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https://scalingo.com/blog/heroku-alternative-europe-scalingo...

If the authors are around, I'd love to hear what was their thinking regarding implementing focus and selection, with regards to the inconvenients outlined by the author of ProseMirror here: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html#general-appr...

In a nutshell, ProseMirror chose to keep contentEditable in order to have browser-level support for spell-checking, screen-readers, RTL, etc.

What are the tradeoffs exactly?

Thanks.

— do you set yourself up as a freelance consultant, and pay your healthcare and retirement fund yourself?

— …or do you let the company pay that for you in the country they are based in, and somehow benefit from that?

How does it work exactly for these social benefits that are very important in the european welfare model?

  For instance, one day at school he was working with the student theatre.
  All week he had been struggling to produce the right sound effects, 
  but it just wasn’t coming together. Eventually, his boss lost his cool
  and started ripping into him. “My response was that something weird was
  happening with my body,” he says. “I could feel a tension, like my heart
  was racing, but my mind was distracted…

Ted Nelson talks about this in this amazing and inspiring Google Talk video from 2006. He talks about the rise of packet-based networking, and how the future will be content-centric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

How does this compare to Xopus? https://xopus.com/

Of course, Xopus is closed source, so that's a big difference already.

That's probably the feeling of most people. Martin Fowler wrote an insightful post about this subject:

Privacy Protects Bothersome People …and isn't about me (or probably you) http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html

He argues that privacy on the internet is important, not because normal people have something to hide, but because journalists and activists (or other counterpowers in a well-balanced democracy) need a certain level of privacy in order to work.

But then, one day when I came back to their website, I saw that they had added a minimum fee of €100 to their plan, and that unfortunately tipped the scale for us, as we pay everything on our own, and we have zero revenue coming in.

So the problem is for the first few months during which you pay everything out of your own pocket. It probably all depends on how confident you are that you'll get revenue.

How simple/hard is it to migrate from system to another?

- First, the model with "springs and struts", employed by all major native GUIs for decades, and also implemented in Firefox as the first Flexbox model (for XUL, the UI description markup language) since ages.

- Second, the constraints-based layout model, now employed by OSX 10.8 and considered even superior, was proposed in 1999! http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...

The only explanation I can come up with is a giant disconnect between users (web developers) and implementors.

I don't understand why all the CSS efforts are being put into elaborate effects (transforms, blend modes, compositing, etc) when we can't yet effectively create UI layouts. Other underrated property is the non-standard "-webkit-line-clamp" (or "-o-ellipsis-lastline" for Opera), that allows you to cut off with an ellipsis a block of text after a given number of lines.

It's such a shame that the idea of constraints-based layout (the UI layout method of OSX 10.8) in CSS was never adopted: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/web/ccss-u...

Would it be possible to tap into GUI applications via OSX UI Scripting, and maybe mirroring the app's menus with Wiki menus?

  - spacebar on a highlighted item should select it

  - the select menu should open on mousedown, not mouseup.

The idea truncatable bitstreams is fascinating too. I'm not well versed in networking, but wouldn't the latency of a mobile network kill the benefit of this technique? e.g, by the time the server receives the "connection closed" signal, a large part of the extra data would have been sent, no?

"Retina" is just a marketing term for "pixels so small your eye can't distinguish them at a normal distance anymore".

Personally I've made peace with it. I say either "CSS pixels" or "device pixels", depending on what I want to express.

And although the high resolution screens have only made the difference between the two more visible, it was there since Opera featured full pages zoom many years ago, and when Mobile Safari introduced the "viewport" meta-tag in 2007.

The one problem that I have with pictograms-as-fonts is anti-aliasing. The designers that I work with spend hours to make their icons absolutely perfect at every pixel size that they'll be displayed at. This is particularly visible when the icon has horizontal or vertical lines. Most of the time you'll want them have a hard edge, and with anti-aliasing you can never be sure you'll get that result.

This will change in a few years when all our screens have high pixel densities, but for the time being I'm sticking with PNG sprites, with hand-tweeked pixels.

– the Terms and Conditions sheet will only be "one page long" and "understandable by anyone", compared to the multiple pages of legalese of the current operators;

– they only have 2 offers (with a variant for current clients), compared to hundreds from the competition.

We all know the value of simplicity when making purchasing decisions (explained in The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz).

Well done Free.

  font-feature-settings: "smcp=1”;

  font-variant: small-caps;

The Open Type version is probably better, since it falls back to lower case glyphs if the browser doesn't support them, instead of an emulated version that probably won't be very legible.

For the example cited, you could also use ActiveRecord::Dirty

  def clean_summary
    self.summary = summary.squish if self.summary_changed?
  end

This is basic layout behaviours that I keep spending hours implementing in JS, which is slow and brittle, because you need fallbacks, etc.

A metonymy.

[edit: swolchok is right, it's a synecdoche]