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by jbail 14y ago
Think about sites like Hacker News or Craigslist. They are arguably not very "tasty" designs, but they are simple and they work. That's an important point to digest. Just because something looks nice doesn't mean it's effective. It may be t
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by jbail 14y ago
I basically think Bootstrap is cool, but let me play devil's advocate because a couple things bother me about it. At this point in its adoption curve, using Bootstrap is amateur. It says I have no idea how to style a webpage. Yes, it makes
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by jbail 14y ago
Agree with a small correction: The first USPTO satellite office opened was in Detroit. After that, the USPTO announced plans to open offices in Denver, San Jose and Dallas/Fort Worth. http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_20981965/denver-g
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by jbail 14y ago
I think "over exaggerated sense of self importance" is far from the crux of this issue. Developers are pissed off at Twitter for two main reasons: 1) Developers helped build Twitter as it exists today. With their hard work, sleepless nights
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by jbail 14y ago
As a web developer, I enthusiastically welcome native date and time pickers in web browsers...but boy are they ugly! Maybe you disagree and think they look great. So, let's both get what we want and I'll apply some custom styling to get the
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by jbail 14y ago
This is why peer reviews are so important. Simply running code through JSLint and then making sure its formatted correctly is only step one.
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by jbail 14y ago
TV/Radio/Google Adwords/etc is drastically different from FB's advertising model. The key point, as Cuban says in this article, is that companies spend real resources in trying to acquire "Likes" on FB. People build entire FB tabs. Curate w
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by jbail 14y ago
I don't think this was well played by Google or intentional at all. The Google Play website is still down. Tarnishing your brand in front of current and potential customers just to try out a guerrilla marketing tactic is just plain stupid.
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by jbail 14y ago
The Google Play store is completely down now.
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by jbail 14y ago
It sold out way quicker than that. I tried to purchase it right away, had a phone in my cart, then when I went to checkout, it was gone and said Coming Soon. This was within the first 10 minutes of the phone going on sale. UPDATE: The sto
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by jbail 14y ago
I tried to purchase the Nexus 4 via Chrome on my iPhone, but there was no Buy Now button on mobile. I even clicked the setting that said "View Desktop Version", which reloaded the exact same page. No difference at all and no Buy Now button
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by jbail 14y ago
This article presents a false dichotomy. There is no reason why you need to sacrifice code quality for the sake of speed of development. "Getting things done" is a hugely valuable skill, but don't conflate having that skill with meaning you
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by jbail 15y ago
"All our imagery is double-resolution, so everything looks sharp on high-density devices..." But you also use normal resolution images, right? Many (if not all) low resolution Android devices aren't able to scale images down by using backgr
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by jbail 15y ago
Good points on iPhone. I've used PhoneGap and it's great, but that's not exactly what I'm getting at. I'm thinking of a mobile web app that doesn't have to live inside a webview wrapper. This could happen someday when the OS provides a Java
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by jbail 15y ago
It's not inertia, but it is an easier context-switch, IMO. If you made an "app browser" that allowed better searching (type the first letter and the app appears --- tap to open it), sorting (like bookmark folders) and easy navigation betwee
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by jbail 15y ago
These people have heard of bookmarks, right? You can bookmark a website and put the icon right on your home screen. I visit HN all the time from my phone, but I definitely don't type news.ycombinator.com every time.
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by jbail 15y ago
I wonder how mobile web fits into this. Sure, native apps are great, but I'd much prefer to not need to switch between a bunch of native apps and just use my phone's web browser. Mobile web apps like Facebook prove that you can build a non-
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by jbail 15y ago
Knowing that I would need to pay to renew them anyway made it slightly less painful. It's tough to cough up $300+ at once, but SOPA is a horrible idea and GoDaddy apparently has no clue who their customers are. I'd be very curious to see so
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by jbail 15y ago
I just transferred my 47 domains out of GoDaddy. I've been meaning to do it for awhile --- primarily because the price keeps inching up and because I find their advertising and use of spokeswomen sort of distasteful. Seeing Jillian Michael'
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by jbail 15y ago
If the author is lying, what does he have to gain? I don't know akavlie personally, but he's been on HN for a long time. I think he's a rational person based on his discourse here.
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by jbail 15y ago
Amazon charges you to collect sales tax, but Amazon doesn't actually add sales tax to purchases, right? How does this work exactly?
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by jbail 15y ago
Do you know of any good examples of CSS-based layouts using units like inches or centimeters? When I do mobile web, I use percentages for UI layout elements (like headers, footers, sidebars, etc), and pixels for text, buttons, etc. This app
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by jbail 15y ago
I'm sure its nice on a desktop, but it's unusable on a phone. It's probably not your intended audience, so good effort nonetheless. I think in the not-to-distant-future, especially as mobile browsing overtakes desktop browsing, its going to
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by jbail 15y ago
You missed my point. A couple of kids name calling on the playground generates a lot of attention too, but it's not the right kind of attention. The brand awareness you tout is counter-productive to building a brand that I want to interac
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by jbail 15y ago
Buying a domain and slapping together a one-page website hardly qualifies as working your ass off . This whole thing is childish on both ends and a crappy website just illustrates this overall immaturity.
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by jbail 15y ago
How many people are being acquired? What is the nature of their skills (what areas of expertise and what level of expertise)? How long will you have to work for the acquiring company?
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by jbail 15y ago
He said they use horizontal scrolling to slide the page in from the side. I haven't yet dug into it to see how they're doing it, so unfortunately I don't have any more details, but you can download Sencha Touch 2 and check it out.
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by jbail 15y ago
What do you mean by "optimized platform"? Discussions of what is the best platform are futile. The answer to that debate is always: it depends. For example, looking at mobile web page transitions, jQuery Mobile is way behind the competition
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by jbail 15y ago
If you want to make a series on "The Valley", why don't you just do it? Looks like you already have the cameras, audio and editing equipment. Putting it up as a web series would be pretty cheap/free. If it's good, you'll attract an audience

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