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by spjwebster 14y ago
Never mind the public outcry - Kissmetrics were being sued because of this technique and ended up settling out of court: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/kissmetrics-trackin...
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by spjwebster 14y ago
This is an issue[1] that SublimeLinter ran into when syntax checking Perl modules. Code in a BEGIN block (which gets executed at compile-time) could actually delete files when using `perl -c` to handle syntax checking: BEGIN { `rm -rf $ENV{
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Opera Mobile Emulator build with experimental WebKit prefix support - Dev.Opera(dev.opera.com)
2 points by spjwebster 14y ago|0 comments
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by spjwebster 14y ago
This (or at least the shuffle mode) reminds me of AlgoMusic, a music generator for the Amiga that, back in the day, provided me many hours of coding music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUnXjVgx44 I'm going to throw Incredibox into shuf
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by spjwebster 14y ago
> First problem being cookies have been obsolete for a few years now. With the recent developments in new storage mechanisms like Local Storage, cookies are no longer needed anymore. Local storage has even implemented in every modern b
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by spjwebster 14y ago
Actually the law was written very carefully so as not to be tied just to cookies. Regulation 6 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR) [1], after applying the 2011 amendment [2] reads: (1) Subject to parag
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by spjwebster 15y ago
None the things you mention in your second paragraph will help you if what fails is DNS lookup. Depending on who you are, what you do and where you live, internet access may well be as vital to you as a land line. In fact, I'm not sure I'd
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by spjwebster 15y ago
"Internet will break for the people affected." Those people may rely on the Internet for their job, studies or social life, so you shouldn't be so quick to just pull the plug because they were unfortunate enough to get infected. To add insu
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AWS and Eucalyptus bring AWS to on-premises IT environments(eucalyptus.com)
1 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
As a relatively recent parent myself (with another on the way) I can definitely relate to wanting to put family first. It's terribly cliché, but little people really do grow up quickly, and it's all too easy to assure yourself that next yea
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by spjwebster 15y ago
There is a brand new theme, called simply Default, that ships with Sublime Text 2. See: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-buil... If you've customised your theme already, you'll need to go into Global Settings >
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The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit(wired.com)
3 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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WebPageTest internals(calendar.perfplanet.com)
2 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
For those interested, I delved a little further and wrote up my findings here: http://statichtml.com/2011/google-ajax-libraries-caching.htm...
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by spjwebster 15y ago
I've just run my own analysis on the HTTP Archive data, and the fragmentation issues are very real. The most popular URL used to load jQuery was: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min... ...and it was used by just 2
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by spjwebster 15y ago
You need to be careful with your wording here. The "MAJORITY" of the top 1m websites (based on Alexa rankings) don't use Google's CDNs (i.e. load a resource from googleapis.com): http://httparchive.org/trends.php#perGlibs ...and that's ac
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Sadly it looks like PPK was in too much of a hurry to post some 'quick thoughts'. A little bit of additional reading (heck, even watching the video on the Silk blog) would have revealed that Silk's "split architecture" is much, much smarter
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Localising templates — Internationalisation Tips(internationalisationtips.com)
2 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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The Best Forms Implementation I've Ever Built(allinthehead.com)
1 points by spjwebster 15y ago|0 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Lukas Mathis touches on this visual scrollability hint in his discussion of potential solutions to usability issues with Lion's new hidden scrollbars: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/08/01/invisible_scrollbar... Showing a peak of extra
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by spjwebster 15y ago
At the risk of hijacking the comment thread for an article about NodeJS to grandstand about CoffeeScript: I'm not a big fan of leaky abstractions, and right now that's what CoffeeScript is. It will be somewhat less leaky once this has been
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by spjwebster 15y ago
My comment was prompted by the trend for at least one HNer to promote CoffeeScript in comments on an article related (however tangentially) to JavaScript.
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by spjwebster 15y ago
I'm confused. There was no mention of CoffeeScript in the article. How does using CoffeeScript make it even easier?
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by spjwebster 15y ago
I knew I'd heard that name before: > Flickr will be here long after you are and its cultural significance to our world will outlast your quarter to quarter financial results. http://www.businessinsider.com/an-open-letter-to-carol-bar
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Improve JavaScript error reporting with TraceKit(zetafleet.com)
5 points by spjwebster 15y ago|1 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
As a side note, it's refreshing to see "x considered harmful" reinterpreted as opinion rather than absolute truth.
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Why I consider setInterval to be harmful(zetafleet.com)
1 points by spjwebster 15y ago|1 comments
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Also, you need to be really careful about memory leaks when replacing the DOM wholesale as you recommend in http://blog.rassemblr.com/2011/05/on-client-side-templating-... Any references to old DOM nodes need to be cleared to avoid memory
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by spjwebster 15y ago
Client-side templating has its place when used with proper progressive enhancement. That said, if your template rendering is what's bogging your server(s) down, you really need to reevaluate your choice of template engine. The problem with
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by spjwebster 15y ago
It's not my article, though I did submit it to HN.

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