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by ender7 14y ago
That video is from the DNC, not from the US government. The Democratic Party is free to structure itself however it chooses, especially with regards to agreeing (or, in this case, failing to agree) on party policy. The days of convention de
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by ender7 14y ago
What worries me is that while Jobs was the one to turn the holy war on, he may have been the only one who could have turned it off again. One of his greatest strengths was his ability to believe something incredibly strongly, but then to
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by ender7 14y ago
There is a difference here (although I admit I'm experiencing some lovely schadenfreude glow over here). Samsung built camouflaged products that were designed to confuse buyers into thinking they were buying an iPad. Here, Apple has ripped
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by ender7 14y ago
If the argument is that "you're using too much Javascript" then we all might as well just give up on HTML5 applications right now. Sure, we can break up our JS into modules that only get loaded on-demand (something that is quite hard to do,
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by ender7 14y ago
This makes me sad for a variety of reasons. One, because HP are being assholes and making what is clearly a knock-off product. Apple has every right to be upset, and probably sue them for trade dress infringement. And second, because everyo
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by ender7 14y ago
Sadly, Apple and/or Google have the power to retard the adoption of HTML5 as long as they like. "But ender7," you say, "both Mobile Safari and Chrome have great support for HTML5." Yes, they do. Sort of. Except for the crippling bugs in man
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by ender7 14y ago
Yeah, and the dissonances are not quite right either. Close...but not quite.
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by ender7 14y ago
Are you arguing that there is no difference between UI designers and graphic designers? It may all seems like "silly design stuff" but I promise you -- there's a big difference between the two. For example, UI designers usually need to be a
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by ender7 14y ago
Sadly, "designer" is a poorly-qualified term. When I hear someone say that it's hard to tell whether they mean a graphic designer or a UI/UX designer (or possibly even a product manager or something). And yes, there is a huge difference bet
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by ender7 14y ago
Yes, and terrible engineers can also completely ruin the process. As can a terrible manager. What's your point? A real UX person will be able to and should provide high-fidelity mocks of the entire flow, preferably with an interactive demo
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by ender7 14y ago
All too often, UI people end up being marginalized because management doesn't support them. Unless you just want "a new coat of paint" a good UX design will require some hard changes and product realignments. If the CEO is not interested
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by ender7 14y ago
Look, I despise Apple for believing that they should not only be able to patent things like two-finger-pinch but that they deserve a patent on it, but there is nothing good about this for anyone. They make good products. True knockoffs li
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by ender7 14y ago
I don't understand why they made this a public posting. Romney isn't incentivized to pay up once the blackmail is public knowledge -- payment is equivalent to admitting guilt. Might as well keep your money and take the hits. I don't see any
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by ender7 14y ago
Agreed, I'm excited for this format, but only because I store almost all of my state in JSON blobs.
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by ender7 14y ago
The huge, HUGE advantage that the App Store brings to the average consumer is a feeling of safety. An app installed from the App store: - Can be uninstalled easily, and leave no trace behind (remember "Register cleaners"?) - Cannot interfer
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by ender7 14y ago
Thank you for linking those articles, that was very helpful. That said, Google was lucky that there was a loophole in the patent definition. Imagine a world where Apple had actually obtained an airtight patent on a system that listens for s
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by ender7 14y ago
I think this is probably an error on AppFlow's side, rather than Snapette's.
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by ender7 14y ago
It all comes down to the way you disengage. You can do so cordially or gruffly, and that tends to make all the difference. If you make it clear that you like them, but see no reason to waste any more of their time, then you will fare well i
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by ender7 14y ago
This looks cool, but I'm afraid it's too little, too late. I've been pure Javascript for a long time now.
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by ender7 14y ago
The sad fact is that UI patents are even more bullshit than software patents. Does Apple have the legal high ground here? Yes, they have a patent on rubberbanding scrolling (among others). Arguments about 'prior art' and blah blah are point
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by ender7 14y ago
In older versions of Windows 8, swiping up was indeed necessary. And, in fact, there was an affordance (of sorts) to let you know that that was what you were supposed to do: if you did anything that was not a swipe-up, the screen bounced up
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by ender7 14y ago
That is not the point of the article. You're talking about quality-of-life, while the study is talking about the health of the national economy: "The reason the decline of the middle class is important is not just about fairness. It's about
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by ender7 14y ago
Can anyone explain how these speeds, if possible, are even useful? For example, the bandwidth of L2 cache on a core i7 is about 70GB/s, which doesn't come close to Tbit's theoretical 125GB/s.
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by ender7 14y ago
The designer does the rebranding, not the customer. This means generating all the new style guides, promotional material templates, business cards, even sometimes ad templates. All of that derives from the logo/wordmark, but it's usually th
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by ender7 14y ago
This should be an SVG. Using box-shadows to create shapes is not only confusing but really, really performance-draining. (not to be a downer, it's incredibly impressive, but not something you should do in production code)
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by ender7 14y ago
Sure, but they signed the contract to specifically allow this behavior. If they don't like it, then they should complain to Amazon, or perhaps should read the terms a little more carefully. Either way, it's hard to see how any of this was L
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by ender7 14y ago
Whenever we talk about the nature of a people, things get complicated very fast. That said, my personal experience with community-vs.-individuality in Chinese culture is closer to the OP's than yours. There is incredibly strong feeling in C
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by ender7 14y ago
1. Respect your users 2. Respect their time 3. Respect that they are different from you If you find yourself thinking "now I have to change it so stupid people can use it" then you will never make a UI worth a damn.
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by ender7 14y ago
Like others, I think telling people to RTFM is unhelpful. The OP already pointed out that the official Git documentation is bad, bad bad. So, already it's not just "RTFM" but "Google around for a decent Git tutorial and hope you pick the
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by ender7 14y ago
This is not a problem with higher ed, this is a problem with bureaucracies staffed with incompetent people who are so terrified of losing their jobs that they resort to things like this. This is incredibly common in IT, not just at Ed insti

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