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Sat in that same course. Nice to see Bremen people here

It’s a German company and “flix” is local slang for quick

Yes please

SoundCloud is using go lot: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/

it's not hardware and doesn't exactly what you'd like, but have a look at MIT's Junkyard Jumbotron: http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu

Essentially a bit of software to add other devices (ipads, phones etc.) as virtual screens

“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html

Or simply flushing out the <head> of a html document before the body is generated so the browser can start pre-fetching resources. That's the main use case that motivated Rails to implement streaming.

I've been using hogan.js to compile mustache templates to JavaScript functions on the server-side and write them to a js file that is then served to the browser:

  Templates={}
  Templates['templatename']=function(){/*compiled template*/}

They can then be referenced quite easily in your backbone render methods.

AOL wasnt sold to Time Warner, it was the other way around (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#2000)

I guess the problem for a lot of people is, sometimes the samwers clone the execution too. In some cases even down to typos in the HTML source

Most German banks have been providing HBCI for over a decade, so that doesn't really narrow it down.

Have a look at Mirah[1] a statically typed ruby-like language that runs on the JVM, by Charles Nutter, the main jRuby developer. Here's an article [2] with short descriptions of Mirah and other Ruby-dialects or Ruby-inspired languages

[1] http://www.mirah.org/

[2] http://www.igvita.com/2010/12/14/beyond-ruby-mirah-reia-rite...

It's the account of Junio C Hamano who is the main maintainer of git

Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis.

Even if it wasn't for historical characters that aren't part of Unicode, this will probably stay that way because of the inefficiencies of encoding Asian text in e.g. UTF8.

That's part of the reason the ruby programming language didn't have proper Unicode support for a long time (and now supports arbitrary encodings for its strings, not just Unicode ones)

The user experience when viewing webpages is improved by actually showing a lower-resolution image while the crisp high-resolution image is being downloaded (however slowly), similar to progressive JPEGs.

Depending on the data contract, the user experience when viewing their mobile phone bills might be affected negatively though.

on second inspection, that “gear icon” only appears when looking at it on the iPad.

you can click on that gear icon in the top right to add/remove cities. The list of available ones is quite limited tough, and it’s very US-Centric

you can apply css to svg

Yes ruby threads will block on all IO

Apple introduced the -webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2 media query parameter with the iPhone 4. But for HTML images that doesn't help

Except that designers might want to include 4x-sized bitmap assets to have their sites appear sharp on those retina displays. If that isn't done carefully, users with smaller displays might have to download those, wasting their bandwidth.

Some of the assets are mouse cursors. Unlikely we are going to see iOS mouse support, so that does suggest mac retina displays

You should check out etckeeper, a package that does exactly that. Additionally it will hook into apt-get and similar system tools and automate Some of the revisioning

Even with digital fonts, there are situations where certain character combinations, such as “ffi” touch/overlap each other. Ligatures are a special-case letterform for these situations that blends them more harmonically

On giffgaff too, any chance you could link to that thread?

Rack was inspired by pythons wsgi

That's a great quote as it shows aesthetics are part of what the product is, rather than something you can "add later".

But most people's preconceptions are of design being primarily concerned with aesthetics and visuals. I find it helpful to show that there is another kind of design that deals primarily with functionality. You could label the two graphic design and interaction design. And of course both are interwoven and interdependent, but they often involve different skillsets and methods..

Design is not just about how it looks (some would call that styling). Design will be able to help determine what to build and how it should work too.

There’s always git.io: https://github.com/blog/985-git-io-github-url-shortener

If youre using less.js, there's no need to write custom code to auto refresh the CSS, it has that feature built in:

  <link rel="stylesheet/less" href="/stylesheets/main.less" type="text/css" />
  <script src="http://lesscss.googlecode.com/files/less-1.0.21.min.js></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    less.env = "development";
    less.watch();
  </script>