aethr

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by aethr 14y ago
Hover states are a big one. Also making call-to-action targets bigger for the less precise pointing device (ie, your users' fat fingers). Making sure you use Flash fall-forwards with HTML5 video/audio available for iPad / non-flash device
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by aethr 15y ago
I experience this first-hand myself. I am a dual citizen of US and Australian citizenship, living in Melbourne, Australia. Under the tax treaty between Australia and the US, I can declare tax paid to Australia (where I work) and I receive
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by aethr 15y ago
I disagree. The structure and/or implementation of email is not "causing people to use it sub-optimally". If you want to manage projects and tasks, there are very good tools available for accomplishing that goal. But don't expect all your
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by aethr 15y ago
Email is not "broken". Users are not "broken". Email is simply a method for people to communicate. People are messy. Put two of them together (communication) and the messiness increases exponentially. Have you ever seen two people arguing
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by aethr 15y ago
I agree with the sentiment of what (I think) you're trying to get at. However, the problem that some people have raised is that there are many different task management/project management systems out there, and clients interfacing with mult
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by aethr 15y ago
This is a great example of the utility of including the domain after each link in the HN listing. In short, it allows me to quickly and effortlessly scan past stories at pandodaily and techcrunch.
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by aethr 15y ago
I was one who suggested Dropbox as a replacement for attachments (although it was really just an example, I don't even use Dropbox personally), and the point I was trying to make is that you can either have flexibility, or you can have stan
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by aethr 15y ago
From a technical standpoint something like that could work to a limited extent (enough to be helpful in some situations, when both parties are using modern, up to date MTAs / mail clients). It still doesn't fix the error message from a bou
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by aethr 15y ago
All mail systems have different rules for what is "acceptable", what is perceived as "spam", etc. One mail server may allow attachments up to 10MB, another 20MB. Some mail server somewhere may allow attachments up to 50MB but will not all
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by aethr 15y ago
It's also worth noting that you load gmail's web client to interact with an entire inbox full of mail, sending, receiving etc. The point of the OP is that a user is loading 2 megs to view a single tweet. A medium that is literally defined
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by aethr 15y ago
> What you really want is a CMS with a compilation step that outputs static HTML each time something changes. That gives you the flexibility of database-driven CMS with the runtime performance of static HTML. Did you just define "cachin
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by aethr 15y ago
And in my experience, OP has it right. 1. Setting up the mail server is not the issue. It's the ongoing maintenance to ensure close to 100% uptime so you don't lose any mail. Having worked as a sysadmin maintaining linux boxes for several
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by aethr 15y ago
Although there was an announcement almost 2 years ago regarding VP8 support for Flash, there was no commitment made to support the Matroska container or Vorbis codec at that time, which are both part of the WebM spec. Since then there has b
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by aethr 15y ago
Passionate artists will still pursue art for the joy of creating and sharing their art with others. This is how it has always been. Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the popular artists from the last 20 years began their entertainment