rimantas

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by rimantas 18y ago
The same way why ease of use of something makes that something better (or more pleasant to work with).
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IPhone Developer's Roadmap(pragmaticstudio.com)
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by rimantas 18y ago
Because acting this way assures that the problem will be noticed and acted upon. Private letter would achieve nothing at worst and maybe some tweaks to 37signals page on GS at best. Customers of the other companies would get the same confus
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by rimantas 18y ago
Speed is very important. However: how much time does server spend running your Ruby code? I think I saw somewhere it is about 5% of the request time. There is DB, network latency, all the client side cruft (twitter did not get even assets c
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by rimantas 18y ago
Far from it. Daring Fireball—best writing abbout all things Apple you can find on the net. When I see DF post marked with a star in my RSS reader I know that high quality read waits for me, with some work, thought and insight put into it. O
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by rimantas 18y ago
I think they've missed "Internet Explorer 8.1 leaked": http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet... Though technically that would be March 31st fools…
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by rimantas 18y ago
I think it takes a malicious amount of ignorance to come up with the text they did. And this is hardly an open letter, reads more like PR spin.
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by rimantas 18y ago
For startes GetSatisfaction accused 37s of not caring for their customers. Publicly.
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by rimantas 18y ago
What? Some random guys put nonsense like "37 signals is not committed blah blah blah" and 37signals should be polite with those bastards? And in case you missed the news, 37signals' main income is not ads on their blog, they have pretty su
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by rimantas 18y ago
I just wonder how many 5 years business plans written in 2007 had "the global financial crisis" item in them. So much of planning. Flying with your eyes covered by a paper with some wishful thinking on it isn't any better.
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by rimantas 18y ago
And before jumping either to CSS hacks or CC remember that often there are ways to avoid hacks altogether. As Andy Budd once told at his talk at @media conference in London it is so sad that too many webdevs think that CSS hacks is the norm
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by rimantas 18y ago
Oh, no, no more ads please. I will gladly pay just not to have something taking the real estate of my screen and trying to interrupt. I am with 37signals take on this: asking money for your work IS ok! http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/16
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by rimantas 18y ago
"Moreover, you're forced to write artificially short routines, routines of a length that research has shown to have a higher defect ratio" [citation needed] So far I've only seen advice to write shorter routines.