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by ja2ke 17y ago
True, you haven't been conned, you've just made two shitty hiring decisions in a row -- paying sone designer or developer who didn't build you a good site, and then paying a snake oil salesman to try and make your troubles disappear.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Calling them "screenshots" and using the word "development" both in the present tense when talking to potential customers is telling them implicitly that not only do you have the skills and competency to deliver this functional piece of sof
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Tweetie 2 is one of the few apps with reasonably robust settings exposed to turn off or selectively use auto rotation.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
You might be a fantastic writer, but without a good editor, and (in the case of one-offs like books) probably a good publisher, nobody will see it, or know it. The analogy of editor/publisher to aggregators/search engines seems pretty fair.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Siggraph is home to some crazy presentations. I'm always surprised by the more impressive videos and papers, but on the other hand, never that surprised, just because it's always only one step crazier than the crazy thing from last year's
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by ja2ke 17y ago
I wish this article'd gotten a little more love around here. "I could write a script to do it in like 20 seconds" is a common thematic refrain around these parts when talking about adding new functionality or launching a site, and this arti
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by ja2ke 17y ago
... maybe that's all it is. And?
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by ja2ke 17y ago
I was going to tell this exact story, including PHPBB and a Brazilian script kiddie taking down a ton of sites. I wasn't the one who installed the BB though. I just lost a bunch of data. Was it the LFNetwork server? :)
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by ja2ke 17y ago
We constantly joke about making "Beach Sniper" but I don't see that happening.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
To attract a truly formidable user base, though, (as in, beyond college students and technophiles) I think they need a killer app which has nothing to do with "a file." Unfortunately, I think that standard computer/web users know or care le
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by ja2ke 17y ago
"Their existence is one of the lamer aspects of SV culture that rarely gets mentioned." On the contrary, I think that that's one of laymen's first assumptions about C-level positions at startups. I think that most people hear "tech startup"
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Apple doesn't seem to have this problem with MacOS X -- my mom uses the same exact operating system for Word, email, and posting photos, that I use for graphic design and web dev, that my programmer friends use for writing desktop and web a
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Eventually the Telltale catalog will go Mac OS X native, but we haven't had the internal resources to do it yet, and our one attempt at doing the ports through an outside house went south in a fairly frustrating way. Hopefully sometime in t
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by ja2ke 17y ago
I'd love to see this built out with a larger ball (as proposed in the video), so one could play in a standing position, moving the ball around just like the Prince does in-game. Great stuff, though!
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Why would someone want to copy the native OS UI for a web app? That will just make people think your app is poorly made, when the controls look identical to those from their mobile device's native OS, but function in a hobbled-via-Webkit-li
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by ja2ke 17y ago
His general reasoning (eBay's success was due to it being used as an entertainment product more than a purely commerce-driven product) was fresh enough to me, and got me thinking enough, that I didn't mind reading what was just a quick edit
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Going borderless like that is extraordinarily striking for US currency, but I bet that would be the first thing to go, as it's expensive to reliably print borderless designs in sheets and then cut them up, unless the designs tile perfectly.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
Current US currency seems to. :( US bills look more and more like the newsletter your dentist puts out with every revision.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
"We'll be introducing better ways to discover and follow interesting accounts as we release more features in this space." Twitter Pro, $4.95/mo -- "See More™"?
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by ja2ke 17y ago
The post was about the Internet granting people easy access to pieces of the past which are easy to forget or generalize or overlook when they're not readily right in front of your face. "I sometimes wish that the New York Times had run thi
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by ja2ke 17y ago
It's frustrating that search includes deleted tweets. It's depressingly often for me that a Twitter search results page has at least one duplicate result because someone posted twice to fix a typo.
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by ja2ke 17y ago
"This is why I generally forbid the use of the word 'just' when people are making feature requests." Agreed! Keeping "just" out of conversations involving feature requests is amazingly hard to do, but in my experience it works. Laying down
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by ja2ke 17y ago
agreed dafont is a great resource. it's one of the few free font sites which is actually well thought out (including things like letting you filter whether or not a font set includes just English language characters, accent characters for E
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by ja2ke 17y ago
It's cool that, according to the article, the BMW ad is by a local dealer, in response to Audi's national campaign.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
s/torrent downloaders/mac users
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by ja2ke 18y ago
You hate when clients have an idea? I think it depends on the client. Someone having ideas is fine -- I like that a lot in fact. You can get some good collaborative brainstorming out of it, and it often gives me insight into how the client
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Do you only read articles by famous people?
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Replace every instance of "iPhone" with "Macintosh" and you've also to a large degree explained the continued success of small Mac shareware houses like Panic and Delicious Monster.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
While the article is written in a slightly gratuitous tone, I think it was intended to be instructional/informative to people who are clearly struggling to understand how semantic markup works, more than admonishing, scandalized, or dismiss
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Nice to see something admit that, yes, div hell does exist and div/css based layout isn't intrinsically better -- you have to actuallyactually bother to do it right to get worthwhile results. Also nice to see it written out that there is i

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