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by wanderr 16y ago
Quantcast has no asyncronous tracking. If their servers are running slow at all, their javascript will block your site from loading, even if you have it at the bottom. I know this because it happened to us. We contacted them about it but th
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by wanderr 16y ago
How long did it take to get to the halfway decent (and I do mean halfway) browser that it is from the rewrite? How long would it have taken to get there /without/ the rewrite? EDIT: If you're going to downvote at least explain why...
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by wanderr 16y ago
No way? Explain?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I'm not too familiar with CouchDB in particular or what exactly a "document" is. Let's say I have a site about books. I need to be able to look up books by author, title, isbn and users who have it in their catalogue. Is there a way in Couc
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by wanderr 16y ago
I stopped reading when he said consistency is in your hands (with noSQL). Since you have to manage relationships, and doing so requires several round trips to the datastore, and generally doesn't involve transactions, what happens when inse
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by wanderr 16y ago
I also work both. I rotate or "flip" my schedule about every week and a half. I find working in the evening to be my most productive time, but coming in early is wonderful for collaboration and coordination. By splitting my schedule I'm abl
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by wanderr 16y ago
We are still suffering from the effects of a developer who employed #1 throughout the codebase. We have both Object and Collection, and bypassing his classes results in reduuced memory usage by a factor of 10 and improved performance by a f
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by wanderr 16y ago
Shouldn't this effect of amplification of RF waves be directly measurable? Why write a speculative article about it without doing any tests?
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by wanderr 16y ago
"the electricity delivered during off-peak periods comes from dirty coal-fired power stations--rather negating the point of having a zero-emission vehicle in the first place." Except these so-called dirty coal plants are still far cleaner t
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by wanderr 16y ago
If you disable 3rd party flash cookies, that should eliminate all unwanted tracking. Meanwhile, flash cookies are useful for other things: Pandora uses them to keep you logged in forever, even if your session on the server dies (unless you
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by wanderr 16y ago
It's possible to make that work. It works on http://listen.grooveshark.com on OS X in most browsers, it's just a matter of embedding the swf in wmode=window and writing some JS to force the browser to send the scroll events through to the
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by wanderr 16y ago
Nobody's arguing that you should ditch Flash today Clearly, you haven't spoken to my boss. ;)
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by wanderr 16y ago
I thought HN did do that checking. Sorry.
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by wanderr 16y ago
The scrolling works just fine for me in Firefox. Each browser implements scroll events a bit differently though, so you have to implement some hacks to get around that. I think you're forgetting that Flash has replaced HTML for many thing
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by wanderr 16y ago
Real question: if user agent sniffing is wrong, what is the proper way of determining whether certain behavior will be buggy in a given browser? Example: every browser sends mouse events (esp relating to scolling) to plugins differently. We
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by wanderr 16y ago
If only SOAP wasn't the face of RPC to most people, you probably wouldn't get downvoted so hard. ;) SOAP is horrible but REST is worse. JSON-RPC is elegant and simple. I wish more people would use it.
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by wanderr 16y ago
I'm 29 and I've never subscribed to a paper. Even if the only way to get news was to pay for it, I'd pay for a digital subscription of some kind before I'd ever consider subscribing to a paper. Newspapers are wasteful, messy, and of course
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by wanderr 16y ago
He's complaining about the UI design, not making any claims that Amazon is being fundamentally evil here.
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by wanderr 16y ago
All disastrous human failure is system failure. If the system allows human failure to cause a massive disaster, the system is flawed.
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Paul Stamets on Mycoremediation of Oil Spills(fungi.com)
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by wanderr 16y ago
Yeah, entirely depends on the barista, unfortunately. Oddly if I ask them to leave room and then ask for soy after they make my drink they have no problem giving it to me...but all this is way too much interaction to just get a damn coffee.
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by wanderr 16y ago
So they'll let you try to run them if you have a webkit based browser but that's it? Can anyone confirm that any non-webkit based browsers work?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I did an AMA on Reddit and have to admit it was pretty fun. As a programmer, I was a bit disappointed that the questions were not very technical or in depth for the most part. I'd bet that the AMA questions would be a lot more relevant here
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by wanderr 16y ago
I've been pining for just such an app for a while now. Nice!
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by wanderr 16y ago
Odd, when I go there in Firefox I can get to the pages but if I click View Demo on any of them (well, I tried the first 3) it still yells at me and tells me that I need Safari.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Actually I'm told that the reason flash doesn't get the HTTP headers is actually due to the browser API, not Flash itself. In that case Silverlight shouldn't have access to them either unless it bypasses the browser altogether for communica
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by wanderr 16y ago
My girlfriend was a barista in college, so I know about the hacks but I feel like enough of a dork ordering a "tall quad iced americano with a splash of soy" without making it even more complicated. Honestly I'd rather just pay the extra at
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by wanderr 16y ago
Me too. I greatly prefer the tools that are available to me in Windows, but apparently I'm a freak for wanting a decent GUI IDE; most of my colleagues just use vim.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Additionally, aren't there tools available that can convert your CSS to an optimized form? If so you can always write it for readability, but "compile" it for release to a more performant arrangement.
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by wanderr 16y ago
My favorite coffee shop actually charges less for iced coffee than hot, but: -They brew hot coffee one cup at a time with very high quality coffee -They use an admittedly lower quality coffee for iced so that it tastes stronger. It's still

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