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Optimizing RegEx for Unicode Emoji(product.voxmedia.com)
1 points by thedz 12y ago|0 comments
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by thedz 12y ago
It is, and isn't. "Dwarf" is a different species than Humans, true, but D&D also use the "subrace" classificatin for things like Mountain Dwarves, etc. D&D is hardly the only or even first offender in this
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by thedz 12y ago
Why? It's a fairly common criticism of fantasy—that entire races and ethnic groups are pretty commonly stereotyped.
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by thedz 12y ago
Definitely needs citation. From some cursory reading prior to the Oscars, CITIZENFOUR appeared to be heavily favored to win.
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by thedz 12y ago
Hey! Guy who did the Polygon PS4 and Xbox review SVG animations here. This is really great stuff; has a super friendly API to boot. FWIW, we also released a generalized library for some of the things we were doing WRT frame-based and durati
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by thedz 12y ago
The Wii U says hi
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by thedz 12y ago
Yeah, not like multi-billion dollar corporations can R&D into multiple areas at the same time.
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Editorially joins Vox Media(stet.editorially.com)
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by thedz 13y ago
No, because you only need one example to prove that it is possible (and that, therefore, marketing can change our perceptions of cultural norms).
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by thedz 13y ago
For window resizing, i'd actually use debounce. Most times, a user resizes a window with a predetermined size in mind -- they want to show something behind the window, or want to make the window fill an existing space. In that case, sh
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by thedz 13y ago
> When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours Books don't have syntax highlighting, but having never read a book that does, I can't say one way or the other that it is a terrible idea.
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by thedz 13y ago
Right, from a UX perspective, throttle makes more sense due to more constant feedback. You want the user to realize that it is a live search before they finish typing. Else, they'll just type the entire query. But obviously, in thi
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by thedz 14y ago
It should be noted that while the screenshot shows only 17 responses, the actual survey* has 899 responses. Looks like only 17 responses fit the filters on the sample set. http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=b...
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by thedz 14y ago
I've always enjoyed watching his talks and reading his slides. He was a brilliant guy who will be missed.
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by thedz 14y ago
That's assuming their architecture is horizontally scalable like that. What if the bottleneck was at the db layer? If they didn't architect that out to be easily horizontally scalable, then simply adding more servers isn't really going to
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by thedz 14y ago
Probably majority of most software engineering is "getting away" with it as defined in this context. Which is trying to accomplish a goal with imperfect knowledge about the methodology. If the majority of someone's engineering involves con
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by thedz 14y ago
Is that really the best you can do? That analogy has absolutely nothing to do with baak's point. If you must reword and put his entire argument into a bad analogy, try this one: "I've been walking through mazes all my life. This one time, I
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by thedz 14y ago
From a comment on the Kickstarter page, it looks like someone was trolling by donating almost enough at the last second: My wife continued watching, as I went off to bed, and I heard a loud gasp... (her hands were up on her face as I walk
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by thedz 14y ago
heh, I thought the domain sounded familiar: http://blog.serverdensity.com/removing-memcached-because-its...
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by thedz 14y ago
It won't affect Polygon
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Ign.com currently banned on Reddit for vote cheating(reddit.com)
2 points by thedz 14y ago|1 comments
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by thedz 14y ago
TIL javascript functions are syntactic sugar.
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by thedz 14y ago
scammer on stage: "the economy is crappy, so there's never been a greater need for contrarian financial advice" wut scammer on stage: don't worry i'll explain to you how to make products and everything; that takes 4 minutes" facepalm
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by thedz 15y ago
Remember what?
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by thedz 15y ago
Only Facebook commenters have "enforced" real names, in that their Facebook name is used. Signing in with a Disqus account or Twitter uses the names that a user chose on that service, which typically is not a real name but some sort of pse
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by thedz 15y ago
The vast majority of my techie friends use it all the time. Maybe I just need better techie friends.
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by thedz 15y ago
Yup, the API lets you do that. You can pull our your comments and sync to a local datastore.
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by thedz 16y ago
Is that the sound of a joke passing over someone's head?
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by thedz 16y ago
How many datapoints are you using? One things that I've done (though in the end, we didn't need it realistically) was use a resolution function to tune the datapoints to fit the canvas width. If your canvas is only, say, 400 pixels wide, t
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by thedz 16y ago
Varnish wasn't in production at that point. We're testing/using Varnish now for some things. It definitely is helping. In the general caching front though, I want to note though that Disqus is particularly hard to cache -- there's a very l

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