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by gigawatt 16y ago
I started hitting the Space bar to scroll down (like I always do) and was less than impressed. Only after using the inconvenient and overly subtle nav buttons on the right was I able to see why it was slightly interesting. But finding and u
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I can't wait until my parked car gets flagged by my neighbor that doesn't like me and my insurance rates go up.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Isn't it conceivable that the next social network will start as a place for the younguns to get away from their parents? If you were 15, would you rather be at a party with all your friends and everyone's parents and grandparents and aunts
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Possibly, but just saying "communication" doesn't get across the fact that designers are always working within a myriad of constraints.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I would say design is about problem solving more than straight communication. Here's a great talk from Michael Bierut that kind of touches on what a designer is: http://the99percent.com/videos/6056/michael-bierut-5-secrets...
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by gigawatt 16y ago
"Anathem" by Neal Stephenson is the best book I've read in years. The first 50 pages or so are a slog, but after that I couldn't put it down. "What is the What" by Dave Eggers is also phenomenal.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I agree. The photo on that page serves the same function as white space. It also helps the page feel less like a wall of text and more easily digestible. Plus, one can get the gist of the image without ever actually focusing on it.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Awesome. Only comment I have is that some way to tell how many images there are and where you are in the sequence would be useful.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
as always, you get what you pay for.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Pingdom lets you test load times for everything on your site: http://tools.pingdom.com/
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by gigawatt 17y ago
We use them where I work, a mid-size arts and media non-profit in Brooklyn. Their services are very nice and unique. That's the end of the good news. They charge for EVERYTHING. Need more attribute fields for your users? That'll be $500 for
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Agree completely. The author is getting dangerously close to hypocritical by berating CSSers in the way he hates being berated by them. For me, (mostly) pure CSS is always faster in the long run, but I would never tell another person how to
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I had to check the URL to make sure it didn't end in /thisisajoke. I guess if you got rid of the illustration banner it wouldn't be that bad. Whose idea was it to use My Chemical Romance to market jQuery?
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Said "iPhone Touch" before. Glad to see he fixed it.
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I actually blanked that out, too. I think it's because it's the same size/placement as a standard ad. It's easily ignorable.
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I'm fairly forgiving of typos in blog posts, but to use the wrong product name in the first sentence, about 75 pixels away from the correct product name in the title, is a little too much.
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Exactly. Many people aren't choosing to still use IE6 - the choice is being made for them. I work onsite in a non-profit sometimes, and they are all still on IE6 until the IT dept decides it's safe/worth it to upgrade. (EDIT: And I do my pa
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Perhaps adolescents these days are smart enough to read BOTH The Catcher in the Rye and a contemporary equivalent, and compare how the specifics have changed, but the feelings and emotional driving forces are still very similar. It's not th
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by gigawatt 18y ago
that was definitely a surprising View Source...
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I just think that a valid case for the shortcomings of CSS can be made without even mentioning tables. And to be honest, now that I really know CSS, it is easier than tables. Tables might be easier when you're dealing
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Great points. I always cringe when I read a "CSS is awful!" article that even mentions table-based layout. The mere thought of going back to building (and more importantly, MAINTAINING) sites with nested tables makes me want to become a far
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by gigawatt 18y ago
RIAA - Ridding the Internet of its Awesome Abilities
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by gigawatt 18y ago
building (or fixing) something with my hands definitely feeds a slightly different area of my brain than building a website. i think it's part of the reason why sketching is so important for designers - to take you out of your head for a pe
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Equally apropos of nothing, I saw his tagline and decided to never read anything on his site. Marketing yourself as an alcoholic pothead programmer seems a strange choice. Perhaps I judge too soon?
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I can't for the life of me understand why SoundExchange thinks that charging exorbitant rates that force all web streaming music sites out of business will help its artists make more money. 8/100 of a cent x millions of songs played is infi
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Introducing SQL Buddy – Web based MySQL administration(sqlbuddy.com)
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I'm in the middle of learning PHP with plans to learn a framework afterwards. I had pretty much decided on CodeIgniter since I'm such a big fan of ExpressionEngine, and EE 2.0 will be based on CI. But Kohana definitely looks interesting - b
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by gigawatt 18y ago
For me, it's almost all referrals from past clients or peers. I realize that doesn't really answer your question, though. Sometimes I check http://www.artypapers.com/jobpile/ and http://joblighted.com/ . They aggregate a bunch of job boa
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by gigawatt 18y ago
Well, I guess they're going on the assumption that no one would purchase a more expensive shirt when a cheaper one was available. I see your point, though, and it does kind of negate what I said.
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by gigawatt 18y ago
I think that's the second step in the original link.

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