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by ameen 14y ago
Criticism at times can be good, but cutting, humiliating pointless criticism never is. Also the fact that that didn't give her any feedback as to why it is was so wrong , amplifies the fact that it wasn't just criticism. Mob-mentality is o
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by ameen 14y ago
For some reason I don't want to install Steam on my Ubuntu partition. I use it to get work done. If I feel like playing a game I just boot into my Windows 7 partition. Having a "work boot" has done wonders for my productivity.
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by ameen 14y ago
I'm in a similar boat, but thankfully my experience in C# wasn't comprehensive. I'm now typing this from Ubuntu. Windows as many seem to indicate isn't bad. Linux gets my work done, and Windows for designing & entertainment. Dual boot a
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by ameen 14y ago
Well, its just designing for a target audience. It isn't universal design if that's what you mean.
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by ameen 14y ago
I think here's where the difference would apply. Designers almost all of them use high resolution displays. And maybe Designer News is aimed at those designers, who're at the cutting edge.
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by ameen 14y ago
As someone who has dabbled in UX, I wouldn't call "HN is ugly" , HN is minimal, functional and highly usuable. HN is lightweight without tons of JS to handle interactions, etc. HN in a sense is well designed, if by design you mean its usab
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by ameen 14y ago
This is a well established paradigm among designers. Different textures to represent different states. Designing Actionable buttons requires gradients and shadows.
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by ameen 14y ago
What I'd really like to see in iOS UI in the future would be uniformity in design choices. Many of Apple's own apps adopt different design styles instead of adopting a single design language. Also, cleaning up "over-designed" skeuomorphic i
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by ameen 14y ago
> India is full of examples of abject poverty. Do you view India as a failure too? India's poverty exists because of the massive corruption & inefficiency in various levels of the government. For eg: Tons of grains rot in government
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by ameen 14y ago
He interned a summer at Google, so it's quite possible that he had been approached by them.
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by ameen 14y ago
Not many know about http://www.badger.com . What I love them is that they're a no-frills registrar. Been pretty happy with them. P.S. Most of their front-end code is on Github.
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by ameen 14y ago
I've been following Andrew Kim since 2010 (since his HTC Concept). Andrew's designs and general design sense has always inspired me. Looking forward to great things from Andrew.
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by ameen 14y ago
While Android is light (it ought to be, its a Mobile OS). It is NOT a desktop replacement. Google themselves promote ChromeOS over Android. Retro-fitting Android onto desktop devices isn't the solution, there are many lightweight linux dist
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by ameen 14y ago
> Our mission includes protecting the use of computers and the Internet by enforcing the law as fairly and responsibly as possible. What were they protecting them against? That Knowledge might've been spread to those who hadn't the mone
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by ameen 14y ago
Or like the Government of United States, which supplies arms to both the Government and the Rebels.
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by ameen 14y ago
This reminds me of a relevant quote, and its relevance increases as you dissect it. “Four things come back not: the spoken word; the sped arrow; time past; the neglected opportunity.” - Umar ibn al-Khattab, Caliph (AD 592-644)
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by ameen 14y ago
The "Rendered Tile Format" you refer to as is the Arabic Kufi script. Since this script has existed since a long while, nearly a millennia, there should be existing algorithms in place used by artists and calligraphists.
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by ameen 14y ago
It isn't just Ed's comment that contrasts, most prolific commenters' tone was downright acerbic. Some calling him to face what he was directly responsible for and some going as far as siding with the prosecution.
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by ameen 14y ago
I wondered the same and checked out the submissions & comments of AaronSw. He had stopped commenting 140 days ago. And some of the comments on that submission are just downright acerbic. I'm sure Aaron would've checked them and decided
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by ameen 14y ago
If only most knew then, what they know now. It's saddening that a positive response to that appeal might've actually helped him - both mentally and financially.
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by ameen 14y ago
I think it's petty to think as such. Aaron Swartz has been a major topic of discussion on the HN Front Page for a couple of days now, hence it could very well have been instantly submitted to HN by some over-zealous HN reader as well. (Do r
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Does the World still need Visual Basic?(blog.pluralsight.com)
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On the state of Windows on the desktop(brankovukelic.com)
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by ameen 14y ago
I've always wondered why suicide is so common among us young programmers. (Ilya, Bill Zeller, etc) As programmers we're able to control how our code behaves, but life on the other hand has too many variables, most of which are beyond one's
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by ameen 14y ago
I wrote a post last night and "saved it" so that I'll continue to work on it later. Its non-existent now. So, drafts don't exist? What does the "save" button do then?
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by ameen 14y ago
While I'd been a Tesla fanboy in the past. I have serious doubts about the role it would play in Mankind's future. Electric cars themselves require massive battery packs, most of which emanate toxic materials and/or require many toxic mater
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by ameen 14y ago
Used it on my iPad yesterday, and did notice the less-than desirable viewport width. Google seems to have been inspired by webOS's Mail app, but has forgotten that the quick-view could be expanded by pushing the inbox view away so that only
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by ameen 14y ago
I've always wondered if the food industry needs a serious SV-style disruption, meat-industrial complex is what led to overweight/obese and people with unbalanced hormones (fyi, industrially-farmed poultry are injected with Estrogen for them
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by ameen 14y ago
I had a similar, yet worse experience compared to this, and had my account suspended (an account from 2006!!) for not paying (after listing) when I didn't get a proper payment page. The UX is totally confusing as well, and I paid $6 with ho
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by ameen 14y ago
Just a heads up guys, you haven't changed the default URL for user activation - it currently points to http://localhost:3000/user/pM33mHzATCP8JiBA2cUL/activate while it should be http://coupono.us/user/pM33mHzATCP8JiBA2cUL/activate . Ho

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