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Comment #30523470
I'd ignore excitement -- if you are actually dying to work on something then put the motivation to fruition. If the problem you're working on isn't fulfilling then challenge yourse…
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Comment #6548663
I'm sort of confused, because TLS 1.1/1.2 support across browsers looks to be quite poor at the moment. Especially when given a large number of IE visitors that will likely upgrade…
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Comment #6352922
Trying to pick between omgrofl and lolcode with one life left can be likened to deciding which color wire to snip.
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Comment #6271838
There is an "Oldest First" button that resorts the timeline.
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Comment #6234653
BBC's Tiger Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of hum…
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Comment #6232059
My guesses are: 1) maybe it's a mockery of the redundancy of using "www" in URLs, 2) a clever prank on anyone that attempts to communicate the site's address verbally and doesn't k…
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Comment #6223708
Yeah, it really gets interesting if you compare his recent press conferences on the matter against what his speeches sounded like in 2007; here's an example: http://www.youtube.com…
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Comment #6223375
Same is true for drivebyacct2
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Comment #6209293
Which is not the same thing as node's modules. There's nothing stopping me from making global variables within a module "pattern". Contrast that with a node.js module where even if…
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Comment #6196365
I think the author means that it's not implemented in all the browsers that have a significant share of the browser market.
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Comment #6196285
> On WebGL, we can reinvent presentation and styling entirely without sacrificing performance. Maybe keep parts of HTML, and ditch CSS entirely in favour of something better, and u…
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Comment #6176882
Not sure if this is relevant these days, but the Emscripten FAQ mentions the need to use "-s ASM_JS=1" as an argument to emcc in order for it to actually output asm.js style code. …
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Comment #6163427
If I was in charge of Toptal's marketing department I would have responded with a new set of ads featuring shirtless Fabio lookalikes.
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Comment #6138813
Similar question and answer on another site: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1jfufh/the_entir...
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Comment #6138742
It's the same figure which was in the leaked documents from 2008 that points to some NSA/CSSM 1-52 document from 2007 as a basis. Perhaps they feel that this is the only justifiabl…
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Comment #6137927
What do you mean by query? Are talking about using the 'keys' command to figure out what data you need? Because that's completely discouraged for everything except maintenance task…
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Comment #6073012
Delete your nytimes.com cookies, refresh.
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Comment #6056478
This "rant" is exceptionally incoherent/convoluted -- at times arguing against itself: > The fact web browser technology are mostly the same across browsers is great for developers…
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Comment #5929894
I must say, I quite enjoy how so many countries are eagerly playing a game of "pass the Snowden" by throwing him over U.S. reach. It just goes to show that the behavior of the U.S.…
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Comment #5639880
Strange, I believe I tried that after receiving a bunch of gift cards for Christmas -- I even tried entering in the exact title that's below the CC number on the card, but had no l…
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Comment #5639715
Most online services, in my experience at least, will reject credit cards that are not associated with a name.
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Comment #5521940
Depends on the type of game, the field is very broad. For example, if I had the intention of creating an online card game, I think SVG via d3.js would actually be my very first cho…
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Comment #5519755
My concern, in this particular case, is that foreignObject isn't exactly a new addition to this spec, it's been mentioned in SVG specs since at least 2001, and the IE team apparent…
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Comment #5519440
I actually implemented a very primitive word wrap function specifically for wrapping text in SVGs about two weeks ago. I took the approach of keeping an single canvas object in mem…