daviding

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   by daviding 16y ago

   Time. That's it, nothing more - just spend time with him. Reading, playing and doing lots fun things. I have two kids and had massively complicated plans on how to 'program' them (and I mean that with nothing but respect for what you're try
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   by daviding 16y ago

   They are warming to it, especially when it is offered by solid companies who can provide the support. The 'services not licenses' business model of a lot of OS suppliers actually works quite well with Govt IT. The downside is that the exist
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   by daviding 16y ago

   The news article is a bit light on all the details. I did some work for some of the people bidding and probably the best summary of who 'won' is in the GSA's (who supply the IT infrastructure to other govt agencies) press release found here
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   by daviding 16y ago

   Ok, here's mine, and since it's November now ( already, screams ) http://www.ZoomRead.com
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   by daviding 16y ago

   Sorry, I don't know - don't have one. Large comedy finger pointer perhaps? I do remember the last Stevenote having something about why touching monitors wasn't going to fly and how the pad would all be ok ( waves Steve's magic field over jo
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   by daviding 16y ago

   The bottleneck is mainly in rendering. Plus I actually took a lot of 'blur n zoom' effects out already (which is where the silverlight version really excels I think). I'll put them back in and retry (it's a kind of blend like anim) I'll che
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   by daviding 16y ago

   Doesn't the new Air have a large (multi) touch pad? That might allow for a more transitional 'middle ground' to exist. Lion and it's feline ancestors will get more touchy over time, plus what Dave W is hinting at is more of a virtualization
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   by daviding 16y ago

   Bizspark is a short-term program, where you invalidate yourself when you get revenue. It's a good idea but I understand it only delays those looming SQL Server per proc license costs. While I congratulate Jeff and Joel I would like to see m
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   by daviding 16y ago

   The main advice I took from this was 'Use less words'. I'd expand on that, but realize that's a bad idea...
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    by daviding 16y ago

    My next project is more about pure HTML5, so I'm unlikely to want to keep flash around. Good advice, in that ZoomRead was good to finish up as I had enjoyed working on it - flash, not so much for me I think.
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    by daviding 16y ago

    I fail at clickable title text, so: http://www.ZoomRead.com
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thanks! In terms of the browser front-end it uses a mix of jscript and Silverlight. The pure jscript alternative is still quite nice, but hard to make any faster (Chrome works best). You can see it here even if you have Silverlight (Windows
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    by daviding 16y ago

    It's a classic book, but I'm in two minds if it actually helps or hinders new developers. (Hear me out on this sacrilegious statement! :) It's just that some of the design patterns are really low-level and often described in terms that mode
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Many of the more modern programming books deal with the process of creating the software rather than the abstract bits that make up the individual steps. Have you seen books like http://railstutorial.org/book and similar? Is this sort of
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Facebook has an email platform / inbox metaphor thing. I bet (i.e. I have no idea what I'm talking about) that he's probably still interested in new forms of collaboration. Maybe under the guise of a Facebook tweak we'll see some Wave conce
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    Ask HN: Kill it or use Flash? (don't say flash please)

    4 points by daviding 16y ago|10 comments
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Why not post what you need as a comment up here? People could then collaborate on what they see as the solution plus it might help others who come back to look at this in the future. PS Not sure about (b) being a great humanitarian reason :
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thanks! Yes, it would be easy to do that. There are 'hover' buttons on the bottom right with a 'home' icon, but I need to bring them out a bit more, i.e. a bit dull in those noisy screen previews. I was wondering about using a temp cookie a
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    by daviding 16y ago

    This is a follow-up to a post I did about 3 weeks ago for my site http://www.ZoomRead.com . HN gave a lot of really good feedback and I appreciate it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726256 The main message was that the various ways
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    ZoomRead follow-up(zoomread.com)

    2 points by daviding 16y ago|3 comments
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    by daviding 16y ago

    I use this, is it similar? http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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    by daviding 16y ago

    I just wanted to come back and thank you again - in that I've spent a little bit more time researching this and it looks promising. When I had looked before the API was limited, but I think I can do everything I want to do. In the spirit of
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Hi Vivek - thanks for taking a look. Unfortunately this is more a 'labor of love' thing for me, and I'm fully engaged it a few other things at the moment. I appreciate the offer though.
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Good advice - thank you. I certainly not betting the farm, and was actually quite reluctant to show even here - basically because it's just something I'd built more for myself as way to cluster/build out large pages. I use a couple of EC/2
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thanks for the link - yes, similar. I'm going for more of a bigger 'map' up/down/left/right and in/out style browse, but fastflip is pretty similar (I had seen it before I started this and quite liked it for the way it shows the thumbnail).
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thanks for trying it and commenting - people here have been really helpful. Yes - I've got a few ways to try now for dynamic layout and the 'clustering' of stories. BlueBottle is something I'll check out for sure - thanks.
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thank you! Agreed that I need to so something when viewed further out. I have the RSS feed description/headline (as shown in that big bubble) so I could render something more abstract and cleaner in there. Base on a suggestion below I am no
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Thanks - yes, I can do many of those things, and next plan to tackle 'what to show at what level'. It's all pre-processed and fairly quick to generate so I have lots of options to consider in terms of noise/overload.
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    by daviding 16y ago

    I could try that - thanks. I wasn't sure how much to move the map outside the dragging by the user but that makes sense. Since I just had to look the acronym ZUI up, I guess that's an independent concept :). I've tried to use Google maps as
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    by daviding 16y ago

    Good suggestion - thanks.