yeahbutbut

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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
> I don't have a specific problem with all of this, except I keep thinking a better solution would be to hammer browser manufacturers to keep their shit up to date or explain why they are not doing so. That's the thing though.
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Sorry, we just kind of threw that together in Perl to meet the deadline! ;;
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
These are more issues with how Javascript is handled on the web. I'd imagine that js sanitizers have gotten more sophisticated so the callback (first) example may be a bit weak; if you're accepting code from an unknown source, ev
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
In the standard case I agree (and I hope there is an option for that). I think the use case for this library is dropping it into a soup of HTML cooked up by a non-technical user. A programmer would have a JSON list to work with from the s
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Part of hacker culture is an appreciation for problems solved under arbitrary, weird, and usually difficult constraints. Practical this is not, but it's a cool demo that might inspire something useful. If you lose that sense of playfu
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
> Also, that might have finally gotten us a non-eye-stabbing standard function for "match any item of a space-separated list in an attribute" CSS handles this rather nicely: [class~=foo] https://developer.mo
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
It's not false, the illiteracy is just as widespread as in an era before free public education.
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
"There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself." --Alan Turing
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
> Still, using Python to pay the bills isn't so bad... Well, and pdb isn't bad .
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
Not necessarily. The material teachers distribute to classes come out of their budget (ink and paper aren't free). And the time taken to compile an entire course from scratch would not be insignificant. The copyrighted works we were s
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
>> If schools really wanted to teach it, it would be well within fair use laws for them to show the whole thing. > > No, not a chance. Even a few paragraphs would likely get them smashed, especially if they'r
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by yeahbutbut 13y ago
The problem (as I see it) is that when you learn a framework you're learning another person's vocabulary for talking about a category of problems. This is very useful when you're just starting out, but becomes problematic la