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haclifford··on Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users
What function does a half baked google docs clone serve here?
haclifford··on Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar
This is really cool; it'll be interesting to see it's application to feed style content as opposed to tables (in the discussion on the html5 version of facebook mobile rendering the feed was a major bottleneck)
haclifford··on jsSHA - A JavaScript Implementation Of The Entire Family Of SHA Hashes
The google closure library has sha1 and hmac support as well - well worth checking out

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/namespace_goo...

haclifford··on Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
As noted in the reddit thread on this:

This isn't to be used alone for clearing minefields - as it's not going to get 100% coverage. It's still a useful tool for surveying minefields or perhaps doing a cheap first-pass before sending in pricey equipment

haclifford··on Steam Linux Beta starts today, NVIDIA claims
I feel like an idiot for only just realizing; this is valves solution to the potential windows 8 lockout isn't it
haclifford··on This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.
I agree, it's unbelievable. End users don't care about incorrect markup, they care about their browser hanging.
haclifford··on Backbone.js views done right
Can't remember where I heard it, so decided to check.

Found this S.O thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10296791/backbone-js-perf... (different code, same concept) and decided to benchmark: Unqueued DOM insertion: http://jsfiddle.net/arkxp/9/ Queued DOM insertion: http://jsfiddle.net/arkxp/8/

The latter is consistently faster, and while the difference isn't a lot with this example, given a more complex insertion it'll mount up.

haclifford··on Backbone.js views done right
This is pretty much what we use, here it is with map and builds the element prior to dom insertion (better performance): https://gist.github.com/2932520
haclifford··on The Automated Fake Album Project
There's bias introduced based on the visual appearance, some of the fonts used are terrible - and (as mentioned) the contrast.
haclifford··on IPad 3 design revealed as new wave of parts leak; Retina Display pictured
I'm praying that the retina display really does happen, not because I plan on buying an ipad - but because it will finally get laptop manufacturers to stop producing crappy 720p displays.
haclifford··on New MVC client side JavaScript framework - Serenade.js
Doesn't seem particularly game-changing.

I do like the haml style templating though, anything like this exist standalone with coffeescipt not js syntax?

We currently use eco (https://github.com/sstephenson/eco), but that's standard html.

haclifford··on CloudMine Releases Server-Side Superpowers
Nice feature, would be awesome to see other JVM languages too