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Jeremy Keith's 11 year long bet against cool URLs (specifically on longbets.org) comes up next year -- and it looks like he might lose it https://longbets.org/601/

And Wales; it seems to show data across Great Britain

You'd have to spread in the object, right?

I believe it depends on the settings for that entry - from "auto log in", "auto fill", "fill in when selected from menu" to "require master password before filling in"

"16.8 million votes needed to win referendum" - so there would therefore be ~33.6 million votes in total.

I'd love to see a search interface for all webfonts, powered by an open database of data from across all the major webfont providers. If this interface is independent of Google fon…

I remember Jeremy Keith talking about this at dConstruct conference; he put a bet on Long Bets that the URI of the bet wouldn't change [0] [0] - http://longbets.org/601/

It's unfortunate, but I have no faith in crowd-funded hardware. There's plenty of "according to" and "promises" in that article for me to want to take any claims with a very health…

It feels like there's a little bit of comparison mismatch here - I would equate Jasmine to Mocha, as they're both test frameworks, whereas Karma is a test runner. Mocha comes with …

Do many routers make that data easily accessible for automated use? From my experience, it requires work to get at that data.

This is nice way of getting the live device data out from the router - I've made a few scripts in the past for logging into the router web interface and scraping connected device d…

Right - but if you're bolting on a Raspberry Pi, there's no way for it to know "live usage of WiFi" - only the router knows that

That's not true - you're meant to test your smoke alarm weekly. Also false alarms can be the smoke detector acting correctly to the presence of smoke, eg. Burnt toast. In this case…