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nrkn··on Show HN: Traverse JavaScript object graphs with jQuery
It certainly is - but with a much narrower intended scope of use. It's really not intended as a data transport mechanism for example. It's also homologous with JSON, XML is more flexible in its data representation. And finally, it makes use of HTML5 conventions, such as prefixing custom tags with a hyphen delimited string, data-* attributes etc.
nrkn··on Show HN: Traverse JavaScript object graphs with jQuery
You know what, could be "Aitch Fon" as well (the 5 starts with F, right?)
nrkn··on Show HN: Traverse JavaScript object graphs with jQuery
I've been awkwardly saying "Aitch Five Oh En" in my head, but my work colleague says "Aitch Son", which even though it's a 5 and not an S sort of makes sense given the relationship to JSON :)
nrkn··on The earliest precursor of writing (1977)
But didn't most writing systems evolve from accounting systems?
nrkn··on Why Chris Hughes And Google Are Giving Cash Directly To The Poorest
The majority of people have a basic need to work in some form or another, regardless of compensation.
nrkn··on WordPress founder claims 72,000 posts defected from Tumblr
72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.
nrkn··on 6 Months with C#
You're wrong. A lambda can have a body. Compiles and executes:

  new Func<string>(() => {
    var foo = "bar";
    return foo;
  })();
nrkn··on 6 Months with C#

    new Func<string>(()=>"foo")();

    (function(){return "foo";})();
Oh look - exactly the same number of characters. How awful.
nrkn··on Video Projector Aimed at Blizzard’s Falling Snow, Results Photographed
It's obnoxious - and so is your manner of speaking to people.
nrkn··on Who has the most electoral votes right now
Suspect it's http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results

edit: or the same source as huffpost at least

nrkn··on Xkcd: Click and Drag
A map: http://imgur.com/GDJPL
nrkn··on Xkcd: Click and Drag
I'm running a program to map it right now
nrkn··on Xkcd: Click and Drag
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4542347
nrkn··on Amazon Now Selling More EBooks Than Real Books In The UK
I'm reading Speaker for the Dead on a real, physical book at the moment, after buying and reading Ender's Game on Kindle. Why? Because Amazon won't sell me the Speaker ebook in my region - but they're happy to sell me books 1, 3 and 4. Well done guys.
nrkn··on CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent
Not linked to, but https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644104
nrkn··on CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent
http://imgur.com/dFXFa

There is a grey line in frames 1 and 3 but not in 2.

nrkn··on CSS's "transparent" isn't all that transparent
Firefox 14.0.1, Windows 7 x64. Grey line is visible for a split second as page loads then disappears. EDIT: well now this is bizarre - it disappears and reappears as I scroll.
nrkn··on Why do you think people are poor?
Because going to a private school gives your children the opportunity to network with the children of other wealthy people.
nrkn··on Where did dogs come from? It turns out we don’t really know
An interesting viewpoint, although I think the genetic evidence goes against it:

http://newguinea-singing-dog-conservation.org/Tidbits/Origin...

nrkn··on Microsoft's New Social Network, So.cl: It's Like Google+ For Wonks
I thought the same until I saw that it was a research product/experiment. I think that makes it interesting and harmless rather than sad and misguided.
nrkn··on Hello world in every programming language
I manage a repo that has the bare bones of a roguelike in many languages.

It's a little more involved than a Hello World in that it needs to handle input, output, state etc.

I could always use more languages if anybody wants to pitch in.

https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRL

nrkn··on The Greatest Machine That Never Was
It's a computer in any sense of the word. The only difference between the Analytical Engine and what you call an "actual computer" is speed. It had selection, iteration and sequence, it had working memory and it could load data and instuctions from punched cards.
nrkn··on "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link."
Or looking at the other links, noting that the number in pkgpart=x increments by 2 for each package in the list, open the 2nd link and decrement by 2 to get the 64m package.
nrkn··on Ask HN: Are ergonomic keyboards really useful?
I have a 4000 and have been using various split keyboards (previously Belkin models) for as long as I've been coding. I've never experienced RSI despite spending most of every day at a keyboard, but as I never had it in the first place I can't say for sure that it's down to the keyboard.

The only disadvantage that I can see is that I'm so used to split keyboards that I find using an ordinary keyboard uncomfortable, that includes my laptop and netbook too, neither of which I do any serious work on without first plugging in an external keyboard.

nrkn··on Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
I like that you can't type
nrkn··on Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
Had better luck this time:

http://www.paintacquaint.com/gallery.php?ID=231

nrkn··on Show HN: Doodle with strangers 1 on 1 in real-time
Great idea. Unfortunately all of the people I was paired with wanted to draw pictures of penises, scribble over the whole thing, or leave after 15 seconds.
nrkn··on Hacker News Instant
I too would like to see a comments link, because without it this is useless to me, which is a shame, as it's otherwise very nice.
nrkn··on Show HN: A drag drop webpage builder in 10k HTML/JS/CSS
Yeah the whole thing around that is a bit iffy, it was a compromise I made because it's a little fiddly on very small screens (my phone) and I didn't have time to think about it properly.
nrkn··on Show HN: A drag drop webpage builder in 10k HTML/JS/CSS
Curious, as I didn't touch anything to do with cookies in the code. Perhaps browsers use the user setting for allowing cookies to also allow/disallow html5 localstorage, which the site does make use of.
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