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Google Chrome OS UI Concept Video(youtube.com)
2 points by txxxxd 17y ago|1 comments
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by txxxxd 17y ago
A computer not connected to the Internet.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
If Java was designed with testing in mind, there would be no such thing as dependency injection.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
But what if there's a bug in your contract?
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by txxxxd 17y ago
I think you are confused. Google shopping results are not paid advertisements.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
This author undervalues criticism. Being polite is not always the most effective way to create change.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
It's too bad Java/C++ were designed after unit testing became commonplace. Some of the advice here will actually improve your production code but a lot of this is just a case of the programmer having to work around the language. For example
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Introducing Closure Tools(googlecode.blogspot.com)
190 points by txxxxd 17y ago|69 comments
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by txxxxd 17y ago
Nice guerrilla marketing: http://fakeoffice.org/
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by txxxxd 17y ago
"Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer [...] is now in charge of not only Mint.com, but also all of Quicken’s online and desktop products." This is the best thing I've heard about the acquisition.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
In my experience the best way to end these types of design arguments is just to start coding. If you're good you'll have a decent prototype to show off before the rest of the team has reached a decision.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
Based on the 15% drop today, no.
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Introducing Google Social Search(googleblog.blogspot.com)
20 points by txxxxd 17y ago|8 comments
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by txxxxd 17y ago
"If net neutrality becomes a problem, the market will react people will stop using ISP X" Any of the networks your information travels through may decide to de-prioritize traffic to a site you visit. Your ISP is probably only in control of
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by txxxxd 17y ago
For any product there will always be someone who feels its not fit for their purpose. Its not your problem or the author's problem, its inevitable.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. (The requirement to provide telephone service to rural numbers falls under telephone regulation.)
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by txxxxd 17y ago
There is no single measure of security. The hacking competition mentioned is a perfectly valid data point though.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
Most of what I use was copied from this excellent site: http://www.vi-improved.org/vimrc.php
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by txxxxd 17y ago
It's much much faster than loading and rendering the html, images, and ads on the actual sites. I can zoom through articles pressing the left/right arrows with no perceptible latency.
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by txxxxd 17y ago
"It is perfectly expected that calling setHeight() on a Square will also change its width." If you're writing code that operates on Rectangles you wouldn't expect setHeight to have the side-effect of changing the width too. It's only "perfe
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by txxxxd 17y ago
"If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier."
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by txxxxd 17y ago
That's the first thing I noticed too after wondering why the fonts were rendering so poorly. This is bad for both accessibility and readability.