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by scorxn 18y ago
I get a salary that would be laughable by most standards, partly because I'm a young autodidact with a BFA, and partly because I live in a part of the US with very little web dev opportunity. I'm stuck here while my SO finishes grad school.
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by scorxn 18y ago
Yeah. I'm employee #1.
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by scorxn 18y ago
Thanks for that term, hadn't heard it before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business That's exactly what it is, and I want out.
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by scorxn 18y ago
What do you do if you find yourself having to wear all these hats, while the founder forwards emails and reads FastCompany all day? I don't see a hat for that.
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by scorxn 18y ago
I don't get the point. The only time a blank tab opens is when you're typing in a URL or search phrase, at which point your eyes are on the chrome anyway. If the Cognitive Shield has any perceptible load time, it's not worth it. Granted, at
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by scorxn 18y ago
Distribution of Internet Explorer 8 by Automatic Updates will begin shortly after the final release of the product, which is expected in 2009. Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/updatemanagement/dd365125...
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by scorxn 18y ago
The entire article HTML in the image title is especially abominable.
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by scorxn 18y ago
I believe you mean indiscreet, not indiscrete.
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by scorxn 18y ago
I've been working on it daily since October. Compared to osCommerce, Zen Cart and Volusion, Magento is slow and extremely flexible, mostly due to its EAV architecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-attribute-value_model . You can ben
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by scorxn 18y ago
Thanks for posting this. I haven't seen much about Magento on HN, though it's got a ton of potential for ecommerce startups. Unfortunately its development has been pretty rocky so far. I added this post to their bug tracker. I think someone
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by scorxn 18y ago
I'm utterly disappointed by the lack of the best input device I've ever touched: The Trackman Wheel. The amount of time, desk space, and wrist strain it's saved me over the years is unfathomable. Mice of any kind feel like toasters now.
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by scorxn 18y ago
I think it's funny that after working on a dual head, people tend to forget about window management and maximize everything, then get upset when faced with one screen. I much prefer one (giant) screen with tiled windows. It just feels more
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by scorxn 18y ago
Some, not all ;) http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Ubuntu
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by scorxn 18y ago
You're looking at it too literally. A grid is meant to be a basic visual system -- a framework in itself really -- that brings order to 2D design and usually gets obscured by graphics. All of these are based on exacting grids: http://www.w
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by scorxn 18y ago
2000 was about the time I discovered Linux. Looking back, it's jarring how much the desktop distros tried to emulate the latest version of Windows. I think the current distros are guilty of the same mistake. Rather than trying to advance th
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by scorxn 18y ago
On the contrary, I think the effectiveness of the design depends on its clutter. The clutter promotes exploration, as long as you're not expecting an informational tool.
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by scorxn 18y ago
Amen. If the goal of programming is to liberate humanity from tedium, what's with this kind of elitism? Many of us live happy lives as programmers with zero formal training but relentless curiosity; having never cracked SICP or taken an ele
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by scorxn 18y ago
http://www.cpbgroup.com/
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by scorxn 18y ago
The background fade looks like hell at ~1600px wide and doesn't even matte to the correct color on the right. Guess color correction took a backseat to ad planning.
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by scorxn 18y ago
http://us2.php.net/htmlentities
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by scorxn 18y ago
Practically speaking, I wonder how long custom tags will remain as flexible as they appear in the spec. It won't take long for search engines to decide their preferred tags, how they're weighted and how they relate. Then our tag schema will
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by scorxn 18y ago
For those of us with specific skills that may not be needed but want to help anyway... Suggestion: Change 'How would you like to contribute?' to checkboxes or add a radio button for 'Either'.
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by scorxn 18y ago
Though you may find some sections rudimentary, this is actually a great primer/refresher: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627
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by scorxn 18y ago
http://www.abevigoda.com
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by scorxn 18y ago
Summary: PHP is cluttered, people like to bitch about it but use it anyway, sometimes frameworks are good. The 'yet' is merely a weak thread through the vague, obvious noise. I want my 10 minutes back.
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by scorxn 18y ago
Ask PG: Does clicking on this bullshit actually improve the parent's rank, to any minuscule degree? If so, I have to be much more cautious.
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by scorxn 18y ago
First, who wants a pressed CD? Maybe your conn sucks. Maybe you don't want to mess with BitTorrent. Maybe you can't burn a disc. Maybe you just get the warm and fuzzies having something official. Or maybe you simply don't know about somethi
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by scorxn 18y ago
#3 was written by a copywriter for a Nike TV spot.
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by scorxn 18y ago
A pretty vague article. ALA used to be much better about addressing the "how" of their topics. Yeah, there are countless ways to prototype, but some expert examples would be valuable.
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by scorxn 18y ago
One of the tricks I've learned with Firefox is that under View > Toolbars > Customize... you can move the location of your "Bookmarks Toolbar Items" to the right of the menu bar. Then hide your "Bookmarks Bar" and the customized loc

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