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Comment · 3 years ago
Sat in that same course. Nice to see Bremen people here
Comment · 5 years ago
It’s a German company and “flix” is local slang for quick
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes please
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
it's not hardware and doesn't exactly what you'd like, but have a look at MIT's Junkyard Jumbotron: http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu

Essentially a bit of software to add other devices (ipads, phones etc.) as virtual screens

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Or simply flushing out the <head> of a html document before the body is generated so the browser can start pre-fetching resources. That's the main use case that motivated Rails to implement streaming.
Comment · 14 years ago
I've been using hogan.js to compile mustache templates to JavaScript functions on the server-side and write them to a js file that is then served to the browser:

  Templates={}
  Templates['templatename']=function(){/*compiled template*/}
They can then be referenced quite easily in your backbone render methods.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I guess the problem for a lot of people is, sometimes the samwers clone the execution too. In some cases even down to typos in the HTML source
Comment · 14 years ago
Most German banks have been providing HBCI for over a decade, so that doesn't really narrow it down.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
It's the account of Junio C Hamano who is the main maintainer of git
Comment · 14 years ago
Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis.

Even if it wasn't for historical characters that aren't part of Unicode, this will probably stay that way because of the inefficiencies of encoding Asian text in e.g. UTF8.

That's part of the reason the ruby programming language didn't have proper Unicode support for a long time (and now supports arbitrary encodings for its strings, not just Unicode ones)

Comment · 14 years ago
The user experience when viewing webpages is improved by actually showing a lower-resolution image while the crisp high-resolution image is being downloaded (however slowly), similar to progressive JPEGs.

Depending on the data contract, the user experience when viewing their mobile phone bills might be affected negatively though.

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