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Do you have any insight as to why?

I'm part of that minority and small phones seem better in so many ways. My hands are relatively big I think, but even with "small" phones now I can barely use them with one hand. The smaller screen uses less battery. Larger phones don't fit in pockets very well and result in a spot that wears through on my jeans where the corner of the phone pokes out from my pocket.

I'm really struggling to think of advantages to larger phones. I guess if you always carry around a purse/bag then the size doesn't matter as much, and if you had smaller hands then maybe one-handed use is just impossible regardless of the size. But what's the use case? It's not like a real computer where a larger screen means you can multitask better, since you can barely multitask anyway.

I think the issue is that the article is called "Reasons Python Sucks" rather than "Things I Hate About Python". It comes off as the author saying that these things are objectively bad about python even though many of them are clearly subjective.

Which one is a suffix? super- hyper- ultra- mega- are all prefixes

Interesting, what did they hate about it?

You can be arrested for running an exit node, because other Tor users' traffic will appear to be coming from you.

For example: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/05/01/russian-tor-exit-node-... https://www.zdnet.com/article/dan-egerstads-tor-exit-nodes-g... https://www.pcworld.com/article/2452320/tor-exit-node-operat...

I don't think they're saying that having verbose name is dumb, I think it's that a type called "timestamp with time zone" doesn't actually store a time zone.

FYI the link to my state senator's (Nancy Skinner's) site is broken- it's http://sd9.senate.ca.gov/ but should be http://sd09.senate.ca.gov/

The original title was "Unbelievable story of how BitTorrent failed"

Similarly, mine shows 'Oakland, PA' when I search for 94612 which is Oakland, CA.

I think it's not APNG that's the issue but the kickstarter's name, "apngasm".

I couldn't find anything in the profiler either. I did narrow it down a bit though. Most of what I was experiencing was sluggishness in scrolling around the page, not in the animations themselves. I realized that in particular, scolling around the top of the page where all the buttons for the modals are. If I hide all of the buttons, the page works great. So somehow something really bad is happening trying to render a bunch of buttons (I made a test page with a few hundred buttons on it and it hung for a few minutes when I tried to scroll). That sounds pretty crazy, so I'm going to assume this is something funky with my configuration and not with Firefox.

Once I got past that, I'm really impressed with how well these animations perform.

(By the way, I haven't used the Firefox dev tools in a while, and they've come a long way! I'll switch back from chrome soon if they keep improving at this rate)

Hmm, maybe it's just a problem with my setup then.

Everything is smooth and looks great in Chromium, but the whole page is sluggish in Firefox (on linux at least, and usually firefox on windows is worse).

This has been generally true in my experience playing with CSS animations. Are there any tricks to optimize stuff like this in Firefox, or is it just an area where Chromium is still way far ahead in performance?

Doh, you're right. For some reason I had it in my head that the block itself wrapped onto multiple lines but I must have been thinking of something else.

It seems like there isn't really any CSS only solution for this without wrapping every character in its own element like jQueryIsAwesome suggested.

A bunch of stuff, but the important thing here is that it clips things above and below each line so things like this can't overlap other lines

That must have been a typo; the course is CS61A.

Looks awesome! I had no idea canvas had progressed so far already. You should come by on friday!

I can't really say since I don't have the 7th edition. In general though, they usually add another chapter or two to incorporate recent developments in the field. These are usually interesting but almost never actually used in class. The only reason for the price difference (in used copies at least) is that all classes require the new one now, so there is no demand for the old one.

That's actually a pretty good idea. The difference between the newest edition and second newest edition of a book can be up to $100 sometimes. For example the my intro circuits book cost me $100 used (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-8th-James-Nilsson/dp...) for the newest edition when I could have gotten the second newest one for $5 (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-7th-James-Nilsson/dp...)

Based on my experience in school you're right about the first point (though they are still churned out very frequently) but incorrect about the second point (at least at the school I go to- I suspect it varies from school to school). Professors frequently require the latest edition of a book. Sometimes you can use the old book, but oftentimes it makes it very difficult to do the homework as the chapter/problem numbers get scrambled around in every edition and new problems can be added in the new editions.