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timb

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    Comment #5068384

    It's still not precisely centered. Check out this version using a table. http://jsfiddle.net/nJy8t/ I added a background image with a grid that extends 80px from top and bottom. Th…

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    Comment #5065208

    "It's easy to idiomatically achieve vertical centering. http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/10/ " that solution 1. only works for text, which is part of eranation's rant. 2. only works if yo…

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    Comment #4853253

    indiegogo existed as a fundraising platform before kickstarter (but it was originally only for filmmakers).

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    Comment #4737652

    seems like that issue is being worked on: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435 Chrome has similar problems on Windows. For example, the Mathematical Alphanumeri…

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    Comment #4532912

    Echoing what dflock said in the Apple thread, it would be great if webkit (and IE) added animated PNG support: http://caniuse.com/apng Also, it's interesting to note that out of 31…

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    Comment #4181465

    http://libccv.org/post/an-elephant-in-the-room/

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    Comment #4119887

    try adding tsched=0 to one of the lines in /etc/pulse/default.pa so it becomes load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0 this fixed my chrome ubuntu audio problems. (source: links at…

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    Comment #4031368

    in the html of http://16s.us/sha1_pass/js/ add to the top. this will prevent "quirks mode" in IE and String.prototype.trim will reappear. if you want to support IE 8 and lower you'…

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    Comment #3998278

    that first image looks like the old munching square effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munching_square

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    Comment #3959014

    the editor could turn down samples for lights while dragging, and turn samples back up when dragging is finished.

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    Comment #3666480

    the newest chrome has support for transferable objects that can be sent directly to a worker without being copied. this works with ArrayBuffer now, not sure if ImageData is transfe…

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    Comment #3611847

    There is a little bit of information in the 2nd edition. Parser combinators get a few pages in "17.4.2 Functional Programming". PEGs and packrat parsing are briefly covered in "15.…

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    Comment #3398849

    The dev version has autocomplete http://www.sublimetext.com/dev

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    Comment #3319920

    http://i.imgur.com/o1A7M.png

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    Comment #3189585

    Quake, Quake II and Quake III are C.

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    Comment #3083878

    http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk/Source/WebCore... http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-aurora/source/layout/style/ns...

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    Comment #2868232

    Beautiful... the fading grain as it renders is extremely pleasing.

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    Comment #2755473

    There already is a hardware accelerated 3D context that uses the canvas element... WebGL!

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    Comment #2602360

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/...

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    Comment #2196431

    Newer browsers ( http://caniuse.com/#search=history ) can manipulate the url without needing the #! hack.

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    Comment #2095339

    "The other thing that primates have that is so bizarre and interesting is that they are the only animal we know that practice deception and games of manipulation among each other. …

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    Comment #1748201

    compare his horrendous 33kb jpg: http://i.imgur.com/djmBv.png to the 33kb jpg i made in photoshop: http://i.imgur.com/02E6e.jpg

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    Comment #1530180

    I think Firefox 4 will have typed arrays: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays http://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webgl...

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    Comment #1305127

    #quicklinks { position: absolute; } if you just want to turn off the toolbar stickiness.

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    Comment #1092833

    I think Dave's unique formatting is an essential part of the experience of reading his posts. Filtering it through the Readability tool is similar to listening to MIDI file version…