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by benjoffe 15y ago
Wow, browsing that site from my phone is a crippling experience, they have this: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" /> ..yet they haven't actually opti
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Why do you find midnight at the top more natural? I find the author's choice more natural as it reflects the apparent position of the sun.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> The fact that a company that is supposed to be worth 1 trillion USD... "Billion"
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by benjoffe 15y ago
I think there's a mistake in the first example, it talks about for-in being bad but the example doesn't actually use for-in. > There is no really good reason to predefine the array length. There are good reasons, though they're usually
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I think it has quite a positive impact on the community that this suggestion got absorbed into the site in only 7 hours.
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Suggestion for tweaking reddit interface(reddit.com)
1 points by benjoffe 16y ago|1 comments
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by benjoffe 16y ago
So the overwhelming attitude here is that the advice in the link is bad, so why does it still have 32 points and waste my time by being on the front page? Please down vote articles like this.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
> You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter, Facebook or any other service that uses a plain HTTP connection that's es
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Automatic selection is possible in most browsers through JS, though only some browsers allow automatic copying to the clipboard (some using flash hacks).
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by benjoffe 16y ago
In case it's not clear, this really has nothing to do with Facebook except for the way it's marketed (suggested use). Note: of the symbols there, '%' seems to stand out as a character that is on just about all keyboards right? (maybe '$' al
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I don't think this will directly lead to that happening. Assuming 1.8µs/day, then it will take about 1/(365.25*1.8e-6) ≈ 1500 years for a 1 second difference to accumulate. I believe the effects of terrestrial bodies have a much larger effe
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Dragonfly (Opera)
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by benjoffe 16y ago
In that video it looks like safari now auto hides the scrollbar when it's not being used (kinda like on the iphone), seems like an odd thing to do, since 20px of screen space isn't as precious on a desktop as it is on a phone.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
> Frankly, I'm amazed they still offer a 13 inch MBP (which is not to say that it isn't a good little machine, but that Apple likes to segment their market clearly) While true, it is their best selling laptop, I can imagine it happening
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by benjoffe 16y ago
> Great find. But, I have seen Google doing similar thing using HTML5 entirely. "HTML5 entirely" doesn't really mean much, for example my website uses mostly HTML 4.01, but is HTML5 as well (since it's mostly backwards compatible). eg.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Maybe there's something wrong with my setup, but their 2nd example flashed on/off very quickly about 15 times, really quite a disturbing bug. Anyone else get that? edit: others who confirm are using chrome, I'm using chrome on mac so it loo
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I don't think the checkmark for colour blind is needed (the colours are supplementary, not essential).
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The best solution is to just make the currency very difficult to counterfeit, eg. see Australian money which is plastic, textured and has a transparent section; alas, this software still detects Australian notes.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I think this point (about it being good to promote yourself) is aimed at people who aren't yet in a position to get a lot of work (I made most of my free stuff when I was still in school). If someone already can fill their whole week consul
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by benjoffe 16y ago
My first paid app has only got a few hundred people using it. I've gotten a lot of work from people stumbling across my free web apps, which have been used by millions of people. I'm very glad I released free software.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
Ah thanks, fixed.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The article states the goal to be under 2000 characters, to state it in terms of lines of code (as the submitter has) is kinda misleading when the following is considered to be one line: if(*c-10){K=c[0]-16*c[1]+C;L=c[2]-16*c[3]+C;}else
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by benjoffe 16y ago
If is has your name then I think that's usually enough for the 'it remembers me' feeling.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
The seemingly apparent advantage of storing passwords in plain text is that it can be emailed to the user, as the article points out (helps with user retention). This is a bad decision and similar goals can be achieved with better means;
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by benjoffe 16y ago
> I’m saying that the iPad is the new IE6 because we are expecting it to be something that it isn’t, the same way that we were expecting that IE6 would have the same features/performance/reliability than the latest versions of Firefox/S
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by benjoffe 16y ago
I wonder how many people visiting their site are going to take this opportunity to get the game at a discount... hopefully not many.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
This is amazing, I wonder if most of the process could be automated and sold as a kit.
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by benjoffe 16y ago
This problem occurs when redirects are created in javascript by assigning a url to the location object. If instead they use location.replace(href); then no extra item will appear in the history stack and the back button will work as intende
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by benjoffe 16y ago
These kinds of designs often work badly with flash, as can be seen by the flash ad on the page: http://i.imgur.com/qycS8.png (flash in most (all?) browsers appears on top of even html regardless of specific css rules)
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by benjoffe 16y ago
This doesn't work in Opera. A better approach in my opinion is to use a checkbox (hidden) with a label pointing to it, then the styling can be applied with the CSS '+' selector, though this won't work with IE6, at least it's using sensible

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