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Google Home 10 years ago

This is such an odd statement as it's already been proven false. The Echo is already quite popular. I gave one to my 70 year old technophobe mom and she uses it in the kitchen all the time. I use mine everyday.

My guess is in general the Real Estate market doesn't want this. What happens if it tests positive for something? Do you start tearing down all the walls until you find the issue? Suddenly the house is unsellable and a huge money pit for the seller or new buyer.

I get that it's trying to be funny, but is it really no longer possible to create a website with a single arrow that doesn't have to pull down all this cruft ?

  <link href="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="bower_components/bootstrap-social/bootstrap-social.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="bower_components/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="assets/css/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="cover.css" rel="stylesheet">

  <script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="../../assets/js/vendor/jquery.min.js"><\/script>')</script>
  <script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> 
  <script src="assets/js/ie10-viewport-bug-workaround.js"></script>

When I worked at Microsoft many years ago they had an large QA team with equal footing to Development and Product in determining what shipped and when. This was the same for every development team I was a part of there for over 9 years. It wasn't perfect, and the ship cycles were slow, but the quality bar was set higher than what I've seen outside of Microsoft.

Swift 2.1 11 years ago

I wouldn't call that a bug. That's like saying you can't do

  let a = Foo()
  a.addItem(i)

It's not like anything you build in React is going to transfer over to another framework either. In fact, I've been to a lot of React talks and people mostly ask "how do I do X" in react. The last talk I went to they spent 10 mins talking about how you might make a spinner when data is loading.

I think that's the nature of any framework.

Nice, I was actually testing on my server hardware which is obviously lower end. This is hopefully useful for people though.

For me 1 second seems pretty aggressive, that's CPU time/latency per login.

It's what I always find odd about the incredible open armed love of developers for Apple. People used to hate Micro$oft ( $ uses for emphasis. ) I can't imagine what the 90's would look like if MS took 30% of every software sale and decided what software could and could not exist on it's OS. The walled garden's have peeps and minor outrage, but I never understood why it wasn't more of a roar.

Why I like XSLT 12 years ago

That's it's biggest problem. If you ever had to look at a giant XSLT file and tried to debug some issue, you can understand why it never become popular.

Parse gets you up and running crazy fast. So it's extremely useful in that way. If you're making a mobile app the speed the SDK gives you in working with a pre-built backend cannot be underestimated.

Recently I started a project with Parse but eventually moved off it ( with some pain ). The pain points for me were random requests timing out or randomly taking 20+ seconds to respond. Also the SDK wasn't as flexible as I needed it to be ( which is typically the case with any ORM ). The forums/support isn't great so if you run into a showstopper, you're pretty much on your own.

Pretty slick video. The page is pretty buggy is some annoying ways. The chrome gesture for paging back doesn't work since I assume it's grabbing the mouse. When you page back or forwards to the page it reloads and it's white.

Regex in Swift 12 years ago

Custom operators for all things ! or how to make your code base unmaintainable

Bye Bye Passwords 12 years ago

me too.. it's more likely to be a token that's cookied and sent over SSL per api request. Same token that would get generated if they auth'ed via password.