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That was the most appalling ad I have seen in months, they have a whole page justifying them here http://thenextweb.com/voice/2015/05/07/whats-the-deal-with-t...

Q: Isn’t this just an interstitital?

A: No. We don’t like interstitials either. They sit between you and the content and require another click and new pageload before you can proceed to the article. The Canvas ad surrounds the article and the article loads at the same time. All it takes to move the article back in view is to hover over the article. It’s a much more intuitive and smooth process.

I pity their developers for putting up with that sort of delusional rhetoric.

As an English person residing in England, This is very much the most interesting story from this election.

Totally off topic, but it seems every website I've visited today has had some utterly obnoxious pop up appear when I'm half way through a sentence.

I hope this is a short lived trend.

I've come up against this many times over. When it stems from over-enthusiasm for using recently discovered features or concepts I've reliably changed a trend-toward-complexity by picking a small section & re-writing it in a simpler/more elegant fashion, then proposing to the author something along the lines of "can we make it _all_ that simple"? The subtle (or not so subtle) creation of a challenge towards simplicity has worked well with coders near the beginning of their career.

Good timing, I was just after something to like this to include in some API docs i'm handing over.

I initially read your comment somewhat differently to how it was intended I suspect.

I wonder why there are multiple style elements, in div#footcnt there are 2 right next to each other, they could have saved a whole "</style><style>" there, think of the bandwidth!

/s

I don't see a problem here, the issue-reporter was condescending, and they received the same back.

His problem, such as it is, could have been resolved with a quick search, but instead he decided to write a snark-ridden ticket.

Users like this should be encouraged to ask for a refund, then ignored.

Just out of curiosity, May I ask the age group of the "some people" you referred to?

As a 30yr old in the UK I've not once had that once. In fact I've seen the inverse, people "coming out" as having belief and their friends being shocked, more frequently.

That was my over-riding thought while reading the linked article and looking around, smells like flash.

Following from the last point, It's a nice thought to consider that in the future our present will be viewed by some as "the good old days".

I wonder what aspects of today will be desirable to hackers of the future.

Of course I'm exaggerating, and I agree this page isn't particularly friendly but nor is it intended to be, its a reference to be searched rather than a piece of prose to be read.

A lot of pages I find frustrating are often trying to spin a narrative around what amounts to reference material, or vice-versa & results are often framed with the tropes I mentioned above.

s/used/should/

It's nice to not "read more after the jump" or "below the fold", no over-pagination, no 100% width 400px deep semi-relevant banner image, no pull quotes in 30px ultra-bold fonts floated over to the sides, no "you may also be interested in" and no asinine comments, .. oh, wait!

hah, I was in firefox at the time and checked that I can copy and paste between password fields, it appeared to work.

I didn't look at what had been inserted into the clipboard though, it was just the asterisk characters visually displayed in the password field.

Disabling paste makes sense when setting your password.

If presented with two input fields for password & confirm your password, the lazy among us will type the desired new password in the first input box, then copy the contents and paste into the second... if you type it incorrectly in the first box you then have to reset it before you can log in again.

I use fabric, I can type

>> fab push prod deploy

to push changes to my repo service, ssh to production servers, pull down changes via git, and restart necessary services/run associated tasks like symlinking to new static content.

Aside from "deploy" I have tasks to update the virtualenv etc, this has worked well for me for a few years.

I think a large part of that cost could also be in the paperwork after the event also

I normally tell people to use ack because it's like grep but faster (owing to it's sensible defaults) ... if I use this I'm worried I might go too fast and travel backwards in time or something.

and http://www.tyresum.co.uk/images/sort_asc.png

s/permanently/trust for 30 days/

Still not great, but it's not permanent.

You can also log out other sessions in google apps, not sure if that resets the dont-do-2factor-auth bit though.

I've updated my comment above to say "and" instead of "or" as you're quite correct.

From the timeline of events (surviving initial onslaught, then falling over) I'd assumed that was a large part of the problem, people sitting on a live-updating map.

and a simple "Cache-Control: max-age=30, must-revalidate" http header ...

My first thought was to the age of the domains ... all are the same though, I wonder what order they were crawled in?

I'm sure there are plenty of sites that contain hyphens, that should be favoured (and probably are with all the other signals) over their hyphenless cousins, still seems unfair if there is a penalty though!

After years of abusing my little finger for using Ctrl & the RSI that goes with it, I tend to use alt/meta with my thumb more and more nowadays, for this I make it usable in insert mode also, this is probably one of the oldest bits of my .vimrc

    "quick window movements
    map <a-w>  <c-w>
    map <a-l> <c-w>l
    map <a-k> <c-w>k
    map <a-j> <c-w>j
    map <a-h> <c-w>h
    imap <a-l> <esc><c-w>li
    imap <a-k> <esc><c-w>ki
    imap <a-j> <esc><c-w>ji
    imap <a-h> <esc><c-w>hi

> Wide lines are barbaric

I agree utterly, and enjoy the irony that I read your comment displayed as http://i.imgur.com/iJNs9SV.jpg ... a full 258 characters ... HN could do with some responsive css to max-width comments above certain viewport widths!

In the UK that is!

Not that I disagree with your post, especially the rel="next" part, but I wonder what the problem with syncing is when using chrome & signed into a google account? ... it does the job well for me over 4 or so devices.

I think they have a RC helicopter manufacturer to pay off.

because i've only just upgraded, and cloning a fresh VM & installing CS6 was quicker than installing it, then removing it when weird things happen (mostly plugins/file compatibility have pained me in the past).

And sure there are lighter ways to test different browsers, but I don't trust them, been caught out before by silly differences like font rendering, testing eflyers outlook express/outlook etc, in the multi-ie-in-one-app things before, now i have a one-keystroke switch between an environment i can trust 100% to be authentic, and is easy to move around too.

basically using vm's in this way is one of the things that let me sleep at night.

I run ubuntu 12.04 on an i5-2500k, 16gb ddr3-1600 ram and intel ssd .. I currently have 4 windows vms running, 1 for adobe cs4, one for adobe cs6 (both windows 7) and 2 xp vms for ie7/8 ... runs just fine, quite often have an IE6 vm running also.

using awesome wm for a triple head setup, which i guess is a lot lighter than unity or whatever.

I ran the same thing but in reverse before, windows 7 with a couple of linux VMs, for making web stuff to run on linux servers it was painful.

oh, and is it's vaguely relevant i bought the bits for a grand total of £700 excluding screens/keyboard/mouse/optical drive.