Skalman

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Comment · 10 years ago
For me the hump was from the get-go.

Following the book, I installed Rust directly, but then i realized that I should've installed it via Rustup. Next, I want a good editing environment, so I install VS Code and Racer, but then I find out that I can't use Clippy unless I use Nightly... and I'm not interested in using Nightly, so I'll wait.

Comment · 11 years ago
To people helping others on the internet who claim to be security professionals, remember to make sure that the person is actually trustworthy, so you're not helping criminals. Even though a_cherepanov is a new account with only this comment, I suppose their email domain makes them trustworthy enough: ESET is a Slovakian security company that's had a Wikipedia page for 5+ years.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's an encoding that isn't good at anything: it's neither ASCII-compatible (like UTF-8), nor fixed-length (like UTF-32), but because most characters require only 2 bytes, developers frequently assume that none require more, leading to bugs when a character eventually is represented by 4 bytes.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you don't need to dynamically evaluate the code, compiling ES.next code will be more performant, e.g. using Babel.
Comment · 11 years ago
Perhaps you didn't catch that basically the difference between let and var is that let is block-scoped, while var is function-scoped?

  let result = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    result += arr[i];
  }
Comment · 12 years ago
In general, it looks really good.

- I'd like some more focus on keyboard navigation. Make sure that everything looks good when tabbing, even if you've used arrow keys first.

- Anti-phishing: A long domain name will trim the end in the "More from ..." link. Instead it would make sense to trim the beginning.

- Needs better contrast.

Comment · 12 years ago
I note that mozilla.org is on that list. Does anybody know if they're affected?
Comment · 12 years ago
Was he ever that critical? From the article:

> Mr. Obama was a sponsor of a bill in 2005 to raise the standard required for federal agents using ... national security letters ... He joined other Democrats fighting the renewal of the Patriot Act until it was amended to address civil liberties concerns, then voted for its extension in 2006 after a compromise, breaking with Mr. Wyden who voted no.

> “The rhetoric was probably sharper than his votes.” By summer 2008, with the Democratic nomination secured and the White House now a real possibility, Mr. Obama voted for legislation essentially ratifying Mr. Bush’s surveillance programs.

Comment · 13 years ago
It's a one-line fix to make it intuitive, but that's not what's needed here. Ultimately there should be some spec so that browser vendors can converge towards a single behavior.
Comment · 13 years ago
That patch would not be welcome. The patch to make the behavior intuitive is literally to remove "!important" from one CSS file. They're not changing because they're afraid to break the web.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Well, I always open a private window if that's the case.
Comment · 13 years ago
Because that's not possible to style with CSS.
Comment · 13 years ago
One thing that helps me is to imitate the expression and try to feel what I feel when I'm doing it. Not always right, but sometimes I go from not having a clue to being sure.

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