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To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
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Messing with native scrolling as a web antipattern is right up there with interfering with copy and paste. I will never understand why people do these things.
Breaking the back button is the ultimate sin in my book. This comes close.
These moments were two of the first wherein I strongly reconsidered whether I had made the right career choices.
To this day osx still doesn't ship with a true plaintext gui editor.
Also, people not served by textedit are pretty niche.
File extensions are a kludge anyway. (And Windows 10 still hides them by default, because hey, backwards compatibility, and you wouldn't want to confuse Grandma who's seen the file be called "grandkids" since Windows 95..). Why should the filetype be dependent on the name? People even think renaming a .BMP to .JPG means now it's a compressed file! Old school Macs stored the filetype outside of a file, so you can rena…
Not really outside. The metadata was stored in a so-called "resource fork", with the file contents proper in a "data fork", both of which belonged to the file per se. Part of the resource fork was the "creator code", four bytes identifying the application which had created or could open the file, and the "type code", four more bytes defining which, among the potentially many kinds of files a given application could o…
OS-X dropped it for good reason.
To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Something on the site triggered mcafee on my laptop.
How does something like this wind up on the front page? As of this comment, it was posted 48 minutes ago with 12 points , one other comment, and sits at number 5. It's a self-professed clickbait title, though the content is interesting.
points / (time_in_hours+1)^1.5 * lot_of_penalties
The number of comments does not matter, unless the post has too much more comment than points, and the site adds a penalty.
There are a lot of automatic and manual penalties added by the mods, and also added by the flags of the users. Most of the details are part of the secret sauce and change from time to time without warning.
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Messing with native scrolling as a web antipattern is right up there with interfering with copy and paste. I will never understand why people do these things.
I don't really understand why browsers allow it!
To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Not seeing this on Firefox + Linux