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• How To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images
  David Newton writing for Smashing Magazine on the proposed picture element, Scott Jehl's polyfill, and some problems with the current fallback strategy.
  (tagged: picture element responsive design )
• 5 reasons to use AngularJS in the corporate app world
  Oscar Villarreal:

  You can start by sprinkling it in some places of your app that you can slowly start to rewrite. Believe me I’ve done this before and it actually WORKS. Not only does it work but it allows you to put the seed of a soon to become amazing application.

  (tagged: AngularJS JavaScript )
• Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet
  Adam Mann (at Wired Science) interviews Vint Cerf. tl;dr: "An interplanetary Internet is hard and slow."
  (tagged: future Vint Cerf research Internet )
• JavaScript: the glass is half full
  Dr. Axel Rauschmayer:

  …I’m well aware that JavaScript isn’t the pinnacle of elegance. There are two kinds of things that tend to confuse newcomers: On one hand, there are true quirks, such as function-scoped variables (instead of block-scoped ones), limited loops and complicated constructor subtyping. But even in elegant languages, you have to get the hang of the style.

  (tagged: Axel Rauschmayer JavaScript )
• Why I Despise The Great Gatsby
  Kathryn Schulz, writing for Vulture:

  I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent; I think we kid ourselves about the lessons it contains. None of this would matter much to me if Gatsby were not also sacrosanct.

  Thank you.

  (tagged: literature The Great Gatsby )

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