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by flyosity 15y ago
I completely agree and came here to say something similar. I'm honestly perplexed by "startups" that build an app that seem to introduce no new processes or technology (a reminder about a release date? a list of movie trailers? tweet out ab
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by flyosity 15y ago
I know a lot of people who hate GWT, and it mostly boils down to GWT "abstracting away" the web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) such that you build web applications with no regard for the web as a medium. You can't really build software for a platf
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by flyosity 15y ago
Jeez, Eric, next time please tell me what you really think :) 1) If someone retweets a link, it typically means they agree with the link or think it's important enough to share with their network. Not sure what's wrong with that assumption.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Is it really done using GWT? Of the web engineer friends I know at Google, most hate GWT and try to avoid using it whenever possible. Most Google products don't use it.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I've been using MT since 2003 and never thought it was terrible. Publishing times (full-site publishing) was always slow but publishing an entry only took a few seconds. The new Melody project forked MT and updated the UI, it looks great no
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by flyosity 15y ago
Honest question from an iPhone developer... I know many people on HN are rooting for walled gardens to fail (App Store) and for openness to triumph. Do these same people willingly use Steam and think it's great? Isn't Steam's delivery platf
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by flyosity 15y ago
Unless they can "start implementing" tens of billions of dollars sitting around to use for pre-purchasing heavily discounted parts for their devices to drive profit margins high as a kite and low as a rock for competitors, I don't think the
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by flyosity 15y ago
Seems like this is bought and paid for by Google and will be teaching an Android-centric view of mobile development. This is obviously their choice, but if they don't include any type of Objective-C and Cocoa development in their curriculum
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by flyosity 15y ago
The only part of Twitter's native apps for iOS that use a UIWebview are when rendering a single tweet since in that specific use case, it's simpler and faster to render links that way rather than deal with rendering it via Core Text. Every
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by flyosity 15y ago
Facebook is up to something really big. Awhile ago they brought on Brandon Walkin ( http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/ ) who is, arguably, one of the most detailed-oriented user interface designers on the planet. He's also a very talented C
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by flyosity 15y ago
My testing is done on a remote server but I keep my repo locally. Whenever I want to push it up to my server I hit a key combo in Sublime Text that I've assigned to run rsync to push files over. It usually takes about .5-1.5 seconds which,
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iCloud Requires Cookies(icloud.com)
2 points by flyosity 15y ago|2 comments
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by flyosity 15y ago
He's a well-known figure in the indie Mac & iPhone communities and is a co-founder of Tapulous and also worked on Delicious Library for Mac. If anyone in this community could do a good job in this fight, it's Mike.
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by flyosity 15y ago
As an iOS developer, this is probably the best comparison between iOS and Android development that I've read. I'm pretty scared of Eclipse and the slow-as-hell emulator doesn't sound fun, but coding layouts that don't involve lots of "how t
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by flyosity 15y ago
The text rendering updates (it looks perfect and pixel-for-pixel the same as TextMate now) and the fullscreen mode in Lion make this an awesome upgrade for me. I can't believe how fast Jon kicks out his builds because they have huge new fea
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by flyosity 15y ago
Totally, absolutely agree. Apple's website actually forces antialiased text through that CSS rule. I wrote a userstyle to force it back to how it should look.
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by flyosity 15y ago
This is absolutely terrible for accessibility. Screen readers will not handle these buttons properly leading to a significantly more difficult experience. James Edwards actually talked about this at The Highland Fling conference a few weeks
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by flyosity 15y ago
Some really beautiful, pixel-perfect design across the site and the app. Did they do it in-house or hire an outside contractor/agency?
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by flyosity 15y ago
Both are interesting in their own right, but I think it was a little disingenuous to not announce the previous-year comparison right in the title or the first paragraph. They really buried the lede in the article.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think mimicry exists across various mediums, but the starkness of it on the App Store is pretty intriguing. Most times there's not even a new gameplay mechanic, just new artwork and a new name.
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by flyosity 15y ago
The most interesting (and possibly neglected) piece of information that I've found when analyzing the economics & business of the App Store is just how many apps are a slightly different take on an app that was popular a few years ago.
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by flyosity 15y ago
Haha, damnit Bucky, every time I post a job to HN you always gotta comment :)
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by flyosity 15y ago
Durham, NC (fulltime, remote is possible) Bronto Software: awesome marketing & analytics web software used by companies like Trek, Armani, Roku, Etsy, Timex and tons more. Looking for engineers to work on BIG data and BIG scalability sc
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by flyosity 15y ago
I've been using it for awhile as well and what's totally nuts is that the entire interface (colors, images, tabs, scrollbars, buttons) are all described in a CSS-like language inside a configuration file. I actually changed all the PNGs out
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by flyosity 15y ago
Ha, very nice. At my work we built a complex node-based UI for marketing segmentation and I rolled that from scratch using a similar architecture to this (1 canvas element per curve, jQUI for dragging) http://cl.ly/7tpT
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by flyosity 15y ago
I whipped up a new design for the top bar and posted the CSS for it in a new HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2709736
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Restyled Google Top Bar
3 points by flyosity 15y ago|0 comments
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by flyosity 15y ago
But at least I get paid lots of money to talk and think about this stuff ;)
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by flyosity 15y ago
I think the dark grey bar across the top is a big problem for a few UX & psychological reasons. First, it's mentally oppressive. The black bar at the top is like working in a room with a low ceiling painted black all day. It makes you f
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by flyosity 15y ago
Lukas is one of the preeminent thinkers in the field of user experience & user interface design and if this book is anything like his blog, it'll be a must-buy for anyone working on software that other people use. Congrats!

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