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by rraval 12y ago
In my case, I was entirely unaware of Shake's existence. The no-nonsense support for file oriented workflows is the most compelling feature of Makefiles for me. In that regard, Shake seems really compelling. It supports the file orient
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by rraval 12y ago
For a hacknight back in April, I tried mapping my arm into a 3D pointing device that recognized a recoil wrist gesture as firing a gun. Sound effects like "pew pew pew" were optional but heavily encouraged. I initially tried the L
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by rraval 12y ago
I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to find the actual paper (it's in the right corner under "Related", I blame banner blindness!) Link for others like me [PDF]: http://interactive.mit.edu/sit
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by rraval 12y ago
Thanks for the thread. I figured mapping continuous input to discrete levels was more difficult than I was making it seem (especially with the fragmented way the web presents these devices).
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by rraval 12y ago
This is an awesome writeup! I was playing with the demo linked elsewhere in this thread [demo], and noticed a bit of a hiccup when scrolling past multiple zoom levels. It seems like there'd be a bit of a pause as the tiles were rendere
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by rraval 12y ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186972
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Color Runner(github.com)
2 points by rraval 12y ago|1 comments
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How Programmers Comment When They Think Nobody's Watching(cgl.uwaterloo.ca)
2 points by rraval 12y ago|0 comments
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by rraval 12y ago
The "Performance" section of the linked page claims that Mithril takes 9.44ms where React takes 79.65ms for their rendering benchmark [1] [2]. If true, it could be a good enough reason to pick over React. [1] http://lho
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by rraval 13y ago
vim user here. I map mine to Control because ESC is a simple C-] away and Ctrl is so much more useful outside of just vim.
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by rraval 13y ago
What you really want is CSS template layout: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/
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by rraval 13y ago
Even so, the example is a tad puffed up: if (count > 100) { $el.removeClass('low-value'); $el.addClass('high-value'); } else if (count < 50) { $el.removeClass('high-value'); $el.addClass('low-value'
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by rraval 13y ago
Oh totally, I'm a fellow vim user myself and do exactly as you do. But have you ever had Caps Lock on by accident in normal mode? Most confusing 3 seconds of my life.
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by rraval 13y ago
As long as you make sure that the mode vim is in the user's locus of attention. Typically, a user is more focused on the actual text they are trying to edit and thus the vim mode falls out of their locus of attention. So it's not just about
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by rraval 13y ago
If you read the Wikipedia article that the author linked to in that assertion[1], you'll find that it mostly agrees with you: > In Raskin's sense and according to his definition, an interface is not modal as long as the user is fully aw
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by rraval 13y ago
Nothing in the article you linked supports your claim. It doesn't even mention the words "Gandhi" or "pedophile". Intrigued by your claim, I turned to Google to find more. The only credible link was an article by the Huffington Post [1], an
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by rraval 13y ago
Reminds me of spatch: https://github.com/facebook/pfff/wiki/Spatch
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by rraval 14y ago
Someone explain how that chart [1] can even be conceived as useful. I'm not even sure what it measures! [1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-s...
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by rraval 14y ago
Python: http://docs.python.org/2/library/bisect.html
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by rraval 14y ago
Alternative fan theory that I've always chosen to believe: http://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/130it2/lord_of_...
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by rraval 14y ago
I know very little of Ruby, but difference 13 states that Ruby has stronger metaprogramming features in that "Python doesn't have define_method, class_eval, and method_missing". Are these really things that can't be implemented with metacla
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by rraval 14y ago
Oh I understand completely. It's just that I think triangle heatmaps are awesome visualizations that nobody's heard of. They were my entire life for 4 months and I can't stop talking about them given the opportunity :)
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by rraval 14y ago
At a former Facebook internship, I worked for the insights team. Think Google Analytics for Facebook Pages, Apps, etc. One of the things I built that term was a tool to visualize user retention, implementing triangle heatmaps, which I belie