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by betageek 15y ago
Very nice but very frustrating that you can almost play "Happy Birthday" except for 1 note missing!
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by betageek 15y ago
PHP's single greatest advantage is ubiquity - would love to see a CoffeeScript compiler for PHP that smooths out these issues.
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by betageek 15y ago
My experience of Sortfolio, tested paid listing for a few months - 0 leads, just lots of outsourcers looking for work, would be interested if anyone had a good experience
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by betageek 15y ago
Thanks for clarifying - if taking her out of nursery is what you feel you should do then do it, your the only one that knows what's best for your own child.
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by betageek 15y ago
I'm a dad with two kids, one went to nursery 3 days a week from the age of one while mum worked, one didn't (the income/childcare cost maths on 2 kids didn't work out) and I doubt you'd see any difference in their demeanour. Nursery is not
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by betageek 16y ago
I still can't get over how bad Safari is when O'Reilly are so great in everything else they do. Does O'Reilly proper run the site?
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by betageek 16y ago
If this was deliberate it would fit perfectly, which it doesn't - the radii on the corners are very different. Apple aren't that sloppy.
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by betageek 16y ago
If it does embed the correct fonts that raises a legal issue, from a font licensing viewpoint.
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by betageek 16y ago
Great article, most if this rings very true to my experience in one of the large old skool web businesses. It's a shame the rest of these comments choose to moan, IMO your just telling it like it is, not making a value judgement.
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by betageek 16y ago
Is any basic piece of interactivity done in canvas/html5/something-not-flash worthy of an upvote?!? Do we have to go through seeing every bit of graphics code anyone ever ran on an Apple II get ported to HTML5?
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by betageek 16y ago
37 Signals go truly rockstar, from their "Appetite for Destruction" beginnings they're entering their "Use Your Illusion" period, just hope they don't end up going the way of "Chinese Democracy"
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by betageek 16y ago
mod_rails/Passenger changed the game on deployment of Rails - Rails deployment is no harder than PHP if you use Passenger/Apache. Most of the 'Rails is hard to deploy' opinions are just relics from the bad old days. high volume/high availab
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by betageek 16y ago
I'm having this exact same problem with a colleague at the moment and my root cause analysis is that he's not making the right judgement about the knowledge level of the other conversation participants. I would suggest trying to a) listen a
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by betageek 16y ago
Lots of people seem to be totally against Flash but there's really no alternative for commercial-grade motion graphics on the web. Having tried to create replicas of some pretty basic work in 'standards' based html/css/javascript (using -we
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by betageek 16y ago
I think this misses a big point about the issue - Apple's "App" strategy is changing the way people access information from using web browsers towards using tightly controlled proprietary Apple approved apps (iTunes was just the start.) Goo
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by betageek 16y ago
Apple have several core user bases, "creatives" have always been one of them - i'm not implying it's the main one in this age of plenty they're enjoying at the moment but it's seriously influential. The old cliche of hipster Mac users came
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by betageek 16y ago
Agree with the gist of this, but it's not just the geeks that are getting fed up with Apple. Apple's core "black t-shirt wearing design hipsters" user base are very annoyed with the Adobe/Flash situation which is causing them even more cogn
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by betageek 16y ago
Again, this is a video - I'll judge the final version when it's in my hands, I hope they manage to pull it off in a release version.
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by betageek 16y ago
I've seen a "shit ton" of demos and nothing I've seen is applicable to this problem. Wired is one of the most visually rich magazines around, it's layouts are complex, the visuals are rich, it's won many design awards - hundreds of people a
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by betageek 16y ago
The fundamental argument is flawed - I find it extremely hard to believe that anyone could create the same seamless experience as the iPad Wired app in HTML5. I certainly haven't seen any demo's that would imply it's possible, saying "you c
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Tweetie for iPhone relaunched as official Twitter app(pocket-lint.com)
1 points by betageek 16y ago|0 comments
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by betageek 16y ago
Actors are also a large part of Scala - see more details here http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
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by betageek 16y ago
I think that sums up my feeling on the Flash v HTML5 arguments - if all you are doing is moving a div from A to B, CSS3/HTML5 is for you. If your actually doing some motion graphics that need fine grained control and high production values
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by betageek 16y ago
<timewarp> I'm really excited about Flash lowering our need to rely on things like animated GIFs, but I can just see some lame tool being made that allows people to animate things and we see hundreds of horrible Flash animations &#6
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by betageek 16y ago
Is it just me or does this look awful? Using Safari 4 I get loads of judder on the animations and the bitmap scaling is really poor.
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by betageek 16y ago
I don't think anyone is saying that taking something someone leaves behind in a bar is not morally dubious. My issue is that by calling this 'stealing' your re-defining the concept of stealing and then couching the argument in terms of thef
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Fake Steve: Please stop thinking about Gizmodo, breaking down doors, etc.(fakesteve.net)
8 points by betageek 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are there any solid stats on Flash crashing Safari?
6 points by betageek 16y ago|1 comments
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by betageek 16y ago
You could, but Apple are rejecting apps that are just web views or RSS readers so I wouldn't recommend it.
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by betageek 16y ago
The most succinct explanation yet - pity your post is one of the view voices of reason in this thread.

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