timmclean

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   by timmclean 13y ago

   I don't agree with the rationale, but the FAQ does indeed reflect what is currently expected on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
2. 92.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   FYI, your "The Team" link in the page footer seems to be broken (links to http://boards.coffeestrap.com/team )
3. 93.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   > I suspect we will end up focusing more on the log as a commoditized building block irrespective of its implementation in the same way we often talk about a hash table without bothering to get in the details of whether we mean the murmu
4. 94.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   From their Kickstarter page[1]: > [the browser code] can also be verified against an open source repo with a browser extension [1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cryptic-io/cryptic-encry...
5. 95.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   This checklist discourages people from writing their own programming languages. Why not rewrite the checklist as positive, constructive advice around common pitfalls, instead of complaints like "You don't seem to understand X&quo
6. 96.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   It'd be nice if they implemented Pointer Lock: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Pointer_Lock
7. 97.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   Neat!
8. 98.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   Emailed!
9. 99.▲
   by timmclean 13y ago

   http://www.timmclean.net/json-editor/ A code editor that uses knowledge of a programming language's grammar. It's cool because it should be significantly more efficient than working in vim/emacs, and wi
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    by timmclean 13y ago

    I am not a mathematician, but I don't think this is actually begging the question. > you can't just take an arbitrary function and use this method Actually, you can, AFAIK. The relation f(x + E) = f(x) + f'(x)E still hold
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    Show HN: Substructed(timmclean.net)

    2 points by timmclean 13y ago|0 comments
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    Introducing Substructed(timmclean.net)

    2 points by timmclean 13y ago|0 comments
13. 103.▲
    by timmclean 13y ago

    w3fools.com had, at one point in time, a long list of "awful" and "wrong" parts: http://web.archive.org/web/20110117085131/http://w3fools.com...
14. 104.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I'm fascinated by the theory of increased variability in males being caused by brain-related genes in the X chromosome. I'd highly recommend checking out pages 18 and 19.
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    Is the pending German Copyright Bill good or bad for the Web?(blog.mozilla.org)

    11 points by timmclean 14y ago|6 comments
16. 106.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    Except IE's filters were an unrelated proprietary technology with an ugly syntax: filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Blur(pixelradius=2); compared to filter: blur(2px);
17. 107.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I agree. I find that the buttons don't "afford" clicking at all.
18. 108.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I don't see how this would be "cheating the system". There are skilled workers out there that can't receive the income they deserve simply because of their location. Locking out foreign workers is basically geographical discrimination --
19. 109.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    >> It will force you to type faster than you are able The text is appearing really slowly for me. Is there something that I'm missing? I have to keep waiting for it to catch up to me. EDIT: I was using Firefox. In Chrome, it's com
20. 110.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I think the idea is that native apps (in most cases) can only run on the platform they were developed for. Web apps, on the other hand, can theoretically run on any platform with a solid web browser. Mozilla wants to use Firefox OS to enc
21. 111.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    Sure, but I think it's still possible to explain something well without being inaccurate.
22. 112.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    Even better than Firefox OS?
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    Tracking Down Memory Leaks in Node.js(hacks.mozilla.org)

    8 points by timmclean 14y ago|0 comments
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    by timmclean 14y ago

    I poked around the data a bit (I uploaded a JSON file below). First, I separated the tweets into two sets based on the last eight hex digits (00s and 50s). In each set, I parsed each 16-digit message as an integer, converted that to a binar
25. 115.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I collected the last 3244 tweets (a limit of the Twitter API) and posted them here in JSON for your enjoyment: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7huqe8
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    by timmclean 14y ago

    See also: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/color-says-not-shutting-dow... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665928
27. 117.▲
    by timmclean 14y ago

    I assume those stories would be included in both averages?
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    by timmclean 14y ago

    Nice. It's like a shareable version of Firefox's Responsive Design View!
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    by timmclean 14y ago

    Previous discussion of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560691 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650929
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    by timmclean 14y ago

    I can't see how the golden ratio is useful in making a window the "perfect size"...