dennis_vartan

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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
F.lux (or something similar) is one of those things that should come pre-configured with each operating system. I find it indispensable for coding at night (and I use Photoshop quite a bit, too.) Shame there isn't a way to do this on i
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
And even shorter, just @100.5 if what you have is a literal. The parentheses are needed if you're boxing a value, e.g.: @(price + 100.5) In detail: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
Like! Much as I love ObjC, reducing verbosity via better syntax can go a long way to making code more readable. For example, I ended up putting together some defines like this after building a bunch of UI programmatically. #define RGB(r
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
What about thinking of icons as visual anchors -- something to quickly "catch" your eye as you're looking for an operation? What if it doesn't matter what picture the icon has, as long as the shape is clearly recognizabl
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Unleashing Genetic Algorithms on the iOS 7 Icon(blog.mikeswanson.com)
11 points by dennis_vartan 13y ago|0 comments
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
Ah, wow, that sounds lousy. Sorry it didn't work out for you. Didn't see this with either of two of mine. Buying Dell (as opposed to a no-name brand) should ensure a higher-quality LCD panel[1], but apparently YMMV... [1] http:&#
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
If you're not tied to Apple, with my Air I use a Dell U2713HM -- an excellent display of the same size and without the annoying glass screen. Also plugs into the Thunderbolt port.
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
The new picker looks nicer aesthetically, no doubt. But each time when setting an alarm, I find that I have to mentally focus to figure out which number is currently selected. Similar font sizes, similar colors, lack of negative space, and
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by dennis_vartan 13y ago
Learning Photoshop mechanics and UX concepts isn't sufficient, IMO. One can be proficient in $DRAWING_TOOL and still unable to compose something that looks good. As much as I appreciate sites like Tutsplus, they teach mechanics but rar
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A visual Git reference(marklodato.github.com)
238 points by dennis_vartan 14y ago|34 comments