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by adamesque 16y ago
Both the Win 3.x example and the Ubuntu example suffer from the same (presumed) failure: application organization imposed by the OS vendor. I can find things on my messy desk because I made the mess. If someone else arranged my desk for m
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by adamesque 16y ago
Absolutely. And they're afraid to try and explore because: a) they've been burned before, and broken something or lost data These people need to be untaught that you can break computers, which is much harder. As is writing fault-toleran
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by adamesque 16y ago
I think, in order to have a compelling argument here, you'll also need to include: 4) Deprecate Safari on Macs 5) Deprecate Terminal.app on Macs 6) Deprecate XCode.mpkg from Mac OS install media But you won't, because you're trying to fit f
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by adamesque 16y ago
This is a good quote to choose from the OP, because it gets at something I think people fundamentally misunderstand about Apple: they make products that _they_ want to use. The "consumer" they target in a "consumer computer" is themselves!
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by adamesque 16y ago
I would be really wary of reading through the w3schools JavaScript guides first. You'll learn programming basics (which, as an experienced developer, you won't need), but not much about what makes JavaScript so interesting. And many of the
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by adamesque 16y ago
If you're going to read Designing w/Web Standards, you'll get a very very good head start with CSS. You may be able to get by for a while just using what that book teaches. But, I actually really recommend at least skimming through parts th
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by adamesque 16y ago
Perceived risk is the metric to look at here, but I think you probably know that.
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Except, they're _not_ just assumptions of sexism. You should at least skim the MIT study she refers to in her article ( http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html ). It was an eye-opening, empirical study showing that discrimination did exist
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by adamesque 16y ago
To coding skill? It doesn't, necessarily. But that's not what she's arguing; she's saying that there's a correlation between playing video games and interest in (and exposure to) computers & coding. I don't know if that's as true nowada
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This article isn't about quitting Facebook . The key quote from the OP: > Facebook is only evil as long as saying Facebook is evil is driving traffic, is my takeaway from this. It's about what happens to news in a lucrative, competit
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by adamesque 16y ago
Self-analysis can sometimes precipitate a cycle of anxiety and doubt. Some people can leverage this constructively and use it as motivation, but for others it's destructive. I tend to think those people who seem crippled by self-doubt see j
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by adamesque 16y ago
This ties in to an amazingly important (and rare) personal characteristic: self-awareness. Being able to honestly identify your own strengths and weaknesses is the only way to systematically build the former and eliminate the latter. In m
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There's nothing in the commercial, actually, that depicts ordinary, routine phone calls. They're intimate conversations between people with deep relationships to each other, who are separated and cannot be together – sometimes at critical,
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by adamesque 16y ago
You already offer high-quality downloads, to anyone who uses a web inspector to look at your <audio> element's current src attribute! A Chrome / Safari extension would probably make it a one-click process. Which (speaking as a music
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by adamesque 16y ago
The most interesting part of this article, to me, is the UI issue raised at the bottom (although I feel it'd be more correctly classified as a user experience issue). In the current version of iOS, I often find myself hesitating after kic
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Multitasking & Fast App Switching in iOS 4(benjaminmayo.posterous.com)
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iChat AV has always had an interesting usability / interaction issue. Because the camera is located on the display bezel, and not in the middle of the screen where the video window sits, you can't ever make full eye contact with the person
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by adamesque 16y ago
And it couldn't come soon enough. I see words like these as very useful inflection points; on one side of the curve, a developer that uses them without revealing a more nuanced understanding is a developer I should avoid. And on the other s
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by adamesque 16y ago
It's important to keep in mind that these are literally what the title makes them out to be: simple signposts that indicate poor code might lie within. I probably wouldn't immediately toss out a plugin that exhibited one or more of these si
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I thought about submitting that post earlier today, but, well, sourcing doesn't get much sketchier than that. My best hope was that some science journalist would actually contact observers at Mauna Kea, as a gut check, but Dr. Plait's dénou