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alisey

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    Comment #48500846

    And how is that even a fix? The problem is that a seemingly empty textarea has overflow in the first place. Adding `overflow: hidden` just sweeps the issue under the rug.

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    Comment #41818679

    In my experience, the results from those who claim they can judge skills based on a lunch conversation have not been good. I think people who can do it are the exception, not the n…

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    Comment #23236254

    https://drafts.csswg.org/css-align-3/#overflow-values

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    Comment #23236065

    And yet six years later still no widespread support for the 'safe' keyword. Which means the content can overflow the container without a way to scroll to some parts of it: https://…

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    Comment #21972887

    How do people even read on Twitter? All I can see on their desktop website is a single tweet with a "Show this thread" link that doesn't do anything.

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    Comment #21887619

    This reminds me of vacuous truth ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth ). I was recently writing a function that returns early if all items in a list meet a certain conditi…

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    Comment #21432883

    Surprisingly, yes, the video is exported as a sequence of JPEGs: https://jsbin.com/wodusuzeja/1/edit?js,output As for the tool, ffmpeg seems to work well enough.

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    Comment #13007120

    The most important reason is semantics. If "O" and "0" look alike in a certain font, should we use the same character code for both? No, because they have different meaning. Here a…

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    Comment #12192030

    > But it covers many cases, including the one here. In my experience, it doesn't even cover cases such as this one, but it certainly makes developers confident they don't need to a…

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    Comment #11993039

    Yes, a Method Object pattern http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MethodObject

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    Comment #11010919

    https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/

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    Comment #11006504

    Keep in mind that this algorithm is not in-place, so it wouldn't be fair to say that it's more 'elegant' than imperative quicksort implementations.

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    Comment #10811924

    In part 2 he writes about why it's not the essence of functional programming: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/which-programming-languages...

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    Comment #10441537

    I think you define passion too narrowly. It's hard to monetize your passion if the only thing you enjoy is drawing pumpkins with charcoal on the walls of 18th century buildings. Bu…

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    Comment #10441425

    > Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations! See, he acknowledges the …

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    Comment #9838373

    Every basic emotions researcher comes up with a different list. But most of the lists include some version of fear, anger, disgust, and joy (but not sadness). "Emotional Brain" by …

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    Comment #9090751

    I gave this question to a friend and she came up with what I think is a beautiful answer. Remember min and max X and Y coordinates seen so far, and count the number of steps. When …

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    Comment #9089103

    The question starts with: "Consider a finite checkerboard of unknown size", which means you don't know the value of size-squared. Bitmap requires O(n) space, while the Carpenter's …

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    Comment #7817537

    Because you can't have tags inside of textarea. All data inside of textarea is interpreted as text.

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    Comment #7817487

    Do you have a '+' in your string? In URL it's interpreted as a space, use '%2B' instead.

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    Comment #5738548

    By using innerHTML you lose event bindings of all elements in the container you're appending data to, and the state of inputs.

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    Comment #5506824

    Here's a similar algorithm that creates patterns slightly resembling radiolarians: http://alisey.deviantart.com/art/Orbits-316110768 http://explord.com/experiments/orbits/

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