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by flyosity 14y ago
My wife and I had our first child at the end of April, and the first few weeks of her life we had absolutely 0 time outside of caring for her and basic care/hygiene for ourselves. Absolutely nothing can prepare you for taking care of a newb
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by flyosity 14y ago
The original person who noticed this was a writer from 9to5mac and he made his own more accurate graphic a few days before this post was written. http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/13/nielsen-needs-to-work-on-their...
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by flyosity 14y ago
Why is the drop shadow at an angle other than straight down? It stands out like a sore thumb within the rest of iOS and makes the button design look sloppy. I appreciate the usefulness of a button class like this but the default design just
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by flyosity 14y ago
The video still shows a lot of lag between when the stylus touches the glass and the pixels in the app show the pen trail. This needs to be heavily optimized or else it will make their hardware a lot of engineering work for nothing and us
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by flyosity 14y ago
It's an Oracle-focused database blog so it was probably a reference to what his articles are usually about. (Just a guess.)
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by flyosity 14y ago
Back in November, Ryan Carson revealed that they were earning ~$150,000 in revenue per month and growing rapidly. Venture capital money + revenue money = lots of money to pay benefits. http://mixergy.com/treehouse-ryan-carson-interview/
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by flyosity 14y ago
The only time I don't use Photoshop is when I'm doing a super simple design (very flat, no graphics) but other than that I'm pushing pixels in Photoshop first before I jump into HTML & CSS.
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by flyosity 14y ago
If you're trying to get tableview cells in iOS to "resize themselves" you're not quite getting how they're supposed to be built if you want them to scroll fast. The general way to achieve fast scrolling of complex, graphical cells is to pre
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by flyosity 14y ago
So the site is http://designthencode.com/ , I collected email addresses before the site launched and now have about 6k on the list of people I'll email when a new tutorial is live. I cross-promote it on my blog http://flyosity.com/ and o
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by flyosity 14y ago
Great article, and I'm glad other people are doing well writing and selling articles/ebooks/books on their own. I sell iPhone interface design/development tutorials and they've done really well, coming close to making a livable full-time in
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by flyosity 14y ago
As someone who is pretty much totally checked out of Facebook and logs in maybe once a month, this might actually get me to check out my timeline more. I love browsing it visually, awesome job!
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by flyosity 14y ago
I think the name Pocket is absolutely perfect. It lends itself to a really clear and understandable marketing slogan ("Don't have time to read it now? Just put it in your Pocket!") but also leaves room for how the company might grow and exp
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think there may be something to this. I'm used to programming in PHP and Objective-C and going to Ruby just throws my brain for a loop. I just can't grok it, and reading someone else's Ruby code confuses the hell out of me. I'm more of a
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by flyosity 15y ago
From people I've talked to in my family and others (non-technical folks) the idea of purchasing an iPad when it first launched wasn't incredibly alluring for anyone who's not an early adopter. Regular buyers like to wait until 1) reviews ar
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by flyosity 15y ago
Due to how they implemented the "panels" interface, swiping left-to-right on a row will pull the entire panel, so they had to implement it as only right-to-left to expose the actions. Kinda annoying, but it was a design decision forced on t
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think 37signals won't do that for the same reason Apple won't make a $399 laptop, they don't want to be in that business. That's not the business they're in, and knowing what business you're in and not in is extremely important. I'm sure
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by flyosity 15y ago
I totally disagree, $20/mo for a service like Basecamp is not expensive. I pay $20-50/mo per month for a whole host of services (hosting, backup storage, payment processing, etc.) and don't really think twice about them since they're busine
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by flyosity 15y ago
Many points in this article are wrong or at least misleading. There will be no 2x zoom button on apps that are not retina-optimized, they'll be scaled automatically like iPhone apps without retina graphics. The 2x button on iPads was for ru
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by flyosity 15y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how much effort are you talking about here? Skipping @synthesize on properties or using literal syntax where/when it makes sense wouldn't cause much additional cognitive load and you don't have to convert old
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'll be impressed with Pinwheel if it makes money. I'm impressed when any startup has actual revenues (revenues such that a gigantic user base increase is a good thing because you have money to pay for more EC2 instances) and you don't have
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by flyosity 15y ago
Hey there, Shetland Islands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_Islands
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by flyosity 15y ago
Can we just stop the horizontal scrolling on websites already? Users hate it (countless usability studies), it's ergonomically difficult to perform it consistently with a mouse, and it always seems "too clever" like someone was trying to th
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by flyosity 15y ago
Yes, but I never use it and I locked the security down so tight I don't even know if I have permission to post on my own wall anymore.
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by flyosity 15y ago
You know what's annoying as hell? Climate control buttons so it takes either a ton of taps in succession to drastically change the temperature or one tap-and-hold. In my older Infiniti it has buttons to change the temperature and it's inc
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Making Rounded Rectangles Look Great(flyosity.com)
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by flyosity 15y ago
If the 100,000,000th uploaded file was actually named Startup-Revenue-Forecast.ppt or 2011-Tax-Return.pdf I'm fairly certain that the name or contents wouldn't have been mentioned. I think the fact that it was cat.jpg spawned the idea of re
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by flyosity 15y ago
But don't forget: the best thing about having a personal site is not having to care what others think about it.
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by flyosity 15y ago
To change the sidebar color, you can go into the default Theme directory, find the new global theme file and update it manually. It's all JSON, so just search the file for "sidebar" and you should find the RGB string to play with.
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by flyosity 15y ago
As someone who was always a huge fan of Soda, and is the creator of the new theme, thanks a lot for the kind words!
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by flyosity 15y ago
Ha, this exact issue bit us in the ass a few months ago. We were working on some streaming Twitter utilities (put in a username and we fire off some events if a mention or a RT of them occurs) and just to test the scalability of our service

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