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by devmonk 16y ago
If you need a "gadget", odds are you want to hack on it a bit, or develop for it? If so, choose Android if you don't have a (recent) mac and are low on funds, or like Java better than Objective-C (and messing w/memory leaks, even though it
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The standard should support an accessible version of what is staticly and dynamically displayed in the browser to a non-disabled person. If a non-disabled person will always see that frame on load, that frame needs an accessible way of maki
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by devmonk 16y ago
Do you truly think that Diaspora has a significant chance where it is positioned right now to overtake Facebook or gain a significant part of their market share in even 3-7 years? Think of all of the really major open-source projects. Now t
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm not saying that it isn't exciting for sure, but Diaspora as the sole namedrop product out of that? Not that Diaspora isn't cool, but it is an unhosted, alpha-grade, open-source project with no apparent business model competing with Face
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by devmonk 16y ago
Nice post. a full reset takes longer than 15 seconds. for example, there are browser issues in the original K3 release to consumers that require a longer time between off/on to clear (like a few minutes I think to be safe- I know it is long
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by devmonk 16y ago
Wow. :( "I'm confused. Why would you (a blind user) want to know what the poster frame is? How does it affect you?" That is pretty bad. I think they need a group of people with disabilities to review all of the specs. There have to be many
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by devmonk 16y ago
Great post! Some suggestions that were new to me, too, although you're mixing Java and Ruby in your examples. I agree with everything except the DSL stuff at the end. People have mentioned on HN recently, and I believe it is true, that Cucu
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by devmonk 16y ago
:) Site design doesn't follow traditional design rules (yet). I like seeing sites from developers that just use plain unstyled HTML, though. No tables even. Some headers, some text, with default font. Maybe some unordered list with those ol
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by devmonk 16y ago
Got 4880 points for blowing up current HN new links.
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Google’s Mayer criticizes content "locked" inside Facebook?(venturebeat.com)
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by devmonk 16y ago
We don't support IE6. If a client wants IE6, why not tell them to spend that money developing an accessible version of the site? There are going to be more disabled people visiting their site then IE6 anyway: IE6 stats: http://www.w3school
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I'm surprised, but I guess you have to feed the franchise. I'm just waiting for them to fully animate Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford exactly the way they would have looked if they would have played the part in the early 80s.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Some really interesting concepts in there about Starcraft strategy, but... startups and gaming? Sure I played some games here and there before at work in a startup, and others did as well, but I'd think people would be more interested in ge
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by devmonk 16y ago
Interesting. This is about "Quieting the Lizard Brain". Seth created Yoyodyne. Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems is from Buckaroo Banzai. Buckaroo Banzai has Lizard references (Lectroids were lizards, Lizardo is last name of John Lithgow's charac
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Symbian was even mostly ignored 4 years ago. It's sad but it's true. Those old mobile OS's have just had it coming.
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And notice how they changed "requirement" to "objectives" in: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=11... Does that mean it isn't manditory? This is basically what I was saying here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by devmonk 16y ago
Good post. The manager doesn't always have to fit that description totally to be a bad manager. As the post suggests, if people are saying "You should check with ____ before doing that," that probably indicates some micromanagement tendenci
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by devmonk 16y ago
I personally think that while carousels are eye candy, they are just a fad. At my place of work, the designers have standardized on using them for many sites for a year or so now, and we have been sick of them for about that long. There was
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by devmonk 16y ago
Corrected link: http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/carousel-pattern-pt1-html
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1735215
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by devmonk 16y ago
Great review, and I'm impressed with the results of my first searches! I found what I was looking for everytime. Also like the interface. As I scroll down, it loads the next page, just like Google and Bing should and could, but don't. Also
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by devmonk 16y ago
In response to the question of design: - Use the golden ratio whenever possible/practical. - Be careful with the rounding of the edges. (Sharp corners aren't good, but rounded with unused potential screen real estate and subsequent violatio
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Appreciate the question, but any answer you may find highly debatable. I am not an expert in such things, nor much of anything for that matter. However, my attempt at a response would be: "We should try to help others, if we have faith that
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To whomever downvoted this, you realize of course that Oracle's overly-litigiousness: http://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+lawsuit and poor conferences for Java: http://www.google.com/search?q=javaone+oracle+sucked#sclient... are what
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Watch it again. Page 132 of this version of the final script of the movie ( http://www.vantageguilds.com/itw/FinalScript_ITW.pdf ): "Sunrise and nature awakens. Bird songs and flower blooms. A waterfall cascades. CUT TO: 245 INT. BUS - DA
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Please note that imo my faith is a choice, it isn't "programmed in".
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Notice the "imo". Atheists can substitute the following for prayer: "thoughtful consideration of what you feel is right". imo, these two aren't equivalent, but it's the best suggestion I know to provide.
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Is LibreOffice the first sign of Oraclepocalypse?
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"Cisco has also seen those kinds of bad contracts as well as 'systemic open-source problems' at companies it was interested in buying, Adams said. Cisco will have to consider how much it will cost it to get out of those contracts or correct
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by devmonk 16y ago
Emacs perhaps? Maybe Textmate? How about e? Vi is almost ubiquitous in *nix environments, so it is hard to argue against vim. And, it is very powerful! However, it hasn't been intuitive for the majority. If you aren't using something that o

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