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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I disagree. No one's asking for a literary masterpiece, just a simple and organized explanation of what we're looking at. I would argue that the value is more in the process of creating this simple explanation, because it forces you to empa
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Credit for owning the scope of the problem (allowing serious discrepancies for 3 years), which is sure to cost them trust from the community. But the skeptic in me reminds me that it's likely there was no way out of admitting it. What dishe
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(General response to a trend in the comments.) I believe #2 refers to things like Wordpress.com or CloudFoundry.com. Wikipedia.org might qualify as well. If Discourse.org offers hosted instances, (and they make a lot of revenue), they coul
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New users' Tailored Suggestions, based on browsing history(support.twitter.com)
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Before we let the pendulum swing from one cargo cult to another, let's simply recognize that there are often more cues involved in conveying an interface's intention. A login form will be accompanied by a Login button, for example. In this
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Looks great! I'd just like to note that those working on Backbone single-page apps hosted by an ASP.NET site can also achieve this idiomatically, with the use of the Nustache view engine and controller actions that can do HTTP content negot
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Yeah, I concede mine wasn't pixel-perfect. To continue down this path of the "natural" way to vertically-center, font-size must also be explicitly set. This works http://jsfiddle.net/nJy8t/3/ . Though it's certainly not without it's flaws
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You're right, I had a bug: http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/51/ Idiomatic solutions, by definition, cut out the non-semantic document structure. Certainly you will find layouts that cannot be achieved idiomatically in CSS, just as certain softwa
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1. Not true. Could have been an image, or even SVG element http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/55/ 2. Fair enough. It would be nice to be able to set line-height to a percentage of height. 3. Bug, my bad. http://jsfiddle.net/aMMxj/51/
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There may or may not be Great CSS books out there, but in 10 years, I never found any. They invariably teach you recipes, but not how to to think in the terms the language was designed. The ruby community is one of the most active and rigor
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Let's clarify the question. "Does anyone have any insight as to why vertical centering of dynamic-height content is the way it is?" Yes. The original standards committee created a layout model (block, inline, and inline-block elements) that
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These products exploit/capitalize on computer illiteracy. That's not something I would personally be proud of, but computer illiteracy is the real problem here. Products like this can ultimately accelerate the correction of computer illiter
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Pardon my pedantry, but CQRS doesn't necessitate eventual consistency. Denormalization of domain events into can happen synchronously. It all depends on the needs of the project. If the project information architecture and processes can sup
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You're certainly entitled to your personal opinion, but really? You're saying that it reflects poorly on someone to relay a story of poor treatment toward them? You don't find any value in knowing this? Have the experiences of others never
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Ask HN: Are trackbacks and pingbacks dead?
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India is a huge country, and I would assume that cultural norms vary throughout. In my view, the heart of the issue is a lack of attention to the problem by those with power, creating an environment with no consequences for this type of beh
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Agreed. Users care more about getting the task done then having an emotional relationship with the system. To inject sympathy into what need only be informative/instructive, is to call attention to the user's ignorance in fabricating false
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I agree. I know I've certainly been offended by inanimate or even virtual objects. Closed source libraries with bugs or convoluted APIs are some of the most offensive things I've ever encountered. But either the system was buggy (or the pro
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No. Providing options, with a professional and courteous tone, to rectify the situation is different than apologizing. Polite expressions of options are necessary. But apologizing? As in, "expressing sympathy"? IMO, no. Humans do not get of
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> Writing the code is the easy part. I’d say code flows from my brain more fluently than English does. There's a certain irony in this statement. Writing code that works is easy, but writing code that clearly communicates a simple desig
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Do you use any Light or Medium Reserved? Or are they all Heavy?
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Socializing is educational. Perhaps the lessons become repetitive without moderation. But the odds that a teen locked in a room full of books will be happy or successful in life are small to nil. One that can successfully manage the intrica
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sigh Why do we always have to misconstrue messages that conflict with our personal beliefs? :) The GP was not declaring a winner. He was responding to overreaching title of the link. Yes there are similarities to JSON, and yes it may be f
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Applications: 1. deep understanding of regular expressions. 2. how to model and reason about complex workflows and business processes.
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I'm sorry but IMHO you've missed the point. With spiritual understanding, it's the means that count, not the ends. Only through experience and reflection can spiritual understanding be attained. What you call a mere "reinvention" is the cre
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The CSS change is only visible in the screenshot that introduced the background image. In that screenshot, a white glow effect has been applied to the main header.
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The case for relying on math more when programming is one pillar of a more general aim: for programmers to be more creative in their approach to solving problems programatically. IMHO, creativity can be learned, but not over night. Creativi
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generic = corporate/mainstream appeal. they're not marketing to hackers anymore. as a github user, how many times will you be looking at their homepage?
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As noted by jrajav, since Vista, the Windows taskbar features a single-color version of this, inferred from application icon. Additionally, the New Tab page in Chrome has exhibited this (inferred from favicon) for as long as I can remember.
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Twitter Adds Photo Filters in Battle With Instagram(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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