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by starwed 15y ago
I used to try to work a bit on physics articles. That actually wasn't the problem there -- the problem is that there are so many cranks, and they (being cranks) are so insistent on their incorrect views that it becomes a constant, tiri
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by starwed 15y ago
I know that for me, loading of content while scrolling is terrible . On a forum where few images are shown, I find that quickly scrolling to the bottom of a page results in a pretty noticeable pause before rendering content. It seems to b
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by starwed 15y ago
In context of the parent post, SMB == Super Meat Boy. I think...
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by starwed 15y ago
I recently read about a Mozilla authored extension that gives you more performance insight. I think some features only work with special FF builds right now, though. :) http://www.visophyte.org/blog/2012/02/04/aboutnosy-is-aboutm...
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by starwed 15y ago
I wouldn't say the Linux support was horrible. It's a bit of a pain to get it installed to begin with, but that seemed an issue with how locked down macs are... Once I had Ubuntu running, everything worked out of the box. The main issue w
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by starwed 15y ago
Why did you even bother to mention this? I'd think it goes without saying that there will clusters of people who don't smoke. Your last line seems to imply that you doubt the results of the study, but that's a bit ridiculous to do based on
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by starwed 15y ago
Chess/Go/Checkers are one category of game where luck plays no part, but not the only one. The thing they all have in common are 2 players and perfect information. Then there are games like Stratego, which have no 'luck' but require you to
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by starwed 15y ago
For a long time, reddit's mobile interface was broken in anything other than webkit, entirely because of a single -webkit CSS rule they were using to display the voting arrows. If just a few really popular sites have broken mobile sites b
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, that's a good point. Though most restaurant sites are so useless even on a computer that I don't bother visiting them -- I just check the hours/# on one of the review sites like Yelp. In recent times most local places I care about hav
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by starwed 15y ago
>TBH, if I heard a CEO of a for-profit didn't try to get a higher pay package, I'd be wondering about this CEO's business skill. That's because you, like all people, suck at thinking rationally. :D
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by starwed 15y ago
Anytime there was a post about firefox mobile on /r/reddit, folk came out of the woodwork saying they would never even consider using it until it supported flash. (Which, interestingly, it now does.) I have no fucking idea what people find
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by starwed 15y ago
Yeah, lets just go ahead and assume there are no technical reasons here...
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by starwed 15y ago
They didn't say 'complete the standardization process before implementing'. I think the idea is to start the process, so that you don't just show up at the door with a fully working implementation leaving others to play catch-up.
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by starwed 15y ago
Bespin didn't choose Canvas on a whim. IIRC they initially prototyped with divs and found that performance simply wasn't good enough. Since then browsers implementations have advanced such that this is no longer so -- it didn't make the in
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by starwed 15y ago
I speak only one language and found it pretty trivial to switch from JS to Coffeescript. I guess it's always possible I have an innate capacity for languages I've never actually developed, though... :P
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by starwed 15y ago
I direct your attention to the name of the "organization"...
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by starwed 15y ago
Yeah, that's the one reason I never really run Ubuntu on my Air, even after I successfully jumped through all the hoops to get it installed. :) I tried several different sets of tweaks but none of them felt right. Especially, I don't thin
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by starwed 15y ago
I actually ended up writing my thesis using Eclipse with two plugins, one to support latex and one to support git, and that worked surprisingly well.
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by starwed 15y ago
Go to craigslist, and try searching for only 1 BR apartments.
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by starwed 15y ago
I recently discovered padmapper while apt hunting, and it's a godsend. It scrapes craigslist for data and posts it to a map. The killer feature is obviously to be able to look at a region and see what's available, but the filtering options
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by starwed 15y ago
I don't understand why the "disemvoweling" was ironic? That was something that she was already well known for doing on her own blog. I actually stopped reading boingboing after the Violet Blue thing, because their response to it seemed so
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by starwed 15y ago
Sure, but the forward button hasn't been removed -- you can still use it, but only when there's actually a forward stack. I think the ratio of back to forward button uses was something like 100:3 in that study. (I rarely use either button -
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by starwed 15y ago
Weirdly, there's actually a bug filed for that: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701653
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by starwed 15y ago
They did some user studies and found that a fair number of folk never use the forward button at all. Here's one study, not sure if it is the most recent: https://heatmap.mozillalabs.com/ 40% of users never touched the forward button even
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by starwed 15y ago
I've been using the Firefox nightly channel for a while, and I had never even noticed this change til it was pointed out to me. I think you're overestimating the opportunity for confusion, here... :) -edit- I'm using OS X, perhaps the chang
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by starwed 15y ago
One of the devs keeps a blog, and he has a post about implementing unique closures. (There are several posts on the topic actually, since I guess the idea evolved a bit with time. Just check out the Rust category for more...) http://small
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by starwed 15y ago
I've always heard that yes, Elsevier is especially bad. They charge more, and make more profit -- but the higher price comes entirely from the market share lock-in, and not from any additional quality/service.
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by starwed 15y ago
The problem was soliciting donations with the promise that the funds would be given to a particular charity/cause. Presumably in the past that has often been done in a fraudulent manner. Just asking for money isn't going to have that parti
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by starwed 15y ago
>I used to work in construction This is why you were able to fall asleep! If I get up early (~6am) in the morning, my body just doesn't seem to care -- I won't fall asleep (or even feel truly tired) until about 2am. Unless I actually
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by starwed 15y ago
The actual slashdot interface is pretty bad, but I don't think the mechanics of the voting system are to blame.

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