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by alanh 14y ago
Wow, that header really reminds me of the circa-2006 Facebook design, with “the facebook guy” in the top left. Screenshot here: http://joshvandervies.com/is-the-old-facebook-better-2/
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by alanh 14y ago
Blech, all-caps large bold Arial just screams “I DON’T KNOW WHAT HELVETICA IS.” Love that a Maddox page hit HN front page, though. It’s like a blast from the past, but new. Edit to make this comment slightly more acceptable on HN: CSS p
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by alanh 14y ago
Why is a 9-3 split particularly surprising?
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by alanh 14y ago
Good luck to any of you who work at HP.
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by alanh 14y ago
The problem is ambiguity. Overloading, as we programmers say. Why choose an ambiguous word when a specific one exists? Keep in mind the point of calling it anything at all is communication, and communication is a lot harder if people don’t
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by alanh 14y ago
Careful not to misunderstand the syntax. The linked article confusingly has this example: input:checked ~ #main > #findMe … described thusly: “With the tilde character on #container input:checked would be able to target #findMe
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by alanh 14y ago
Oh, that’s what he meant by slider? Why do some people call these sliders? Things that show a series of images are called carousels (because they rotate!). And what if your “slider” (carousel) fades instead of transitioning with a horizo
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by alanh 14y ago
Two things very wrong with your last suggestion: 1. total lack of semantic value - you cannot possibly get more meaningless than “span inside a div” there. It makes for extremely brittle CSS. 2. You should be using classes rather than eleme
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by alanh 14y ago
“…sibling element. That is, an element that shares the same parent.” Unfortunately, that is not true. It only matches following siblings. See my JSFiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/alanhogan/sSVCG/ (Also, HTML comments between elements
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by alanh 14y ago
…for some users, apparently, but not all. Is that right?
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by alanh 14y ago
And (per the article) this is what using android looks like: “Unlike iOS users who throw up their hands in frustration, write bad reviews and just leave, Android users tend to be delighted when they find apps that work even if they have a g
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by alanh 14y ago
I’m fairly sure it was sarcasm :)
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by alanh 14y ago
Please remove the leading space from your quote.
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by alanh 14y ago
It’s not deceitful, but it’s still not worth much as a graph. 1. We think in terms of fractions. What fraction of users have left? It can be calculated from the numbers, but you don’t need a graph for that. If you started the axis at 0, it
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by alanh 14y ago
Thanks, but how are those graphs better? They aren’t anchored at zero either and don’t show more than 30 days without some sort of premium account. > It is a fad mini game without too much depth and little repeat value. Trend is not su
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by alanh 14y ago
Heads up: the graph is misleading as it does not start that Y axis at 0. (Nor does it go back very far.)
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by alanh 14y ago
The title is WRONG. Why would you submit this today, when it is a months-old item, when there was a correctly titled article on the same topic on the front page of HN today?
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by alanh 14y ago
Perhaps, but that doesn’t make it the right choice.
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by alanh 14y ago
It’s a good question. It is best practice to have well-thought-out URLs that do not have extensions. The reasons include: - If your site’s back-end technology changes, all those URLs will either break, or need redirected, or be specially ha
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by alanh 14y ago
Hey, not trying to be a jerk here, but I am an experienced web developer who loves Compass and CoffeeScript and spends hours in dev tools daily, so I feel like I should understand your comment, but I simply cannot understand what you are as
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by alanh 14y ago
How do Stylus+Nib compare to Sass+Compass, in your opinion?
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by alanh 15y ago
What would they enter into _any_ computer system as their name?
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by alanh 15y ago
Not sure why you pasted the quote as code. It takes extreme side-scrolling to read.
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by alanh 15y ago
Are there plans to e.g. make the Sass gem we all use take advantage of this native code? That is, will I one day do a `bundle update` and be rewarded with speedy asset compilation?
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by alanh 15y ago
“any valid CSS3 file is a valid SASS file” — Clearly you mean .scss. I imagine you’ll fix that in a minute :) I’m also not so sure that this parser can only handle one of the two SASS syntaxes — what gives you that impression?
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by alanh 15y ago
Is that site sorted by when articles hit front page? The timestamp thing is a bit unexplained.
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by alanh 15y ago
> This is why I disagree with the notion that style is only skin-deep. Semantics, but I think you are agreeing with your parent that there should be something deeper than the gloss applied in this redesign. That design must go more
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by alanh 15y ago
You’re recommending a breach of trust/privacy by making this public — obviously the right thing to do is contact them directly & privately.
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by alanh 15y ago
The latter, ideally — something with an API :)
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Ask HN: Is there a web service that can read text or web pages?
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