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thunderbong
118,638karma·18,324submissions·May 20, 2012
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Open source doesn't necessarily mean free
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He's talking about Opera 12 and before which was built on the Presto engine, not the Webkit engine
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I don't know why you're being downvoted, because gun is, in my opinion, the closest alternative to a self-hosted firebase
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I also assumed the exact same thing! I know the rules state that the title should match, but in this case the original title is really ambiguous.
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That is really a nice picture. If you don't mind my asking - How did you do that in GIMP? I'm a newbie in GIMP and would like to know. Thanks.
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Actually, without the emojis, it's even more intriguing!
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I really liked this line -
"Angular is Google's baseball cap. React is Facebook's." Most people I meet, who want to learn Angular or React, just want to learn them so that they can…
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Maugham is basically saying that it's discipline that matters. And once you do it enough number of times, it becomes so routine that you will automatically be able to write at the time you'v…
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Wow! This saves a lot of time! I've currently set up a custom search in Chrome to do only siteoverflow site search with the "I'm feeling lucky" in the parameter which helps me get …
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Scratch has the concept of functions. They are also called blocks. Custom blocks which kids can create. The blocks can take parameters and are conceptually identical to functions. I don't know ab…
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Previous videos Object-Oriented Programming is Bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
https://www.you…
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I've worked in both the open source world and the closed source (dot net) world. In my very humble opinion, the dot net world just doesn't need the amount of online help that the open source…
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Without javascript enabled this site is totally garbled. Since rendering is so dependent on javascript maybe a noscript will help
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I think Roda[0] should also be on this list. From its Github[1] page, it cites Cuba and Sinatra as inpiration[2]. [0]: http://roda.jeremyevans.net/ [1]: https://github.com&…
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I don't know about you, but for me that's really irrelevant. And honestly, why is this the top comment? Why should the gender of a person contributing code, of all things, matter? I know tha…
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This is indeed very nice. Having Lists and Procedures really helps teach children about computer programming. Using Scratch had this as quite a challenge. I was able to download the github repo and ru…
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I don't know if you've seen this video[0]. It helped me understand traffic waves quite a bit [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFqfTCL2fs …
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The direct link would be helpful
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044572/the-325000-lab-grown-hamb... …
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There's a very important reason as to why that gap exists. And it has to do with usability. Earlier, when tabbed browsing happened, all the browsers, which in those days was Opera and Firefox, di…
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Vivaldi is free. It's just not open source.
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This is my favourite VCS. I can carry it on a USB. And it's a complete system, with it's own server, ticketing system, Wiki pages, and a very, very helpful timeline visualization[0]. And the…
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http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
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The better we get at anything, the more limited we become.
- Steve Bodansky
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I don't think you read the article. You don't need to do anything extra for Spartan.
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Why isn't there any mention of Sencha in these lists ever? IMHO they are a very mature Javascript front-end MVC framework. Sencha ExtJs is now almost 8 years old and Sencha Touch is over a couple…
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Weebly (www.weebly.com) is currently blocked too.