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thunderbong

118,638karma·18,324submissions·May 20, 2012
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Open source doesn't necessarily mean free
9y ago·view thread
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He's talking about Opera 12 and before which was built on the Presto engine, not the Webkit engine
10y ago·view thread
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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
10y ago·view thread
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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.
10y ago·view thread
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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.
10y ago·view thread
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Actually, without the emojis, it's even more intriguing!
10y ago·view thread
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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…
10y ago·view thread
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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…
10y ago·view thread
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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 …
10y ago·view thread
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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…
10y ago·view thread
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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…
10y ago·view thread
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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…
10y ago·view thread
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Without javascript enabled this site is totally garbled. Since rendering is so dependent on javascript maybe a noscript will help
11y ago·view thread
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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&…
11y ago·view thread
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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…
11y ago·view thread
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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…
11y ago·view thread
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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 …
11y ago·view thread
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The direct link would be helpful http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044572/the-325000-lab-grown-hamb... …
11y ago·view thread
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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…
11y ago·view thread
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Vivaldi is free. It's just not open source.
11y ago·view thread
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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…
11y ago·view thread
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http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
11y ago·view thread
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The better we get at anything, the more limited we become. - Steve Bodansky
11y ago·view thread
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I don't think you read the article. You don't need to do anything extra for Spartan.
11y ago·view thread
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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…
11y ago·view thread
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Weebly (www.weebly.com) is currently blocked too.
11y ago·view thread