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tobr

14,338karma·2,388submissions·April 2, 2012
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A policy doesn’t have to be completely free from loopholes to be useful.
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Shame on Venturebeat for reporting Googles’s messaging on this without as much as mentioning the criticism AMP has been met with, or how this makes it even more problematic.
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New technology can be a prerequisite to solve certain non-technical problems, but it’s not the technology itself that solves the problem. Wikipedia is a good example. It probably wouldn’t work withou…
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If you can skip it, it’s probably not designed right. Well designed onboarding should answer the questions you might have right when you have them , not before you even know that there is a question …
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Depends on what color wheel you compare it to. I see it as a pretty reasonable compromise between the traditional 4 primary colors (red-yellow-green-blue) and the 6 primary colors of RGB (red-yellow-g…
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My brain read the title and URL as “GitLab”. This does not look good, GitHub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity …
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Whoa, this was nice to see. I haven’t used Surge in probably nearly 10 years? I remember it was one of my favorite plugins at the time. It sounds lovely and has a great balance between simplicity and …
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It works in practice though, because there’s no CSS syntax that uses //, so you can basically turn off any line that way by causing a syntax error. CSS fault tolerance makes it just ignore t…
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Would you consider adding a way to set tag names in a component dynamically? I’ve found that to be incredibly useful in React, when you want to encapsulate some behavior but use it in different seman…
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> Every populated region on Earth becomes much more than one percent less hospitable every winter No, winter is part of the baseline. Life has evolved to to survive during winter, and societies hav…
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That is a very superficial comparison between two problems that are fundamentally different, especially with regards to what’s at stake. Going to Mars has no deadline, and barely any stakes. If it pro…
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> We're trying to colonise Mars, but at the same time believe a somewhat warmer climate is an existential threat to humanity. That’s an interesting non sequitur. How does the potential for col…
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Wouldn’t you just wrap that word in another selector?
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Happy to hear from Panic about this. I used to use Coda all the time and loved it. I can’t be sure that I will switch to using whatever this new thing is, but I’m confident that it will be lovely, as …
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That’s the clue I used, but I didn’t find it very obvious which “Graydon” the URL referred to. I’ve never heard of Graydon Hoare before but he seemed to match up with the content of the slides. For so…
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Trying to figure out who the author is, but it’s not very clear. Probably Graydon Hoare? Can someone confirm?
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I would like to make a lightweight markup language for text and data, with some concept of possible future revisions. So when you try to commit a new revision of a file, it could automatically be veri…
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> src / ui.ts
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At least the first three of those exist.
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Geocities was enormously popular for good reasons. However, I don’t think it had the ability to preview a deploy or roll it back with 100% certainty that it will be exactly as was before, which is som…
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Sounds like you should start by reading about what Netlify does.
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