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On the other hand, the opposite of live() is die(). Odd.
Re:Branches: Everyone Should Use Them on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @07:42AM (#3561505)
You can always replace the branches with tags (git tag failed-branch-mybranch mybranch && git branch -D mybranch). That way, you still will have access to the unmerged commits later, but your list of branches is clean. Your tags will bloat up, but I personally don't go through my tags nearly as often as my branches.
Re:The Five Stages of Hosting on Monday January 30, 2012 @07:52AM (#3528543)
I'm on the EC2 free usage tier and having no problems for my minimal use of a VPS. For just playing around and testing stuff, it's great.
Re:Raphaël 2.0 is available on Saturday October 01, 2011 @07:06PM (#3061408)
But SVG isn't supported in any version of IE... For me, that's the main reason to use Raphaël.
Re:Chrome has transcended version numbers on Monday May 23, 2011 @08:02AM (#2575667)
The screenshot you're referencing is from OS X! If you don't quit Chrome for a while, then open "About Google Chrome", that dialog or something very similar will display.
Re:Why HTTP Streaming? on Monday April 18, 2011 @07:53PM (#2461202)
This is the first thing that came to mind for me. I recently wrote a WSGI Python app that made use of chunked encoding, so that it could emit multi-hundred MB text files without loading them all into memory first, and one of the big hurdles was running into an error after having sent some data. In the end I had to implement a fancy Javascript check and keep some state in the app to check if there had been an error and the downloaded file was no good.
Re:Poll: If I asked, would you send me your "Saved Stories"? on Monday February 28, 2011 @09:30PM (#2273981)
Wow, until now I had assumed upvotes/saved stories were public.
While I wait for the site to load, I figured I'd comment with my own placeholder-cat experience. A site I worked on was taking a while to get me the actual images, so I took to Pixelmator and fixed myself some LOLcat placeholders. People loved it, except for one of the QAs, who said it was going to give her nightmares.
Re:StackOverflow’s Careers 2.0 on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @11:33PM (#2256918)
I think the name is "Careers 2.0" as in, this is the new version of how you manage your career. Before, you searched for jobs on job boards, sending out your resume, etc. Now, the employers come to you. Careers 2.0.
Re:Google Translate Easter Egg on Friday January 28, 2011 @05:10PM (#2153731)
It seems that it's fixed. When this was posted, it translated "I HATE YOU" to "私はあなたFacebookを利用しています".
I can't seem to get it to work in Google Reader. I get no mouseover text at all, neither the Comic Text version nor the default Chrome version. Am I doing something wrong?
Re:Poll: Where do you work? on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @04:41PM (#2145292)
What about if we're part-web, part-not?
Maybe keep a list of my votes in the application cache and check against that as well as the ihackernews API? Same with my comments, too. I would really enjoy if it appeared to have read-your-writes consistency.
Cool, I'm using it to write this. Seems to work well enough. I wish there was a light theme, as I'm not really a fan of the light grey on black. Also,the voting doesn't seem to work correctly. I voted up this story, then quit the app and re-launched it, and it said I hadn't voted. Trying to vote it up again though failed, as the vote had indeed gone through.
Re:Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @08:01AM (#2138874)
410 days ago? I had just noticed this behavior in Chrome myself a few weeks ago, and thought it might be new beta behavior that no one had really talked about. Guess not.
Re:Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @07:58AM (#2138871)
Why would they save work on the in-tab UI and make the close-tab X button on the right? The window control buttons are on the left like any other Mac app, and the same goes for the closing X button on the Developer Tools frame. Both of those are on the right in Windows. As you saw with the Arabic screenshot, they've already done the work to allow the closing X buttons to be on the left; if they wanted the Mac tab closing buttons to be on the left, they'd be on the left. It's not just a holdout from Windows.
Re:Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @11:19PM (#2122621)
Interesting timing, as my team was about to start using Pivotal Tracker for our project. Hopefully this encourages them, and the fact that they'll have to pay $50/month after July doesn't scare them away. Not really a big price tag, but any money over free is the hurdle.
Re:TapeDeck Goes Exclusive to the Mac App Store on Friday January 07, 2011 @04:31PM (#2081195)
It seems like a number of apps will probably do this. For instance, I can't find Twitter for Mac outside of the app store, which is disappointing because I'm still on Leopard, stuck with Tweetie 1.2.8. I would say to be wary of losing your Leopard user-base, but being on the Mac App Store probably will give you enough exposure that you'll make up for it and more.
Re:Mac App Store: Open for Business on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:55AM (#2075490)
I will say this: Apple is not afraid to leave old technology behind. While website XYZ aims to support multiple versions of every browser, including those released a decade ago (IE6), Apple won't even support Leopard with its new store, which was the version that came with the Mac I got just over a year ago.
Re:Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @06:37PM (#1989777)
To all the people who voted me up because you too felt you were in the same situation, I'm sorry. I got home from work and there is indeed a Cr-48 in my possession now! Google is truly amazing. :/
Re:Ask HN: Did anyone else get a Google Chrome Laptop yet? on Thursday December 09, 2010 @01:08PM (#1988386)
I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed when I get home from work today and there is no Cr-48 waiting for me.
Curious that Canvas rendering is so much slower / causes more load than the HTML backend, at least for me. Anyone know why?
Re:The Tree Slider - GitHub on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:03PM (#1981207)
I'll be honest, I have only seen this once before, and I do web development as my job. As far as I can tell, it's not that common on the web yet.

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