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HiDPI/Retina image upsizing by clients & servers, not javascript(github.com)
27 points by skeltoac 14y ago|28 comments
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by skeltoac 14y ago
What good is a corporate motto if the shareholders can't sue to enforce it? Some good, sure. I always liked it. But it is about as binding as it is well-defined.
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by skeltoac 14y ago
OP here. You correctly spotted Hubbard's "Study Tech", a modern formalization of common-sense learning habits. It is a good system independent of the rest of his work. I omitted the credit because many readers would hasten to generalize (i.
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Browser zoom detection needs to be less hacky(github.com)
1 points by skeltoac 14y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 14y ago
Great to see MMM on HN. If you haven't read at least his first 5 articles, you might enjoy doing that before finalizing your opinion on this recent one. Most of the naysaying comments here seem due to a lack of context. MMM is semi-retired.
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Programming is not Algebra(andy.wordpress.com)
1 points by skeltoac 14y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
I was hoping to read an article about how WebSockets are more stable and ready today than the last time I checked.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
OT: Saw spinner for a couple of seconds. Back.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
The guilt that makes you resist buyers remorse and keep products you don't want is profit for the sellers. Frivolous returns are already part of their forecast. You might as well return it. But beware: if you tend toward guilt, you'll event
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by skeltoac 15y ago
It's not what she was. It's what she did. "Banned from Kickstarter for violating the terms of service." There, I fixed it.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Few people will like this, too, including myself, but the truth is that as long as they aren't "our" women and children... I'm kissing my hard-earned 198 away here by speaking truth. Hate the truth, not the speaker.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
"the vast majority of us are straight up sociopaths" Society can't function without socially acceptable outlets for this and other anti-social behaviors. That is the best justification I have found for a long list of things that don't seem
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by skeltoac 15y ago
When you are your own domain registrar and hosting provider, the government calls you directly and you can handle the user-generated content yourself.
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Atomically update serialized PHP arrays in MySQL(andy.wordpress.com)
3 points by skeltoac 15y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
In my case the processes needing gc are streaming TCP sockets. Their module is just a loop function which receives a binary and sends it to the client then does a tail call. So there should be no reason for the process to die. They have bee
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Erlang is a hoarder(andy.wordpress.com)
90 points by skeltoac 15y ago|12 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Eventually Google's algorithms will be so smart that they will index your sentiments to give you the experience most likely to retain you as a user. Maybe your Google will look like 2008.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Eventually Google's algorithms will be so smart that they will detect your sentiments and give you the experience you remember from 2005.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
There could hardly be a broader and more vague software category than "CMS". As an exercise, write down the top ten features you expect from a CMS. See how these lists compare. (Not disputing OP's critique of WordPress dev and testing.)
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Canvas Fireworks to celebrate 2011 data(github.com)
1 points by skeltoac 15y ago|0 comments
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8-bit color cycling on canvas(effectgames.com)
2 points by skeltoac 15y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
"Fuck’s continued vitality is even more amazing when compared to the fate of its sixteenth century synonyms: jape and sarde are virtually unknown; Chaucer’s swive is archaic; and occupy returns to English with a nonsexual meaning." Apparent
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Having two young ones in the house, I have switched from swearing to saying "ouch!" or "ow!" when hurt. The pain relief effect still works just fine. I wish their study had included non-swearing verbal emotional response.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Good for casascius (profit), good for bitcoin (new users). Poor choice for meaningful commerce (hassle, dubious, costly).
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by skeltoac 15y ago
In before solution waiting for a... oh, too late. It is a problem. However, signing resources means no HTTP caching of the most expensive resource we generate. That is not practical where I work. Guess the cache can be programmed to do t
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Freshly cut grass has the greatest staining ability. My sneakers turn green only when I mow a green lawn on foot. Had Steve been walking behind a lawnmower? I know I enjoy cathartic effects from clipping grass. Having billions of dollars an
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Replication of keys around the ring is free. What you pay for is their solution to the problem of significant latency between nodes: code that replicates the whole ring in several sites and coordinates the communication between the sites.
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by skeltoac 15y ago
Enterprise includes a ring replication layer designed for higher-latency connections. There is nothing preventing you setting up a cluster that spans continents. What will deter you is the poor performance of the cluster due to the added la
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How to Read Tech News(skeltoac.com)
1 points by skeltoac 15y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 15y ago
My answer (Andy) explains how it's really the photograph that is flipped. When we say the mirror flips the left-right directions, we're accidentally referring to the absence of the familiar rotation of the photograph.

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