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by nilliams 14y ago
Yep, the Hacker News default font size is tiny, period. And I find the 'pro-zoomer croud' pretty odd to be honest. It's more work, and it's tedious. You wouldn't pan around a book. Personally I use the Hacker Web (web-app) on iOS [1] and Ge
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by nilliams 14y ago
I find that pretty odd tbh. What size monitor? Do you sit leaning towards the screen or leant back in your chair? That blog font-size looks great to me. 1600 x 900, laptop, rocking a casual, semi-hunched position.
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by nilliams 14y ago
In Chrome type about:gpu in your URL bar, might give you some clues. (Then check out about:flags to see if there are any relevant options you can change).
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by nilliams 14y ago
It's a judgement call. Some people are wary that going nutty with conditionals in templates could result in littering bits of 'business logic' in them - they prefer to take an all-or-nothing stance and go for nothing. Personally I like the
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by nilliams 14y ago
A better recommendation would be 'don't ship JavaScript to oldIE'. IE 6-8 have terrible JavaScript engines, JavaScript is going to do very little to help you deliver a good experience to users stuck on those browsers. For websites, let thes
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by nilliams 14y ago
>> This assertion used to be thrown around as one of the supporting arguments for using OOCSS. I've never seen selector performance used as an argument for OOCSS. >> ...and so it was just making CSS less legible/maintainabl
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by nilliams 14y ago
>> With the exception of having the chrome (URL bar) hidden by default... Yeah that's one pretty major problem that shatters any illusion of feeling native on Android. The other problem is that the ability to add to homescreen is no
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by nilliams 14y ago
Is the initial launch not simply comparable to downloading a native app from the app-store?
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by nilliams 14y ago
I don't think the snarky checklist is necessary and am pretty saddened you've got upvotes for merely stating the obvious in such a derisive way. We don't know the context in which the creator made this, and who is to say that just because s
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by nilliams 14y ago
Beautiful and the nav is impressively slick. Shame the desktop landing page (though pretty) doesn't show off just how nice the rest of the UI is when visited from iOS. (There are a few pics on the author's Dribbble for the curious [1]). Wou
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by nilliams 14y ago
I would guess the same as any other library. If it doesn't support AMD, shim it? http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#config-shim I can go into specifics if you give an example of the dependency structure you're trying to define. But the b
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by nilliams 14y ago
Hmm, could you give some examples of these 'abominable class names'?
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by nilliams 14y ago
Believe SASS can do what you're describing with @extend and %silent directive: http://codepen.io/bpainter/pen/FxHEm (Example courtesy of this East Wing podcast episode on SASS: http://theeastwing.net/episodes/26-bermon ).
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by nilliams 14y ago
Sure, but it's lazy either way. Cries of 'bloat' without some supporting reasoning = alarms bells suggesting willful ignorance to me. Personally gets my goat a lot at work. It's so easy to allude to bloat, or (for example) some framework co
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by nilliams 14y ago
I'd tend to just ignore anyone that uses the word 'bloat' without backing their statement up with any substance/insight or perhaps acknowledgement that they may be wrong on some counts and are unlikely to understand the entire problem-space
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by nilliams 14y ago
That's down to the browser's implementation of the :active state (an unstyled button element does exactly the same thing) and is not this guy's fault. I'd also wager 99.9% of users do not care in the slightest about that behaviour.
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by nilliams 14y ago
There are also various use-cases for doing this as part of a larger product. Say you need to take a customer's crappy PDFs & reformat them for display within a web app, on a public display or to send as an HTML email. You could use this
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by nilliams 14y ago
Understood, thanks for the insights.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware this was a pain-point. I may have some similar (Qt) work coming up soon and was wondering if you could elaborate with some examples, i.e. situations where you encounter the X11 APIs when working with Qt.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Oh nice. I came across JSON Pointer a couple of days ago (whilst working with JSON Schema). It didn't fully make sense at the time, but now you've put it like that, I can see how even that simple (GET-only) extension to your average REST AP
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by nilliams 14y ago
Sure, I think that's fair. The whole thing could definitely have been done a lot classier. And I don't doubt there are better online versions of these games already out there - I've since found a better (flash) version of lunar lander. The
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by nilliams 14y ago
Well the games are remakes of the classics, so if you don't have any fondness for the originals, you probably aren't going to like them. Personally I had some fun with lunar lander, though it seemed a lot easier than the BBC micro version I
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by nilliams 14y ago
I can only imagine they're slow because you don't have hardware acceleration working in your Chrome (type about:gpu into your address-bar to see what the deal is). All demos run smooth for me, as do all the games in the atari arcade: http:
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by nilliams 14y ago
Exactly, I'm proud to pay my Spotify membership and I feel I get my money's worth... I'd probably pay more. I have now gone over 2 years without torrenting a single album (the exception being one quite-large Canadian band who happened to n
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by nilliams 14y ago
Gah this helped me a lot, thanks. about:gpu told me my WebGL was disabled in about:flags... which it was. Not sure how that happened as that's been annoying me forever.
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by nilliams 14y ago
Ah, thanks for the info, perhaps they should switch back. Looks like they went home-brew to save cash (or to be more unique). Seems wrong to have to use the Readability bookmarklet to read a Svbtle blog!
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by nilliams 14y ago
I think they must have done, I also don't remember it looking so bad before. Seeing quite a few sites and blogs now getting a bit careless with CSS @font-face rules and seemingly not bothering to test their sites in Windows. More on it he
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by nilliams 14y ago
Great :)
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by nilliams 14y ago
Heh, yeah it does work well on iPad. Though to be fair, it's not really a fair comparison, since Mobile Safari specifically h/w accelerates CSS transforms, and will always work, since the hardware is known. On desktop, browsers are dealin
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by nilliams 14y ago
No you're quite right, that's backwards.

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