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by compay 16y ago
I think most of these apps make for great screenshots, but I'm less sure about long term, daily usability. In my (very personal, subjective) opinion I find that apps that use standard widgets make a less exciting first impression but are us
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by compay 16y ago
Sure, but then you're writing off CSS3 and continuing to write code as if it were 2006, which I personally don't like having to do.
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by compay 16y ago
On many sites, IE 6-8 users account for more than half of visits, and are often the single largest block of visitors by browser. Assuming you have such a site and don't want to just write off 50% of your users design-wise, it's nice to have
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by compay 16y ago
See this article on Digg's blog for an interesting look at the reasons why people may have IE 6 on their computers. http://about.digg.com/blog/much-ado-about-ie6
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PIE: Add CSS3 border-radius and multiple backgrounds to IE 6-8(css3pie.com)
27 points by compay 16y ago|24 comments
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by compay 16y ago
Because it can lead you to make arbitrary choices. People usually disagree vehemently on matters of aesthetics. I didn't say it shouldn't play any role, it just shouldn't be an important one. Focus too much on syntax over semantics and you'
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by compay 16y ago
That's a usability issue, not an aesthetic one.
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by compay 16y ago
Syntax aesthetics shouldn't be an important metric for technology choices.
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by compay 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replacemen...
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Keeping Code Aesthetics in Perspective(njclarke.com)
1 points by compay 16y ago|0 comments
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by compay 16y ago
$12 / month gets you 10 repositories / 5 collaborators. I guess it's subjective but that seems pretty cheap to me. I'd rather pay and know that the service is being run as a viable business because that gives me confidence it's going to con
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by compay 16y ago
Nokia ran an ad down here in Buenos Aires for the N95 which used the tagline "It's what computers have become" (in English, but that's another story). The problem for Nokia is that their tagline is correct, and they make wonderful telephon
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by compay 16y ago
Well, I guess you can just count me in the "knows how to code" camp. :) I know very little about typography but find the subject pretty interesting.
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by compay 16y ago
I'm always impressed by people who know how to code, and also have a good understanding of the subtleties of typography. Bravo!
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by compay 16y ago
Modern linguistic formalism is not derived from written language at all. I studied at MIT and UConn in the mid '90's and the separation between prescriptive grammar and linguistics is pretty clear. That's not to say that current approaches
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by compay 16y ago
It's more than just linguistic software. Our knowledge of linguistics itself is currently very limited; it's a nacent science and there's still a great deal of debate about how to even approach the study of language. Even leaving aside the
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by compay 16y ago
One of my friends in college was a 72 year old widow who was bored and decided to go back to school. She was in some classes on theoretical linguistics, German and Latin with me. She had had little formal education earlier in her life, but
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by compay 16y ago
He just brought that up as a part of a "wish list." Nothing has been implemented yet.
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by compay 16y ago
Roberto Ierusalimschy of Lua fame often uses this example of how PEGs (parsing expression grammars) can be much easier than regexps for some tasks. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-10/msg00817.html
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Can we please stop saying ORDER BY RAND/RANDOM is slow?(njclarke.com)
7 points by compay 16y ago|2 comments
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by compay 16y ago
For sure. But I do think it's just a sign of good design that Git is easily usable in ways that are unexpected and outside its original intended purpose.
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by compay 16y ago
Ha, that's very cool, never saw that before. Thanks for posting.
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by compay 16y ago
Because of its rich case system, Latin has fairly free word order. This makes it much easier to parse programmatically than, for example, English, which has to mostly rely on word order and prepositions to indicate subjects and objects. The
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by compay 16y ago
"I would suggest that as an admitted non-fan of Ruby then you are in no position to comment." I like _why too, but but by telling gdp shut up because he's not a "fan," you're actually making it much easier for him to make his point.
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by compay 16y ago
Well, I don't know about the measurements - I'm just an ignorant programmer, not a climatologist. :) But AFAIK you can get sunburnt in extreme latitudes, ozone or no ozone in fact. http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/bedroom-view-938-p
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by compay 16y ago
Down here in Argentina we haven't forgotten about it at all. Tourists heading to the far south in the summer are often cautioned to wear lots of sunblock because it's so easy to get sunburned there.
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by compay 16y ago
Good to know. I've been reflexively doing that for many years now, and wasn't aware that JS implementations had finally optimized around it.
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by compay 16y ago
I use Arch but I wouldn't necessarily take the author's advice. If you enjoy tinkering and want to learn more about administering a linux machine, Arch is great. But if you want things to "just work" then Ubuntu is also great.
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by compay 16y ago
It's a game. People are having fun. Playing golf is also pretty pointless when you think about it. Relax, nobody is suggesting this is how you are supposed to write all your code.
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by compay 16y ago
There are lots of ways some kid's straight parents could be stigmatized too. Your argument doesn't really hold any water.

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