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"If someone has control of the DOM the game is already over" http://www.frameloss.org/2012/10/28/hover-fail/

Stated as a fact in the title. Stated as a question in the article. Discuss.

This would actually been even cooler to hook into DuckDuckGo's zero click interface. The machine would be able to respond with actual information for lots of queries. Mathematics c…

Slashdot used to have x-fry and x-bender (Futurama) but it looks like even those headers are gone from slashdot now.

By their very nature, all open source licenses are variations of "Ride on my shoulders!"

Those are some good basics. Tracking user actions can be very useful: I use it on movieterminals.com to see everything that gets typed into each console. The theory being that (one…

I don't know about UK pricing, but here in the US subscribing to Hulu Plus, Netflix, and specific shows on Amazon and iTunes (e.g. Mythbusters) is still much cheaper than a monthly…

It's not even like this is a long article. It's literally a 140 word paragraph.

… Read the read of the article. """ That deal also includes first-run rights to direct-to-video releases, which will begin appearing on Netflix in 2013. What's more, the two compan…

Just about any change can have this effect as long as you perceive the change to be significant.

Passing -F to less causes it to automatically quit if the file can be displayed on one screen.

So instead of a hard delineation between solar wind and cosmic rays we're seeing something more like velcro?

Yes, but again: they aren't stating that it's some property exclusive to videogames that affect sleep but something about playing videogames (including all side effects) can have a…

The study doesn't seem to be claiming that videogames have an exclusively bad influence on sleep, merely that they have an influence on sleep. Where's the crock?

iDos is great for this. Playing Ultima V on my iPad is fantastic.

Setup time got you down? There are plethora of dotfiles projects on github that already have easy scripted installation. http://dotfiles.github.com/

The best prompt I've found for zsh is agnoster. I highly recommend it: https://gist.github.com/3712874

I'm currently dealing with similar issues. New symptoms started for me this summer, my GP and all the tests and specialists I've seen have no ideas.t When I do my own research my G…

No, the calendar files are anniversaries not timelines. Have some fun: alias anniversaries="ack -a -h `date +"%m/%d"` /usr/share/calendar | sort"

Bootstrap isn't a CMS. It does nothing to manage content but is instead a visual framework of HTML, CSS, and JS. It's essentially a good baseline of nice looking defaults. It's pop…

Interesting! I've never heard of this or even seen anyone do it.

{wrap}bootstrap is a great theme site for twitter bootstrap: https://wrapbootstrap.com/

tablecloth.js ( http://tableclothjs.com/ ) is another add-on compatible with twitter bootstrap that helps make nice looking HTML tables.

It works about as well as IE9's browser emulation. Which is not very well. It's not 100% true to native IE versions.