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by rix0r 16y ago
I remember hearing in a presentation by Douglas Crockford that the browser will reflow only after the event that triggered the JS has been handled. So if you do 1 insert or 1000 in response to an event, it should only cause 1 reflow. Animat
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by rix0r 16y ago
Could you elaborate a little on how matching fonts are chosen? I see delta-VAR and delta-RLW but what do these mean?
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by rix0r 16y ago
If you could use the unique, generated key only once, what would be the harm in not letting them time out? I guess e-mail sniffing could be a risk... but if that's an issue then we have larger problems.
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by rix0r 16y ago
I like the "history -c" before logging out, while leaving downloaded files and extracted archives all over the place. Oh yeah, he's really covered his tracks now...
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by rix0r 16y ago
It could be a trace of the Human Stack as well (i.e. steps to reproduce). They're both a list of steps taken to get to a point in the system.
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by rix0r 16y ago
Better get started on implementing Asumov's laws then.
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by rix0r 16y ago
I wonder why he makes a distinction between the MIME types application/xml and text/xml. An XML document of the former type is parsed for the <?xml encoding="..." ?> tag, but the latter isn't? I always thought that application/xml a
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by rix0r 16y ago
Just to be pedantic: What exactly is the value that should be substituted for the variable $AAPL? :P
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by rix0r 16y ago
Another alarm clock bug in a very short time. When such a (seemingly?) simple feature turns out to be buggy, it does start to make you wonder about the quality of the rest of the OS. Apple must feel the same way. I know they take pride in s
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by rix0r 16y ago
That could very well be the case, but if that were really the cause you'd expect to see this pattern every year. However, it apparently didn't happen for at least two years in a row[1]. Also, I would have expected Skype engineers to have wi
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by rix0r 16y ago
As far as I know, all networks over a shared medium are vulnerable to ARP poisoning. So in the old days, that was networks using hubs (instead of switches), these days it's wireless networks.
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by rix0r 16y ago
I'm still pretty happy with Monaco, and on Windows I usually install Proggy when I install Vim.
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Visualizing TCP(research.swtch.com)
19 points by rix0r 16y ago|2 comments
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by rix0r 16y ago
More specifically, I think the N stands for "Natural number".
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by rix0r 16y ago
A key-value store written in Erlang, stores JSON and executes MapReduce queries, and is accessible as a web service. Why no mention of CouchDB and how Riak differs?
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by rix0r 16y ago
Mine, too, although I usually do my escaping/encoding in the template itself, so it becomes: <?= h($name) ?> Which isn't that terrible. The PHP developers don't make this easy though, as "short tags" are officially recommende
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by rix0r 16y ago
> This is how DVDs work: a high res green image and two low-res images, one for red, one for blue. Not true. MPEG-2 uses the YCbCr colorspace, consisting of a high resolution Luminance signal (brightness) and a low resolution Chrominanc
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by rix0r 16y ago
It's a great idea but honestly, I can't see this working in practice: the suggested time frame is simply too small. For all but the most trivial projects, you'd need at least the first night/day to get familiar with the code base before y
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by rix0r 16y ago
Well the variable expansion is quoted, so afaik it could only be interpreted as a single argument to cat.
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by rix0r 16y ago
The first thing that stuck out to me like a sore thumb was the string-concatenation-in-a-loop. Though the author was aware of its consequences he only addressed it late in the article, optimizing relatively trivial stuff like variable looku
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by rix0r 16y ago
I just had to Google that after reading this comment and WOW, this concept blows my mind. Of course, my first thought was "How in the hell does that even work" but it turns out there are identifying symbols in the paper so I guess they just
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by rix0r 16y ago
Yup, this happened to me too this morning. I even checked specifically for this last night: I was figuring that Apple would internally store the time in UTC and that my alarm time would have changed to an hour later than the usual time. Wou
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by rix0r 16y ago
Well, a quadratic lower bound is better than an exponential lower bound, in the sense that the problem could still turn out to not be in EXPTIME but in PTIME. It is worse in the sense that it tells us less about the actual complexity clas
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Show HN: readTHERE: a tool to move hyperlinks quickly from one device to another
3 points by rix0r 16y ago|1 comments
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by rix0r 16y ago
I simply love typing on the keyboard of my MBP. Does anyone know what class of keyboard that is?
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by rix0r 16y ago
I would say building for all platforms to verify you didn't break anything is the perfect job for a continuous build and integration server. Simply don't accept the changes if the code doesn't build cleanly and passes the test suite on al
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by rix0r 16y ago
Which is actually pretty useful and readable, imho (if formatted correctly): return a ? b : c ? d : e ? f : g; Side note: this does not work in PHP, as the operator is left-associative instead of right-asso
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by rix0r 16y ago
I'm guessing that you've never had to use svn+ssh:// with a group of developers. The file permissions hell you get into using that with multiple users is very frustrating. I much prefer the http:// access method, and have never had a lock
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by rix0r 16y ago
I'm thoroughly annoyed by Safari refreshing tabs randomly, too. But I always assume its because of memory restrictions, and that this content has been evicted from memory to make room for web pages that I open in new tabs.
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by rix0r 16y ago
A nice compromise would be: transformations in CSS (display concerns), animations in JS (behavioral concerns) WebKit went ahead and did both...

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