mrgreenfur

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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Corporate sites are almost always garbage because there are so many department claiming that their content is the most important. Especially so for MS where they have lots of needs to meet: e.g. downloads, upsells, product information, ente
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Nice looking sites! Your home page has some huge background images, the site is over 5mb! You really should down-sample and use repeating background images to cut this down. A site this simple should be under a meg at most, I think. G'luck!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Thanks for linking this, just what I was looking for.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Daisey isn't a journalist, he does theatre. He shouldn't've gone on a journalism program.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I don't understand how this gets around any of the processing / bandwidth limitations of mobile devices. Anyone have any more details?
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Facebook isn't a 'newcomer' and Yahoo! wouldn't bother suing anyone that wasn't already a giant.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I think the point is to show the part of the page that is visible to the current device and fade out the rest, but only when you've force picked a size.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I just got their "we are overloaded" page, I shit you not. Is this part of a joke I'm lucky enough to be in on? :)
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Nice looking site! When you say "business people" do you mean "interaction designer"? Orrrr did you also have no experience in UI? Congratulations!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I love ars, but why post this on HN?
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I'd love your thoughts on WhiskeyNotes: http://www.whiskeynotes.com ! Any/all feedback and ideas are welcome! My email is ben@whiskeynotes.com Thank you!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
welks
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Respect to the SEALS, but these examples are absurd. They get billions in funding and they can't check the weather and buy some snow shoes???
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I love my linode!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Bootstrap is incredible. Incredible generosity! Thank you twitter!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
This is marketing as content, zzzz.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I see the input expand vertically now, cool! Looks like duplicates are allowed, which probably shouldn't. On the tag items I meant that in your demo code you have: tagsItems : [ 'jquery', 'plugin', 'tags', 'autocomplete' ], Which is
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
I think it's a great idea! I'd love to use it! Some ideas: - Clicking on a selection didn't make it look like a tag (blue box) - Once you have more than 4 blue tags in the field, additional ones don't get added or aren't visible. It's proba
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Ugh, JW blue
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
does it get any more self-serving?
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Neither http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stumbleupon.com nor http://www.quantcast.com/stumbleupon.com show anything nearly as dramatic...
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Yours has a legend! that is awesome.
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Ah, these are great suggestions - Thanks RobIsIT! 1. Good point. I will start lookign for one. 2. The generated content is really just whiskies and tastings. I don't really want people to contribute videos since I think that'll just add a l
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Sorry for the delay, just noticed these replies. I built it using Ruby and a framework called Ramaze. I built it 100% from scratch, for better or for worse...
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
All set. Sometimes bad character sets get in and borks that page. Should be good now. Thanks!
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by mrgreenfur 15y ago
Ah crap, one second, I'll fix this...
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Show HN: Feedback on my startup, a whiskey tasting site
5 points by mrgreenfur 15y ago|8 comments
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by mrgreenfur 16y ago
I typed in amazon and pressed submit and got a 404.I think I pressed 'submit' before the ajax could return a reply (I'm on a slow cellular connection). I clicked the 'buy' button on the homepage and it couldn't find the host for " http://ww