i remember when you were creating that debugger, long time no see. (what's it been, a decade?) Fceuxd was always the best romhacking emulator, gotta love those conditional break points!
this takes me back to the old days of beta testing, and hanging in #rom-hacking on irc hope you're well :)
I had some visual analytics tools that ran "canvas" on IE6 in 2008 thanks to VML. Never did pure VML but it was a nice crutch to have if you wanted to get very experimental and very cross-browser.
Well, this is the future of the music industry. It's an incredibly sound ivestment to increase the buy-in of major players to increase the overall long-term viability of the product. It's kind of a "duh", but to be fair many companies miss the "duh"
I find this specious: What modern web app isn't minifying/concatenating it's Javascript and CSS source? All of your concerns are easily remedied via a proper build procedure. And we're talking about, in relative terms, miniscule amounts of data for the web. 33 kb? C'mon now.
Without making a judgement call on the virtue of his of actions: I consider myself very skeptical of the notion that this administration, which has cracked down on whistle-blowers/leakers as much (or more) than any other, is about to offer anything other than the "full weight of Justice" on Snowden.
I enjoyed Philip Bump's piece from the Atlantic about this:
"Why Does CBS Keep Asking Its Ridiculous Amnesty Question About Snowden?"
I love these types of things. Kudos to the author.
This one in particular reminds me of a tool I've always found useful.
It's an interactive Regex builder just like the one linked in the OP. I would say it's got some additional compelling features: like mouse-over breakdowns of each expression as you build it, a handy reference list as well, but also a community concept and saved expressions. Really, I've never found anything better. My only complaint is that it's flash-based, but it's an amazing tool, so can't really complain too much.
>> "The underlying sentiment I read was -- "you mean I will be stuck unable to tell everyone I work with the latest bleeding edge tech because there is a newer, cooler faster hemorrhaging tech out there, after I spent nights online evangelizing about how awesome this last bandwagon I jumped on is""
Let me ask you a simple question: Do you trust the professional opinion of someone who would complain about this? And loudly, at that? Do you think this person is representative of a majority of front-end engineers?
>> "It was rather amusing and sad. The amusing part is how the stereotype of immaturity and childishness was just re-enforcing itself."
Which community of people have established a stereotype of immaturity and childishness that was just reinforced?
>> "The sad part is that here is Google spending man months ... of work and giving it back to the community and as a thank you they got spit in the face ("how dare you release open source projects, that you spend money developing, in a direction I don't agree with!").
"Giving it back to the community and getting spit on"... Google is a for-profit company. They're not doing this for charity. There are many facets to the idea of replacing javascript as the client-side language of the web. Would that we could all act like adults when discussing this on the merits. That doesn't always happen, as we are human beings. I agree that getting angry at the Dart team is irrational and non-productive.
Okay. So what are we talking about here again? I'm still confused. Perhaps the confusion is my fault and not your own. But if you could elaborate a bit, that might help.
No, I'm talking about the substance of your comment. It's rambling and conflating seemingly completely unrelated topics. I do not recognize what you have described as any current reality I am a part of:
>> "...lot of hipsters that hunt and jump on the latest tech bandwagon..."
>> "The underlying sentiment I read was -- "you mean I will be stuck unable to tell everyone I work with the latest bleeding edge tech because there is a newer, cooler faster hemorrhaging tech out there, after I spent nights online evangelizing about how awesome this last bandwagon I jumped on is""
>> "The sad part is that here is Google spending man months of work and giving it back to the community and as a thank you they got spit in the face"
Who are we even talking about here? Which community? You seem to be taking a few anecdotes, apparently of HN posts, interpreting them in your own.. strange way and then using that information to paint with the broadest of brushes.
Hipsters? We're talking about software development here and programming language choices. -Your- reality might be some strange war where youth subcultures are duking it out for the future of the web based on childish ego fights and posing or something... That's not my reality.
Exactly. There are countless standards issued by the W3C that are completely ignored by Browser Vendors at large. Yet it's still the most relevant consortium on the matter.
Conversely, there are countless features introduced by Browser Vendors that do not exist in the W3C's specs. (And some of those are even eventually picked up by the W3c.)
I honestly don't think people understand how the Standards Body's work, and how their specs propagate into actual products that people use on a daily basis.
Many companies have cherry-picked what to implement and what not to. This is not new. If anything, it's the norm. Vendors will continue to do this as long as the W3C will exist, and can continue to do so in this case, without destroying the W3C or making it an invalid body.