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If you don't know what 80 ft looks like, here you go: Its f'in massive![^]
modified 3-Feb-14 8:18am.
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I don't know why, but I fancy a Guinness now.
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Man talk about surf's up, that is a monster!
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It is an obscenely massive wave.
I see he got towed into it, its the only way when they are this big I guess, you could never paddle quick enough to get on it. I wonder if he has foot straps on though, with the speed and bounciness of the ride I would want them. And a mini scuba tank! 2 meters is the biggest I ever surfed, and going over the falls on one of those is bad enough. 
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Erudite_Eric wrote: I see he got towed into it, its the only way when they are this big I guess,
Yeah I don't think there would be anyway to over it paddling.
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Laird Hamilton is the guy to watch doing this, I think he came up with foot straps and towed in surfing. OK, its a logical conclusion; I had foot straps on my old surf board 15 years ago and used to get towed around by my knackered old speed boat for a bit of fun, but we never had waves big enough near where I could launch the boat from to try it for surfing.
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In all my years living in FL the biggest waves were probably during a hurricane and they probably highest was 6ft, normal wave height is around 1-3ft. And whenever a hurricane is predicted all the surfers head for the beach.
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Huge! That guys has balls of steal.
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Eye Of The Day[^]
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Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You look better today!
speramus in juniperus
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I can't comment on this. At least without having my account closed.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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And here I thought this to be your real eye[+]
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Eye see what you mean. 
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Eye see what you did there!
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(Best pirrate voice) Eye did ye now lad?
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Eye browsed by[^] this post, and eye had to leaf.
Clean-up crew needed, grammar spill... - Nagy Vilmos
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Eye'd ne careful with browse like that!
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Nice to see you're finally getting the hang of using the blush along with the eyeliner, Griff. I'm sure you'll be a hit in the pasture tonight! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It was the eyebrow plucking that took the time...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Unobtrusive Javascript is bad... OK, that should get the conversation started. To make it short, the proposition here is that you should bind events with code in an external file so that you can have purity of semantic coding is worse than a goto statement. A goto statement is at least a follow-able link. External binding is a fashion with no more benefit than any other fashion. I can buy that you should keep the majority of your javascript in external files, but putting the event binding externally, is to hide or at least obscure what the program flow and what the program is doing.
So, what do you think the upside and downside of putting your event bindings in the HTML? "Purity of code" is not going to impress me... any. I live in the trenches.
I expect some difference of opinion on this based on experience and role. I would expect that developers that have done a lot of trouble shooting and maintenance have a different opinion than those that write code that they do not have to maintain. You might mention this type experience when replying.
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Member 7980583 wrote: Unobtrusive Javascript is bad
- very bad!!!
However unobtrusive not only talks about separation, but also states that your page will work without that JavaScript present at all!
So, if you go unobtrusive, then you must separate JavaScript form HTML (and CSS)!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
modified 3-Feb-14 8:21am.
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Ya know, you have an interesting point. I have written web apps with noscript capability. I understand the principles, but how often are you going to do that? Some security contexts might need to have javascript turned off, but most of the time, I would be inclined to just say too bad. Isn't the web about HTML5, javascript and responsive CSS? I cannot see working within that restricted environment. Sorry Charlie, but I write web sites that are too high performance to work without javascript. It's like telling me that we need a ditch dug, but you have to use your hands rather than a shovel.
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I have some project - military/police related - where the absence of JavaScript is a demand...
Very annoying...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I have done pages that had to work without javascript and it is not that the javascript can't be in the page, it is that the page can function without it. The funny thing about using the "noscript" tag (so to speak) is that you shouldn't need it. You get a lot of things that are submits instead of javascript actions, but they become javascript actions if the javascript works to make them so. Really nasty.
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What Me Worry?
I do what needs to be done - move things around when it seems sensible and keep them together when it doesn't.
Aside from my personal JavaScript libraries (=generally useful functions), if a file is too big, move out the excess, and if not, and everything fits nicely in a small and readable file, then leave it there.
A lot of how this is done (size and selection) is personal taste on how the logic flows and the reader (particularly yourself) visualizes.
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