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by tuxracer 10y ago
Chrome and Firefox currently support push notifications with GCM https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API and this is a standard API other vendors are free to implement
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by tuxracer 10y ago
If you RTFA you'd see the claim is that Facebook is activating the microphone to listen to non-electronic verbal communication you're having nearby your phone.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
I have t-mobile and just called up support and asked them to disable voicemail. My phone does just ring and ring without any weird messages to the caller. Maybe other phone companies are different but if you have t-mobile just call them up
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Web apps can work completely offline if the developer adds support https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/offline/ Not sure why this misconception about web apps requiring "always-on super-stable int
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by tuxracer 10y ago
<div style="display: flex; align-items: center;">Hello World</div> This works in the latest versions of all browsers. If you need legacy IE support things may get tricky.
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by tuxracer 10y ago
Actually they're removing it on Android even :(
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by tuxracer 11y ago
thought it only figuratively supported namespaces
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by tuxracer 11y ago
> Progressive enhancement leads to less initial effort. This is definitely not true across the board. I created a video player for reddit ( http://dailyblocks.com ) a while back which is completely client side rendered. Having
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Modern screen reader software looks at the output of the DOM. It isn't manually parsing raw HTML straight from the server (it's possible 10 or 15 years ago this was the case). So however the browser got that particular text on the
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Seems this is what Twitter is like when you get exposure in general. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9oZplyzDKc
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by tuxracer 11y ago
This is not accurate regarding Android http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-now-requires-full-device...
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Most screen readers look at the output of the DOM. They aren't trying to parse RAW HTML from the server. Really wish this myth would go away :/
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by tuxracer 11y ago
You can also commit specific lines using `git add -p`
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by tuxracer 11y ago
#Then #people #would #just #write #really #long #tweets #like #this.
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Actually there are some systems in the wild that block evil bit traffic https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/evil-bit-RFC3514-real-world-...
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Take someone who has already demonstrated the know how to make money selling illicit drugs and, as punishment, ban them from legitimate employment for life... That must be super effective! /s
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by tuxracer 11y ago
The false equivalence here is off the charts. Let's compare: http://image.baidu.com/search/index?tn=baiduimage&ipn=r&ct=2... to https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E7%8E%8B%E7%BB%B4%E6%9E%.
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Wow if this were true even normalized for years of experience, education, hours worked, specialty, etc... (which it is not) seems the market would make it incredibly difficult for men to find a job https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by tuxracer 11y ago
As a side note, new versions of iOS get adopted extremely fast. It's unlikely you need to maintain code to support more than a single version of iOS back. https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/
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by tuxracer 11y ago
China does have elections and voting on laws. However only a special group is able to participate in those elections. We still do not consider China to be a democracy by any stretch of the imagination. The people who the laws are enforced a
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by tuxracer 11y ago
It also depends on the DPI of your display. The classic Windows font renderer sacrifices accuracy for readability on low DPI displays. If the stroke of a font was going to be 1.3 pixels wide at a given siW Windows will just crop the extra 0
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by tuxracer 11y ago
Mac and Windows will 2x all images for users with HiDpi displays. You can use CSS to display the images as background-image then media queries are available to serve differently sized images for HiDPI. Alternatively, most images look comple
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by tuxracer 11y ago
If the Uber driver is using an Android phone the Uber app can launch the native Google Maps navigation. For the short term it wouldn't take much other than providing or even requiring Android devices for the driver
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by tuxracer 12y ago
Coincidentally I just yesterday bought an Arduino Yun, starter kit, and sensors. They were located near the 3D printer that was on sale. Maybe part of their problem is marketing.
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by tuxracer 12y ago
There is a price to be paid for those defensive abilities. If paying that price no longer affords any benefit that would put selective pressure on removing those now needless defenses.
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by tuxracer 12y ago
The pushState API has been available for years. This isn't an inherent limitation of single page apps. Even where the pushState API isn't available (older versions of IE) the anchor tag can be be used to maintain browser history s
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by tuxracer 12y ago
A number of these things are available in IE9 and older using https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim (including Object.create that the article was talking about)
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by tuxracer 12y ago
Headline: "Beware, Playing Lots of Chess Will Shrink Your Brain!" Last three sentences: "...shrinkage are not necessarily a bad thing. They can be a sign of neural efficiency and a reflection of behavioural expertise. Remembe
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by tuxracer 12y ago
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/09/galaxy-nexus-will-li...
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by tuxracer 13y ago
Teach a Dog to REST http://vimeo.com/17785736 is one of the best intros I've seen.

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