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IE 9 does not resize text sized in pixels
(456bereastreet.com)
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16y ago
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Putting frugal innovation into practice
(audiovideo.economist.com)
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16y ago
At least it's better than go-oo.org.
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16y ago
I'd actually like to see the exact opposite: an editor that warns me every time I use a too common and worn out phrase or sequence of words. That shouldn't be too hard to do, should it? :)
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16y ago
I would hesitate to call it "mature".
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A History of World GDP
(economist.com)
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I would start with number 4, and save the formal grammar study for (much) later. IMHO, the far most important thing to do is to listen. I prefer podcasts, but anything (radio, films, TV, overheard conversations in bars) will do. Understandi
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Google Calls Oracle Patent Suit Attack On Java Community
(techcrunch.com)
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The world's biggest broadband providers
(economist.com)
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The origins of abc
(ilovetypography.com)
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After Drought, Hope for Shows Made for Web
(nytimes.com)
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16y ago
And what could possibly go wrong?
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Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox
(computerworld.com)
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With iPad, Apple is No. 3 in portables
(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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16y ago
That just goes to show that normal English is highly unusual.
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India unveils prototype for $35 touch-screen computer
(bbc.co.uk)
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Skype iPhone update: no additional charges for calling over 3G
(blogs.skype.com)
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16y ago
I can't help but wonder if Steve Jobs wants to kill these guys, or give them a medal.
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16y ago
My favorite is "Colors you can see with the human retina" .
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16y ago
Steve writes, for example: "She was pulling out a giant needle as she told me this. It just sort of materialized from under the table, the way a knife appears in a bar fight. It was a very large needle." I'd say that's some rather good writ
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16y ago
> the average, non-geeky customer is totally confused I must be average and non-geeky then. I'm totally confused by Microsofts mobile strategy.
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SproutCore creator leaves Apple
(blog.sproutcore.com)
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16y ago
I'm using essentially the same strategy. Basically I split feeds in two categories: "Fresh" ones I either read on the spot, or mark-all-as-read. These are the ones I usually check frequently, and very quickly. And I don't have to feel bad a
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GM's new electric car: Driving the future
(economist.com)
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16y ago
I don't think semicolons help your example. return { foo: 7 }; still returns undefined.
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Stephen Fry reviews iPhone 4
(guardian.co.uk)
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Vows: Asynchronous behaviour driven development for Node.js
(vows.heroku.com)
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The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy, Part 2
(smashingmagazine.com)
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16y ago
It may be crap, undemocratic, pulled out of behinds, and egotistic. It's still true though. You can only test a very, very limited number of designs, out of all the pretty much infinitely many possible ones. Someone still has to come up wit
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16y ago
You can't really optimize, in the A/B-testing sense, an entire design. You can just tweak the details, in the turd-polishing sense. That being said, being ugly can of course be profitable. If you want to signal that you are cheap, for examp
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