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by theallan 13y ago
What is the "shadow" that appears to go across the plane in a very irregular manner? Is there a local dust cloud obscuring parts of the main plane?
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by theallan 13y ago
Is it possible to compile Blink and run it using asm.js in Firefox? Then you could run Firefox inside of the Blink renderer, also in asm.js, and ...
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by theallan 13y ago
Is this not simple supply and demand? If people didn't want to read magazines such as Hello etc they wouldn't buy them and the publishers would realign to what people do want to buy (be that reading about technology or anything el
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by theallan 13y ago
Absolutely aware of jqGrid, but to be honest I can't comment on how it compares to DataTables has I've never really worked with jqGrid. Perhaps I've taken the wrong approach, but I've tended not to look at the other tabl
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by theallan 13y ago
Plans to change it in the future. I'm planning on merging the abilities of ColVis (given that it just calls a standard DataTables API method) into TableTools and improving the TableTools API / configuration options. At the moment
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by theallan 13y ago
A full list of options are available here: http://datatables.net/ref . However, I totally accept that the documentation isn't up to scratch, which I why I'm working on completely redoing it. I'd be interested
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by theallan 13y ago
DataTables author here - I completely agree that the API is far from the best, which is why v1.10 will include an entirely new "modern" API (with a shim for the old API to provide full backwards compatibility). The prefix letters
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by theallan 13y ago
DataTables author here - I've often wondered what article or software I might write to see if I could get onto the hacker news front page. Apparently the trick is to wake up one morning and be very pleasantly surprised to see existing
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by theallan 14y ago
I'm not sure I can express in words how much of an effect Iain Banks' writing has had on my life. From my school English projects on some of the earlier books through to his latest work, his imagination and ability to convey those ideas in
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Author Iain Banks has terminal cancer(bbc.co.uk)
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by theallan 14y ago
There is another reason as well - at least in the UK if you are VAT registered. You need to know if your customer is in the UK, EU or outside of the EU, and if they are a business or not (their own VAT registration number), so you know if y
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by theallan 14y ago
Hadn't been planning it, but it sounds like a very sensible idea! Added an issue in GitHub which you can follow if you like: https://github.com/DataTables/VisualEvent/issues/26
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by theallan 14y ago
> Visualized event bindings. Would be awesome to have a visual indicator of event bindings right on the page. Color-coded bounding boxes drawn around elements with a label denoting the event type. A bit of shameless self promotion - I w
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by theallan 14y ago
This - I wish I could up vote multiple times. Fundamentally, distributors want to be able to use DRM to protect their content. If open standards won't provide a way to do that, there is no surprise that they turn to Silverlight etc.
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by theallan 14y ago
I run an open source project and I typically use github to track bugs, but I'm reluctant to have a dedicated bugzilla (or whatever) for the project as ~90% of bug reports are not bugs in my library, but rather installations issues or bugs i
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by theallan 14y ago
Why not? Its the same principle just a question of scale.
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by theallan 14y ago
You need to be able to prove that the purchase is B2B rather than B2C, and the easiest way of doing that is to get the buyer's VAT number. You could still do B2B without a VAT number, but you need to be able to prove that the buyer was a bu
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by theallan 14y ago
Do we know what the augmented reality part will look like from the user's perspective? The skydive jump looks like it is basically a head mounted video camera - and while there is no doubting that was technologically very impressive, full v
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by theallan 14y ago
Super - I look forward to hearing more about it!
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by theallan 14y ago
This looks really interesting for a project I'm working on. The license being used is obviously very open, but at the say time, does it effectively preclude proxying requests or caching returned results? Basically, if I wanted to offer the
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by theallan 14y ago
Depends on how you define effective. If you are getting free air time, with Apple PR picking up the bill, then yes, there probably is no better way of increasing your own revenue. However, if you are paying for the ad yourself - well, I gue
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by theallan 14y ago
It is on the Apple UK homepage - right at the bottom: http://www.apple.com/uk/ ("Samsung/Apple UK judgement" link). Wonderfully its in a 'div' with a class 'sosumi'.
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by theallan 14y ago
Looks really nice. A nice base to built up from. Out of interest - what is the level of browser support? For example IE6/7/8?
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by theallan 14y ago
How do you know it is open source without a license? Sure you can see the source code, but I wouldn't have said that is what makes it open - its the license that does.
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by theallan 14y ago
I would say almost certainly yes. In my own forum I found that a short period after I had implemented spam filtering, the moderation queue length (everything that gets rejected as spam goes in to the mod queue) had very little spam in it. I
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by theallan 14y ago
Perhaps it would simply come down to what happens to the tax rates show a local government have the ability to raise and lower taxes? Lower taxes and more grants for small businesses === more people willing to try their hand at their own bu
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by theallan 14y ago
I must admit I don't see the problem with equating universities with a talent pool. Could you elaborate on why that would be wrong? It isn't always true, but it is a reasonable assumption that graduates are of a decent calibre. I would full
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by theallan 14y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries
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by theallan 14y ago
Somewhat ironic that I found this through HN where I so often feel that the world is moving so much faster than I can possibly keep up. Some of the work produced and shown here is just superb, and so often I get the feeling of: Everyone se
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by theallan 14y ago
Nice idea, but I can't see this happening for a long time to come, for the fundamental reason that we simply don't get the required bandwidth to the premises. I live in a reasonable sized city in Scotland, and can't watch iPlayer streaming

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