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hexasquid··on Step-by-step JavaScript interpreter, written in JavaScript
This is terrific. I'd love a description of what the interpreter is actually doing at each step, perhaps optionally sent to the console. This could be a wonderful tool for teaching how JavaScript works.
hexasquid··on First-Person Hyper-lapse Videos
And the running speed of the original Doom / Doom 2 games.
hexasquid··on Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (1999)
How about 'Convention over configuration'?
hexasquid··on What Languages Fix
We don't want to rely on Java Applets or Flash
hexasquid··on Ex Microsoft staffer arrested for allegedly stealing Win 8 trade secrets
When you hire a car, before taking it you should walk around the car and note all the scratches and bing points left on it by previous hirers.
hexasquid··on Reactive Programming in JavaScript
Awesome! Where is the library? I've been looking on silks github but I must have missed it.
hexasquid··on Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Talks About Steve Jobs and New Products
was it maps?
hexasquid··on Skype and Microsoft man-in-the-middle chats to give targeted ads
hmm. skyproogled.
hexasquid··on Atom
I don't follow. These hipster JS frameworks have to work well on phones and various inconsistent browsers. Targeting the desktop and one JS environment seems feasible.
hexasquid··on Internet troll study: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism
as in gif.
hexasquid··on Flappy Bird is proof that no one knows what the audience wants
People want games with birds in them.
hexasquid··on Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings
These days it's all about the Chromebox One.
hexasquid··on A Clojure Crash Course
At the risk of starting a war - I'm used to Vim. Is there a benefit to looking into LightTable or Emacs if I want to get into Clojure?
hexasquid··on Amusing ourselves to death
Apparently titled as a reference to the book.
hexasquid··on Letter From A Psychopath
I was fascinated by the setup, where we are shown a letter which begins with a request to keep it in confidence.
hexasquid··on Web GL Ocean Simulation
I'd venture that the differences these day is that there is no install step and it works on many different systems.
hexasquid··on GoldieBlox viral video turns tables on little-girl princess fantasy
I want to support this company.
hexasquid··on Introducing Instagram for Windows Phone
I like 'show password' buttons.
hexasquid··on Hands-on with the Xbox One: Kinect, interface, and OS impressions
Metro makes more sense in this context.
hexasquid··on My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
The new one has a setting that boots to desktop, if that helps any.
hexasquid··on CSS Comb
It seems to work okay on SCSS files, although I can't say if they are officially supported or not.
hexasquid··on Microsoft Surface Pro 2
When Microsoft was confident, many years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcLdwYqwko
hexasquid··on The Hackathon Experience Is a Hack
If it's your first time at hack club, you have to hack.
hexasquid··on The limits of Google’s openness
As a Windows Phone user I am just going to have to accept I will never get YouTube, G+ or Google Drive while Android and iOS users can get onenote, lync, skydrive and the Xbox companion shit.
hexasquid··on Hackermeter (YC S13) Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score
I am NaN!
hexasquid··on Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App
In theory that jquery and that angular file should be sourced
hexasquid··on Show HN: A New Category of Web Forms
How about indicating that a day is not available before I click on it?
hexasquid··on Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?
> "He was stringing these computer terms together in ways that made no sense."

That's how I see job specs from recruiters.

hexasquid··on Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011)
Ahhhhh this answered a question I had when I was about 7: why couldn't I undelete the first character?
hexasquid··on Can you help me understand the benefit of require.js?
Grunt is just generally a helpful little task runner and good for automating many things in general web development - running tests, concatenation / minification, linting, HTML / CSS / JS preprocessing and so on, if that floats your boat. It really is worth giving it a go.
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