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1. 661.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   Non-flat easily takes the cake in this comparison. The shadow on the flat design is not even remotely accurate for a shadow, it makes me feel like my world is spinning. The buttons, besides actually looking clickable, make me want to click
2. 662.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   Local militants/vandals then lose access to the internet - and hopefully get reprimanded by the other folks of the area. Hopefully said militants/vandals would be more willing to use the services (maybe even to further their own nefarious g
3. 663.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   This is already happening, I'd say.
4. 664.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   B&Bs are dedicated businesses though. AirBnB's tenants don't really meet that requirement (on average, though I imagine there are people who just rent out their place on AirBnB).
5. 665.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   Dangerous groupthink my friend.
6. 666.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   If you can keep things like that in mind, then designing at 2x means way less work later on (doing a batch /2 on size in Photoshop over all assets is stupid simple).
7. 667.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   The biggest thing of all, I believe, is actually testing your design on a device. Text you think looks good when you're in Photoshop has a tendency to be too small or too large, or too gray or not enough saturation on a device. So, if you'r
8. 668.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   I think verbal abuse is a subjective x on the number line of criticism and said feedback. Some people can handle getting called shit, and some people think it's the end of the world. To answer your question, no I don't think when putting so
9. 669.▲
   by bennyg 13y ago

   Whenever you put your own work in the world, then expect criticism. It doesn't mean verbal abuse should be the norm - it just means that criticism is most likely gonna' happen. HN isn't the only online community - and it's most likely not y
10. 670.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Just look at the results. That seems not to be the case.
11. 671.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Technically, so is the inverse.
12. 672.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Until they look at bounce rate before viewing content vs. number of downloads of app. That should be a big indicator of whether this works or not.
13. 673.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    I had a Show HN that made no headway on the frontpage (like 3 karma then it disappeared into the depths), but I posted that same link, relevantly, as a comment somewhere in the middle of the thread and it absolutely blew up. It's now my hig
14. 674.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Absolutely, open any pull requests you see fit.
15. 675.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    I'll take these suggestions into account - I've also only been coding for about a year and a half, and graduated with an Art degree. I'm the ESL equivalent of programming.
16. 676.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Actually it does already :) - just double click the header bar in a comment (where the username is) and it will collapse that comment and all nested ones under it.
17. 677.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    It only sends the credentials once when you login, and that's only to HN's https login page. It then only includes HN's regular cookie in the http headers on requests that go to an https page inside HN after you've logged in.
18. 678.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Thank you, but I'm not trained in CS at all haha - so take everything with a grain of salt. I've got an Art degree, and taught myself everything. So there's bound to be a lot of things that can be done a hell of a lot better.
19. 679.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Yours looks pretty sweet - and thanks for mentioning the lack of licensure, I just added it.
20. 680.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Thanks man, just merged your request.
21. 681.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Yes absolutely! I just recently changed the API to hnsearch's version (the only officially sanctioned one by HN) so hopefully a lot of the bugs will be smoothed out. I hope the new update doesn't crash and actually loads stories for you fro
22. 682.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Hey Xuzz, Didn't mean for that to come off rude if it read that way. I haven't dug too far deep into HNKit - I was really just worried about the interplay of ARC and nonARC code and what that meant for the future of maintainability of my ow
23. 683.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    Now that's a beautiful interface!
24. 684.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    I don't even know what the state of the game is for HN Readers on Android right now. What are the best ones people are using?
25. 685.▲
    by bennyg 13y ago

    HNKit isn't in ARC, and does a myriad of things that I think are unnecessary and can be maintained cleaner (there's absolutely no documentation!!!). Those methods are actually very quick (imperceptibly fast) right now - but I'm not a comput
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    Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader(github.com)

    110 points by bennyg 13y ago|73 comments
27. 687.▲
    by bennyg 14y ago

    We don't have the right to tell our bosses, "I won't do that, because it's unethical". What do you mean we don't have that right? As a human being, I always hold that right and will use it if necessary. Fuck a job - if a decision th
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    by bennyg 14y ago

    I'm just imagining people with 10cm of pancake-stacked lenses sticking out of their eyes. Smart refraction by the lens would be kind of cool though.
29. 689.▲
    by bennyg 14y ago

    Interaction without doing the wireframing. I love typography and color theory/psychology, and yes I've done my fair share of user testing - still do too. The thing is, as a creative individual, I don't pigeonhole myself as a "developer" or
30. 690.▲
    by bennyg 14y ago

    I would honestly call myself both. I have a traditional BA in Art with a focus on Graphic Design. I love illustrating, maintain a sketchbook of drawings, help create posters for people, and can call out fonts all day. I'm also a developer.