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by blowski 14y ago
The biggest problem with (human-written) email is that it's so poorly written. 20 action points, mixed with a bit of smalltalk, and lots of tangential information, all on a reply to a totally irrelevant email. The kind of people that send
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by blowski 14y ago
It's writing on the users own wall, which they are asking it to do. Therefore it's not unsolicited. It doesn't write on other users' walls, so it's not bulk.
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by blowski 14y ago
From my experience of explaining APIs, most people don't understand the distinction between the web and software, let alone the difference between a web-based API and a software one. If a user knew what WebGL actually is, I would guess that
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by blowski 14y ago
I've used Axure quite a bit, since v5. There's a steep learning curve once you want to use any of those advanced features. I'm not sure how good your front-end coding knowledge is, but these days I find it's just as quick to prototype with
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by blowski 14y ago
> #2 the Apple vision of the world is about consumer products (...) producer products are the future. In one sense, Apple has encourage people to be producers by making it easier to produce financially-viable software. Are you comparin
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by blowski 14y ago
I had no problem just giving my email address. As amazing as Seth Godin is, blindly following (or recommending) every one of his suggestions in every situation is not a good idea, and I doubt he would say it is either.
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Web 're-defining' human identity - report (bbc.co.uk)
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by blowski 14y ago
You explaining it would be more useful than the bonus points.
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by blowski 14y ago
Do you have a link for that? I've only seen them say "if you need to support IE8, you need to use jQuery 1.9". No mention of a plugin.
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by blowski 14y ago
A partially-sighted TV license for a B&W TV is £25, compared to £75 for a full colour one. Ebay has quite a few B&W TVs available for £5-10. There are 360,000 people registered as partially-sighted in the UK, although around a third
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by blowski 14y ago
Jakob Nielsen would have a field day with this.
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by blowski 14y ago
Isn't it moo? Like the cow?
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by blowski 14y ago
Wherever this is likely to happen, I wouldn't use annotations. For example, I use YML for environment specific variables. But I don't need routes or fieldnames to be different only in one environment, so annotations work great there.
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by blowski 14y ago
That somebody could be you!
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by blowski 14y ago
What's in the annotation is configuration, not application logic. As such there's no real difference between putting configuration into YML, XML and annotation comments. In response to your 4 specific criticisms: 1. (DX regressions) - in th
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by blowski 14y ago
Users are not necessarily human - they can be search engines, API consumers, etc.