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by voyou 14y ago
If you want a Star Trek future, the last people you should be listening to are Jobs or Disney: http://www.peterfrase.com/2010/12/anti-star-trek-a-theory-of...
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by voyou 14y ago
Hardcore developers will start using ed. It allows you to focus on one line at once, with none of the distracting "context" of screen editors.
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by voyou 14y ago
What is Markdown, though, if not "a format which makes a computer program happy"? Presumably, your wife was already familiar with standard typographical conventions like italics for emphasis and indents to start paragraphs. A good text proc
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by voyou 14y ago
I don't loathe it, but I don't like it, and I'm sad that WYSIWYG text-editing software is still so bad that a kludge like Markdown seems like a good idea to people. Markdown isn't optimized for people (it's harder to read than properly type
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by voyou 14y ago
Yeah, but Howell's ideas are pretty much orthogonal to the web. A program that allows a number of virtual machines to cooperate in providing an interface to the user isn't an uninteresting idea, but it solves almost none of the problems the
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by voyou 14y ago
That post is totally wrong, though. There's no way in which URLs with opaque IDs in are better for humans than URLs with stubs. If the stub happens to jog a users memory about the content of the post, it might be useful, and even if it do
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by voyou 14y ago
People say "Apple just does just marketing" like marketing is easy or unimportant. But, you know what, Apple's success really is about marketing, and that's a good thing. Apple haven't made that many purely technical innovations, but what t
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by voyou 14y ago
"The "login" bit is often not where the biggest win for third-part auth is. It's in reducing friction in registration." Yes, which makes it particularly annoying when a website advertizes sign-up via social network only to immediately follo
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by voyou 14y ago
That's nonsense. Ericsson released a combined PDA/phone in 2000, and PalmOS based PDA/phones date back to at least 2002.
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by voyou 14y ago
"Are you saying there is nothing to patent about the implementation of gestures on your touchscreen, as opposed to hitting widgets like scrollbar?" Aren't touchscreen gestures just mouse gestures where a touchscreen replaces the mouse? That
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by voyou 14y ago
Yeah, but -1 isn't represented in IEEE 754 floating point as all bits one, is it? The ECMAScript standard specifies that the bitwise operators work by first converting their arguments to 32-bit signed integers, but at least how I read it, i
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by voyou 14y ago
indexOf returns -1 if the query isn't found in the string; -1 is usually represented as all bits 1, so a bitwise not on -1 is 0, which when converted to a Boolean is false. So ~x is more-or-less equivalent to x != -1; but its a bit obscure,
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by voyou 14y ago
I don't think that data supports the claim that Twitter is a one-way medium. What it shows is that there are a significant number of Twitter relationships which are one-way, but that doesn't mean that any individual is solely using Twitte
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by voyou 14y ago
I used Goodfilms briefly, but the rating system is so bad I stopped. The odd thing is that, as this blog post demonstrates, they recognize the problem and then totally fail to solve it. Ratings tend to be fairly bimodal, with people either
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by voyou 14y ago
"If this guy is as completely incompetent as he claims (and claims, and claims, and claims again) then why should we listen to anything he says?" Because, chances are, you're also as completely incompetent as he is.
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by voyou 14y ago
"And now it’s gone forever... and Adobe has set its sights on Air as a capable replacement for whatever Flash was good for." Someone should probably explain to this guy that Air is Flash.
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by voyou 14y ago
Stop trying to make D happen. It's not going to happen.
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by voyou 14y ago
Is that really incompatible with the Twitter display rules? The only things I can see on the News page that don't comply is not displaying the user's avatar and not displaying reply, retweet, etc., links. It seems like both of those could b
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by voyou 14y ago
"You can teach yourself enough code in 6 months to build SOMETHING, to move yourself along far enough to get to the next level." What is "the next level" in this case, though? Is the idea that if you can slap together a proof of concept it
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by voyou 14y ago
The blog post is actually annoyingly ambiguous - do they want to limit all the stuff in the "consumer engagement" quadrant, or just the "traditional clients," while encouraging other sorts of "consumer engagement" (they mention, and don't
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by voyou 14y ago
"Its extreme concision should make visually parsing code faster than parsing equivalent code in other languages." You know, I don't think this is true at all. Concision can make things harder to read, because you have to understand everythi
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by voyou 14y ago
NBC are streaming all the events live at http://www.nbcolympics.com/ , although you need to have a cable/satellite TV subscription to access the streams. The complaints about them not showing events live on TV are legitimate (not to ment
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by voyou 14y ago
Well, it's like they say: if you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product.
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by voyou 14y ago
What I don't know that I've ever seen in these kind of "replace email" articles is an investigation of why, if email is so unsuited to this task, it is so widely used this way. It may turn out that the things the author thinks are disadvant
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by voyou 14y ago
Why would you want to force users to use a markup language that, as you say, they have no desire to learn, rather than a simple WYSIWYG editor? How would that make things better for users?
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by voyou 14y ago
Such a thing exists: http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/pyapi-psp.htm... I don't think it's widely used, though, probably because the possibility of using PHP in this template-like way isn't actually a big advantage (serious P
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by voyou 14y ago
But many of the author's points don't apply to philosophy papers, either - when philosophers are deciding what to write they don't start with their conclusion any more than scientists and engineers do. Likewise, the author's claim not to ha
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by voyou 14y ago
AFAIK, using an ampersand character to represent an ampersand, rather than starting a character reference, is no longer a parse error in HTML 5 if it occurs in an attribute. See: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/tokenization.html#consume-a-cha
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by voyou 14y ago
No, I'm used to 1em being a reasonable size for body text - the text at that link says as much, but for some reason sets its own body text to 1.3 times browser default. I don't particularly object to it, I'm just curious as to why they thin
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by voyou 14y ago
Yeah, I've noticed this on a couple of sites too, particularly the default Octopress theme which (like this site) sets the text size on the body to a bit over 1em, and I don't understand why anyone would do this; what platforms are they dev

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