pburtchaell

/**
 * VH and VW units can cause issues on iOS devices: http://caniuse.com/#feat=viewport-units
 * 
 * To overcome this, create media queries that target the width, height, and orientation of iOS devices. 
 * It isn't optimal, but there is really no other way to solve the problem. In this example, I am fixing 
 * the height of element `.foo` —which is a full width and height cover image.
 *
 * iOS Resolution Quick Reference: http://www.iosres.com/
 */
 

jashkenas

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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ldodds

Twitter informed that a demo of Xanadu had launched, so I went to have a look. The demo only works in Firefox and it seems to be a cut down version of demos that I've seen Ted Nelson give in the past. But still: running code in the wild.

I met Ted Nelson once when we both spoke at an STM Innovations conference in 2006. I suspect he wouldn't have agreed with my much of my talk which looked at the web as a hypertext system and compared it with earlier approaches. My point of view was that we could bring those features back into the web by creating new services and by exploiting Javascript and web browsers to upgrade our experience of using the web. Evolution doesn't need to happen in a coordinated centralised way.

(When I say I met Ted Nelson, I meant that I shyly sat next to him at lunch while he expounded on various topics and fiddled with the tape recorder he was using to record all his conversations. So maybe, "met" isn't the right word (he won't

tsiege

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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magicznyleszek

Jekyll & Liquid Cheatsheet

A list of the most common functionalities in Jekyll (Liquid). You can use Jekyll with GitHub Pages, just make sure you are using the proper version.

Running

Running a local server for testing purposes:

thebouv

du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11

# Usually set this up in my bash profile as an alias:

# alias ducks='du -cks * | sort -rn | head -11'

# Because it is fun to type ducks on the command line. :)

ftrain

;; This is at: https://gist.github.com/8655399

;; So we want a rhyming dictionary in Clojure. Jack Rusher put up
;; this code here:
;; 
;; https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/8640437
;;
;; I'm going to study this code and learn as I go.
;;
;; First I put it in a namespace.

wolverina

/*fuck garbage*/
a[href^="http://bzfd.it"],
a[href^="http://buzzfeed.com"],
a[href^="http://www.buzzfeed.com"],
a[href^="http://huff.to"],
a[href^="http://huffingtonpost.com"],
a[href^="http://www.huffingtonpost.com"],
a[href^="http://gaw.kr"],
a[href^="http://gawker.com"],
a[href^="http://www.gawker.com"],

pippinlee

Book Collection Links

Amazon links (No affiliate links!)

• Mathematical Carnival - Martin Gardner

• How to Solve It - G. Polya

• New Foundations for Classical Mechanics - D. Hestenes