petilon

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by petilon 13y ago
This is very cool. But the inherent limitation here is that it only works well for small datasets. If you have a million rows you don't want to download it all into your web browser and summarize it in the browser. Instead you want to
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by petilon 13y ago
Why do you even want to keep the NSA away? I am more worried about companies such as Intelius than the NSA. Private companies such as Intelius are posting my personal information on the internet. Anyone who knows my real name can search the
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by petilon 13y ago
Anyone who knows my real name can search the internet and find out where I work, my home address, my spouse's name, my home phone number and my age. I didn't put any of this information on the internet, in fact I don't even h
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by petilon 13y ago
After Marissa Mayer took over Yahoo Mail improved marginally, but the aesthetics of the Yahoo home page deteriorated and while Fickr added attractive features such as 1TB disk space, many users are begging the company to restore the previou
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by petilon 13y ago
If you are talking about magazine pages then I totally agree, flat is preferred. But magazine pages are not interactive. Apps are interactive. Users need visual clues as to what they can manipulate and what they can't. This is where flat de
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by petilon 14y ago
The modern decimal numbering system was invented in India. Without it we'd be using Roman numerals. What we call "Arabic numerals" is called "Indian numerals" in Arabic countries because that's where the Arabs got it from!
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by petilon 14y ago
An example is the "Change PC Settings". Is it a link or just a title? How can you tell? See here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html
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by petilon 14y ago
Source Sans Pro is a dead ringer for Microsoft's beautiful Segoe UI. This is a great move by Adobe. The Open Source world now has an equivalent for Segoe UI. Web designers rejoice!