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by samdk 16y ago
This one is a bit messy. That's the entire point: the flow of rights and royalties in the music industry is a mess. Making it "spiffy" and "modern" may make it more aesthetically pleasing, but it's not going to make it any less of
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by samdk 16y ago
Web design is a really broad field. You need to understand HTML and CSS, you need to understand the limitations of web browsers as a medium, you need to understand how users interact with webpages, and you need to have a decent handle on ty
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by samdk 16y ago
EPUB isn't exactly a minor omission. Amazon wants to control the whole experience from content down to the physical device. They want to do the same thing Apple's done with iOS. They're not Apple, so they may not succeed, but I'm not going
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by samdk 16y ago
These prices coming down have pretty much guaranteed an ebook reader is the next thing I'm buying. When they were $300 reading on my computer screen didn't seem too bad, but for (soon) under $100 I'm sold. Anyone have any particular recomme
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by samdk 16y ago
I just did get my Lego blocks out to start playing!
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by samdk 16y ago
No pro designer would come up with what Patrick has now, and yet it works. No pro designer would have come up with the new one, either. Any designer worth anything could have told you that the old logo was way better than the new
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by samdk 16y ago
The hypothesis this article makes is that customers don't necessarily want a relationship with companies. I think that that's an overly simplistic view of the picture. First, all of the examples given involve routine tasks large institution
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by samdk 16y ago
I subscribe to the view that the template language is for designers and should only allow safe constructs. As someone who does both design and programming, I hate template systems that do this with a passion. I don't want to h
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by samdk 16y ago
I spent a taking English classes at a local community college so I could graduate a year early from high school. I consider the decision to graduate early one of the best I've ever made. Staying there a year longer would have been a complet
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by samdk 16y ago
Well, that's not what this is about. This is about sending the password (from the client to the sever, to log in) in plain text, and that's easy to verify by just sniffing your network traffic (which is what the author of this originally
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by samdk 16y ago
I could see this being useful, but it's not quite there yet. There are a few things I think it needs to support first: - comparing two fonts side-by-side - seeing multiple fonts/sizes/styles in the same panel so you can try
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by samdk 16y ago
The biggest problem with Java webapp development, in my opinion, is its ridiculous obsession with XML. I can't count the number of hours I've wasted debugging obscure errors only to discover that I had a minor syntax error in my XML configu
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by samdk 16y ago
I use Gmail. I have an email thread going (sent to myself) that's I reply to every time I have a project idea. It's pretty rare that I'm thinking about project ideas and also not anywhere near a computer. And if I'm not, I just remember it
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by samdk 16y ago
Those are in the next article in the series, which is linked from the bottom of this one: http://immike.net/blog/2007/06/21/extreme-regex-foo-what-you... .
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by samdk 16y ago
The Node.js IRC channel displayed as a live Wargames-like map: http://wargamez.mape.me/ It was discussed a while back on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477084 This source is on GitHub here: http://github.com/mape/node-wargame
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WikiLeaks blog up and submission site re-activated(blog.wikileaks.org)
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by samdk 16y ago
The Amazon reviews for that cable are wonderful: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B0... A small sampling: (there are many, many more) Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light se
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by samdk 16y ago
(note: The post above seems to have been deleted. For context, it was asking whether this fund was only for games.) It is. From the website: "Indie Fund aims to support the growth of games as a medium by helping indie developers
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by samdk 16y ago
Normally when I see pictures of glowing green things accompanying science articles I assume someone just did an image search for "glowing green thing" and stuck it at the top of the article. In this case (as the caption in this article says
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by samdk 16y ago
Firefox 4 has a fix for it: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-com...
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by samdk 16y ago
I remember implementing an n-queens solver in Prolog for a programming languages course. Prolog does backtracking on its own. The style of programming is very different from anything else I've ever programmed in--it's a really interesting l
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by samdk 16y ago
I can't upvote this enough. A very specific example is this: http://basicio.com/snippets/moz_border_radius/ . I ran into this issue a while ago when I was playing around with CSS3. Firefox does some really strange things with multi-color
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by samdk 16y ago
There was an article about a bakery being overwhelmed by Groupon customers posted here a couple of months ago that you might find interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338553 There was another article linked in that thread abo
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by samdk 16y ago
Google has goo.gl. The New York Times has nyti.ms. They're not trying to be cool. There are serious practical advantages to controlling your own URL shortener. People are going to shorten your URLs whether or not you have one, and having yo
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by samdk 16y ago
Try a search. The site is up, but it's not functional. Apparently they relied on a simple, static interface to search and Google has removed it, so they aren't able to perform searches anymore. (Which they will tell you if you do try to do
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by samdk 16y ago
I don't think this works nearly as well as the 37s version for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is that Taskforce isn't as inherently visual as Draft is, so you're going to have to work harder to make it visually interesting. There are
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by samdk 16y ago
(from the post:) Second, now that I am no longer held back by big-company legal restrictions, I am going to be much more involved with the platform. Very soon I will post some new example code. Some others are working
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by samdk 16y ago
Practice, experiment, and get feedback Especially if it doesn't come naturally to you, getting good at design takes a ton of practice. But if you do practice, you can definitely improve your design sensitivities and skills. Make sure yo
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by samdk 16y ago
The original report is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/29/880179/-Research-200... What I find most interesting about this is that the statistics used here really aren't complicated at all: the missing zeros are a pretty classic
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by samdk 16y ago
Horrible for code, maybe. For doing design with CSS(/Sass/etc) though it's essential. I do :w, Alt-Tab, Ctrl-R constantly when I'm doing design. I'm constantly testing little changes. This looks like it could be quite a useful little hack

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