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by jblock 14y ago
It's an interesting perspective on the man in light of all the ruckus about his film and the bankruptcy of Rhythm & Hues (who did the Oscar-winning effects for the film and ultimately fired 250 people in the past month): http://www.gua
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by jblock 14y ago
I get the stigma of "cool companies" that have chefs that serve organic meals 4 times a day, but are those benefits really all that superficial? As a new graduate who has to move to likely a very expensive part of the US to work for them, m
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by jblock 14y ago
For one, it's heavy compared to some very simple JS and a good portion of the time you don't need the entirety of the library. That said, it does abstract much of the crap that goes along with XMLHttpRequests and all the cross-browser idios
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by jblock 14y ago
More so than working out, video games, eating, taking a walk, or any of the typical "zoning-out" activities I've tried over the years, the one that never fails to relax me is stream-of-consciousness writing. I've found that on nights where
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How Boeing's Dreamliner was Grounded(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by jblock 14y ago|1 comments
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by jblock 14y ago
It can't be cool to be hotlinking these resources straight from Amazon.
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by jblock 14y ago
For some reason, I've found more bugs like this in MATLAB than in any other domain. Ever.
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by jblock 14y ago
I prefer to take a different perspective: college didn't fail you, you failed at going to college. College is a place to gain knowledge from those that have more than you. If you see it as anything else (especially anything malicious) then
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by jblock 14y ago
This is really pretty. This is impossible to use. This doesn't take into account the fact that not all photos are stock photos, not all monitors are good at rendering fine serif fonts on dark backgrounds, some users need affordances for but
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by jblock 14y ago
Extravagant headline. UI cues are the same thing as a walkthrough. They're a channel for the designer to tell the user how to interact with something--a communicative affordance. The only difference is that they're not listed as bullet poin
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by jblock 14y ago
Can't stress this enough. Bad people using a well-thought-out design aesthetic can still make something that looks like garbage.
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by jblock 14y ago
This sounds amazing and 80% of the comments in this thread just sound bitter.
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by jblock 14y ago
It doesn't help that most laptops have lost the Page Up/Down key. Just a thought.
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by jblock 14y ago
Yeah, screw the suppliers that get you the screen you want. Have some common sense.
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by jblock 14y ago
Remember that apple sells millions of these things and we are <200 commenters on a website filled with edge case power users. Odds are that a good amount of buyers either don't care or haven't noticed the problem. It's not kicking their
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by jblock 14y ago
When I went to have it looked at, the Apple store employee was fairly sympathetic even though it failed the test (he told me that people do fail it, but that more often than not it's just below the threshold). He told me to keep trying the
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by jblock 14y ago
46 comments... ...and no one has mentioned the headline? :)
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by jblock 14y ago
Images for text? No thanks. I get it. IE is better. Just don't insult designers/developers you're trying to impress by half-assing proper semantics.
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by jblock 14y ago
Also no affordance for the inactive buttons. They're just slightly muted versions of regular buttons.
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by jblock 14y ago
That'll happen when people understand the actual definition of "theory" :)
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by jblock 14y ago
At the same time, when do we hit our mental limits for absorbing information simultaneously? Yes there's the capacity to unobtrusively "share" and "capture," but you have to extend some mental energy to efficiently and usefully absorb this
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by jblock 14y ago
There is the off-chance that the effort to capture these experiences leads a parent to get a picture of that child meeting her favorite princess or a snapshot of their son seeing a fireworks show at Disneyworld for the first time. There's a
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by jblock 14y ago
Best exercise in AP English: respond to a reading for class. Turn that in, randomly pass them around, and have students respond to the responses SOLELY in the context of the responses themselves. And they had to be as long if not longer tha
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by jblock 14y ago
Count this towards my ignorance towards the business world, but are executives of large companies really that petty and childish?
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by jblock 14y ago
http://www.quora.com/Air-Travel/Why-is-airplane-boarding-alw... Disagree. That's outwardly more efficient, but it turns out that when we're tasked with sorting and arranging ourselves, we do this whole boarding a plane thing pretty effici
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by jblock 14y ago
Bill Gates was in the empire business.
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by jblock 14y ago
Except that it makes getting on the plane and seating yourself extremely efficient, which saves Southwest money, which saves you money.
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by jblock 14y ago
No problem. Hopefully you take all this criticism from HN as just that: criticism. Iterate and make it better! You're already a step ahead of a LOT of people out there.
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by jblock 14y ago
http://contrastrebellion.com/ But seriously, hanging indents, a very minor textual hierarchy, your Masonry layout is messed up, etc. It all looks very unprofessional. KISS is your friend unless you are a master of making these complex res
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by jblock 14y ago
Source maps? Source maps.

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