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by ry_ry 9y ago
That's a pretty succinct summary of the gzip thing. There is still worth mentioning the issue of executing code once it's decompressed - so properly scoping a var is always better value for money than global.ancestor.foo.bar etc.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
But what viewpoint is the Mail representing? The Daily Mail seems almost entirely Daily Mail centric, reflecting nothing more than it's own bubble of reactionary bile and oxymoronic smug self-loathing.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Reducing the overall size of CSS by cutting repetition isn't even that relevant given how well gzip handles that repetition. Unless your CSS is freakishly huge, selector count is not even likely to have much perceptible impact. I'
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by ry_ry 9y ago
> If somebody tries to join your Wi-Fi network and has an iOS device, you get a prompt asking if you want to share your Wi-Fi password. How does that work? Will it happen on Corporate WiFi networks, and if multiple iDevices are connected
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Vue is really interesting, but feels like it's retreading some of the missteps of frameworks past. I worked with knockout extensively on an inherited codebase a few years ago and my overriding opinion was that 2 way binding sacrifices
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Should the internet be archived? Seriously. It's a transient medium, somewhere between a beautifully illustrated book and a shopping list scrawled on the back of a napkin in crayon, recited down a megaphone by a drunk. Let content live
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by ry_ry 9y ago
I'm not convinced that is the solution to the problem in this case - If the OP is concerned about the quality of their code and has taken a string interview rejections to heart, having pull requests closed with minimal explanation woul
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Second-rate right wing agitator Paul Nuttall wasnt part of government and was at best a peripheral figure in UK politics, before his resignation. Hateful professional trolls like Katie Hopkins might have vomited bile to that effect, but iir
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Somebody also has to be the first strong female employee in any given company. Obviously headcount is a huge factor here, but in isolation I honestly think that kind of reasoning can be misleading. If you are interviewing and discount an ot
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Whilst is awesome to be able to use flexbox quite freely IE11 and Safari still have a handful of slightly arcane issues, such as certain configurations of flex-wrap:wrap content requiring max-width:100% or flex-basis:auto to trigger the wra
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by ry_ry 9y ago
It's a catch 22 really - If adverts are modified or removed, the dom will reflect that. If you completely spoof that you effectively break the dom for everything else. If you only spoof the advert's own properties, you can infer s
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by ry_ry 9y ago
No absolutely, don't apologise - I get where you're coming from, sometimes the stuff that gets posted isn't necessarily current or even particularly important, but its regularly /interesting/. I like to think of it
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by ry_ry 9y ago
I kinda like the eclectic mix of articles linked on HN, and offers something in terms of content discovery.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
http://i.imgur.com/19VEBL7.png Pretty much. Not to mention Safari and IE user agents have included strings like "Mozilla/5.0" and "like Gecko" for years now to 'demonstrate compatibility'
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Not really - detecting ad blockers is pretty straightforward, try to insert a DOM node that triggers their ad pattern matching then check if it's been blocked. Not to mention spoofing your user agent is very easy! It's built into
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by ry_ry 9y ago
The things I'm not allowed to talk about at parties: Religion, politics, JavaScript and now butterflies.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
It'd be obvious on the ads side though - If this was activated across multiple apps simultaneously, their clickthrough rate would have gone through the roof. Heck, even if it was dripped out slowly, average % clickthrough - even on mob
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Would make their self-help guide to Reading More a very well researched piece then ;) Some people just like books about improving themselves in some way - Personally I read mostly Sci-fi books, but I wouldn't say it's particularly
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by ry_ry 9y ago
If it gains any meaningful traction, I'm kinda expecting WebAssembly will make Rust a useful additional language for web devs currently working with stuff like C#, Python or JS. It's definitely put it firmly on my radar as somethi
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Completely forgot to update this. It's apparently to do with the EU General Data Protection Regulation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... ) due to come into force in May 2018. I'd
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Apparently in the UK at least, there is potentially legislation in the horizon requiring email confirmation for account signups. It dropped into our roadmap recently, will see if I can dig out some info in a bit.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
As an aside, jQuery isn't really comparable to React or Angular. They do entirely different things.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Such a relevant point, and I don't think they get enough props for it. I don't believe for one second this was a quick turnaround for them either. I've spoken to MS dev evangelists at work stuff over the past few years and th
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Uniqlo do pretty decent quality jeans for the price. Definitely worth checking out.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Given how easily they broke the iris recognition, that particular cat is likely already out of the bag.
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Also jpegmini and kraken.io Anecdotally jpegmini's 'optically-lossless' algorythm seems to provide better results than the other options, but obviously ymmv. I'm super interested in this because i want to optimize in the
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by ry_ry 9y ago
Obviously you get that programming is the process of telling the computer what to do. Without being told what to do a computer is a very capable paperweight. Frameworks, high level languages and other abstractions are supposed to make it ea
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by ry_ry 9y ago
"Potential hominin affinities of Graecopithecus from the Late Miocene of Europe" I have no idea what that even says :(
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by ry_ry 9y ago
We did a similar thing, but folded it into unsupported and deprecated - unsupported browsers will get an HTML page extolling the virtues of updating your browser once a decade, whilst deprecated browsers (basically IE10 at the time tbh) wer
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by ry_ry 9y ago
The difference between a company genuinely caring about their customers' experience with their product, and one who will do whatever it takes to manage their public profile isn't all that different to all practical intents and pur

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