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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
Note the Yahoo logo image map. :)
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
Ah yes, I didn't even consider ⌘ + Tab. That's very much like the iOS multitasking tray.
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
I would argue that in the past couple years, both Microsoft and Google—and not Apple—have been setting the trend in software design, notably in the growing rejection of skeuomorphism and the embrace of flat design.
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
Wow. Did not know that. Thanks.
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
> iOS's popularity is largely due to its intuitive UI. I think that's true, which is why I'm so interested in iOS 7. IMHO, iOS has become much less intuitive—where I once found that ordinary users could understand and use most of the fu
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
If anything, I think "fold to unlock" better expresses Apple's current visual style, which is that every element of the OS must exist in physical space somewhere—i.e., the multitasking tray exists "below" the home screen, the notification c
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
I would argue that Mission Control—not the Dock—is the equivalent of the iOS multitasking tray. The Dock can show applications that are not running, while the multitasking tray cannot (at least, from the user's POV). When using Mission Cont
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
No, not linkbait. :) Sure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Apple's design choices also create trends that are echoed both on and offline by designers everywhere. Edit: I think what makes iOS 7 particularly interesting is that, IM
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New iOS designs(josh.io)
43 points by joshuamerrill 13y ago|41 comments
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Engaging post, but I do not agree with the author's assertion that "Buttons can make or break your brand." As a designer, I've spent a lot of time crafting pixel-perfect buttons, but out of these examples, I could only pick out Amazon, Squa
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
> People like me are annoyed at the celebrity culture in the Valley, and Dustin is a manifestation of it Take a look at http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html . Your argument is at DH1. :)
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
If the Hacker News algorithm is surfacing the wrong items, or being gamed, then that's a question of relevancy. It "deserves" to be on page one because it received a substantial number of upvotes.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
> Maybe i'm missing something... The original comment said that "What is ultimately important in life are people..." Dustin Curtis never said that people weren't important, just that choosing the best objects is. That's the straw man.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Yes! That's exactly what I thought it was. Do you know of any script that does that?
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Considering that, I find it odd that the Ratchet homepage doesn't appear to be using Bootstrap.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Entrepreneurs start companies for many reasons. The author seems content to unload his negative feelings on any company that's ever a) been acquired, b) fundraised, or c) pivoted. Sorry, I don't share his feelings. Every circumstance is dif
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
I like Guidebook too. Their offices are down the street from us. We're accomplishing similar goals in pretty different ways.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Thanks Justin!!
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
You're correct, they're based on jQuery Mobile with some of our work mixed in. See an example: http://t.apcanv.as/go/sampleapp
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
BTW, totally signing up for Jetstrap now.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
Hey, we love Codiqa, and I don't see us as competitors at all. (Seriously, if you look at our pitch deck's competition slide, you're not in it.) We just got to know the jQuery Mobile folks recently—we're planning on open sourcing the slide-
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Mobile Start-Up Hopes to Build a Business That Lasts on Apps That Don’t(allthingsd.com)
29 points by joshuamerrill 14y ago|12 comments
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Apple's case against Samsung in three pictures.(allthingsd.com)
2 points by joshuamerrill 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
I love this thread: it's populated either by founders of Manu's portfolio companies, or entrepreneurs who pitched him and got valuable advice instead. I fall into both categories: the former in my current company, the latter in my previous
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
True, but the UI elements traditionally associated with BeOS came out in ~1996—so I stand corrected, it was a few years later than I stated in my original comment.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
I always liked the BeOS interface—at least, in the context of the early 90s, when its popularity peaked—but I find it pointless to clone a 20+ year-old UI. With Kinect, Leap Motion, and other forms of input, it seems like there's a huge opp
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
There's a reason why PG used the word "naughty" and not "criminal." In this case, we're talking about the latter.
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
As I said in the topmost parent thread, "you can be sure that this incident will create additional requirements and restrictions for the [honest] entrepreneurs who still remain in the building." Many successful entrepreneurs engage in socia
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by joshuamerrill 14y ago
I'm sure the value of the theft is immaterial to AOL. The security breach is more serious, and the bigger issue, to me, is that other startups in the same building that are behaving ethically could suffer because of one person's behavior.

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