1.6 kilometers. So I imagine it'd have to be pretty damn close for them to risk driving her over there. EDIT: source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/06&#x2
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by nollidge 13y ago
You could have just googled "Vietnam" if you wanted to find out if you were talking out of your ass or not.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Milwaukee, WI, USA (about 100 miles north of Chicago)
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by nollidge 13y ago
Yes, my connection is fast enough.
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by nollidge 13y ago
It's way too slow for me. Taking 20-30 seconds to fill in map tiles while I'm panning around.
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by nollidge 13y ago
It's important to really know what those fallacies look like, though. Just insulting someone isn't an ad hominem, and just using emotionally charged language isn't necessarily an argument that's relying on an appeal to e
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by nollidge 13y ago
I don't get how this is happening. Why are those links even in the search results? Also it's not showing either of those sub-items for me when I google "gmail", so I wonder if it's fixed now.
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by nollidge 13y ago
Thank you for descending from the mountaintop to dispense your advice to such a lowly thinker as I, great wise sage. (That was sarcasm. Opinions are not facts, and condescension does not signal wisdom.)
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by nollidge 13y ago
> When you're talking to people who don't, at best it does nothing Citation needed. As I said above, and you apparently did not read, I personally find conviction and fire far more compelling than dispassion. You may differ, bu
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by nollidge 13y ago
> when you are confident of your ability to defend your person No, because this requires clairvoyance I don't possess in order to know the other guy doesn't also have a gun. I mean, I'd also be pretty level-headed if I kne

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