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by duopixel 14y ago
I really like the redesign, but fixed headers are driving me nuts. When I read my eyes fix on the top portion of the webpage, when a fixed header is there I feel like I must retrain myself to start reading a little bit below the header. I'v
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by duopixel 14y ago
This is somewhat far-fetched, but I'd like to see more historians/ archaeologists get into big data. As a society we are collecting the most important bits of history and putting them in digital form. One might just decipher a bit more of t
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Something About Functions (IBM - 1961)(youtube.com)
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Show HN: a showcase of our local tech community in Playa del Carmen [d3.js](techplaya.com)
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by duopixel 14y ago
> people enjoy other people's failures and misery This is a very grim outlook on life. What I see in popular culture is—for the most part—people being clowns in order to draw attention. I also think that having laughs at the expense of
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by duopixel 14y ago
I'd like to read an honest account from a former bully who matured into a fully functional adult. To this day I don't understand the motivation of terrorizing other kids. I've met some former bullies but it seems that they either don't reme
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by duopixel 14y ago
I'm a designer and I'm often surprised that current science has not been able to answer seemingly simple questions such as "what is the most legible typeface for a printed book?" or "what is the best chair for working on a computer?". The r
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by duopixel 14y ago
I've been thinking about all the great things that have happened within tech companies in the last few decades, and it seems clear to me that a couple of centuries into the future, some of these events will be hallmarks of history. I don't
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by duopixel 14y ago
Well designed for what? Design accomplishes a purpose, if there's a mismatch between the purpose and the design then the website can look nice but be poorly designed. What do you want to accomplish?
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by duopixel 14y ago
These two pieces of code should have around the same performance: $( ".widget" ).css( "color", "green" ).css( "font-size", "16px" ); $( ".widget" ).css({ "color": "green", "font-size": "16px" }) Fact is, jQuer
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by duopixel 14y ago
I once got into trouble with one of these unwanted newsletters. A design agency in Argentina was doing the mass mailing their work to design blog authors in an effort to spread the word about the work they had done. It was a fairly large ag
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by duopixel 14y ago
One may be dismayed to find out that most things in design haven't been proved conclusively (in a scientific way). There are many reasons for this, but I think it all boils down to the difficulty of measuring how the human mind reacts whe
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by duopixel 14y ago
I tend to agree with the author, but there are indeed some things you can infer from the type of response you get. I have a friend who was doing a technical interview, and things seemed to be going weird. It seemed that the candidate knew t
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by duopixel 14y ago
There are examples of great design produced exclusively by engineers or scientists. The reason is because good design fulfills a need, and in industry these needs are often technical. When you throw in the needs of human beings is that thin
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by duopixel 14y ago
This is really cool! One suggestion: visual editors are probably the only place where I don't mind my backspace button being binded to the delete action. I tried deleting something with backspace and ended up back here without warning, and
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by duopixel 14y ago
I distinctly remember how the web dev world (myself included) groaned at the prospect of supporting another rendering engine. Gecko was clearly the best browser at the time, and the choice of KHTML seemed bizarre, to say the least. Even the
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by duopixel 14y ago
I worked in the online booking industry for a couple of years, coincidentally I also live in Playa del Carmen now. What most likely happened was this: Expedia and other big players buy wholesale room inventory from large hotel chains. Exped
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by duopixel 14y ago
Fireworks a hybrid between vector and raster. It's for web/interface design, which has plenty of overlap with Photoshop.
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by duopixel 14y ago
What if instead of braking Orion itself, it just drops off a lighter satellite that is able brake without expending so much energy?
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by duopixel 14y ago
If you don't destroy the firearms you aren't destroying the demand. Everybody who has a firearm will probably start by hoarding existing bullets and this will create a black market for ammo. When the local cache is over, it's obvious who is
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by duopixel 14y ago
I think the article oversees an important factor in startup success: the needs of the market is a vast land, and surely there is an intersection with a passion yours. I can't envision the founder of Bang & Olufsen being indifferent to s
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by duopixel 14y ago
You are attaching 9420 event listeners (three for each county). A better solution would be to do the equivalent of delegate in jQuery: var counties = map.append('g'); counties.attr('class', 'counties') .selectAll('path') .dat
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by duopixel 14y ago
The first time I understood a formal proof was with Dijkstra: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1311.PDF He is an exceptionally sharp thinker who is able to communicate his thought process with clarity. Even if you don't follow the
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by duopixel 14y ago
Yes, many uncomfortable objects are designed as statements of form (the Reitveild Chair or the Juicy Salif).But I consider these examples of art, not design. The main use of a chair is sitting down, and thus a well designed chair will alway
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by duopixel 14y ago
This reminds me of a an interview with Charles Eames. Eames was an industrial designer who is well known for his furniture. Even if you don't know his name his work will be familiar. Q: Does design imply the idea of products that are ne
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by duopixel 14y ago
Most people are aware that animals in circuses don't live a happy life, yet they choose to go see them.
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by duopixel 14y ago
Perhaps it could be argued that it puts the term and conditions out of reach.
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At the risk of sounding lukewarm on the issue, I think that user-centered approaches to product development are appropriate for some cases, and creator-centric approaches are appropriate for others. Apple probably worked on the iPhone a cou
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by duopixel 14y ago
The album view displays a color scheme based on the album artwork. The results vary from good to great, I haven't encountered any poor examples of it's application. You can see an example here: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2012/12/itunes
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by duopixel 14y ago
If the app were to be displayed in other language it would mess up the word spacing.

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