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by alabut 18y ago
Try making a Greasemonkey script to adjust it on your local setup instead and see how it actually works in practice, rather than just how it looks. I have a feeling that it's a bit too much padding and creates an empty gutter that looks lik
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by alabut 18y ago
Is this the first time you've edited an already-published essay because of feedback on HN?
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by alabut 18y ago
It depends on what you mean by grouping - it's not exactly as easy as it sounds at first blush, as outlined by Twitter's Jason Goldman at Getsatisfaction: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/when_is_twitter_go...
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by alabut 18y ago
Probably, although I'm not sure she gave him the same kind of grilling that he got by the prosecution. Also, did this make anyone else think of Randy Pausch?
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by alabut 18y ago
The witness sounds like an interesting guy in general: “We have been married for 38 years. He proposed half an hour after we met and I said maybe. After a day, he had convinced me”, she said.
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by alabut 18y ago
Interesting idea. Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen and others have speculated for long time now that journalists will all morph into editors rather than the creators of content, picking and choosing amongst both their own writing but also that of the
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by alabut 18y ago
Terrible idea. And not just for the usual reactionary "information wants to be free" reasons, but because paying for general news online doesn't work, it's why the washington post, nytimes and even the wall street journal have opened their
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by alabut 18y ago
Not much substance in this article - doesn't give any examples and just asks for feedback in the comments.
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by alabut 18y ago
I wonder if I'm misunderstanding you - maybe you're saying the news article itself should've linked to the original paper? If so, then I definitely agree. I read your comment as a criticism of the post on HN, that the title should've linked
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by alabut 18y ago
Not really - the academic papers aren't particularly readable and the summarized news article provides good context for other research as well.
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by alabut 18y ago
Yeah, totally, like I wouldn't be surprised if they kneeled down with gifts of food in front of them as a fealty.
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by alabut 18y ago
Sorry dude, couldn't find it. On a personal note, I'm going back to fulltime work in the next few weeks after freelancing from home since Nov and now that I'm committed to joining another team, one of my regrets is that I didn't take more p
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by alabut 18y ago
I saw a pretty luscious-looking ad at the LA airport as well, on big flatscreens in the Virgin America terminal.
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by alabut 18y ago
Aaand we're back.
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by alabut 18y ago
I've found that video game music can make fantastic background music while working - there's hardly ever any distracting vocals and it feels like you're attacking something mythic. Movie soundtracks have a similar effect on me: The Incredib
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by alabut 18y ago
Who's "we"? I'd like to collect stories of pair designing in action.
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by alabut 18y ago
Seems like your main criticism revolves around being chained to a newbie as half of the pair - I'm not sure pair programming is designed to work well in that setup. It's pair programming , not pair mentoring , and if there's a huge dispar
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by alabut 18y ago
I wonder if it was to allow section-specific commenting? It's not like boingboing needs the extra pageviews, they're all rolling in it already.
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by alabut 18y ago
A more in-depth article with a matrix of available font types: http://24ways.org/2007/increase-your-font-stacks-with-font-m...
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by alabut 18y ago
That's not the main thrust of the article, it's about a class of apps like Yojimbo, iTunes and iPhoto that abstract away the underlying file system so that even the concept of saving data goes away.
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by alabut 18y ago
As pretty as it is, I'm always on the fence about overcooked designs like this for a blog - blogs always have more html to download than a typical static page anyway and I just want to get reading. I based my current site design around mini
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by alabut 18y ago
Did you see my suggestion to make the names darker rather than orange? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467461
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by alabut 18y ago
Now I know how programmers must have felt when Why The Lucky Stiff came on the scene.
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by alabut 18y ago
Yeah, that's probably the case, I was just entertaining a thought experiment because I really like the people I've met through techstars and want them to do well. The bay area's network effects really do create different kinds of opportunit
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by alabut 18y ago
I see, you're not just talking about network effects of aggregating all of the startups together, it's about having a common pool of investors as well. I wonder if angelconf is a first step towards a ycombinator-like structured approach tow
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by alabut 18y ago
"Honestly, they'd have done better to just fund 20 startups in Boulder" I've heard they might do that as well. I'm guessing the difference between techstars and YC is less about going regional to source applicants than it is about spreadi
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by alabut 18y ago
I wish we could do opt-in non-anonymous polls as well. For example, this poll could be a tree structure and we could explode out the "Designer" node so I could see who my fellow design peeps were, let the subgroups flock together. The only
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by alabut 18y ago
"Some high-end lawyers we've worked with have practically fallen over themselves to offer advice in anticipation of a professional relationship." Offering advice is completely different than them drawing up a few sample usable contracts f
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by alabut 18y ago
I was giving YC of an example of how to approach pre-seed funding startups - if you don't have revenue or funding, and angels or incubators offer to deal with the paperwork in forming your company as a condition of receiving their money, th
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by alabut 18y ago
"now why are we building "jails" within the compelling interactivity of the "web 2.0"?" Usability. Take a look at the Yahoo research on OpenID for an example of just one standard: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/10/open_id_

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