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by alecperkins 15y ago
From what I understand, Xfinity is delivered from Comcast's own network, so it's not exactly equal to the other sources he describes. Still, this highlights how mixing network providers and content providers gets messy. It opens up the door
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by alecperkins 15y ago
“…Explicit is better than implicit… Readability counts… In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it…” — The Zen of Python Ironically, the Zen of Python supports
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by alecperkins 15y ago
I use the same method for share links in http://padhacker.net , a server-less JSFiddle-type of tool. The data is just JSON, but I've been toying with adding arbitrary binary files. The link fragments explode with even small images. Some so
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by alecperkins 15y ago
I suppose, though I'd rather it be resizable and let me take full advantage of a monitor. I've been experimenting with this sort of live code preview with http://padhacker.net/ (target platform primarily tablets) and resizing has worked o
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Probably because the editor demo'd in the talk did as well. (But that still doesn't explain it.) Perhaps it's to make it friendlier and less an "intimidating code editor". What I don't get is why the output is on the left and the code on th
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by alecperkins 15y ago
If the button requires click and drag, like the shutter button for Mattebox on the iPhone, then it's unique compared to the other ordinary shutter buttons, even though visually it's barely different. (Fortunately, it's different enough to i
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by alecperkins 15y ago
There's a difference between unique style, and unique function. It's possible to have a unique style while still taking advantage of existing affordances. The visual style has to work with the affordance for it to be useful, but they aren't
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Not my article, though I do think it raises some valid points and would prompt interesting discussion (hence submitting it). More broadly, it seems as though a lot of people on HN often respond to posts as if the author and submitter are on
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Great, Another Bootstrap Site(drawar.com)
213 points by alecperkins 15y ago|109 comments
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The Republican Brain: Why Even Educated Conservatives Deny Science — and Reality(alternet.org)
3 points by alecperkins 15y ago|2 comments
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A Better Responsive Image Format(mistermorris.tumblr.com)
2 points by alecperkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Something like this, to give you a good starting point, combined with something like the SleepCycle iOS app, to get the wake-up timing more precise, seem like a great combination.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
The majority of experiences may be consumption, but I would argue the more significant experiences are driven by production. I would also argue curation is in many ways more a facet of production than of consumption. Also, I don't think it'
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Also all the text links to the specific font being used.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
I never understand why people don't put dates on things. I compulsively date everything I create. Not doing so only leads to confusion, as demonstrated by the more recent comments on the article. A lot has happened with Airbnb since it was
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by alecperkins 15y ago
What's to follow? It's just a one-time change that makes a lot of sense given their location. They aren't permanently getting rid of Friday. Besides, Hebrew and Muslim calendars are lunar-based and I would imagine not affected by this.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
The 250k going to pay for the special is more accurately "replenishing" his company, as Louis CK stated during his interview with Jimmy Fallon. That money will certainly be used for his next project. Plus, the remainder that he's taking for
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Internet makers versus disruptees(craisins.alecperkins.net)
1 points by alecperkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Also, it's bad practice to obfuscate the urls to scripts (outside of an automatic concat/compress process), especially external ones.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Some, particularly those who lean to the design side of things but still do a lot of coding, think spatially. For us, navigating the mouse to a specific point in space is faster, or at least less jarring mentally, than thinking of the name
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by alecperkins 15y ago
It's not that the Courier wouldn't have email, but that its reason for existence was not going to be hooking in to Exchange and Outlook.
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Aggregate, Asynchronize, Automate, Atomize, Analyze, Ax(craisins.alecperkins.net)
1 points by alecperkins 15y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 15y ago
I can't wait to try stuff like this: “Remind me to fix Amy’s glasses when I get home.” Does its understanding of location extend to more than just home is the address I entered for myself? Exploring its capabilities will be really interesti
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by alecperkins 15y ago
No doubt that's part of the motivation behind the excellent http://mac.github.com/ I love their philosophy of automating tasks to make them as simple as possible, so that anyone in the company can do them. It's really frustrating and time
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The Sad Statistic That Trumps the Others(nytimes.com)
17 points by alecperkins 15y ago|24 comments
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by alecperkins 15y ago
The older CLI version of Livereload is Ruby-based and can be installed on Windows. https://github.com/mockko/livereload
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Seems neat, and the ugly parts, like \ in the strings for the templates, could be helped by CoffeeScript's syntax. I'm not wild about mixing markup and style into scripts, but it does keep things nice and self-contained and could be great f
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Does exactly what it sounds like, and lets you edit the source however you want: http://livereload.com/
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by alecperkins 15y ago
There's another project adding CoffeeScript to the console: https://github.com/orangemug/coffeescript_console Requires more than just a bookmarklet or script tag, but looks really promising.
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by alecperkins 15y ago
Actual auto- complete turned out to be a lot more difficult than I expected, so for now it's just basic suggest . FWIW, backspace when the textarea is empty will toggle the auto-suggest panel. I'm going to add escape as a toggle as well.

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