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by eswat 16y ago
A web app for setting up group buys for Steam games (ties into Valve’s OpenID implementation). But has to take a detour to pick up a free book on cognition my psychology professor had. What a nice lady.
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by eswat 16y ago
I didn't find the sidebar distracting. Actually, I didn’t notice it until after I had read the article. What did distract me was the picture of the assassin when I first landed on the page. I kept wondering why there was an article about Fa
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by eswat 16y ago
1. Sharpie marker attached to my keyring, can’t keep count of how many times this came in handy (Marker, Ready-to-Edit) 2. Espresso + Emacs: former for fast HTML/CSS prototyping, latter for fast prototyping of everything else 3. Wacom table
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by eswat 16y ago
Now it’s fine, it wasn’t a few minutes ago.
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by eswat 16y ago
I think learning about typography would be a good stepping stone to learning design in general. Start off by reading Typography for Lawyers and iA’s post “Web Design is 95% Typography”. Both links have great advice and talk about the fundam
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Dealing with Haters(dannychoo.com)
5 points by eswat 16y ago|1 comments
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by eswat 16y ago
Try a very quick project with both languages? Maybe a todo list using Ruby/Rails and PHP/CodeIgniter (language/framework). Not really answering your question but you should also see how these two work with your own eyes instead of just rely
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by eswat 16y ago
As a university student fairbooks.com seems the most appealing to me, since most of the time the cash I get back for selling my books on campus is anything but fair.
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by eswat 16y ago
If you go ahead with trying out git, then check out Pro Git: http://progit.org/book/ Read the first 2 chapters, sign up for an account on GitHub and mess around with a public repo for a bit. Once you become familiar with adding, staging,
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IA’s Cosmic 140 Poster(informationarchitects.jp)
1 points by eswat 16y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 16y ago
Not sure about a game engine (editor?) but one has to be a lot more careful with using stock icons for a typical desktop app than they would with a web app. It's easier to retrofit an icon set into a website (where you’re expected to come u
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by eswat 16y ago
Some games I have in that list aren’t showing up for me in the client.
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by eswat 16y ago
Out of the 102 games I own, only 5 of them can be installed on Mac so far. Good enough for me though. Installing Torchlight, but Steam Cloud didn't transfer my PC characters over.
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by eswat 17y ago
The Invoice Machine has a pretty good interface. Simple yet aesthetically-pleasing: http://invoicemachine.com/ It may not be much of a looker, but I always appreciated how MailChimp manages to make a boring subject like mailing lists fun:
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Embracing the digital book(craigmod.com)
3 points by eswat 17y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 17y ago
Been looking at the MongoDB functions for the past few days. Interesting to see what has changed in them from previous releases.
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Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons(somadesign.ca)
2 points by eswat 17y ago|1 comments
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by eswat 17y ago
This was a very great writeup. Thanks! I’m overzealous with keeping the amount of tags in my markup minimal. The button in this post looks sharp and detailed, but it would be nice to see a comparison with the same button being constructed w
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by eswat 17y ago
Yeah, it’s a great read and reference afterwards. Here’s a companion site for applying the book to the web: http://webtypography.net/toc/
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by eswat 17y ago
Rails 3… and typography (I consider it an important part of copywriting, not just touchy-feely stuff)
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Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Domain name(canon.com)
42 points by eswat 17y ago|54 comments
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by eswat 17y ago
http://searchyc.com/ (assuming it's not blocked also)
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by eswat 17y ago
Here's some screenshots of the new client. New games list: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/new_steam_ui_library.jpg New store site: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/new_steam_ui_store.jpg New in-game overlay and browser: http://dl.dropbox
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New Steam beta replaces Trident/IE with WebKit(store.steampowered.com)
34 points by eswat 17y ago|35 comments
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Photoshop Turns 20 Today(tv.adobe.com)
5 points by eswat 17y ago|2 comments
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On Fear and Faith(infiniteammo.ca)
1 points by eswat 17y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 17y ago
With sites like LinkedIn and Highrise blocked by Barracuda, I think Posterous would have to also bang on some doors to make sure business blogs don't get blocked.
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by eswat 17y ago
"If you were a fruit or vegetable, what would you be?"
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by eswat 17y ago
Apologies for the lack of formatting. Guess I need to reread this message a few more times for my own good. ;) Formatted HTML: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/506504/solving_problems_by_yongfook....
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How many problems does this solution create?(dl.dropbox.com)
56 points by eswat 17y ago|18 comments

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