RaphiePS

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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Imagine you didn't know anything about CSS and look at your examples. What the heck is margin, and why is it auto? Why would that center something? What are table cells doing in here? To me, it's just completely divorced from the
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Finally! I've been consistently bothered when people hype preprocessors like SASS and LESS as "the future of CSS" or "fixes to the CSS problem." Yes, they make things somewhat nicer by adding variables and macros an
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I guess it all depends on how "deeply" realtime your app needs to be. For example, if you just want to add chat between users I think you'd be well-served by Firebase for the chat. If you want to roll-your-own, there are a mi
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Does anyone know of a JavaScript-powered Excel clone? As in, roughly the same spreadsheet UI, but I could write custom functions in JS rather than having to write everything in Visual Basic.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I think they're spot-on with the idea that it needs to be integrated into sites rather than appearing as a separately branded popup. I tried it out on a site I was building a couple months ago. Every time I had a non-"techie"
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Maybe some sort of integration with https://app.io/ ?
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I'd agree about Parse, but I'm surprised you would respect Airbnb's marketing tactics. It's well known ( http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do... ) that they did some prett
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I don't think I've ever even tried to implement a login page at a hackathon. I just pretend that every user is authed and go to work on the cool stuff that I'll actually demo. Since it takes up valuable time to show off &quot
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I got the sense that they're scraping the customer 's site every day. So they might find a new JS library or CSS file from a competitor. Paypal might want to know when a customer starts trying out Stripe, and KISSmetrics probably
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
> Syncing files with FTP is pretty much at the same conceptual level as "Use Dropbox". I disagree. My mom loves Dropbox -- she just sticks a file in a folder like she always does and it's magically synced. If she were to u
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
This is a fantastic idea. Even the "nice" git tools like Github's desktop app don't abstract over tracked files and branches and all the confusing git plumbing. It'd be so much better to just be able to click "
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I think mobile is actually the perfect case for this. If I'm in front of my computer, it's not that big of a deal to fire off the five or so Google searches to find the answer to a fairly obscure query. However, I've never, e
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I think bootstrap (and similar frameworks) are the closest thing we have. It makes simple tasks like "put these things in a nice grid" or "center this thing" so much easier than if you were using raw CSS. Bootstrap gets
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Perhaps they could use iBeacons for triangulation. I haven't built anything with them yet, but from looking at the API, it seems reasonably easy.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Would you pick your nose at the office?
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Fascinating. To play the devil's advocate, would you agree that sometimes a new mode's optimization for the task can outweigh its cognitive overload? If you try to shoehorn too many disparate tasks into the same interface, usabili
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Have you tried out http://socrates.io/ ?
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I agree that the "curator" role you're describing will be important, but I doubt it'll come in the form of user-programmed home servers. Sure the techie types will always want to get into the nitty-gritty, but my mom can
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
August 2012, so a little while after you. For all I know, the guide did mean the future (she was a little hard to understand -- our second guide barely spoke English at all! We assumed he was the "minder.") I think it'd be re
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Did you go with Koryo Tours? I went the summer before last and it was undoubtedly the most interesting trip I've ever taken. It definitely humanized the people who were previously thought of, just a little bit, as "the enemy.&quot
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Awesome! I think the landing page could do a slightly better job at explaining the problem Luna solves. "Delivering your packages when you're home for the night" sounds nice, but why would I want my packages delivered at nigh
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
What differences, would you say? Of course an ebook is a little less readable, but other than that, I can't think of any major differences.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
What prevents a company from offering a time-limited preview of an ebook?
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Does anyone know what the code is "compiled" into, if not a hash table?
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I'm not sending anything racy or inappropriate. They're just not photos I would want on my facebook, which is very much a "curated" representation of myself. It's great for photos that are badly-lit, or inane, or ma
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Of course, I think the company is massively overvalued. One thing I think they do have, however, is really strong engagement. Whenever I browse facebook or twitter, I'm very detached. I'm probably even working on something else. I
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
The value I get out of it is the ability to be completely unfiltered. I carefully manage what I post to facebook, because a) it's going out to a lot of people and b) it's there forever. I even felt slightly uneasy with G+'s C
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
What prevents a malicious client from simply editing the source and sending back "false" calculations? In my time as a web developer, probably the most important lesson I've learned is Never Trust the Client.
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
I think this is somewhat misleading. > People forget, no matter how much optimization you do, joins are slow - and it is for exactly this reason that Mongo is fast, with usually 5ms response times. Yes, joins can be slow, but that's
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by RaphiePS 13y ago
Now, I haven't used SASS/LESS that much, so feel free to correct me, but it seems like they're solving a different problem. They keep your code DRYer, add nice things like mixins, etc. However, they don't abstract over

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