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tallowen··on React v0.8 is out
For what its worth,

<tabManager background={'blue'}> <tab closeButton={true}> Hello {this.props.Name} </tab> </tabManager>

Would be valid in react.

Check out http://facebook.github.io/react/#todoExample, specifically the render function.

I think this is pretty easy to understand:

      <div>
        <h3>TODO</h3>
        <TodoList items={this.state.items} />
        <form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
          <input onChange={this.onChange} value={this.state.text} />
          <button>{'Add #' + (this.state.items.length + 1)}</button>
        </form>
      </div>
tallowen··on Rent Affordability Gap in San Francisco
What do the numbers you get when you hover over a neighborhood mean? They seem to be somewhat contradictory.

Household income to afford this rent is always way higher than the median income of those who actually live there. Is there an error in the way these numbers are being calculated or am I misunderstanding the headings?

tallowen··on Reasons to Choose Opera over Chrome
I would have loved to see some of these points compared to the traditional chrome alternative - Firefox. There are many browsers out there that aren't produced by google. Is the assumption that I want a browser that's using blink as its rendering engine?
tallowen··on Mozilla Launches Firefox OS Simulator 3.0
Just to clarify the simulator is now version 3.0, not the OS itself.

Here is a link from Mozilla explaining whats new in the new version of the simulator:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/firefox-os-simulator-3-0-r...

tallowen··on Bitcoins Are Digital Collectibles, Not Real Money
If Bitcoins are valued at around $100 dollars a piece is it possible for me to make a $10 dollar purchase using bitcoins?
tallowen··on Samsung joins Mozilla's quest for Rust
I can imagine that If Samsung continues to develop a browser based OS they will likely do it in a way that inter-operates with the Firefox OS ecosystem. By the time this would come to market there will likely be more apps in the Firefox OS marketplace. It would solve the problem of new platforms having a limited selection of apps.
tallowen··on Python for Ruby Programmers (LA RubyConf 2013)
Though the author didn't mention it explicitly, I actually felt that the author did a fairly good job of covering this when he said:

> It's harder to write code that pisses off other developers in Python

tallowen··on Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields
The number of bug reports in my opinion sums up the problem with doing this thing. Even though these effects can be really neat, there is nothing worse than somebody trying to put in data and have the form not accept thier input for an unknown reason.

That being said, I think these could be really neat in certain places and maybe with a bit more testing this could be super useful.

tallowen··on TapChat is mobile IRC done right
I would pay for this if I could use my own ZNC bouncer.
tallowen··on Rust 0.3 released
What are Mozilla's plans for integrating rust into Firefox? Is this a mostly theoretical constraint or is there a plan to have this implemented?
tallowen··on GitHub for Windows
I find it interesting that both native apps (for Windows and Mac) try hard to emulate the look and feel of their respective operating system.

One thing that is great about github.com and other websites is that it feels the same across multiple environments. Furthermore web browsers try to emulate their own style not that of the host operating system. If I use chrome or firefox in mac or windows they feel basically the same.

I wonder if more applications will go in the direction of trying to match the feel of the host operating system over the feel of there application as a whole.

tallowen··on Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2
University of Toronto is there - I would imagine Canadian students have similar internship opportunities.
tallowen··on Backbone.offline allows your Backbone.js app to work offline with localStorage
Backbone.localStorage seems to replace the ajaxsync with syncing to localStorage. This library looks like it is trying to keep track of objects in local storage without removing the ajaxsync functionality.
tallowen··on An easier way to create GitHub repositories
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't know what to do with notifications on github.
tallowen··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
I think the real benefit here would be to block java plugins automatically. The current implementation blocks both (to the best of my understanding).

Not automatically loading java would be a great benefit to the majority of users. Its not used on nearly as many websites yet it is responsible for the lion's share of current security exploits.

tallowen··on Github is making me feel stupid(er)
Works in firefox as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dotjs/
tallowen··on Github is making me feel stupid(er)
Though I agree that there are probably too many things going on in the interface, I don't see many buttons where I immediately think "I never use that".

Github seems to be in the tough situation of trying to reproduce a command line interface and all its flexibility in one simple / easy to visualize dashboard.

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