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by harryf 12y ago
To me it's really that Wordpress developers / community are not taking mobile seriously. Poorly mobile optimized themes are just a symptom of the problem. The consequence is a generation of Mobile developers are ignoring Wordpress
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by harryf 12y ago
Sorry to rain on this party but... Wordpress is failing on mobile. Most of the themes are poorly optimized for mobile. For example open http://wordpress.org/news on your phone - there's so much mobile fail happening he
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by harryf 12y ago
What drives me nuts about Google Analytics is their foot-dragging on mobile. Despite the mobile version of Google Analytics, trying to do anything meaningful, like analyse app retention, it's a huge pain. All the newer players to mobil
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by harryf 12y ago
Holy SEO Fail Batman... Google only returning ~ 19 pages ( site:c2.fed.wiki.org * ) vs. 80K from c2.com
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by harryf 12y ago
It's worth listening to what Luke Wroblewski (the designer who coined the term "mobile first") has to say about hamburger menus... http://uxim15.uie.com/videos/luke-wroblewski (Jump to 26mins although th
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by harryf 12y ago
Is that OS Meego ?
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by harryf 12y ago
Yes and there's the difference between training someone to kill quickly and efficiently for a military objective and training someone to slowly inflict cruel forms of extreme suffering on another human over and extended period of time.
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by harryf 12y ago
OK agreed. Perhaps that should have read "the best argument for fence sitters on why we need to clean this up is ..." because a disturbing percentage of Americans seem to believe torture was justified http://www.washing
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by harryf 12y ago
The biggest problem when your nation tortures people is you've trained people to torture; you've created institutionalized psychopaths. What do you do with them when their mission ends? Are they properly supported back into societ
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by harryf 12y ago
>>Benefit #1: Portability > You know that a technology has got serious problems when the best thing you can say about it is "well, it is at least preinstalled everywhere"! ... plus it's not even true. For any collect
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by harryf 12y ago
What I've seen with my kids (under 10) is when they get an hour of phone or tablet, after they have to give it up again, they become very aggressive and behave in a manner which is comparable to someone with a chemical addiction. That
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by harryf 12y ago
And why no "Sign-in with Github" ?
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by harryf 12y ago
Don't forget that Union Carbide was responsible for the disaster, who have their HQ in Houston.
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What we learnt from Yo ... by copying it(github.com)
3 points by harryf 12y ago|1 comments
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by harryf 12y ago
Interesting but "Tracker must be at least 5 characters long" is a bit of a problem. How to track something like "Yo" for the Yo App or "Gaza" for the current unrest there?
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by harryf 12y ago
> Supported Operating Systems > Windows 7.x > Windows 8.x Is that really the way to launch a successful game these days? No consoles. No tablets. No smartphones.
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by harryf 13y ago
Not possible. Other languages have features to prevent this.
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by harryf 13y ago
Meanwhile another interesting read - http://jeffdechambeau.com/friending-fast-and-slow.html
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by harryf 13y ago
Would be really interesting to put a number on "users hate change". Based on my own experience at a company where we actually researched this stuff, the number I would forward is 30%. Given an existing user base, on average 30% wi
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Map of the Swiss tech startup ecosystem(swissstartups.org)
1 points by harryf 13y ago|0 comments
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by harryf 13y ago
Very useful! Would be good if you could adjust the time-range with respect to the category i.e. for a popular category, 1 day of news is great but something like jokes - currently there's just an empty page - http://newshack
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by harryf 13y ago
And here... > The reason why refreshing your browser breaks HTML5 mode is that all the routes in your AngularJS application are not real. Release[Board] doesn't have a /releases page. AngularJS is using some clever JavaScript t
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by harryf 13y ago
> Were they able to secure such a treaty, why would there be any expectation that it'd be meaningful? I would be very meaningful in a symbolic sense. Germany and most of Western Europe are used to seeing themselves as close allies o
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by harryf 13y ago
All privacy questions aside, I quit Facebook simply because every time I used it, the "after taste" was that I'd wasted my time and made myself stupider in the process. The good news is "real life" still works perfe
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by harryf 13y ago
You do have love "trying to play it down" reporting like this though... > The NSA's targets appeared to be individuals suspected of links to terrorism, as well as those tied to French business or politics, Le Monde wrote.
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by harryf 13y ago
Problem is: if you have a job in the DEA or your business in running prisons, you probably don't view the war on drugs as a broken business model at all. You'd even go so far as to hire lobbyists to keep it going...
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by harryf 13y ago
Sadly I get the feeling the memo won't help reduce the misinformation effect of the film. Unlikely the mainstream press outlets will even pick this up. Perhaps negative IMDB reviews is the best that can be hoped for
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by harryf 13y ago
The problem was solved. By Summify. Then twitter bought them and that was the end of that.
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by harryf 13y ago
How does this compare with Cheerio? ( see discussion on HN from yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6273905 )
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Would you prefer an algorithm as your boss?(medium.com)
1 points by harryf 13y ago|0 comments

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