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by werdnapk 10y ago
They do also say in the article about the Touch ID button: "That button also doubles as the power button, so fixing a power button may be a more costly affair than it once was."
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by werdnapk 10y ago
Turbolinks 3 (now known as Turbolinks Classic) is old news. Rails 5 will ship with Turbolinks 5 and 5 has no support for partial rendering. I tried partial rendering in TL3 and liked what it did. I then moved to TL5 and couldn't figu
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by werdnapk 11y ago
It's quite common in Quebec, Canada, but not the rest of the country.
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by werdnapk 11y ago
Digital Ocean also has a new Canadian datacenter... https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-ne...
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by werdnapk 11y ago
Studies (recent and past) have linked red meat consumption to certain cancers. Are Argentina's cancer rates actually any higher than anywhere else or is it basically negligible?
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by werdnapk 11y ago
I've known Argentinians who didn't know Fernet was actually Italian and not from Argentina. Fernet and Coke is definitely Argentina's national drink.
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by werdnapk 11y ago
As mentioned in the article, he tossed almost everything overboard to make the boat more stable in the waves.
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by werdnapk 11y ago
No.
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by werdnapk 11y ago
Rails apps use a Gemfile.lock file to "lock" an app to specific Ruby library/dependency (gems) versions.
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by werdnapk 11y ago
I actually seem to prefer the TressFx "Off" in the demo. Still in the uncanny valley territory with the "On" stuff. For example, in the first demo scene, she's hanging upside down, but only her pony tail is hanging
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by werdnapk 12y ago
This is hardly the worst of what some of the new "standard" CSS3 properties looks like. Those MS properties actually look sane in comparison to recent CSS3 properties.
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Here's a skit from an old Canadian comedy show about this song (apologies for the quality, but the original aired sometime in the early 90's I believe). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_3nQFNy-w Mark McKinney&#x
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Why does the icon src need to be specified twice?
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Short? Perhaps, but as a front-end web developer I really like to see vanilla HTML to grok instead of the DOM being created via helper functions.
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Because the PS1 was released just before Windows 95?? Maybe they decided to choose a popular start up tone from that time.
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by werdnapk 12y ago
I paraglide and a barometer sensor allows me to use my phone as a variometer (measures altitude changes while flying amongst other functions).
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Very useful for generating fake data when writing test cases.
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by werdnapk 12y ago
Not sure why the need to invent a new word for this. Scroll "twitch" would have been a perfectly acceptable choice I would think. ie. Twitchy scrolling.
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by werdnapk 12y ago
What I assume is the background video bluescreened my windows 7 machine. Yikes! All I saw was video artifacts begin to form on the page and then POOF!
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by werdnapk 13y ago
Canada pretty much uses X litres/100km nowadays recently replacing mpg. The lower the litres, the more efficient the vehicle. It actually was fairly easy to become accustomed to these new metrics.
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by werdnapk 13y ago
shift+scroll appears to scroll me back and forth in my browser history (Using FF).
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by werdnapk 13y ago
I'm the author of a popular app that has been copied by many many other developers. Despite many complaints to try and limit the copy-cats, Apple does nothing and leaves the issue up to the developers to sort out between themselves fo
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by werdnapk 13y ago
King is no different than Zynga. The best formula for making it in the appstore is to copy other peoples work. This has been apparent for quite some time now.
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by werdnapk 13y ago
I find chruby ( https://github.com/postmodern/chruby ) to be a much nicer alternative to rbenv nowadays.
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by werdnapk 13y ago
How does this all work with non-inlined event handlers? I see a lot of on-click, on-change going on in these examples.