karl_nerd

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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Without testing, this particular issue looks like it could be handled with the viewport-tag and -webkit-text-size-adjust
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
While you're definitely right that the other manufacturers are playing the same game, i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time, just like the adbusters/anti-sweatshop movement did with Nike in the n
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
It's actually there on for example box-shadow, one of the worse offenders
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Looking forward to read your 'Super 4dv4nc3d 1337 Emacs User' article. I bet it doesn't have half the insight from this one.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
You can use Apples own UIAutomation tests for that: http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1646-how-to-use-uiautomatio...
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
jQuery is used for: 1. Finding the picture in the DOM. 2. Drawing the rectangles on the faces. The algorithm in itself is written in a lovely language called JavaScript. While I appreciate the attention the author brings to liu liu's cod
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
This is what i was told by apple engineers when asking straight out.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
1-click-payment for anything... Could be a square card-case competitor. Image a café that has tweeted the menu. You go in, reply to what you want, you get it. Could be huge on mobile payments.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Harry Roberts (@csswizard) did something similar, but fluid width a while ago http://csswizardry.com/2011/10/fully-fluid-responsive-css-ca...
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
There are thousands of reasons to love or hate android. One thing i like is the development going on in Cyanogenmod and MIUI Android. It's relevant to me. Those things wont help android 'win' against the iphone, but it will be relevant in o
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
One thing that is completely missed by the "letter-by-letter" comparison is that Roboto by default has much looser kerning ("letter-spacing") than Helvetica. This should make some difference when screen reading. IIRC iOS, even version 5, do
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Paul Irish blogged about it a while ago http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Love the snapiness and complete lack of fancy animations!
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
This is a local politician, Thilo Weichert, trying to make a name for himself. I think everyone in germany except him are wondering what he is doing.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Initializr is a little more bare-bones, you can create your own package and customize it a little on their site already. It's based on the HTML5 Boilerplate but haven't got as much stuff in there. I use it all the time. http://www.initiali
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
ok found this good old one http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129745
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
sorry to bother you sir but could you tell me what that is called and maybe where i find out more about it?
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Categorizing movies based on action/tempo with python(cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de)
4 points by karl_nerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Can someone shoot this thing down: What if we think 'data synchronisation protocol' instead of 'e-mail protocol'? E-mail would then be an 'append only' application of this. The protocols focus would be to register a piece of data, keep tra
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Higher resolution, but further from a finished product: Junior Veloso's experiments: http://3dhomemade.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-resolution-compa... He's using light from a projector to harden liquid resin.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Oliver Reichenstein, a swiss/japanese news designer, has been writing about some similar thoughts: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/business-class-news/
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
I interpreted that it meant, especially concerning usability, that those strategies are not things you can easily differentiate with, they're rather commodities.
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Could u please go a little more into detail on that?
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
Can someone please explain this to me – i can fully understand how a technical solution to do this could be patentable – but how can the very interaction design part be patentable? It seems like this is an "idea patent" rather than an "i in
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
I'm not sure whether even Safari and Mobile Safari comes from the same branch of webkit. Chrome and the Android browser definitely don't ... When I spoke to Apple Engineers about how WebGL is available in iAds ("running html5 in a normal we
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Nokia N9 and an incomplete list of browser features(karlwestin.posterous.com)
29 points by karl_nerd 15y ago|5 comments
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Samsung solar-powered laptop – One hour use per two hours charging?(liliputing.com)
17 points by karl_nerd 15y ago|8 comments
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
It's cool! One little thing, the iPhone 4 doesnt respond to neither css nor js resolution of 960*640, instead it has the same resolution as the 3GS but with -webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 2
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by karl_nerd 15y ago
please post specifically this one somewhere!
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Kaspersky: PDF and IE much more important attack targets than flash(securelist.com)
3 points by karl_nerd 15y ago|0 comments

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