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This probably explains Mozilla's target of reaching Firefox 7 by end of 2011. They just really like cake.

I usually use `that`. I've seen examples use `self`, but that could potentially conflict with `window.self` in the browser.

    var that = this;
    return function(){
      that.fire();
    }

To me checking a message is much more rude than checking the time. It's actively stating "I have more important people to talk to than you".

Have you looked into Sass and Less CSS? I haven't used them in production. They seem to achieve reuse in a CSS-like way.

I think both have their good points. Smaller companies allow more freedom and a wider range of experience. If you pick the wrong small company you'll pick up bad habits (what's version control? backups? testing?). I didn't have a software engineering degree, so wasn't aware of some of the things I was doing wrong (or missing) until I spent some time in bigger companies.

It's also worth pointing out that Australians don't have constitutionally protected free speech.

Another issue is that your S3 credentials are stored on your primary server. An attacker who gains access to that machine will also gain access to off site backups, and can completely destroy your business.

(Cross-posted from my Reddit account)

I went through SFO on the weekend and said I didn't want to go through the machine. You're made to feel pretty stigmatised, you have to stand there while the TSA officer repeatedly yells out "We got an opt-out. Male opt-out." across the hall.

The pat down itself was extremely thorough but considering how much the TSA gets bagged on Reddit, the officer was incredibly professional. It didn't feel lewd or dirty. Sure, it was violating and I resented having to be put through the experience, but the guy was just doing his job and it was obvious he'd been extensively trained. All up it took about 5 minutes of my time.

What worried me the most was that afterword he asked "The TSA is conducting a survey, why did you opt-out?" I replied that I didn't like my freedoms being taken away. However, thinking about this later, I realised that if in a year they release stats that say "only 1% of people opt-out, and only 5% of those people do so for medical or religious reasons" then it is going to be a hell of a lot easier for them to push for the scans to become mandatory.

Opera Mini stores the page state on their servers. If you click on a JS link then the Opera Mini client treats it like a new page load, but the server is just executing the JS and resending the page.

We only use monospace because there is a lot of symmetry in code, and unlike other forms of writing, a single punctuation characters can completely change the meaning of the text (/.!^,;).

"I use method_missing()to remove duplication ... On the other hand, I usually think twice about using method_missing() for cosmetic reasons, like getting cool method names such as find_by_name_and_address()."

That seems backwards to me. I use magic methods to define methods that can only be defined at run time, like his example of creating methods based on schema introspection.

Using magic methods breaks a lot of tools: IDE code completion, reflection, documentation generation so I always explicitly define methods unless it's not possible.

Are you logging your queries? If you have enough searches you could build your own predictions. You're also proxying results, so you could use those to build an index too.

That's almost what Google Docs PDF viewer does. Each page is a JPG. This is served to the user with a catalogue of text layout then JavaScript is used to simulate selection and copying.