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by xtian 12y ago
> To some extent we questioned whether anyone needed a framework at all. This is the #1 saddest trend in software today. I see it all the time. Look, if you can't figure out what value people get from a tool, please don't bothe
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by xtian 12y ago
His feeling that his thoughts were too precious to let go of might be more important to examine than whatever he wrote down.
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by xtian 12y ago
I know almost nothing about meditation or Buddhism, but I would think that holding on to ideas and realizations so you can journal them is not just cheating "a little bit." It's contrary to the whole purpose of the exercise.
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by xtian 12y ago
You must have a pretty sad definition of the word "relationship" to exclude two companies that share executives.
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by xtian 12y ago
PIA gets a lot of recommendations but no one ever mentions that a great number of sites prevent you from using them from the PIA addresses. I've had a lot of trouble with financial and e-commerce sites in particular (which are also the
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by xtian 12y ago
You wouldn't call it Windows Eight Eight Point One, would you?
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Fluid simulation with 512k particles(cake23.de)
5 points by xtian 14y ago|0 comments
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by xtian 14y ago
Absolutely, and I think that is its most serious flaw. Is that really the purpose of education?
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by xtian 14y ago
Perhaps the most important difference between employees and students is that employees get paid for their time.
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by xtian 14y ago
Node has synchronous file I/O APIs for the use case you mention.
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by xtian 14y ago
Bourbon is another alternative for SASS. http://thoughtbot.com/bourbon/
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by xtian 15y ago
https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/server It's weird to me that they list the node dependencies in the server README instead of using a package.json. Very cool project, though.
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by xtian 15y ago
People were already bemoaning the decline in quality when I started reading a year ago, but even then, the type of article that made it to the front page was completely different than what you could find on any other site. We are getting pr
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by xtian 15y ago
Decent, but still worse than everything else.
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by xtian 15y ago
No, that article was posted after this one. This article is, in part, about nodemanual.org.
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by xtian 15y ago
Nodemanual.org looks like it could become a good resource, but the cheesy Photoshop-brush grass drives me nuts. It's the epitome of amateurish design as decoration.
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by xtian 15y ago
The paper is just describing common sense stuff: using eval() on user input and passing user input directly to a database.
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JavaScript WebP Implementation(webpjs.appspot.com)
1 points by xtian 15y ago|0 comments
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Sizing with CSS3's vw and vh units(snook.ca)
7 points by xtian 15y ago|2 comments
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by xtian 15y ago
Check out ryppi for bare-bones package installation, though: https://github.com/japj/ryppi
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by xtian 15y ago
It was Doug Bowman, not Zeldman.
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by xtian 15y ago
JSONSelect ( http://jsonselect.org ) provides a CSS-like query syntax for JSON. I haven't used it much yet, though, so I don't know how it performs.
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by xtian 15y ago
Sure, but this is only true if the operating system knows the correct ppi for the display (not guaranteed) and only useful if you know the physical dimensions of the client (almost never).
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by xtian 15y ago
Physical units like points and inches render inconsistently because operating systems make different assumptions about the pixels per inch of a screen. They work great for @media print styles, though.
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Font sizing with rem(snook.ca)
61 points by xtian 15y ago|8 comments
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by xtian 16y ago
They actually aren't already wrapped. The .eq() method pulls an element out of the collection and wraps it in a new jQuery object.
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by xtian 16y ago
Ah yeah, I forgot you had to use .eq().
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by xtian 16y ago
And :first-child is valid CSS2.1.
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by xtian 16y ago
Interacting with the DOM is what's slow. It's especially slow if the native querySelectorAll method isn't available because any non-trivial selections necessitate iterating over the DOM tree. That's why you don't want to re-query a selectio
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by xtian 16y ago
But wouldn't multiple potentially long loops on initial load have a greater possible impact on user experience than one extra call to $() per event?

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