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Porting an Angular 2.0 App to Aurelia(blog.durandal.io)
2 points by pbowyer 11y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> Can anyone explain how these images are created? It's using JavaScript (D3) and Canvas. There's an interesting mix of JavaScript libraries included in addition to D3: jQuery, Underscore, Knockout...
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> Ask me anything. Wow, what an opportunity! I'm intrigued by motivation: did they set out to make great clothing, or did it prove to be the most profitable (and morally acceptable to the owners) way to make money with which to do w
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by pbowyer 11y ago
I need to try a Nespresso somewhere (not sure where/how). At the moment I'm reduced to decaf, and I'm finding Percol Decaf Colombia excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Percol-Fairtrade-Decaffeinated-Colom... T
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by pbowyer 11y ago
I thought it was just me. I'm seeing this with Chrome, and it's not even maximized on 1920x1200. Scrolling, the page splits down the middle and each half redraws independently. Out of sync. This is Win7/nVidia GTX 750Ti
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by pbowyer 11y ago
The site's down for me; here's Google's webcache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXtPHag...
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by pbowyer 11y ago
You could replace it with... instant coffee, y'know? I've found the more expensive ones taste good, and it's only cents per mug. Sure, it's not the coffee-shop mouth-experience (I put a lot of that down to the frothed mi
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by pbowyer 11y ago
I completely agree, but the "serious" developers who create the frameworks don't seem to see it this way. I had exactly this discussion with the Symfony community when Symfony2 was released, but got no traction or support for
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Is there a simple, sane introduction to PowerShell? I've read through a dozen PowerShell scripts in the last week and find them incomprehensible compared to Bash scripts. I know I learned Bash 15 years ago, but it's not just famil
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> This information is merely interesting for some academic researches on some very specific messages corpus. No. It gives a very rough guide to "how much trouble is this spam filter going to be?". If you can say that X000 users
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The Software Industry Is the Problem (2011)(queue.acm.org)
2 points by pbowyer 11y ago|1 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Thanks for your comprehensive answer, I will have a watch, read and think! [Linking to the other discussion on this post about CSS and vjeux for future reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9515662 ]
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Thanks for your explanation, that makes sense theoretically but... could you provide a code example for how this breaks out in practice?
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> I think Angular is by far much easier to read than any other structure I've seen so far (yes even React). I agree re React (it takes getting used to), but what about EmberJS?
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Why did you want to do it this way, rather than using CSS classes and a stylesheet? I've read the Radium intro and I still don't get their use-case. To me it feels like a misunderstanding of CSS, so inlining it in the component ma
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Open sourcing a library of components would be fantastic.
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by pbowyer 11y ago
> These clients are professionals. They know the industry. They're not really clients, they're middle men. They're agencies, marketing guys, whatever. They have a constant stream of work. They know it. And they know the be
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Thank you, that's an interesting take. I can talk to a lawyer, but I'm not after the legal view. What I'm interested in is the pragmatic view - it's pointless to claim legal rights in the contract if no client will sign
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Ask HN: Programmers, how do you handle Copyright and IP in your contracts?
25 points by pbowyer 11y ago|12 comments
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by pbowyer 11y ago
Any info on how Timeful works or their software stack? It sounds like a constraint engine, which (after a term of Prolog 10 years ago) always pique my interest.
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Was Winnie-The-Pooh a Good Muslim?(andybannister.net)
3 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Thank you, I never realised that was how it worked!
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Especially if your significant other's career takes you from a university city full of smart, interesting people to an industrial town in the middle of nowhere. The internet is a poor medium for motivation and learning compared to real
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by pbowyer 12y ago
Can the server serve HTTP/1 too? If not, does anyone know of a server that can serve both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2?
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Widespread WordPress Plugins and Themes Security Vulnerability(marketblog.envato.com)
2 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Rails 5, Turbolinks 3.0 and Action Cable matter, and why DHH was right(amberbit.com)
9 points by pbowyer 12y ago|0 comments
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by pbowyer 12y ago
I think that's because programmers are humans, not machines :)
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> 2) 10x faster- obvious benefit Given Erlang is sometimes slower than Python [1] I am surprised if it's 10x speed improvement over Ruby. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9417453 (start at last comment &
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> (BEAM is excellent at scheduling, but pretty terrible at running user code; it's notoriously slow, which is why all important Erlang library functions are implemented in C, and why heavyweight Erlang shops do a lot of C coding; wh
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by pbowyer 12y ago
> Sure, modules provide a way to "package" functions, but that is 5% of what a package manager does. Being able to distribute, fetch and do dependency resolution is certainly the bulk of it. Please God the Erlang/Elixir co

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