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by romaniv 14y ago
This is a bit of a hack, since you don't really know how the "backup" file will look like. It might end with tilde, but it might end with .bkp. It's impossible to iterate through all the possibilities, just like it's impossible to separate
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These two seem to fall into the category I described: http://possibility.com/Misc/p339-teasley.pdf http://kraut.hciresearch.org/sites/kraut.hciresearch.org/fil... This one does not seem to involve developing software: http://www.ploson
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Unless you implement it in a fundamentally simpler way.
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Some time ago I asked certain Ruby people how to dynamically load Ruby code (for configs). They told me it's Wrong. Seems that in practice the idea wasn't much worse than Yaml after all. I am still convinced that configs and templates shoul
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1. How do you define group productivity? 2. I'm willing to bet that most of those studies looked at what happens when you take some "on-site" positions and simply hand them to remote team members. Why? Because that's what usually happens.
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Browser-Based F# Editor and REPL(tryfsharp.org)
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I am familiar with two general approaches to creating unreadable and unmanageable software. The first one is to take logically unrelated operations and combine them into one giant blob via shared/global variables and god objects/methods. Th
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It's rather unfortunate that tab is also used for keyboard navigation between fields, since this would be the default behavior of text areas I would like.
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I'm not familiar with either framework, but at least I can understand the intent (if not mechanics) behind Knockout code. With Backbone, it's like reading a whole different language.
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C# 4.0 has async/await to solve this. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh191443.asp...
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You haven't posted any information I wasn't aware beforehand. Yes, things change, the way we use the web changes too. That's exactly the problem. Instead of just "going beyond" foundation, it would be much more sensible approach to expand i
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Linking is the foundation of the Web. The fact that you can no longer build a website without subverting even the most basic of browser functions via custom code is a sign that something somewhere is broken. The sad part is that a lot of we
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I frequently found the language and notation used in math papers to be nearly unintelligible. It doesn't matter how simple the underlying concepts are, scientific papers manage to make them seem incredibly complicated.
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I think this is the best possible example of why you should always develop websites using progressive enhancement. First, write the app without using any JavaScript. Test it. Make sure the core logic works as intended. Then add JavaScript t
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Yes, and we're slowly loosing all the advantages of having dedicated browsers in the process.
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Why do we need a JavaScript based API for this anyway? Wouldn't it be MUCH better to allow websites detect when user presses F11 instead? It's not just about security, it's about managing expectations and familiar UI.
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It's increasingly difficult to browse websites with NoScript and Request Policy add-ons. There are websites that download JS from more than a dozen different domains. Moreover, it seems that a lot of web developers (including some here) sim
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Maybe it's just me, but I find it very cool that people actually looked at alternative design of aircraft and stuff like Project Orion. Yes, it's a waste of money. But at least it's a fairly creative waste of money that could have produced
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So what exactly constitutes a "market"? And what is the magic "share" below which we should stop worrying? Comcast and AT&T have less than 50% of internet provider market in US, but even that causes all kinds of problems.
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Of course, it isn't a given that you will be able to find a sufficiently large overlapping substring in the OS binary data. It seems that it's a given that you will not find that substring. The larger it is, the less likely you will fin
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I think the reason most people don't see this intuitively, is because pigeonhole principle explanation doesn't deal with the mechanism of compression they have in mind. It's just a general statement of impossibility. To give them intuition
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Think about it as identifying patterns. You can always remove chunks of the original file and then simply re-add them with instruction as following: "Add pattern 23989898989 to 234d, 387th and 1028th point of this file." If your pattern is
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Sounds interesting, but I never heard of it. This is a common issue for big corps - they see good ideas as not being popular enough, so they don't market them. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Password/hash thefts have been happening for as long as there have been systems with passwords. What changed recently is that we now have centralized services with huge numbers of important accounts. There are more service with large number
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Web designers should standardize on visual clues that indicate when the link will: 1) Just open something normally. 2) Open it in new Window/tab. Maybe browsers should automatically do something about those links? Like displaying a differen
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I think many people in IT want to believe in "AI that's as good as human" so much that they erode the notions of humanity to make computers pass. For example, a chat bot can certainly behave as the worst chat user, but that doesn't mean the
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Persona doesn't work well in non-JS, non-browser contexts, yet. So are there built-in, HTML-only versions for this in the works? It seems it should be possible to build some of this functionality into the browser, making it work without J
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I think the general idea of building better auth into browsers is a wonderful and highly necessary development. However, this implementation will completely fail if the user has JavaScript blocked and there is no fallback. And yes, this is
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I like the idea, although I don't like that someone has to write this for a framework. I mean, ideally this would be built into browser in some way. Recompiling cached assets seems like a waste of resources. Even re-executing JavaScript on
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If you're saying that the only way to build a fast website is to use single-page design, you're wrong. Having reasonable amount of images and CSS, as well as efficient server side components does way, way more for noticeable performance tha

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