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Laser Tag MT(hackmelbourne.org)
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To improve on nivla's answer, you can right click on almost any input field and select "Add to search bar". This will build the appropriate URL, based on the text field's name attribute and the action of the form which posts the field. So i
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Dynamically typed vs Weakly typed languages aside, you still only have one choice in the browser. Sure, you can write in something which has all the greatest features you love, but it will still be cross compiled to JavaScript, with all of
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I think that Rasmus and Anthony seem to have two different thoughts on the word "vision". Anthony was very specific in the fact that his concept of a "vision" is about the paradigms PHP supports: > 1. "PHP Should Strive To Be A Full Fea
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I would say: Pre Google Maps era. I find it perfectly intuitive to click and drag most online maps around, but it might have been weird the first time I encountered it. For example, I still like to scroll down to go down in a web page, and
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by pserwylo 14y ago
While we're on the topic of slides, read Edward Tufte's "Cognitive style of PowerPoint". It is short, cheap and sweet discussion about all he sees wrong with most powerpoint (or keynote or libreodfice) presentations.
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Do you use there straight out drawing capabilities? Or is there someway/plugin which allows the drawings to have the semantics of a graph (e.g. Line routing or layout managers. FYI I use yEd because it deals with all the semantic stuff very
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I believe you can download it and evaluate for 30 days. In your case, it may be more like 23 hours, but you still get to play. I've had pretty good success with most basic JavaScript stuff, whether in a .js file or embedded in some server s
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If I recall correctly, the Academic version of Idea was $100AUD, and now the personal version is only $50. I was going to buy the academic version (for PhD related development), but now I'll definitely buy the personal version. I imagine it
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Wow, it just occurred to me that I never see the github home page when I visit the site, seeing as I'm always logged in on the machines I use. Compared to that cached version, I much prefer the new one. This is despite agreeing and lamentin
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by pserwylo 14y ago
Perhaps a similar situation would be online payment gateways for dealing with credit card transactions. There are strict guidelines about what you need to do in order to be considered secure [0]. As a result, we don't end up with every man
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I agree. Perhaps a nice way to solve it is to tell Google and Apple: "Let people do in-app purchasing however they want, if they use yours, you can take a cut." By all means, you make it as easy as possible to integrate with your sol
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I saw a talk on Mozilla Persona [0] the other day from one of the devs. I like the idea of these decentralised authentication systems. I was (and still am a fan of) OpenId too. There is no practical reason that website operators need to kno
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I disagree. If a website gets hacked and its customer database is stolen, then this could be used to crack the user passwords.
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I quite like using SwiftKey, its great at fixing my sloopy typing. But coming out from under my tin foil hat (coincidently I just returned from a crypto-party at the Open Source Developers Conference), I don't trust proprietary keyboards wh
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by pserwylo 14y ago
Ahh, thank you for the links. They are some cool pictures from space, that really show how bright the oil rigs are. I can take solice in the fact I was about 1/8th right about the fishermen :)
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by pserwylo 14y ago
One interesting place is down the south of Argentina, off the east coast. Although there is no land there, there is the (almost spiral) pattern of lights in the ocean. They seem about as bright as Melbourne, and more expansive. I was told o
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by pserwylo 14y ago
This is cool. I am thinking of gamifying my alarm clock in the morning, so that I earn more XP by not snoozing, and just waking up. Primarily it is a way to help give my mate some experience programming, but I also hope that it will help
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by pserwylo 14y ago
This is what I don't understand about bitcoin. With my extremely small amount of knowledge about it, I thought the idea was to make it so that the rewards for mining were aligned closely with the price of electricity. But is this the price
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by pserwylo 14y ago
To be honest, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it wasn't to do with "thinking of what to do next", perhaps I just made that up in my memories. However, I have clear memories of dragging boxes back and forth. They are so clear that I even remembe
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Good call. Like how I used to drag highlight boxes on the desktop when I was thinking of what to do next. I never wanted to select anything, I just liked to do it.
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This is cool, should make Rusty Russell's CCAN [0] a whole lot more interesting. Instead of just snippets of useful code, it could contain full modules like CPAN/PyPI/PEAR/CRAN/CTAN and various other repositories for other languages. [0] -
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I've been working working working on a relatively complex user interface in JS at work lately (merging suspected duplicates from a CRM together, and specifying which fields from each duplicate contact is the "correct" field) . It involves a
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by pserwylo 14y ago
I quite like the way they've extended the concept from the original xkcd comic at http://xkcd.com/936/
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Xkpasswd - A secure memorable password generator(xkpasswd.net)
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It's been an itch at our work for the past five years, at least for me anyway (Table Tennis is our game of choice). Unfortunately, this is not the type of thing the boss would be willing to pay for. He'd more likely just get us to build a m
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by pserwylo 14y ago
Thank you, for putting the term "buckyball darts" in my vocabulary. I shall take it with me to work tomorrow, and hassle the dev next to me who has buckyballs sitting on his desk :)
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Good call. This is one of the reasons why I currently prefer the government in Australia over the opposition. They are rolling out a national FTTH network [0], rather than the opposition which seems to think that wireless broadband is the w
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I'm not familiar with Knockout, but it sounds like my experience when we were getting into the Flex framework at work a couple of years ago. We thought the data binding was so magical, but once I started to work with it, I had a very good m
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Each file represents a module in our business management software (e.g. documents/contacts/memberships/events/etc). Historically, we have replace entire modules with ones that fulfill new/improved/different needs. For example, we have a mod

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