ronaldj

I love named arguments. I wish my programming language of choice had them.

Nah, SF rent is overpriced. You'd have to be pretty thick to think that you're getting a good deal.

I moved from Maryland a couple of years ago. Very surprised to see how many speed cameras pop up each time I go back for a visit. I don't speed, but whenever I see a sign for one it really stresses me out. Glad I don't live there anymore.

You can call a method with Mustache. You don't event need Handlebars to do that.

I'd take a high speed if it was cheaper than flying and didn't require all the security.

They should sell them on the app store and get it over with.

I remember testing one and it couldn't detect more than two fingers. There was some piano app and you couldn't play a chord with three notes.

Is there no non-3d 48 fps version?

I suspect you'd be able to style it using the shadow DOM.

Can someone explain how this is potentially dangerous?

if (!cachedReturnValues[key]) { cachedReturnValues[key] = value; }

This is obviously the best one: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...

Also, you can get locked in the save dialog and can't recover your document in Word. This seems more serious than the lag.

Oh man! I lost a bunch on OCZ too. :\

As much as I hate the TSA, this sort of reads like entrapment.

It's a fucking phone.

My friend and I always talk about how, given our salaries, we could have both bought houses by now if we weren't living in the Bay Area. A tempting idea is just to save as much as possible for a few years and then move someplace cheaper.

All the cool kids are talking about skeuomorphic design lately.

That's how I feel when I see ads from other countries other than the US. These ads reminds me a little bit of them.

My parents grew tomatoes in their garden every summer here in the US. I've been eating tomatoes like that since I was a child. Sliced, as a side, in the summer, with a little salt and pepper. I only do this when they are homegrown though.

I don't think carries actually own the towers. They rent them from companies like American Tower Corp I believe.

The value of college when you enter the job market depends on what you make of it while you are there. Most people can probably finish one way or another, but that doesn't guarantee passion or valuable real world skills. I also believe that the 'name' of your school matters a lot too.

Like taco delivery.

But you won't get the file size of a lossy WebP image with an alpha channel.

I've actually used this technique before. You can also use an SVG clip path to do something similar in Firefox. When I used this technique I shipped the mask as a separate file as I wasn't familiar enough with the file format to realize I could attach it. The 63KB limit when attaching the mask to the image might be too close.

If you make an app that can take a PNG and convert it to JPEG with alpha channel can you let me know? I would be VERY interested in this.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. A majority of the JS code out has semicolons. Key individuals on the committee responsible for furthering the development of the language recommend always using it. Not including semicolons has shown to result in code errors. It can also introduce build errors when your code is minified. It can also create mental overhead when other developers try to read your code. I just don't get it. Why fight it? Then again, I'm coming from a C/Java background and they just seem so natural to me.

That's a great analogy.

Yes yes yes we do! Bandwidth may be increasing, but as displays get better we are going to be serving up ever increasing assets. Sites are already serving up 2x'd versions of images for iOS devices that have higher resolution screens. These higher res images essentially quadruple your file size. On top of that these devices are mobile, which lag behind broadband/ethernet connections AND many of which have data limit caps.

I think that for some interactive content, we could do definitely utilize WeP's lossy alpha channel format. The one thing that pops up in my mind are filmstrip animations, where you make a animation using JS and a single image that has all your frames. This allows you to control its playback with JS and gives you better image quality than GIF. Right now we can use JPEG compression for this, but this means we have to bake the page background into the frames or use a huge PNG.

With enough browser support an animation like this could just fallback to a single PNG for older browsers and newer browsers would be better experiences.

We could make the web a lot faster and/or do some really cool stuff if we had a lossy image format with an alpha channel. It'd be nice this got picked up by all browser vendors. Sadly, I fear that they'll be squabbling over it, just like they are with VP8/Ogg/h.264.

I really believe that the companies involved in web standards are holding progress back at this point. At the same time, even if they all agreed to put this in tomorrow, we'd still be stuck supporting IE6-9 which will never have it. Being a web developer sucks sometimes.

That code is bad for more reasons than the semicolon omission.