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> I have heard designer friends say that Firefox is the new IE for them > Safari seems to be a designer-favourite with a very strong focus on things designers need. I have the completely different experience. If anything Safari
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This might be the case sometimes, but not always. Sometimes the transaction is sent immediately (which means a longer wait). Edit: Typo.
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It's documented that the default encoding in ruby is UTF-8. > "\xAA".force_encoding('binary').split('') # => ["\xAA"] If you want a binary string, you can do str = String
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While I don't fully agree with the parent of your reply, I think they're right about communication being a skill. I am an introvert myself, but I've learned not to let that get in the way of me communicating with my colleague
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I use Material UI for a few projects, and like it a lot. However, before you rely on it, you should be aware that certain components have pretty horrible performance pitfalls that aren't immediately obvious until you have a lot of comp
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The thing I like about this the most is that is uses SVGs. This made me very happy! It's a very cool project otherwise too, and I can definitely see myself using it. EDIT: Alternative would be to use HTML and CSS transforms or similar
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Implementing a feature for macOS in Chromium is considered a cross platform project these days?
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Maybe I have the wrong impression, but I feel like the author of the original post never wrote anything cross platform that's sufficiently complex (ie, more than a "let's fill out a form and press OK" Qt app). > The t
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I love contrast rebellion (aside: tool to check your contrast game is http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/ ), but I believe the author of the website intended it to be so as to draw attention to make your code st
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It's not what I tried to say, but I see your point. I merely pointed out that the people who're saying saying "Why not rewrite curl in X" probably didn't stop to think how challenging it would be. > The next time
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> These “you should switch language” remarks are strangely enough from the backseat drivers of the Internet. Those who can tell us with confidence how to run our project but who don’t actually show us any code. This is an usual problem w
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> In Le Guin's Earthsea series, magic is based on knowing the "true name" of a thing This is a common thing among many fantasy fiction works, so it's hard to tell what inspired it; might not be Eartsea.
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She makes excellent points in the text, but then uses less-than-optimal colours to back up her points. There is also much, much more to colour theory than what is outlined in this nice example. And as others pointed out HSL/RGB are not
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I don't think that asked what it is. Probably meant which rather than what .
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> we were considering hiring a developer who was older than us (+20 years older), but in the end did not do it as we felt he might have trouble being managed by people significantly older than him. I am curious: Did something give you th
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I am so confused by this. I was even more confused after I read the FAQ. I have so many questions now. One of them is: What's the point?
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This might sounds naive, but I am genuinely wondering whether they are failing at this mission in the long run, though? They can hardly believe they're they are the only ones in control of these exploits. Can't the same exploits b
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Why not both? :) https://xkcd.com/327/
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> It seems to me that there are a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons here? So, the usual. :) I stopped taking into account the benchmarks game completely after I saw apples-to-potatoes comparisons a few years back.
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What hardware are you running on? Also: > I don't need a daemon written in JS running in a loop sucking up my laptop battery This is not JS (or Electron) specific. > I like it when my software doesn't randomly get in a loop
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And now you have an empty file with all the functionality of the original app! Hooray!
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EDIT: The man himself made a post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13058481 I wish it could be summarised in a comment, but it's actually not "that simple," so I recommend you read Chris Seaton's po
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I've paid for Sublime Text 2, and I got pretty annoyed when v3 came out with only extremely minor or patch-level changes only a couple of months after I bought the previous version, and I was required to pay for the license again (I di
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> This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh. Yes an no. Windows is very versatile when it comes to design. However, if you just drag-n-drop elements in Visual Studio[1] or Qt, you ge
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> whenever i open an app that uses entirely native controls i just expect the author didn't want to invest any time into making their app look good. So much of this! This is my exact sentiment, too! If you want your application to l
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I'm missing something, but what would be so difficult about living in enemy territory? I don't believe anyone in their daily interaction was hostile to them (apart from exceptions who would be hostile to anyone).
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Here's more info about it https://github.com/acdlite/react-fiber-architecture
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Is Atom not snappy for you? I've used both and I honestly can't spot the difference on Linux; both are enough snappy for me. I know Atom lags with huge files sometimes, or when I place a lot of multiple cursors and then edit somet
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I kind of agree with you. On one hand, a lot of things are vastly simplified, some is pretty platform-indifferent, and some became more complicated, but then again I think it would've been similar with any platform, there'd just b
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It's also possible that op has a socket like this, so the grounding is on the side: http://i.imgur.com/lLM3gQO.png However, there is also this: http://i.imgur.com/ftPT7sC.png , which grounds from either
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