kapowaz

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by kapowaz 14y ago
Whilst I can see the reason why people baulk at giving Apple a cut, what doesn't ever seem to be widely discussed are the reasons why that cut might be justified or even well worth it. The user experience of in-app purchasing on iOS is very
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by kapowaz 14y ago
Ethics are objective now? I personally think it's a dodgy move on Apple's part, but I think the knee-jerk reaction is over the top, particularly given how Apple's policies on in-app-purchase are still quite nascent. It's easy to castigate t
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by kapowaz 14y ago
I'm surprised it took this long for an extremist, reactionary post like this to reach the top of the comments. Remember: Apple couldn't possibly be a large corporation whose objectives and principles occasionally conflict in a way which cau
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by kapowaz 14y ago
> Avoid qualifying ID and class names with type selectors. Unless necessary (for example with helper classes), do not use element names in conjunction with IDs or classes. I've never heard a decent explanation for why, with this one. Un
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by kapowaz 14y ago
You're implying that the user interface and metadata of a site like twitter has no development or maintenance cost?
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by kapowaz 15y ago
Richard doesn't do himself any favours in how he goes about persuading the reader of his point. Judging by a lot of the comments here on HN a most people read the opening couple of paragraphs then drew their own conclusions, which may or ma
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I'm not sure how many folks who read Hacker News work in videogame development, but for any who are, I'd like to propose something simple: refuse to work for Zynga. Extend this boycott to any videogames company that behaves in this contempt
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I've pretty much ignored the entire concept of iPad magazines (via Newsstand) until I got my iPad III. Right now I'm trying out the free 7 day trial of The Guardian, and I'm impressed. It's £9.99/month, so I'm still debating if it's worth i
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I am worried by this trend towards using a custom typeface to store icons. Firstly, whilst it looks great in the giant preview pages linked to on HN, these icons often look terrible at smaller sizes / without anti-aliasing. Secondly, whilst
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I'll volunteer to write something about vendor prefixes.
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I would love for this hypothetical tool to exist, but the problem doesn't lie with the tool, but that you're talking about essentially different workflows. Designers tend to use the tools that they're most familiar with, that give them what
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by kapowaz 15y ago
In a nutshell a layer comp is a saved state for your layers. It can include any/all of: visibility, position and layer style. A combination of these should let you create alternative views for practically any sets of states provided the ori
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by kapowaz 15y ago
> This document is a personal one Then they're implicitly not ‘best practices’. > We’re not Facebook, but we are big. Then it's possibly appropriate. I remain unconvinced even in large projects but I do think CSS is lacking some i
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by kapowaz 15y ago
> For each level of markup nesting, try and indent your CSS to match. Nope. > Also write vendor prefixed CSS so that colons all line up Nope. > When building a new component write markup before CSS Yes! > Instead of building
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by kapowaz 15y ago
Are you saying these people voluntarily built tools that effectively made themselves obsolete?
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by kapowaz 15y ago
I've long disliked the acceleration ‘feel’ of Mac OS X, and have worked around it with acceleration-curve adjustments etc., but I find the explanation provided highly doubtful. Why? Well, for one: various games circumvent OS X’s own mouse s