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by unfletch 14y ago
There's really something to this. The original symbols needed to be universally understood because they were intended to be used on signs, which are obviously a static medium. The web and apps can be tailored to the observer's language pr
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by unfletch 14y ago
A QR code? What did you have in mind for interaction? As far as I know you'd need at least two devices (the one whose screen is displaying the image with the QR code, and the one you're using to snap a photo of it). And then you'd probabl
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by unfletch 14y ago
If we had moon lobbyists, it would probably be because the coal/oil/defense/farming/etc. industries discovered a way to make some money up there.
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by unfletch 14y ago
The interface is officially called "URL decomposition IDL attributes." IIRC it's only implemented by <a/>, <area/> and the Location object. Here are the canonical docs: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-LC/urls.html#interfaces-
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by unfletch 14y ago
Slate thinks so, as of 2008: Even after allowing for discounted entry fees, the back of the envelope says the Webbys could be taking in more than $2 million from its contestants. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/p
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by unfletch 14y ago
Since you obviously wanted to win, sorry you got cheated, but at this point I think the only people who pay any attention to the Webbys are those who've paid to be "nominated."
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by unfletch 14y ago
I know someone named Null who's had similar problems as a user of web apps. In fact I mentioned it here a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440890
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by unfletch 15y ago
You're thinking of preventing the default action, not stopping propagation. (Event.preventDefault() vs. Event.stopPropagation() in modern browsers.) But you're right, if they handled the right-click and did not explicitly prevent the defa
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by unfletch 15y ago
"Evil" ain't what it used to be.
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by unfletch 15y ago
Which ones are lumped in? Facebook and Instapaper are explicitly mentioned as examples of apps that prompt for permission before accessing the address book. Instagram, Foursquare and Path's prompts are only mentioned in passing, but those
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by unfletch 15y ago
Or extra point, punt, kickoff, or, on occasions so rare as to almost be extinct (only 1 since 1941 -- in 2006), a drop kick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Jsz-fSNd4 (It's hard to see in the video, but this differs from a punt in that
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by unfletch 15y ago
The title of this article should have been "Don't use class names to store data." Finding elements by class name is fine. This is about misusing the class attribute.
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by unfletch 15y ago
I think the "web sites bundled as apps" is speaking more of an app that consists only of a webkit view which loads some web site. A single-site browser app. There's a service called Tapatalk that does something very similar to what Appifie
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by unfletch 15y ago
Does anyone have pointers to good resources for workers looking for remote positions?
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by unfletch 15y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/552/
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by unfletch 15y ago
Then what's the problem? You stored float 1.410 and got back float 1.41. They're equal. That's not jQuery, it's javascript: http://jsfiddle.net/kgp2H/1/ Edit , after the parent was edited to include the data attribute example: You shoul
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by unfletch 15y ago
As far as I can tell this might just be false. If you go to github.com (a random site which happens to include query 1.7.1 -- the latest version), open the console in either firebug or webkit inspector, and run the author's example:
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by unfletch 15y ago
Nice work! It definitely looks very similar, but if you compare the animations closely I don't think you can say it's been recreated. (And I'd bet perfecting the animation is one place some Path engineer and/or designer spent a lot of tim
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by unfletch 15y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but the quote is misattributed. It was probably first said by Gary Shilling, a writer for Forbes, in 1993: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
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by unfletch 15y ago
I wonder if this includes customers who've put their account "on hold" rather than canceling. My wife decided she didn't need it anymore, but may someday want to go back. She's effectively cancelled, but the account still exists in their
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by unfletch 15y ago
This has nothing to do with the amount of data you use on your phone. Those plans remain the same. As for their "mobile data" (hotspot) plans, there's still an unlimited one of those, too. Granted it's 4G only. What they've changed is th
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by unfletch 15y ago
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by unfletch 15y ago
Or until you install today's update. It's fixed in 5.1.1, which is included in the OS X 10.7.2 software update: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000
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by unfletch 15y ago
There are real-world problems that get in the way here, but that's a misapplication of the spec. A given recording is supposed to be assigned one ISRC. If that recording is released by another entity in another region, it should use the e
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by unfletch 15y ago
This is why ISRC exists. It's like ISBN for recordings, and it's in active use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isrc A few years back I worked for a startup that was cataloging recorded music. I recall that the major labels would provide u
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by unfletch 15y ago
You may have seen something about the Air Mag auction over the last few weeks. (Nike's limited edition run of the sneakers Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future 2.) When the auction popped up in the news I ended up on Nike's promotional
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by unfletch 15y ago
The things he calls "bang commands" are actually "event designators" (!!, !blah), "word designators" ($) and "word modifiers" (:p). There are links to docs for each at the bottom of this page: http://www.gnu.org/s/bash/manual/html_node/Hi
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by unfletch 15y ago
I get a ton of misdirected email, but for different reasons. The first is that I have a common nickname @gmail.com. There are many other users with some variation on that nickname @gmail.com, and people are careless about typos, including s
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by unfletch 15y ago
It's not bizarre, it's sensationalistic. If you hadn't heard the phrase "link bait", you've now been introduced.
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by unfletch 15y ago
Nice work, but the "they look like they were drawn by programmers" comment makes me think you missed the point of Gravatar's specific default avatars. They're intentionally ugly. The theory is that an ugly default avatar makes the user more

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