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by tjpick 17y ago
For colour e-ink follow http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=mirasol+qualcomm I've been pretty disappointed with mainstream media ignoring the not-e-ink problem with the iPad.
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Hungry? You may need more sleep(stuff.co.nz)
1 points by tjpick 17y ago|0 comments
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by tjpick 17y ago
could be that you forgot to mention "zen" in the title.
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by tjpick 17y ago
I want to give that a lot more up-votes.
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by tjpick 17y ago
> Trying to say this is some passive aggressive dominance thing is really, really stretching. True. > Some people are really obsessed with dirt and germs. Some people aren't. Some people find legs stretched out is quite comfortabl
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by tjpick 17y ago
> 44. Don’t strain to re-use code; reorganize instead. that's a good one that is easy to forget when you get into re-use mode
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by tjpick 17y ago
Nice concept, there's also html2text(1) One would have thought if people used their @media css correctly this would be even easier ;)
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by tjpick 17y ago
I'm completely excited about everything that's happening in the html5 ecosystem. It's been a plateau for the last 10 years, even with the buzzwords that have come and gone, not a lot of what I saw impressed me, and now it seems like all of
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by tjpick 17y ago
you might end up paying tax in 2 countries though. I think NZ has some tax agreement with the USA but I'm not sure on the finer details.
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by tjpick 17y ago
online there seems to be a bit of buzz. At work, where there a quite a few iphone/ipod users, there doesn't seem to be much interest. I'm personally more interested in getting an e-ink device but none of them has really caught my eye yet, t
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by tjpick 17y ago
> By the way, are you suggesting me to loose the horizontal lines separating the articles? yes, separating the articles and in the sidebar. You could consider it. I personally find a horizontal line breaks vertical reading/scanning flow
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by tjpick 17y ago
the attitude is still prevalent among people who are not so web focussed.
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by tjpick 17y ago
The html escaping looks broken, I can see escaped entities in the description text. Also the contrast between the description text, button text etc and their backgrounds is way too low. It feels really stripy, you could probably remove some
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by tjpick 17y ago
right. The idea is to work, rather than not work because you are stuck in analysis paralysis.
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by tjpick 17y ago
set and lists and dicts and raw values are pretty damn easy. Especially if you're programming functionally etc. (Different strokes for different folks.)
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by tjpick 17y ago
ah. Makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
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by tjpick 17y ago
or if you have relations, skip the object mapping and treat the data as lower level structures.
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by tjpick 17y ago
> The biggest performance problem I have with django is the ORM ORM is not the database access layer you are looking for.
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by tjpick 17y ago
I dunno. I'd be more tempted to put a useful page behind the URLs that are already being requested, or redirect them to some relevant content.
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by tjpick 17y ago
the problem with this attitude is you build a list of ideas and then don't end up working on any because none of them feel like they're the best you can come up with. Or you switch from idea to idea without really finishing any of them to t
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by tjpick 17y ago
well yeah but the gains from switching from svn or even cvs to a dvc system are far less than the gains from going from no version control to any. The thing that pisses me off is people switching, with virtually no good reason, to the curre
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by tjpick 17y ago
> IDed you know you've seen too many ads when you read that and think it's a new apple product. Scary.
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by tjpick 17y ago
If you treat the document as a collection, you can usually map a url to the particular property that needs updating and accept PUT to that. But that can be a pain if you don't know in advance which particular properties will be updated. I c
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Event-Driven Web Application Design(apache.sys-con.com)
1 points by tjpick 17y ago|0 comments
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by tjpick 17y ago
the current trend of plugging together frameworks and libraries does lead to some pretty boring, frustrating work. And the unfortunate thing is that in many cases they don't even reduce the complexity of the solution. (They certainly don't
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by tjpick 17y ago
Those books are both good suggestions too ;)
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by tjpick 17y ago
the thing is, you browse the first half dozen articles and there's no programming in there. You can't expect it to help you become a better programmer if there are no good code examples to follow. Anything else is just lip service. IMHO you
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by tjpick 17y ago
> While coding languages can be learned through study and practice, having an eye for design is more of an innate talent Good design can and should be learnt through study and practice. > the technical expertise it takes to engineer
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by tjpick 17y ago
That's what I've found too. The value of a css framework comes from showing you a structured way to achieve certain things, eg grid based design, font scaling. Once you know how to do that, you don't need the framework and it's probably jus
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by tjpick 17y ago
that's an excellent site. I stumbled across it a while back when researching knots but forgot about it until now. Glad it's shown up here.

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