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by tvararu 9y ago
The only way I'm aware of today is to learn to use assistive technologies and use them on the right combinations of browser/OS/version. These are recommendations for common combinations. [0] I've given the CI deal a good
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by tvararu 9y ago
Not sure about Apple, but on a hackintosh you can install Nvidia Geforce drivers that allow you to turn on GSync.
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by tvararu 9y ago
These kind of high-level overviews of prototype implementations are very useful, thank you for sharing.
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by tvararu 9y ago
Airport routers are not vulnerable to this exploit. macOS and iOS computers have been issued patches to mitigate the issue on vulnerable networks. Source: https://m.imore.com/krack-wpa2-wi-fi-exploit-already-fixed-i...
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by tvararu 9y ago
Tacking on accessibility at the end is very difficult (most of the time it's quicker to rewrite). By not considering it from the beginning it means these components will never be usable by people with access needs. Also it is possible
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by tvararu 9y ago
Interesting, when I used to play League of Legends I was sure that the crit chance wasn't random at all. In my experience, at 25% crit precisely every 4th strike would crit, at 50% precisely half, and at 75% every 4th strike I'd d
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by tvararu 10y ago
John Romero learned this in his early days at ID Software: it's crucial that you can still boot the game even when things are missing, but make them very apparent. Source: somewhere in this video https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by tvararu 10y ago
You might be interested in the results of the 2016 GOV.UK assistive technology survey. [0] iOS VoiceOver ranked as one of the 3 most popular screen readers, second to JAWS for Windows [1] (closed source, paid) and above NVDA for Windows [2]
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What's WebVR good for?(blog.vararu.org)
1 points by tvararu 10y ago|1 comments
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by tvararu 10y ago
Nothing. You can plug in four chargers, one in every port, and it will only draw power from one.
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A computer you'll fall in love with(blog.vararu.org)
2 points by tvararu 10y ago|1 comments
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by tvararu 10y ago
It costs $2.60 to view the website in Canada with non-retina images. Source: https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/161007_QR_78c23294113b6c...
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by tvararu 10y ago
Numbers, Sheets and Keynote are all free apps. Office for Mac is not. Keynote for iOS also serves as a very reliable and easy to set up presentation remote.
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by tvararu 10y ago
I agree with the adjacent comment that your story smells of confirmation bias. I suggest conducting an experiment: speak to your girlfriend (away from your phones) and establish a list of highly specific subjects/products. Then, bring
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Lionhead: The inside story(eurogamer.net)
2 points by tvararu 10y ago|0 comments
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by tvararu 10y ago
London's skyline includes buildings affectionately referred to as the gherkin [1], the cheesegrater [2], and the walkie-talkie [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe [2] https://en.wikipe
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by tvararu 11y ago
> This has been a UK government stance for a while As further confirmation, it's cemented as one of the ten design principles behind GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/design-principles#tenth
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by tvararu 11y ago
I actually learned enough git to be dangerous by reading "Learn Rails by Example." And some TDD, and some Heroku, and some Bootstrap, all as side-effects from the main dish. Quite an eye-opener. Thank you for all your work!
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by tvararu 11y ago
I haven't used ASP.NET Web Forms but from giving them a brief look I would say so. Combined with SignalR.
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by tvararu 11y ago
> While you can upgrade apps in a "big bang" approach where you halt production until everything is rewritten That is some very unsound advice. I find it worthy of ridicule that it's being suggested as a possibility. The u
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by tvararu 11y ago
I didn't know that! Maybe that's why I can't recall how any of it sounds, short of a disconnected beep and boop here and there.
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by tvararu 11y ago
The reason I thought the previous version was a webview was due to the not-really-native-looking settings pane (Cmd+,), which turned into a much more typical looking one post-update. Thank you so much for the input, and thanks for helping b
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by tvararu 11y ago
I felt this coming given my experience using the Mailbox desktop app since it launched: - Good experience, fairly regular releases, stability increasing with each one. - Stagnation in releases, but app is in a fairly good working state. - O
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by tvararu 11y ago
I thought that was intentional; the copy for levels 3 and 4 heavily hint at what the values should be. The learner is encouraged to try and guess. This is similar to the way that https://rubymonk.com/ for example shows you
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by tvararu 11y ago
Fallout 4, being a Bethesda game, has first class modding support on desktop PC. AFAIK, Xbox One should be getting similar capabilities within the next year, and PS4 is rumoured to follow suit. Mods give you complete access to accomplish an
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by tvararu 11y ago
> What I really would like to see is a counter example. Some GUI that just can not be done in Elm. I'm on the Elm/FRP fence myself but your comment here reeks of turing tarpit: "Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everyt
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by tvararu 11y ago
The first time I did visual regression testing, I generated a bunch of screenshots on my Mac, chucked them into version control, and then ran the tests on CI. They broke because of the font rendering differences between OS X and Ubuntu. The
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by tvararu 11y ago
> And remember, nothing was broken in a way that a machine would notice, so automated acceptance tests wouldn't have caught this regression. I'd like to nit here that visual regression test harnesses for web application develop
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by tvararu 11y ago
This depends on what you're hosting your article on, but you could either generate the vimrc programatically from the code in the article or generate the article from comments placed in your vimrc. Similar to a .litcoffee file.
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by tvararu 11y ago
I cackled and spat on my screen when I read the /s, well played.

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