i_am_ralpht

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by i_am_ralpht 6y ago
vehicle.software | pacific timezone | full-time | software engineer vehicle.software is creating a new infotainment platform to redefine the in-car experience. We are focused on bringing excellent user experience to electric vehicles: beaut
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by i_am_ralpht 7y ago
Totally agree; it's really fun to hear how things like autocorrect evolved over the development of the iPhone, and really how the designers and engineers thought about their work at the time. It's also nuts to think that so much o
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by i_am_ralpht 11y ago
When the basic essential interactions like "select" feel natural and unambiguous -- holding your hand in place for Kinect wasn't a good replacement for "click"/"tap".
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by i_am_ralpht 11y ago
The recall problem was caused by software -- where are the software gods who write machine code instead of using compilers? ;)
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
By some wonderful coincidence I need to implement antialiased line rendering this afternoon. Previously I'd done the 6-triangle method (but I also rasterized any kind of path with all sorts of fancy fills, and it made more sense for th
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Shadow DOM is a DOM structure that's hidden under a tag (for example, the <video> tag has a Shadow DOM which provides the controls and timecode UI). Virtual DOM is (typically) a pure JavaScript object-based DOM representation tha
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
The license is Apache 2, so go for it! Thanks for the pointers on uiscript and uilang; I'll check them out. GSS is also on my list :).
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Thanks! Regarding your point on declarative vs imperative I think it depends on your pain threshold--you can't accomplish everything you want with CSS layout, but that doesn't mean not very useful. Crucially CSS has the escape hat
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Thanks!. For now the source of the examples is the best reference (and is commented with the intent of the constraints): https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/master... I will do some proper d
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Thanks! It's a really fun problem space to work in. As I mentioned, this work was borne out of my frustration from writing a bunch of touch handlers (taking days/weeks for the tricky ones, to get all the weird wobbles out, and do
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Show HN: Slalom – creating declarative touch interactions with constraints(iamralpht.github.io)
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Smalltalk as a live environment blurs the boundaries between runtime and editing code. There's a video on ThingLab[1], a constraint solver, from 1978 where Alan Borning draws constraints graphically and then switches view to show the c
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Not me; I want a thin retina laptop with long battery life...
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
I wonder what the incremental process and cost for building these will be? Intel used a silicon interposer to support a large amount of eDRAM in the recent IRIS graphics chips. It'd be amazing to have an ultra wide memory bus on mobile
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
What's the status of QtWebKit now? It was removed from WebKit trunk about a year ago...
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Where is the original open source release from Silicon Graphics which Yahoo based this work on? Did they ever make one?
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Is that a language feature or a runtime/library feature though?
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
What algorithms are there for inferring the calculation? I'm playing around with a tool for building touch gestures visually, and I have some problems that look a bit like that (want to infer a function from some examples) but I don&#x
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Nice spring stuff, I hadn't seen it written up like that before. I did my own in JS recently (also based on solving the damped spring equation as a 2nd order ode; I copied my solution out of a physics textbook): https://gith
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
It's Intel's money; they've been rumored to be doing whole BOM subsidization (so the x86 is almost zero, and the non-Intel components are subsidized too). This is how INTC booked a $1B loss on $1M revenue for mobile in the mo
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Next stop Windows! Then they can use all the modern C++ constructs they like...
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't try any polyfills; I had a few hours on a weekend and compatibility wasn't on my list. I did do that for a previous project[1] and it was more work than I had time for. I'd love it if Firefox included a CSSMat
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
My bad, I updated it with APSLv2. If that's no good then send me an email (my address is in the page) and we can figure something out. Happy hacking!
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Circle masks are part of Material Design, but I haven't seen anything with draggable Floating Action Buttons (prior to making this). Obviously they've had a draggable circle for the insecure lock screen for a while, but (to me) it
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Here's the source https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/master... although it's not terribly beautiful...
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
I love the way Material Design looks, but I think there's still a way to go with how it responds to input. I made a prototype last weekend of a more fluid Floating Action Button: http://iamralpht.github.io/fab
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Maybe the business week puff piece on Sundar (which somewhat atypically spent a page complaining about Andy)?
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
Funny how everyone was doing the General Magic-style UI (where you had to navigate down the street to the post office to send email) back then.
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
I have to imagine that $150 blows the SS10 away massively (yesterday's Nexus Player is $99 with Bay Trail silicon with a solid GPU...) -- the speed of commoditization of hardware this cycle has been pretty amazing. The SGI guys had a s
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by i_am_ralpht 12y ago
The Cray guys had their own funny culture as well, though. Cray was incredibly process-based, whereas SGI was entirely seat-of-the-pants product driven. Merging those two cultures was incredibly painful; ultimately the Cray guys won out and

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