GBKS

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by GBKS 16y ago
I find that using more realistic content is a great help in web design and development since it's easier to understand and "feel" the final web experience. A site filled with Lorem Ipsum to me is like a portrait of a person where the pupils
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by GBKS 17y ago
I have used this feature exactly one time since they introduced it. For me, this decision was not surprising at all.
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by GBKS 17y ago
HTML is doomed. Flash is way more powerful and installed on almost every computer in the world. Flash also runs almost the same on all browsers, even IE6, where many HTML sites break - another clear advantage... Seriously, this argument is
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Beautiful UI design for Wacom(kontain.com)
13 points by GBKS 17y ago|4 comments
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by GBKS 17y ago
A thing that has helped me is, instead of starting to code or design, just starting a Word doc and putting all my ideas down. Sometimes you just need to get things out of your system, no matter if it's coding or writing. The advantage of wr
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by GBKS 17y ago
Personally I prefer a designer who understands code but focuses on design. Designing and coding are both full-time professions when you work at a high level. Focusing on one of them allows you to achieve better results in the field. A good
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by GBKS 17y ago
Your questions are not annoying at all. For moderation, I implemented a point system, just like Hacker News. Users can vote replies and topics up and down by one point. Once a reply goes below -5, it gets collapsed (like Digg). If a user ha
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by GBKS 17y ago
I'm really like your site and product so I'm more than happy to give some feedback to this update. Must have been a rough ride to design for 8 months. First Impression of home page - Clean, simple, to the point - Too monochromatic, a few su
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by GBKS 17y ago
Completely depends on the content, audience and commenting system. Having conversation around your content is fantastic. If your audience prefers to discuss with their own social circles on Facebook, Twitter, etc then having a commenting sy
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by GBKS 17y ago
Good question. TalkFest is about open, public conversation, while email is targeted. I see a lot of people ask questions on Twitter, but how can you fit a decent answer, or a decent question, in 140 characters? TalkFest is an experiment to
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Ask HN: Review my website, TalkFest(mytalkfest.com)
3 points by GBKS 17y ago|4 comments
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Are we too dramatic about technology? Or just passionate?(twitpic.com)
1 points by GBKS 17y ago|0 comments
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by GBKS 17y ago
This isn't directly a reply to your comment, but the way I've seen Adobe for a while is not that they are lazy, but that they are not focused. They keep coming out with new products for Flash (Catalyst, iPhone apps, Air, Flex 3/4, Stratus..
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by GBKS 17y ago
I can recommend this oAuth library for PHP to implement Twitter sign, it's very minimal so it's easy to integrate. https://svn.iamcal.com/public/php/lib_oauth/lib_oauth.php
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by GBKS 17y ago
Very much agree with your statement. I can see a ton of use for this device, I think it's another great step towards integrating the web and computers into daily activities and non-desk-work environments. Specs alone just aren't the way to
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by GBKS 17y ago
I use Wave as a compliment to Skype. Imagine you're working with somebody on a timeline or document. As you talk over Skype, both of you can edit the document at the same time and you can see and build on each others edits. It's incredibly
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by GBKS 17y ago
That's a pretty aggressive reply, almost to the level of flaming. The point is that random theories of drugs, atheism and terrorism are made up problems that average people can't do anything about. Discussing security is important and being
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by GBKS 17y ago
A table will not replace a computer that is used for a desk job like programming, I think it will be a great multi-purpose device for more casual, every-day activities. Pretty exciting to think about the possibilities. Letting my mind roam
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by GBKS 17y ago
What do you think of Fantasy Interactive ( http://www.f-i.com )? Not trying to self-promote, just want to see what people think. We've done some big portals like http://ea.com , http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events , and http://at
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by GBKS 17y ago
Great game, very addictive. Did the performance get really slow for anybody else around level 10? Feels like a memory leak, events not being handled properly or similar are making the little guy slow down to a crawl after a while.
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by GBKS 17y ago
Yup, getting the pop-up as well and it won't go away, so I can't read the article. I'm on Safari/Mac.
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by GBKS 17y ago
Is this another case where Google of the Chrome frame for IE6, where Google realizes that things won't change until they intervene? Really, the news sites should be the ones to add a cookie on their sites and redirect users after visiting x
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by GBKS 17y ago
Not all are evil, try Hapylink at http://hapylink.com
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by GBKS 17y ago
Completely agree. The current design does a great job at "delivering the news" in a straightforward fashion with minimal user effort. The new design of the home page looks pretty interesting, I'll have to use it for a while to see how it wo
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by GBKS 17y ago
That's usually a matter of a broken design process. Design really needs to start with figuring out what the content is and design decisions need to be based on content and function requirements. Too many times, I see a designer use stock im
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by GBKS 17y ago
There are any pitfalls in Flash development when it comes to performance and some of them are very difficult to keep in check. With the right knowledge and using a few tricks, Flash can be blazing fast. However, a lot of Flash developers do
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by GBKS 17y ago
I don't think it's so much a matter of research or blind tests in this case. Like a regular user may not notice that a website loads .1 second faster because somebody optimized the database queries, a regular viewer will not be able to tell
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by GBKS 18y ago
I like this a lot. Compared to a visual disaster like PeopleBrowsr, this app is very appealing. The three view modes are very useful and the sparse use of visual elements doesn't distract from the content. As to browsing content, I find the
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by GBKS 18y ago
I agree with you. Initially my eyes get pulled to so many things at once, I have a hard time focusing on a single piece of information on the page. Looking at the page a bit longer, it becomes easier to absorb. One of the reasons for that i
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by GBKS 18y ago
I agree with many of the approaches here and just have some personal experience to add. I would start with writing down descriptive works and just keep playing with them, creating different combinations, looking them up in the thesaurus, et

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