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by rix0r 14y ago
It's very good that you understand how to write exception-safe code (although makeAMess() should typically be OUTSIDE the try {} block), but he's clearly comparing the NAIVE cases, i.e., people not paying attention to errors in either idiom
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by rix0r 14y ago
So on close() ?
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by rix0r 14y ago
You'd have to implement a TCP server listening on a privileged port (< 1024). Surely no browser would allow this.
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by rix0r 14y ago
"Constantly pushing updates" This sounds to me like their plan is to constantly be updating the Lua scripts from their cloud server. There's no way this would be allowed on iOS right? (Although I can see the comparison with web pages runnin
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by rix0r 15y ago
The author is probably right that there is an issue somewhere, but since I've been using SteerMouse ( http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/ ) I haven't had any mouse annoyances anymore. Not sure what it changed though; I thought it was the acc
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by rix0r 15y ago
I'm using Vodafone and I'm seeing an "X-VF-ACR" header in my headers that contains a very long base64-encoded string. Anyone any idea what it is? (Edit: Looks like a big bunch of binary)
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by rix0r 15y ago
> Don't carry over platform-specific icons Not in the least because they may mean different things! As far as I can tell, all icons shown side-by-side for the different platforms perform the same actions, except for the back-arrow. The
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by rix0r 15y ago
It also works in Safari 5, surprisingly enough, with ESC to exit fullscreen mode.
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by rix0r 15y ago
f and b will do page scrolling in the man viewer.
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by rix0r 15y ago
I don't know why this is being downvoted -- I guess others are reading something different than I am? There are three parts to Siri: 1. Speech-to-text (parent has it backwards but that's what he means, obviously) 2. Text-to-intent (referre
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by rix0r 15y ago
Another suggestion, similar to the Hand Moldable Plastic: http://sugru.com/
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by rix0r 15y ago
Homebrew will use libraries that are already present on your system, instead of keeping a separate copy of everything. The downside may be decreased stability, but the reduced compilation times make up for that, to me (and haven't had a pro
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by rix0r 15y ago
We commonly encounter users who believe that searching on two fields can be facilitated by creating two separate indexes on those fields. This example should give you some intuition about why this just isn’t possible. Not really, as the e
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by rix0r 15y ago
No kidding. The first thing that I tried immediately wasn't supported (capital 'C' to start typing over the first line). Would be very nice once it gets more mature, though.
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by rix0r 15y ago
I kind of like the "picture password" option. It shows innovation in an area that badly needs some (authentication) and should be easier to remember for many people than a PIN code, I think. Picture passwords would be harder to write down,
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by rix0r 15y ago
We have that system already (at least, here in the Netherlands), where automated overhead signs urge you to decrease your speed in case of traffic jams. In my experience, not a single person follows those signs. Everybody just keeps on goin
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by rix0r 15y ago
It recently occurred to me that the icon of a phone is of a type of phone that almost nobody uses anymore. And the icon of a camping site uses a model of tent that nobody uses anymore either. Our kids will be so confused...
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by rix0r 15y ago
Actually, you just mean the console , not cmd.exe . cmd.exe is just an command interpreter (like bash) that needs a console/terminal (like xterm) just as any other CLI application does. In other words, is not cmd.exe that sucks, but the W
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Overloaded Getter & Setter(martinfowler.com)
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by rix0r 15y ago
For another thing, on WordPress.com the "View Standard Site" button hardly ever works for me. I keep on trying it, hoping for the better, and cursing every time I'm forced to deal with the OnSwipe theme. And on Mike Taylor's blog ( http://r
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by rix0r 15y ago
Looks promising! One question: form rendering, validation and handling are the most important as well as the most annoying things you have to do while writing a web application. Do you plan to incorporate something for that into the framewo
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by rix0r 15y ago
But every hop is also a new attempt... and any variance for a hop could also be encoded using error bars.
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by rix0r 15y ago
Well yeah, but I thought the point was they were equivalent: i.e., one is simply syntactic sugar for the other.
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by rix0r 15y ago
It would be a little more cumbersome to write, but the same effect can be achieved easily: A a = new A(); try { B(a); return C(a); } finally { a.cleanup(); } Transforms into: Either<Exception, Result&
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by rix0r 16y ago
I thought it was pretty well-known that standard system timers (except the High Performance ones) could/would be inaccurate. I'm actually surprised by how reliable the OS X timers are. Normally, if you do any kind of benchmarking, you would
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by rix0r 16y ago
Escaping the asterisk also works. find . -name \*.bar Also passes the unexpanded argument "*.bar" to find.
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by rix0r 16y ago
From looking at this time lapse I can actually get a sense of the world turning. Very impressive to watch.
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by rix0r 16y ago
Sure, but what I think he meant was: if one work item is very large, it should be broken down to make sure there's no work hiding in there that got overlooked.
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by rix0r 16y ago
I like it, but isn't the approach a little overkill? If you'd design a declarative systems where you declare your datasets and how they transform into each other, then you could analyze the dependency chain and do the same thing as a librar
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by rix0r 16y ago
True, but the same non-reload could be accomplished with: <a href="realurl.html" onclick="javascript_magic(); return false"> And wouldn't break spiders.

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