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by gb 17y ago
That's an interesting way of putting it, I hadn't really thought about it that way before. Most of the projects I work on use transitions extensively in their interfaces mainly for the aesthetic value but I hadn't considered the potential u
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Is Flash Good For iPhone?(edge-online.com)
1 points by gb 17y ago|1 comments
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by gb 17y ago
You're incredibly lucky, I usually have to restart Flash a few times a day and actually I spend more time in coding in Eclipse/FDT than using Flash itself. It crashes occasionally after publishing or test-movieing, but far worse is as soon
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by gb 17y ago
Exactly. I'm an "interaction designer", basically a combination of the two; I design and code the UI. Often there is someone directing the overall UX, but the nitty gritty specifics of the UI functionality are my department.
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by gb 17y ago
You can still do it, and without a Y combinator or anything like that too: var ninja = { yell: function () { var yellLocal = function(n) { return n > 0 ? yellLocal(n-1) + "a" : "hiy"; } return yellLocal; }()
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by gb 17y ago
Wow, that's really interesting, I never realised that's where "Ye" came from. I suppose a similar thing happened with yogh (ȝ) - instead of being replaced with something less ambiguous it became z in some cases, but is still pronounced the
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by gb 17y ago
Interesting article. There was an something on the BBC News website a while back with two sides of a similar argument, only one side was written in a style that was supposed to be easier to read; it certainly wasn't for me as it was written
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by gb 17y ago
Ah, okay. I usually use the second argument of beginFill for specifying the alpha. Flash has quite a few quirks with Number vs int vs uint (it tends to switch types internally) so it could well be something to do with that. In fact, 0xFFFFF
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by gb 17y ago
Can you explain a bit more what you mean about drawing white shapes? I've never had a problem: graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF); graphics.drawRect(10, 10, 100, 100); graphics.endFill();
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by gb 17y ago
I have about 16k and it's almost unusable. From what I hear the PC version performance is much worse than the Mac version though.
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by gb 17y ago
There's more to it than that even: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
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Canvas vs Flash(brendandawes.posterous.com)
1 points by gb 17y ago|0 comments
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by gb 17y ago
I don't think AS3 and JS will merge anymore, the ES4 proposal was ditched in favour of continued evolution of ES3.1. As an aside, I'm not sure what the article was talking about with those examples that are "not possible" in Flash, as I see
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by gb 17y ago
I don't think the article is directed at people worrying about their own BMI, but when it is used by say, adoption agencies or insurance companies, etc. I seem to remember a case here in the UK where a couple weren't allowed to adopt becaus
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by gb 17y ago
Mindfulness isn't really flow, as it basically means paying attention to what's going on in the current moment - a more general awareness of what's going on with your thinking, body, and surroundings. To concentrate on an abstract object is
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Autism and Programmers(hossgifford.com)
54 points by gb 17y ago|27 comments
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by gb 17y ago
I can't say I'm surprised really, surely it's just another example of confirmation bias? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
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by gb 17y ago
That's good to know, when my 160GB eventually dies I don't want to start leaving stuff off my iPod. Only have about 15k tracks on it, but that still uses 130GB. I use it as a portable HDD sometimes so it's always nice to have more space for
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by gb 17y ago
I'm not sure if there's much truth to it, but I read that the BBC news headlines are so short as there is some central system that provides them to Ceefax too (which can only display 24 rows of 40 characters). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by gb 17y ago
There's a Reaktor ensemble based on Life: http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=r5library&#38... (see "NEWSCOOL") It doesn't sound too great actually, or at least it's quite obvious to the ear once you've heard it being used once
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by gb 17y ago
It's not always possible in Flash, as SWFs published for newer players are sometimes completely incompatible with older versions of the player - usually it's done with JS on the page it's embedded on. Besides, this is just an experiment - I
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by gb 17y ago
It's a D major pentatonic scale, I think.
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by gb 18y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it, not something that would have occurred to me at all.
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by gb 18y ago
Clean and creative aren't mutually exclusive though. It's perhaps too obvious an example, but Apple's design is on the whole pretty clean - and to my eyes at least looks like a lot more care was given to it. One of my main problem's with Go
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by gb 18y ago
That's worrying, I thought one of the advantages of SSDs is they're supposed to fail gradually...
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by gb 18y ago
This is how Quake Live works too - after a small download you enter a 10 minute warmup/skill-determining match against a bot, the rest of the maps carry on downloading while you play. In my case everything had finished downloading by the ti
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by gb 18y ago
As others have mentioned, you don't strictly need that much maths to be a programmer - and almost none for web development, for instance. It does depend a lot on what you do. I'm an interactive designer, and certainly not a good mathematici
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by gb 18y ago
Unfortunately it's completely unusable on my machine (longest uptime: ~15 minutes), but it seems that I'm alone in that experience. I also couldn't work out how to set up my home network the way it used to run (sharing Internet connection v
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by gb 18y ago
I was on CompuServe back then (95 or 96 anyway), at the time I never even opened the web browser - my time online was spent in the CompuServe app looking at the board/chatroom/portal type things that it used to serve. Strangely I can still
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by gb 18y ago
I'm surprised how many of the replies here assume he's being serious!

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