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TweedHeads
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About TweedHeads
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Comment #819192
PHP is the BASIC of web development, nothing to configure, no main routines, just type and run. echo "Hello world"; and from there all the functions you may need to do whatever you…
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Comment #818885
There is a fundamental flaw in that theory, and it is based in the assumption that travelling at the speed of light affects time, which it doesn't. It only APPEARS TO THE RELATIVE …
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Comment #817572
What I love: - canvas - svg - css3 - web fonts - web sockets - local storage - geolocation HTML5 tags? It could've been better with custom tags.
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Comment #816598
"Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18" How about just updating Safari?
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Comment #809027
"The only restrictions are time and taste." Looks like only time is on their side.
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Comment #805480
How about replacing http:// by a universally accepted unicode char so we can save 7 more chars? Pick yours...
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Comment #800064
Hmm, how about instead of 555-1234 use: 555-1234 or 555-1234 555-5678 That way we can be future-proof. There you have it, fully stylable, customizable and semantic anonymous tags.
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Comment #795783
Let me guess, Google is evil, never use gmail again, gmail is used for torturing baby seals. How different law applies to hotmail or yahoo mail? Oh I see, they are all equal under …
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Comment #794741
Underhyped? scoble is wrong 10B dollars? scoble is wrong again I guess we are used to scoble being wrong all the time
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Comment #794735
There is real opinion against a tool/platform and there is FUD, payperpost and propaganda disguised as an innocent blog post. In this days of information overflow we need to learn …
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Comment #791392
data-fullpath ??? Who picks these horrible definitions? How about just data? or path? datasrc? datapath? Just as bad as itemprop in microdata, sheesh! Hairy warts on the soft skin …
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Comment #788346
Exactly, HTML is still boring with sections and navs, but Javascript and CSS3 make it a different beast worth taming.
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Comment #787663
Flight tickets come to mind.
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Comment #786434
Your browser will become like a chat client and there will be two main events that will interact with you in real time: Browser events and page events. A browser event will update …
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Comment #786316
Imagine the web as a giant chatroom where servers talk to servers and clients to clients. You will get instantly updated only things that are worth being updated instantly. The rea…
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Comment #784706
"They don't trust us, and I resent that, because the vast majority of us are trustworthy." The vast majority is trustworthy, but one or two is enough to infest the AppStore with ma…
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Comment #784020
Beautiful!
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Comment #783144
Full anonimity, thanks to tilly (separated for better understanding): builder = function(x){ return function(n){ return x(x)(n); }} factorial = function(f){ return function(n){ ret…
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Comment #782722
Javascript can do it all: function fac(x){ return x==0?1:x*fac(x-1); } a = fac(8); or a one-liner: a = (function fac(x){ return x==0?1:x*fac(x-1); })(8); Both ways spit 4320
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Comment #782500
I know the history of Nokia and open source. If you give me candies and later on you make me suck your cock that doesn't make you adorable. I'll leave this question open: why not j…
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Comment #782263
"Its first netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will use Microsoft’s Windows software and Intel’s Atom processor" There, doomed. If you don't extend your arms to the open source communit…
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Comment #780768
"An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular" Then the title is misleading. Rebol as an influence to what? We should ask that question to Brendan to see what influenced H…
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Comment #780726
Crockford should stop claiming he invented JSON. Brendan Eich did, JSON is Javascript, part of it, its own data structure, it is javascript object notation. What Crockford did was …
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Comment #779309
Taking a closer look at my macbook keyboard, of all the lisp forks, I'd go with squared brackets [lisp] for convenience. Ergonomics win.
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Comment #779282
Dear Paul, when I say its syntax is its best friend, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Now, say I fork lisp and change one little thing: (defun foo (n) (lambda (i) (incf n i))…