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by qxcv 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. Whenever I'm learning something, I find that breaking things is the best way to get concepts to sink in. You don't know what a null pointer is until you dereference one. If I were to teach programming to a class of ki
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by qxcv 15y ago
Firefox canvas really isn't that slow anymore. Every time they increment the major version number, I play a couple of HTML5 games and check out the difference in responsiveness. A highly subjective test, sure, but an effective one. If you t
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by qxcv 15y ago
I'd say it comes pretty close to "crappiest page design" considering the size of NBC. Here are some of the problems: - Two search boxes which look completely different but (possibly?) do the same thing - Text sizing is all over the place -
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by qxcv 15y ago
The entire photo-taking thing is a bit funny - with the price of storage the way it is, there probably isn't much harm in leaving the camera recording by default and have the user turn it off temporarily if they wish. There's no telling how
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by qxcv 15y ago
The "simple" bit is what I love about Tornado. You only have to deal with RequestHandlers and Applications - no Flask-like automagic object proxies which make you do everything within the lifetime of a request. The API is clean and easy to
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by qxcv 15y ago
Tagging is good for categorisation (which reddit has already implemented using "subreddits"), but tends to result in a lot of noise when users can apply arbitrary tags[1]. Additionally it's a lot of extra work on the part of the user to spe
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by qxcv 15y ago
Perhaps Google are just screwing with everyone? Making your techs wear helmets is a bit rough, but they seem like a company who like to maintain a certain air of mystery.
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by qxcv 15y ago
There seems to be a lot of discussion here about Android v. iOS, but I feel like people are neglecting to discuss a key part of the article: > what's wrong with Android from the perspective of someone planning a long-term 1:1 deployment
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by qxcv 15y ago
> In effect, attributing the worst case scenario to the general case. I don't think that's a fair statement. If you watch "R-rated" depictions of brutal violence, the probability that you will be adversely psychologically (or socially)