ChrisLTD

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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
This is an opportunity for foundering companies like Microsoft and Yahoo to differentiate themselves in a positive way and raise the bar for everyone. Apple already did this with their stores and Genius Bars. Buying an Apple device comes wi
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
It can't be good for morale that Zuckerberg doesn't even use FB Home.
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
As we've seen from scandals at universities around the country, players don't actually get much of an education. How could they when they have to devote so much time to proper diet, practice, and then the games themselves?
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
And yet the specialized employees people really pay to watch make nothing at all.
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
I'm not being snarky. Sorry of if it came out that way. You're right, changing the radius is too difficult; I'm just remembering back when creating rounded rectangles was itself a multistep process.
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
The best way I've found to make rounded corners in Photoshop is by using the round rectangle vector tool. It's relatively new, so you may not have tried it.
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
If you're using the pointer tool, hold down [cmd] on a Mac or [ctrl] on Windows and click on something in the layer you want to select.
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
Front end development has a few characteristics that make it particularly tough. You have to support multiple browsers (and the old versions of those browsers), as well as computers with different sized screens and input types. On the backe
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
If a phone call or face-to-face meeting with the client doesn't solve the problem, you should take your contract to a lawyer and figure out your options. Depending on the amount you're owed, it might not be worth the legal fees or time to f
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by ChrisLTD 13y ago
Because the U.S. economy hasn't yet recovered from the 2008 recession. Low demand on the consumer side has meant that businesses don't need to expand and hire people.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
The built in screenshot shortcuts work just fine. If you're looking for something a little more robust with annotation tools, checkout Little Snapper: http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
The Adobe suite of tools does change, but usually at the margins. Techniques I learned using Photoshop 5 a decade ago still work just fine in CS6. It's a lot like Microsoft Office in a way.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
I've wanted this for a while, although I suppose that aggressive caching achieves roughly the same result.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
The fundamentals of both (as opposed to fads) haven't changed much over time. Even so, I'd grant that keeping up with the latest tools of the trade in programming is more than enough to keep a person busy.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
This is why Instapaper and similar services have a market. We should be thankful that enough of the web is parseable for these tools to work and not stuck in something like a Flash file.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
I'm with you. Apple has a history of making UI that's pretty much only useful in commercials and store demos. A lot of the Mac OS X dock is under that umbrella.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
At some point Apple is going to need to redesign iOS to better integrate features they've accumulated since 2007. I don't think we're anywhere near that point yet. FWIW, Apple has made tweaks to the look and feel. The "dock" at the bottom o
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
The question is whether or not that's more or less likely than Keep being around for that same amount of time. In Om's mind that balance has clearly shifted.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
Most businesses are singularly focused and don't shift priorities. Think restaurants, stores, manufacturers, even small software companies. Only large companies can even afford to think about shifting priorities rather than staying laser fo
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
I've added that to a site I'm about to launch. Seems like a good compromise.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
"in reality their pathfinding results in basically random behavior" It's actually the opposite, sims always go to the nearest source for whatever it is they need despite traffic or congestion. Some randomness in picking a destination might
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
I think fixed web site headers are one of those things that looked cool/new/snazzy so they were adopted as a matter of fashion rather than usability. I should go look and see if there are any studies done on them...
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
Good Flash performance on mobile required both better hardware and efficiently programmed software from Adobe. Adobe is seems to have been a pretty big bottleneck. Flash still works pretty poorly on my desktops and laptops with gobs more po
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
As a frequent user of both the iPhone and iPad apps, I can tell you that I appreciate having articles categorized in various sections. Mostly I like browsing the metaphorical paper while skipping sections that I know rarely have articles I
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
As tablet and phone hardware matures, they should get faster processing power and additional memory that will make these web apps Good Enough (tm). Until that time, like you, I hope the NY Times and others keep making native apps.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
My theory is that the game speed was reduced because at regular intervals your PC needs to check in with the server to: a) transfer resources between cities in a region, b) update leader boards, c) save your city. The slower the game, the l
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
As always, it depends on what groups and measurements you want to go by. In the United States, median income has been stagnant for 30 years. Young people have been dealing with an awful job market since the recession in 2008.
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
Yes, it should say "perhaps more so for our generation than the previous"
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
He actually says Letterpress is on the leading edge of this trend. From Gruber: "Wiskus rightly cites Loren Brichter’s Letterpress for being at the leading edge of this trend." It may be true that Letterpress is setting an example for iOS a
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by ChrisLTD 14y ago
"The whole default iOS look — the textures, the shadows, the subtle (and sometimes unsubtle) 3D effects — is optimized for non-retina displays. It’s makeup to cover up the fact that 163 pixels per inch, which though better than anything we

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