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by bbx 12y ago
Typeface designer Tobias Frere-Jones' opinion about Helvetica in Yosemite: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3031432/why-apples-new-font-wont... It echoes Erik Spiekermann's view as well: Helvetica wasn't desi
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by bbx 12y ago
Google hosting Go on GitHub. Microsoft hosting .NET on GitHub. It must feel like an accomplishment to be implicitly endorsed by these companies. Considering open source's history, you'd think its primary management tool would be o
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by bbx 12y ago
I've lived in London for 1 year, and Paris for 4 years (density: 55,000 people/mi², almost like Manhattan). You don't actually interact with others. You just cross their paths. And most of them are strangers you'll nev
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An alternative to infinite scroll(jgthms.com)
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by bbx 12y ago
Problem with absolute positioning is that you remove elements from the natural flow of the page, meaning that adjacent elements aren't aware of the dynamic height of a fixed footer for example.
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by bbx 12y ago
Usually, "CSS-only" articles and repos are either technically impressive, or clever solutions for production environment problems. Considering attribute selectors have been around for a while, I fail to see a decent use case. Any
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by bbx 12y ago
One thing I can think of is when you want your inner content to be a specific width while adjusting the padding and borders to fit the layout.
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by bbx 12y ago
Ah! Same kind of user (paying customer for years) and same issues (too much space on my Dropbox, not enough on my drive). My Macbook Air is the only computer I use, both at home and at work. Its SSD is 60 GB. Last month, Dropbox upgraded my
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by bbx 12y ago
I never feel like any HN redesign is actually needed [1]. Although well presented (as is usually the case for unsolicited redesigns), it fails at acknowledging the primary audience of the website (hackers), and disrupts the information hier
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The Invisible Interface(spaceandtim.es)
3 points by bbx 12y ago|0 comments
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D. B. Cooper(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bbx 12y ago|0 comments
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by bbx 12y ago
FYI, this UI pattern is called "Quick Return" : http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2012/08/an-emerging-ui-patt... I had been looking for this pattern's name after having seen Chrome on Android implem
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The Dyatlov Pass accident(aquiziam.com)
9 points by bbx 12y ago|1 comments
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by bbx 12y ago
CityMapper in London offers a great experience on mobile. It works better than Google Maps for several reasons: - one-click "Get me home" - point-to-point directions include better hybrid instructions - it displays bus wa
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Wikipedia redesign(jgthms.com)
169 points by bbx 12y ago|74 comments
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by bbx 12y ago
Very neat and straight to the point. I'm writing a book about CSS, and this comes in very handy considering the vocabulary in CSS is usually misused and lacks precision, especially on Stack Overflow (including by me).
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by bbx 12y ago
I've used a CSS reset in all my projects (both work and personal) for the last 7 years, and I agree that it's not mandatory for a successful product. The CSS reset is a convenient tool for the visual layout only . It helps wi
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by bbx 12y ago
A World Cup betting app, to play among friends! Built with NodeJS (backend), Firebase (real-time chat), and Meteor (front). http://i.imgur.com/79zO1YZ.png
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IOS animation experiments(marcus-experiments.tumblr.com)
2 points by bbx 13y ago|0 comments
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by bbx 13y ago
Which ones are they? I always enjoy people talking about their projects on HN.
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The Making of GoldenEye 007(zoonami.com)
2 points by bbx 13y ago|0 comments
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by bbx 13y ago
After having played the original 2048 on my laptop, I wanted to play it on my Android phone as well. There was no official app, so a quick search led me to purchase the slightly different but decent "Fives". Then I realized the or
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How to respond to "Why shouldn't we hire you?"(workplace.stackexchange.com)
1 points by bbx 13y ago|0 comments
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If DOS is single-tasking, how was multitasking possible in Windows 95?(superuser.com)
6 points by bbx 13y ago|3 comments
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by bbx 13y ago
> iOS developers have the power of using constraints for their layouts. Why not give the same to web development? Because the web is meant for documents first, not applications. The example who linked to is a nice demo, and I understan
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by bbx 13y ago
"why can't we position & size elements relative to each other" It already exists. It's called margins . But it might be hard to handle when half of the elements in the page have the following style applied: po
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by bbx 13y ago
Actually no. It's only available in some corner of my brain for now... But I recently redesigned by blog [1] and have been considering adding a "Bucket list" section, which would only include design-related challenges, both d
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by bbx 13y ago
Designing a font is one of the few things on my "bucket list" (designing a Linux desktop environment being another one). But it being quite the undertaking, I end up relying upon fonts I find while browsing the web (I keep a list
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SVG and CSS rem for responsiveness(jgthms.com)
1 points by bbx 13y ago|0 comments
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by bbx 13y ago
I agree that having a "Show code" button only at the end prevents disrupting the reading flow. In terms of "code with explanation" layout, I really like todos.js' approach: http://backbonejs.org/docs

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