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by edave 17y ago
Please do use lightboxes _if_ your site will not work on that browser. A perfect example of when you want to interrupt the the natural flow! I've found ie6-upgrade-warning works well- http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ for what
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by edave 17y ago
I think the article makes some good points in general, but largely misses the fact that MS Money was not that great of a program in many aspects, nor did it innovate. Likewise with Encarta- it seems that these programs were designed in the
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by edave 17y ago
Interesting, but I find it odd that he discounts how universities will change and adapt. Will the university of today be irrelevant in 10 years? Absolutely. But most universities are successful because they've adapted several times in the p
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by edave 17y ago
Really well written! One thing I was curious about was the use of TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 instead of TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA: what's the difference between these setups in terms of mem/cpu usage? Obviously it varies between server
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by edave 17y ago
Interesting, how do you feel about all the talk on Google's data-driven UI development?
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by edave 17y ago
Right, and maybe you're right that I was deluded, but my recollection is that the original motivation for Firefox was "Mozilla (and IE) are bloated and slow, let's fix that"
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by edave 17y ago
I know that the skill sets overlap some, but icons laid out in a window does not make you an interface designer.
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by edave 17y ago
Please read Hackers and Painters: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html seriously.
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by edave 17y ago
I think excellent designers use both intuition and data. First you need to have the intuition to know what the right question is to ask, then you need decisively prove what the correct answer is to that question.
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by edave 17y ago
Glad to see I'm not the only that finds it ironic how Firefox only took 2 versions to abandon the original reasoning (lightweight, fast, better UI) that made them so much better than anything else. It's not like in the last few years people
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by edave 17y ago
Do you have a caffeine addiction already? If so, I'd say keep up drinking some caffeine just so you don't have withdrawal problems on top of being tired. I don't drink caffeine, but here's what's worked for me: 1) Nap several times during