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by bryne 14y ago
It's much more likely that you're creating websites that fail accessibility guidelines and that many people are forced to zoom in to read. 100%/16px is standard for article body copy.
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by bryne 14y ago
It might succeed in distribution because they have market share in a portion of the market largely unconcerned about user experience. Has any software produced by Samsung ever made you say "I wish I could use more of this"? Touchwiz?
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by bryne 14y ago
It's a Samsung platform, Linux-based. Like Windows 8, many of the services are HTML5-based; the bundled browser is Webkit and actually tops HTML5 test benchmarks among mobile browsers: http://html5test.com/results/mobile.html I worked wit
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by bryne 14y ago
I think it's more important for this project that they choose talented, entertaining comedic actors and leave the real-life involvement to the writing staff.
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by bryne 14y ago
Which in this case is zero, because eBay is rife with scammers preying on the *well-educated? Gazelle and Amazon present almost zero risk to the seller, hence the price differential.
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by bryne 14y ago
Mr. Pincus also filled his calendar with product meetings, something he had previously scaled back on. And he switched his main phone from a BlackBerry to iPhone, the device preferred by Zynga's users. I don't think anyone was under the i
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by bryne 14y ago
Honestly, quite a few of these logos are objectively pretty bad. I don't get a very positive view of LoudNoises' business acumen after reading this article.
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by bryne 14y ago
Struggling startups get a pass on HN. Struggling companies that were at the top of the food chain and tumbled to the bottom through hubris and a failure to innovate don't.
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by bryne 14y ago
If you're doing it manually, ImageOptim is probably the best GUI available.
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by bryne 14y ago
In the vein of constructive criticism: there is a set of W3C-suggested accessibility guidelines that include tests for things like the contrast between text and its background ( http://www.w3.org/TR/AERT#color-contrast ). This page fails th
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by bryne 14y ago
Fragmentation.
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by bryne 14y ago
I don't think they care about screenshots specifically, but they certainly do intend Twitter.com/.app to be the primary or only method that tweets are displayed, ever. To this end, relative dates are great. You do have a good point that tou
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by bryne 14y ago
Sure, but that seems harder than attempting to shame developers into changing the way they display timestamps.
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by bryne 14y ago
This is a ridiculous argument - relative dates are an enormous usability improvement for actual users, who don't care about machine-readable timestamps or the incredible mess that is timezones. Twitter also doesn't give a fuck about archiva
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by bryne 14y ago
Grammar mistakes are a sign of laziness, not incompetence. Both should be warning signs.
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by bryne 14y ago
It's very easy (and cheap) to say that after the idea has been born. The idea of someone profiting from the trademark or patent of an idea because they 'thought of it first' may be abhorrent to you, but it's the way this patent system wor
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by bryne 14y ago
I don't think you understand what the word "copying" means. It's certainly possible that similar end results can be achieved independently - that is what a court is determining, in this case.
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by bryne 14y ago
Must have been a fairly painful writeoff for Adknowledge, who paid $50MM for the company a couple years ago just as social started to decline and were never really able to make any money with the product. Seems like a great deal for Bailey,
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by bryne 14y ago
I'm glad $foo syntax was reserved for future flexibility in usage. When CSS level 4 is ratified in 2057, we'll all be thankful there was this kind of oversight and level-headedness now.
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by bryne 14y ago
FB is down 7% after hours, and the most likely culprit is this news, as the two companies' outlooks and stock performance have been tightly coupled after past quarterly reports. The title looks factually accurate to me.
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by bryne 14y ago
A better comparison would be to a quarter introducing a new phone model - Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in Q1 2012, the fiscal quarter during which the iPhone 4S launched.
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by bryne 14y ago
Gzip will take care of the duplication bloat issue. In general, this is a process best curated manually, with a maximum on converted file sizes and hand-picking images that are "must-haves" for the initial page load.
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by bryne 14y ago
This is pretty telling. You're right on all points from a developer's perspective, and their line seems to be nothing more than "we're leveraging the big, wide, Android game ecosystem!" I think anyone with hardware or Android game developme
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by bryne 14y ago
Well, not bloating your system with a bunch of new and updated programs is certainly a great way to keep your system footprint light.
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by bryne 14y ago
It's not necessary for it to be a majority to be a market disruption.
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by bryne 14y ago
What, because they're more prone to catastrophic, accidental physical failure, being less sedentary devices? I don't think that has anything to do with the results in this paper.
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by bryne 14y ago
Yes (the article is incorrect). Native apps (that aren't Safari) don't have JIT.
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Japanese Social Gaming Tumbles Over "Illegal" Game Mechanics(forbes.com)
7 points by bryne 14y ago|1 comments
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by bryne 14y ago
He's referring specifically to social games which, as a category, are generally much less transparent about their addictive gameplay mechanisms and extrinsic reward.
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by bryne 15y ago
Right now it applies to very specific apps and developers. Tomorrow, if this model shakes out favorably to Adobe, it may not. The frog boils slowly.

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