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5,438karma·2,254submissions·December 10, 2012
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Norbert Landsteiner, Vienna, AT, https://www.masswerk.at
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On the other hand, we call this thing a computer, while only the fewest use it to actually compute something. Or, we call that other thing a camera, while it's some years since this was actually …
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What to do about this? I'm told, you may be put to trial in East Texas, if you're selling your goods or services there. – So, why not stop selling to East Texas and let them settle the resul…
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Phew! -- Just managed to reactivate some applications[1][2] by providing cached search results. The Google REST API was a great way to provide audiences with a known tasks in order to connect them to …
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> "(...)" This should give you a good idea about the validity of the answers." And this is exactly, how we learned about the witches and why we had to burn them.
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For me, its more about the frameworks shoving between you and the presentation layer. It's not realtime and interactive anymore (rather about packed and delayed update/repaint cycles). Consi…
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I'm coding JS now professionally for 20 years (so, quite from the beginning) and I love the language. That said, I think, current frameworks are, with all due respect, rather over-engineered. – A…
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On the other hand, there are at least some that have been coding in JS for a long time and loved the simplicity and yet versatility of the language. And there's a feeling of some of this being lo…
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Netscape 4 had dynamic HTML entities bound to JS ("&{...};"), which were resolved by the rendering engine. I think, it would have been interesting to revive this approach. Other, one thi…
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Yes, this also what I once learned at university, but newer accounts tend to skip this step of transition.
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My personal favorite: "Hängematte" (hammock) – a hanging mat (something to be hanged + mat) While actually borrowed from Haitian "hamáka" (it entered German first in the early 15 h…
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Once, a shop had hired an assistant called "Cookie" to do the job and another one even had hired a specialized clerk (named W.B. Alizer, for the record) and I was totally fine with this. But…
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First, as already pointed out by others, the Mac was really a graphical system. The Finder was the shell. But there were other tools, too. E.g., ResEdit for manipulating program resources (I customize…
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Very interesting. I suppose, in fact this would be rather slowing down the page in most cases, if applied as a common rule. That is, provided you were using self-contained inline-resources only. Using…
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What you're describing is the now ancient document stream model (document.open – document.write – document.close; calling document.open() after document.close implies document.open() and a loss o…
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Wouldn't a "defer" attribute and waiting for document.DOMContentLoaded be the appropriate way to do this? This would also document the reasons for this and would allow for a decent orga…
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Why not use document.DOMContentLoaded ?
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There's this facility called slots, at least this is, how it used to be. A resource to be loaded is assigned a slot as available (generally 8 or so) and the browser advances over resource tags. I…
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From the documentation: "You shouldn't include it in the <head> of your web applications. It's bad practice to place scripts in the <head>, and as such dragula makes no effo…
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I really don't get the down voting: While we've come globally to the conclusion that we require signed software, curated app stores and kill switches for traditional applications, because sh…
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Not your everyday real-life story. Client: "Integrate this (see attachment)". You, "No, they have first to hand over the source code in order to allow me auditing their software." …
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Even, if there would be a suitable disassembler, this would just account to an exponential curve in terms of auditing any software. (We're not speaking of minutes here anymore, but rather of mont…
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So, just give up? (Please mind that there has to be a strict relation between a minified code and a plain source code provided at some repository. This is not true, at least in terms of the resources …
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Sorry to say, but the web isn't about writing apps in the language of your choice. If it's beyond plain, passive HTML, it's about running applications on foreign hosts/resources wi…
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Anyone who has grown up with b&w television will tell you that you were actually able to tell the colors of objects, when you were used to it. The other way round, if you happen to have done any s…
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Obligatory link: Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI …
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15 years ago this even made much more sense. I did a static site generator in good ol' Perl 5 in the 90s – and I'm sure, I wasn't the only one to do this. (Everything was based on file …
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Hm – Client-side web programming is all about resource management. I can't see, how cross-compiled C++ code that originated for a completely other platform with object code in the MBs range will …
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For an example of some great code that is both to the point and expressive, see the original code version for the "Expensive Planetarium" by Peter Samson (PDP-1 Macro-assembler, 1962). – The…
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See also "The Origin of Spacewar!" by Martin Graetz (Creative Computing, 1981) for the ultimate account on the game, http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html …