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by kreek 15y ago
I've tried both Backbone (and Spine) and both were great for small to medium sized apps. I hadn't heard of Knockout before, but from my experience data binding (two or one way) works, again, great for small apps but falls apart when you nee
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by kreek 15y ago
On a recent road trip I showed my toddler how to watch model train videos on my iPhone through YouTube. Big mistake! he wants to use the phone more than me now. I think it's because he can choose another train video after one finishes. He b
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by kreek 15y ago
Just before Adobe bought Macromedia there was a lot of noise (and angst) that Microsoft would be the one to buy them.
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by kreek 15y ago
PragmataPro looks good, but when ever this topic comes up I always end up going back to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1....
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by kreek 15y ago
I'm all for getting developers some design skills and I'm sure the book will help. That said mastering anything takes time. Could you give a designer a Rails for Dummies book and claim "Save thousands by not hiring a developer"? Update: I'm
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by kreek 15y ago
I'm pretty happy with my account, the one downside is that with iTunes my wife and I could share an account. With Spotify only one account can be playing at a time. I realize they do this so people don't share accounts with multiple people,
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by kreek 15y ago
"Student question. Computer science in education, starting even in elementary school. Good idea? Gates. Hmm. I think computer is a great tool, but if by computer science we mean understanding queing theory and hashing and database indexes,
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Should We Blame Technology for High Unemployment?(kcrw.com)
1 points by kreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 15y ago
This is cool but isn't this what SVG (ignoring browser incompatibilities) is for? CSS is for affecting the layout of the content. In most uses a logo is content, that content could still be affected by style, but I don't think it should be
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by kreek 15y ago
It's from the late 70s so you probably won't find a transcript online. The speech was delivered at a Nation of Islam temple. See footnote #22 in the link below. http://books.google.com/books?id=r_p_Q6TUrQoC&pg=PA261&#...
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by kreek 15y ago
PE's context is fighting back against oppression, which was what the Thomas N. Todd sample is talking about. Specifically playing along with the system at the time in which many blacks were second class citizens rather than standing up for
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by kreek 15y ago
This is a horrible idea, the problem is not that houses are too cheap it's that they're too expensive. A better idea would be to relax visa standards for starting a business that hires x number of americans. Those employees would have a far
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by kreek 15y ago
require 'net/http' Net::HTTP.get_print 'www.gun.io', '/' That's it! In only two lines of ruby, you can grab a whole webpage and print it to the screen. Awesome! - and it's in the standard lib ;) I agree, when I left PHPland I chose Ruby ove
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by kreek 15y ago
Of course we all stand on Mr. Ritchie's shoulders, and it's really just a footnote to all this, but it's my understanding is that Brian Kernighan contributed "hello, world" to 'The C Programming Language' book.
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by kreek 15y ago
I was about to take your dismissal of my '+1' seriously until I noticed the vast majority your comments on HN are all contrarian and basically content free. Except of course when you're blasting others as 'hivemind'ed, or to complain about
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by kreek 15y ago
+1! If you want to learn more about this watch Food Inc. available on NetFlix streaming. If you have high blood pressure you may want to skip the part where an Indiana man explains how he was sued by Monsanto for inducing farmers to violate
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Announcing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3(blogs.adobe.com)
3 points by kreek 15y ago|1 comments
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by kreek 15y ago
Yes it's complex, but one side wiped a million Tibetans of the map during 'the great leap forward' (along with another 39 million Chinese) and they label a man who in the face of that teaches non violence a 'terrorist'.
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by kreek 15y ago
Are you drawing a moral equivalence between the US 'invading' Afghanistan and China annexing Tibet? Or is this just a Fox News style "some people say he is a 'terrorist'"?
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by kreek 15y ago
In a past life I was a design major so here's a tip for kerning letters. Kern letters in groups of three, then step back and look at whole word, repeat until it looks balanced. Oh, and a bonus tip the number 1 and l (lowercase L) almost alw
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by kreek 15y ago
Google's redesign has them looking better and more like Apple. I used Google Apps before but now that they've been streamlined they no longer look like they could crash at any moment.
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Spine Mobile(spinejs.com)
2 points by kreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 15y ago
+1 for the diet suggestions, but I'd add exercise in their too, it has a bonus side effect of increasing your stamina so you'll no longer need caffeine.
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Watch Your Mouth: Can You Patent a Sandwich?(good.is)
3 points by kreek 15y ago|0 comments
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Propellerhead Software lets you pay what you want for Reason upgrade(propellerheads.se)
1 points by kreek 15y ago|0 comments
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by kreek 15y ago
Can't speak for PowerPoint, but my company does print to web to print again and our issues with HTML were always how precise it was in terms of rendering text and graphics: Font rendering: With flash you can embed fonts and have them render
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by kreek 15y ago
Wow, nice work. As someone making the same transition for a large Flash app I can attest to how hard this is, especially for accurate font rendering. I've seen a lot of comments on HN along the lines of Flash sucks why don't you use HTML5 ?
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by kreek 15y ago
As much fun as giant touch screens look (no thanks to minority report) they're not very usable for hours of work. Try it out for yourself, sit at your desk raise one or both hands towards your monitor as if it was a touch screen and see how
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by kreek 15y ago
...but at least they're not stuck in a car/bus/train for two hours like those who work less than and hour per day in the office.
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by kreek 15y ago
I like the idea of keeping it under one brand but Netflix "Classic" reminds of me of "Classic" Coke. It's like AT&T calling home phone service "Classic" phone :) It could be Netflix:Online and Netflix:Offline or Netflix:Instant and Netf

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