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by nxn 15y ago
Huh? I think zdnet is reading a bit too much into what appears to be a 15 minute edit done by someone from marketing. They might as well claim that Internet Explorer was defeated since they removed that text as well... oh wait. No but serio
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by nxn 15y ago
So what do you suggest they do? Stay with a stagnating UI that's not suitable for anything other than a desktop in fear of looking "desperate"? The UI they pulled off is far from desperate, in my personal opinion it beats everything availab
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by nxn 15y ago
Not sure if I'd call that "advertising" -- it's a small green number on a green background. Before the rapid release schedule you'd have a 72pt version number hitting you in the face when you went to their main page within a week of a major
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by nxn 15y ago
Chrome has version numbers. And similarly, firefox doesn't make a big deal about new version releases since 4.0 was out. The ones that do make a big deal out of them are blogs and tech sites, but those will get bored of doing so soon enough
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by nxn 15y ago
People really like to try to make him look bad; I mean, is it just me or does this article portray him to be some clueless dimwit that was standing on a goldmine and didn't know it until his face hit the ground so hard that he finally saw t
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by nxn 15y ago
Opposite experience for me. 2005 and 2008 were incredibly slow, painful, and prone to locking up or flat out crashing. I don't think I've had one lock up or crash since I switched over to 2010 about 4 or 5 months ago. Also, I can have multi
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by nxn 15y ago
First of all, we're talking about the VM here, so why does not having ASP.NET or Windows Forms make any difference? Better yet, would you even want your browser to come with them? Also, although the VM bytecode does change with time, it doe
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by nxn 15y ago
I was somewhat irritated when Microsoft was pulling stuff like this with IE. But on the other hand, if they ever do make PNaCl, I will gladly disregard every other browser and target all my personal projects specifically for Chrome. The unf
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by nxn 15y ago
And do you also add the space before the paren when you declare a function? I ask because a conditional block is often closer syntactically to a function definition than it is to a function invocation, yet I hardly ever see anyone put a spa
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by nxn 15y ago
So you're advising against what appears to be a more practical and secure methodology on the basis that it's worse when you share your password? If you share your password, your exact problem is that you're sharing your password -- it's not
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by nxn 15y ago
I've been using Windows 7 at work for about a year, and I had absolutely no idea that the menu will show up when I hit the alt key until exactly 2 days ago. Every time I needed something from it I'd just rummage around all the visible menus
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by nxn 15y ago
By "ONE" do you mean at least one, as in implying there are none right now. Or by "ONE" do you mean that you wish there would be one and only one GUI/DE for linux? If it's the first, I would agree because I would willingly pay money to use
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by nxn 15y ago
I don't know, that floating button in the top left bugs me in linux. It makes sense in windows because it just blends in with the tabs next to it, but in linux it's on its own line with the tabs showing up below it. The wasted space annoys
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by nxn 15y ago
Very nice, if they actually manage to pull this look off it would probably make it the best looking browser. My only concern is that they wont and that it will still look like crap in linux.
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by nxn 15y ago
> Xcode has a different level of abstraction, but the result is that Xcode devs consistently produce far more polished apps than Visual Studio devs. But yes, it's pretty darn good. Don't you feel like you're ignoring some very important
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by nxn 15y ago
Urgh, there is so much corporate styled lingo and behavior going on here that I feel like they forgot how to concern themselves with actual problems. It seems like at some point sounding "professional" became more important to their career
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by nxn 15y ago
Thanks for the reply. My opinion is that relying on line-height being unable to decrease a height of an element is a really bad idea and the owners of those sites should just be forced to fix it. Of course, I understand how from your perspe
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by nxn 15y ago
Yeah, actually I have noticed and was well aware of it when making my comment. The topic of this particular comment thread, however, was specifically about the first graph since the mentioned link's validity was being "defended" by saying t
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by nxn 15y ago
So you agree with the diagram is stating: that JavaScript fixes Java's syntax by using the same C-like syntax? No, the given reason for Java -> JavaScript is completely wrong. I'd understand if the reason was "Java browser applets suck"
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by nxn 15y ago
Well, as a user you have the option of using another browser. Though, admittedly, with 1 gig of RAM I can't think of any decent one that wont give you problems after a few hours of browsing -- maybe chrome? As a web developer, I wish they'd
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by nxn 15y ago
Heh, wrote the same function, except called mine $> because it's really just a flipped $.
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by nxn 15y ago
"Also... lack of semicolons is bad style. Lack of braces for if clauses is bad style. Fix it, you'll thank me later. :)" Although a popular opinion, it's still just an opinion -- one I strongly disagree with. Almost all semicolon problems i
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by nxn 15y ago
A few months ago I was writing a little application where I was doing a lot of asynchronous calls in javascript and having to track their completion to do some other stuff, it resulted in this: // Synchronizes asynchronous calls: sync(f
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by nxn 15y ago
I assume you mean this form: var f = function () {}; ? If so, I don't think that will circumvent the issue since only the variable declaration will be hoisted, the function being assigned will probably not be. You'd end up with 'not a funct
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by nxn 15y ago
Seriously? Having 'paging' tied to the GC in this way, or any way at all for that matter, does not sound like a good idea to me.
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by nxn 15y ago
Too late to switch to PDiddy-F?
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by nxn 15y ago
That's actually quite awesome -- I am amazed that I went on for this long needing something like this yet not getting the idea to write it. Not strictly related to the project, but I think it would be a good idea if posts that introduced so
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by nxn 15y ago
I wouldn't really consider this as a "new" pattern, it's been around for as long as I can remember. It's pretty popular in jQuery plugins. I would recommend, however, against declaring the functions directly on the object you're putting the
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by nxn 15y ago
I agree with two things: 1) Bringing touch based user interfaces/behaviors to the desktop is not going to work when the keyboard and mouse are the means of operating them. For desktops I don't see the mouse and keyboard going away since I w
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by nxn 15y ago
I understand that, in fact I mentioned that the aspect of zooming was completely ignored in my first post, and I found it ironic that it was. But anyway, lets forget about that fact for now. If you need to zoom in 400-800x on some pixels to

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