amackera

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by amackera 16y ago
I simply refuse to believe that locking a platform down is the best way to improve user experience. There has to be a better way!
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by amackera 16y ago
Agreed. I'm just using development builds (and lately the official beta), but Firefox 4 is leaps and bounds better than Firefox 3.6 (which was already pretty good!)
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by amackera 16y ago
I think the last slide just points out that there is no problem. The presenter never said you had to fix the chmod situation, just that the machine can't be rebooted. Maybe I misinterpreted...
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by amackera 16y ago
Clickable: http://blog.iso50.com/2010/10/06/gap-redesign-contest/
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by amackera 16y ago
These guys seem to have a bizarre idea of what constitutes "minimalism": http://i.imgur.com/hiO2C.png
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by amackera 16y ago
Have you considered a career as a James Bond antagonist?
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by amackera 16y ago
On a related note, why do fonts look so terrible? Surely it's not just a lack of decent, free, typefaces? FreeType is unencumbered by bytecode hinting patents as of May 2010. The only other patent (according to http://freetype.sourceforge.
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by amackera 16y ago
Fixed link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/568711
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by amackera 16y ago
The only objection I can think of is that the poster can be intended to convey meaning . If this meaning is entirely lost without an alt text, then the lack of an alt text for the poster is an oversight.
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by amackera 16y ago
I think it probably sounded that way due to the editorializing of the headline. If instead it had read "Editor of HTML5 tries hard to gain a better understanding of potential use cases facing people with disabilities" you might have read it
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by amackera 16y ago
My ex-girlfriend bought an iMac and proudly displayed it to her friends. She showed them travel pictures, watched movies, etc. The computer had, for her, transitioned from a computer to an attractive designer object that provided utilit
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by amackera 16y ago
This is totally off-topic, but how do they make the text on their webpage look so good? Is that a CSS thing?
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by amackera 16y ago
I would pay for Xmarks.
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by amackera 16y ago
I wonder if Reddit is susceptible to the same kind of gaming that top users did on Digg? Or is this something they've planned for? Methinks Reddit has been spared since it's been out of the lime-light until recently.
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by amackera 16y ago
It's only overkill if the user is aware of the infrastructure. If you make notes on your Mac, it auto-syncs to your iPhone, blah blah, the user is only vaguely aware that complicated computation is occurring behind the scenes. Think of em
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by amackera 16y ago
Exploits for the exploits?
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by amackera 16y ago
Would be a fun community-driven open source project.
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by amackera 16y ago
Or maybe it's because negotiation and bartering are not commonly part of western culture in modern times? (at least not where I live, in Canada).
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by amackera 16y ago
Thanks for the link! I've been looking for a writeup on bash history features for a while. These things are very useful day-to-day.
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by amackera 16y ago
Man, it's the Internet.
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by amackera 16y ago
What does git have to do with TDD?
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by amackera 16y ago
In school they always taught us that if you read something to influenced the final piece, you should source it (else you are plagiarism. Now, journalism is not held to high standards for this sort of thing, especially tech journalism.
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by amackera 16y ago
What's the startup scene in Vancouver like?
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by amackera 16y ago
How do you do it? Email? Telephone? I'm legitimately interested, my negotiation skills are weak.
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by amackera 16y ago
There are many examples of fantastic hackers with no paper to back it up. There are also many examples of awful hackers with good marks to back it up. The truth is in the code.
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by amackera 16y ago
Sadly, in my experience, teachers in Computer Science degrees rarely help one through this process.
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by amackera 16y ago
All it takes is a few out of the many!
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by amackera 16y ago
Momentum, I imagine. The best way to keep getting press is to keep making news :)
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by amackera 16y ago
Once upon a time browsers couldn't render images either.
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by amackera 16y ago
Well for one thing the buttons are scalable, unlike images. Also I imagine that the truckload of CSS still comes in way smaller than the required image(s). If someone's willing to take the time to figure it out, it is not wasted. If indeed

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