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   by fortes 16y ago

   US is almost twice the size (1/6 of which is Alaska), but the EEA has 60% more people, which is probably a better measure of jobs.
2. 62.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   I use ;;
3. 63.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   > A financially stable newspaper gets around 75-80% of its gross revenue from advertisements. In the glory days, a solid 30-40% of revenue was from classified ads, which were _way_ overpriced, but the only game in town. You may find thi
4. 64.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   Are you in the US? Which state?
5. 65.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   I've just about reached that frustration point as well. Any regrets with the move?
6. 66.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   Definitely -- but the algorithms are well-known here, right?
7. 67.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   Lack of standards haven't stopped browsers from implementing features in the past. True hyphenation requires: 0. A property to enable or disable hyphenation 1. Hyphenation algorithm (mostly a solved problem) 2. Hyphenation dictionaries: One
8. 68.▲
   by fortes 16y ago

   No, the challenge here is typically with having a high-quality hyphenation dictionary.
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   by fortes 16y ago

   For selfish reasons, I love that it's 1024x600 instead of 1024x768. Means that all those hard-coded magazine layouts will break :) I think we'll continue to see a lot of diversity in screen dimensions, which will continue to be a design ch
10. 70.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    I'm currently into vim/screen, but actually thinking of jumping ship to emacs/tmux [mostly due to orgmode]. Anyone ever done the same? From the looks of it, the screen to tmux transition will be the easy part :)
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    by fortes 16y ago

    Thanks for the pointer to Zim, it looks quite interesting. Could actually make for a pretty good journal tool. Very clean data format. Now if I could only use Vim bindings in there :) Emacs gets support via GTK ... sigh, I guess I'll have t
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    by fortes 16y ago

    I've been looking at emacs orgmode lately, and thinking that it'd something great to sync up to SimpleNote (I love the iPhone app). With an API, this all becomes doable... I do wish there were a decent notes App on Ubuntu that synced. (Is T
13. 73.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Thanks for doing this. Any idea if they'll ever make it into the official reps? I've avoided installing much from PPA (never sure about security / stability there), but this may break my habit.
14. 74.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Tried to search from NYC to Panama city in Feb: "sorry, no results could be found" Do I need real airport codes?
15. 75.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Issue is that webkit begins loading any image it encounters, even if not connected to the DOM tree. These loaders don't avoid the HTTP requests.
16. 76.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Have you looked at ditz? http://ditz.rubyforge.org/
17. 77.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Thanks!
18. 78.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    > Does the content producer have to determine in advance what counts as important content, i.e. what content stays on screen when space is limited? Currently, there's a way to specify that content is optional, or has alternate represent
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    by fortes 16y ago

    > However, is a column/page based layout really the best we can do with modern UIs? This is a great question, with no clear answer yet (requires more experimentation in my opinion). One issue I've run into when designing for this is tha
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    by fortes 16y ago

    I would love it if something that simple worked. CSS column support is fairly primitive: You can't do columns with different heights, or have images that span columns. Also, there's no native way of doing pagination, so which cripples colum
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    by fortes 16y ago

    I'm a terrible writer. I wrote a JS library that lays out text and images in pages and columns. Wrapped that into some decent UI for reading easily, and we're helping clients use that in order to create better digital publications. Is that
22. 82.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    No PR firm. We're just lucky that the CEO of our client used to be the head of Newsweek, so anything he does is a story.
23. 83.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Hey all, I'm very excited to show off what I've been working for what feels like forever. I'm very passionate about improving the state of reading online. It's amazing how many sites are actively user-hostile, it's like they are daring you
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    Introducing Treesaver, my latest project (mentioned in today's NYTimes)(fortes.com)

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25. 85.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    I can't reproduce this -- can't get my Google Apps & Gmail account linked (this is something I actually want, I'm the admin anyway)
26. 86.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Using the API, you could now build a decent CRM that integrates directly with your contacts, no? Or perhaps just sync existing data.
27. 87.▲
    by fortes 16y ago

    Agreed. I've been using the compiler for months, slowly adding type annotations as I went, but not really "getting" a few key concepts. Investing in the book was worthwhile, especially since it's the only source for documentation for certai
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    by fortes 16y ago

    I love this type of stuff. The project I'm working on right now is all about having a better experience than the iPad magazine apps, while using HTML/JS instead of proprietary tech. Here's a video demo of some of the layout, for the curious
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    by fortes 16y ago

    One of the things I love about Google's Closure Compiler is that it takes care of these optimizations for you. If you want, you can write in an explicit readable style and still get any performance benefits.
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    by fortes 16y ago

    Clearly, but you might relax a little if you believe that drivers are more cautious due to the insurance laws.