kemayo

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by kemayo 16y ago
At deviantART we're dropping IE6 support shortly... it wound up representing a tiny percentage of our traffic, and we like the idea of being able to use the crazy innovations of IE7. It's slightly painful, because we've been forcing IE into
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by kemayo 16y ago
Was it being used as a negative term in the hospitality industry? If so, that's an interesting difference in apparent outlooks, since it's almost always meant as a compliment in programming.
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by kemayo 16y ago
Apple has a strong incentive to make sure that people using OSX have a great experience. To make sure that OSX can browse the web well they need to make sure that Safari is viewed as a mainstream browser, and that it's easy for developers t
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by kemayo 16y ago
At the time of IE6's release it was a fantastic browser. That was Microsoft's problem; it was so much better than Netscape at the time (and had such a bundling advantage) that they totally dominated the market. So Microsoft stopped improvin
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by kemayo 16y ago
I entirely agree with you. Going to school is far from the only way to learn about a subject, especially if you're just doing it because you feel that it's what you should be doing. If you're just putting in the hours because you think you
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by kemayo 16y ago
The ability to communicate well, especially in writing, is important unless all you ever do as a programmer is work alone, never interacting with others or contributing to them. You'll use writing skills to communicate your ideas to your pe
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by kemayo 16y ago
ORMs do that, mostly. Look at Active Record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_record_pattern The problem with ORMs is that relational databases are complicated, and you often do wind up having to do manual SQL writing anyway if you wan
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DeviantArt talks about its recent outage(dt.deviantart.com)
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by kemayo 16y ago
I tend to think that part of the etiquette for being early is that you make yourself scarce until just before the scheduled time. Ideally, you also make your presence knowable by the person you're meeting with, in case it actually would be
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by kemayo 16y ago
There's a save/load feature in beta. It just didn't launch with it. http://devbug.deviantart.com/blog/34734592/
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by kemayo 16y ago
I don't know if it can even really be said to be conceptually based on Harmony. They're certainly both drawing tools using Canvas, but that's like saying Photoshop is based on MS Paint because they're both drawing tools on Windows. Harmony
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by kemayo 16y ago
There really doesn't seem to be any code re-use. Even MrDoob agrees: http://twitter.com/mrdoob/status/20933173931 :) In particular, the brushes behave differently. Note how in Harmony the currently-drawn line interacts with old lines, w
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by kemayo 16y ago
It is reasonably impressive to find someone who can leave the people he fires talking about how great he is.
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by kemayo 16y ago
The sketchy one is superficially quite similar. Once I started drawing with it you can see it's using some different line algorithms though -- the sketching plays off of previously drawn lines (and earlier segments of the current line) inst