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Re: Chrome is dying, day 3

shachar — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:11:54 -0000

run Activity Monitor, find the WindowServer process, click the "x" button in toolbar, then "Force Quit".

Re: Chrome is dying, day 3

shachar — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:07:06 -0000

Dave, when this happens next, try killing the WindowServer process on your Mac, and copy-paste again. If this solves it - it may be partly an Apple bug and not just a Chrome issue.

Re: Chrome - A pinned tab will change its favicon to a... | Little Big Details

shachar — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:19:53 -0000

*any* tab will have a speaker icon if there is a sound playing.

Re: Design challenge: paragraph-level permalinks

shachar — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:43:36 -0000

type this in the browser console for a quick-and-dirty demo:

$('<style>p:hover .divPgfPermaLink>a { display: block; } .divPgfPermaLink>a { display: none; }</style>').appendTo($('head'));

Re: Design challenge: paragraph-level permalinks

shachar — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 13:30:09 -0000

I'm the last person you would call a designer :), but I would suggest that you display the hash symbol on hover. so you only see at most one of them at any point in time, and only for the current paragraph (similar to Medium's paragraph-level comment button).

Re: AWS/node.js question

shachar — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:13:05 -0000

@Omar Vasquez Lima is correct. Many, many, many third-party Node.js packages break silently in mysterious ways once you conveniently forget to pass a callback, assuming they are either synchronous or return a promise. In their stead, I would design my reusable packages to throw a meaningful error if they are missing method parameters.

Re: Why JavaScript I/O is so awkward

shachar — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:14:38 -0000

Maybe. I wrote it for other readers' benefits as well. I am well aware you're not new to Javascript, having spent at least half an hour groking the source code for Fargo. :)

Re: Why JavaScript I/O is so awkward

shachar — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:41:59 -0000

Dave, most of the browser is asynchronous (as you pointed out) and as such most of the I/O APIs in the browser (and in the server, in the case of Node.js) are based on callbacks.

basically everyone hit the same pain at some point once we cross from JS playground into actually building products. The proper/common way to do this is standardised as Promise/A+, and the most popular implementation (also bundled in Angular) is called Q : http://github.com/kriskowal/q. I would recommend your start there.

Re: My server JavaScript dream

shachar — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 07:01:51 -0000

Dave, can you please state what is the motivation for Javascript code to run on a server when you can run it on the client, e.g. in the Markdown example there is no obvious reason. Maybe you're after server-side (persistent) state, as may be indicated by the JSON data structure feature you describe? I'm very interested. Can you expand on what usage you expect to have for such a service? (maybe more examples will clarify)

Re: This dialog is torturing me

shachar — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:47:06 -0000

I had the same issue on my Mac. I upgraded the hard drive to an SSD and the problem went away. Perhaps you're using a mechanical hard drive and your Chrome process(es) are swapping to/from disk heavily?

Re: Feature request for S3-hosted websites

shachar — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:35:49 -0000

Dave, re: HTTPS, I may be missing something here, but you can configure an SSL cert for your bucket and use it for using HTTPS in end-to-end encryption. not directly on-topic, but you have plenty to work with here: http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

Re: Not all big tech comes from startups

shachar — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:36:39 -0000

great; btw - I can't follow you on twitter (I'm @shachart there), can you please unblock me? :)

Re: Not all big tech comes from startups

shachar — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:19:32 -0000

Bitcoin seems to fit the bill

Re: TechCrunch Giveaway: A Google Chrome Cr-48 Notebook #TechCrunch

shachar — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:04:05 -0000

oh man, I would like one as well.

Re: Michael Hoisie - A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API

shachar — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:10:44 -0000

Ryan,

What would be the best way for me to get "restricted track" or "partner track" access level on the Streaming API?

Thanks,
Shachar

Re: TechCrunch Giveaway: A Google Nexus S #TechCrunch

shachar — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:22:01 -0000

hi,

I really, really want a nexus S from Santa. pretty please?

Re: Scripting News: How the Facebook "phone" can be easier an an iPhone

shachar — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:32:53 -0000

s/just can/just can't

Re: Scripting News: The Big C vs the Big Zzzz

shachar — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:54:26 -0000

Dave, have you seen Breaking Bad on AMC? the notion of basing a show on a dying character was copied verbatim from there.

Re: Scripting News: What's the point of the magic trackpad?

shachar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:21:50 -0000

current Magic Trackpad is gestures mostly, can't really sync touch with what's on screen without an additional mouse!

I'm guessing the next-gen Magic Trackpad will have a screen built into the surface. thus, you can synchronize the touch location with on-screen contents. and thus the iOS will be able to run on Mac hardware.

Re: Scripting News: The joy of a new computer

shachar — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:41:18 -0000

You have a BMW in NYC? why? :)

Re: Scripting News: Dear Canon: Time to add communications to your low-end cameras

shachar — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:32:17 -0000

re your PS - yeah, the EyeFi is neat, but I'd go with a WhisperNet-like model where your camera has free, unlimited 3G access to a cellular network. I'd easily pay $10/month for such a service on my pocket camera. Hell, I wish I had this kind of service (with some basic retouching features) on my DSLR.

Re: Question about Apache/Windows. (Scripting News)

shachar — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:41:23 -0000

You can use "piped logs" and log rotation (see http://httpd.apache.org/doc.... once you do that, the log rotator ensures maximum file size, max file count, etc.

Re: More iPad thoughts. (Scripting News)

shachar — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:26:16 -0000

During the presentation by Apple, I also felt the iPad seemed rushed. But then I thought - why rush it? yes, there's the possibility of competition almost launching, but frankly unless it's as ludicrous as the CrunchPad, I don't buy it. My take - they want it to seem rushed. Someone in the strategy role in Apple wants the competition to be underwhelmed. so underwhelmed that they will start thinking that if THIS is what Apple thinks will make do for this form factor, then perhaps they shouldn't compete. maybe they should wait and see if this actually sells.

And while they're sitting on the fence, I will bet you Apple is rallying up every iphone developer they can, every flash developer (via Adobe's CS5 flash-to-iphone/ipad convertor), while also making deals with Salesforce and few dozen Enterprise software vendors. I'm guessing this will be the next MID the Fedex guys are carrying around, and you will be signing for your package with your finger.

Re: Where can I get some no-frills hosting? (Scripting News)

shachar — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:51:56 -0000

try out http://nearlyfreespeech.net. they have a decade on the competition.

Re: FasterWeb Gets Investment – Pushed To Go Faster

shachar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:22:08 -0000

I am not part of FW nor affiliated with them. I heard about their technology a few months ago, is all.