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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Also does JSONP for use in the front-end. It would be nice, vicaya, if you fact checked before throwing stones.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
JSConf was ridiculously good. I say that as someone who goes to a lot of conferences. Also I met a bunch of folks from HN, and that's never bad.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
You should read Fog Creek's take on this http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
574.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
You still shouldn't use @import, which is a designer sucking programming. @import can cause FOUC as well as slowing down page render a lot.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is a short post mostly devoid of content, where the author argues that "Best Practices" are an oxymoron if everyone is doing them. This is based on an assumption that at given point in time there isn't an ideal solution (or an approxim
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Most significant paragraph from the whole piece: Though YUI performs ably, it’s my opinion that the numbers seen in TaskSpeed should be taken with a hefty grain of salt. The tests are designed to exercise library abstraction logic against
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is some good advice. However, I would say you need to use something like YUI-Fonts ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts ) before you go mucking about with font sizing in browsers. This is because it varies across browsers.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
It's very interesting, but I dislike how the article refers to a "thinking machine". The computer is finding a best match algorithm from a search space in an experiment designed by people.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I wish they had covered more about the tracking. For example cli.gs has similar tracking capabilities to bit.ly but the cli.gs interface is way more annoying. Cli.gs also has geo targeting which is unique to my knowledge.
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Archivd live, congrats aristus et al(archivd.com)
4 points by sh1mmer 18y ago|0 comments
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
The pricing is crazy. For things without a fixed cost you should be charging pence for 1000s of results not 1s. For phone and txt you have fixed costs and that's obvious, but I would reprice with everything except the phone and text at the
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Your sign-up page doesn't mention an email verification step. It took me a while to figure it out. I finally did figure it out because after I'd tried to login a couple of time (without a good error message), and tried to register the secon
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
You should export as a alpha-transparency PNG-8 not PNG-24. The reason for this is that IE6 won't render any PNG-24 transparency it just makes it all opaque. However with PNG-8 IE6 will make all alpha transparency transparent. This means IE
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I like the site, so it's kind of a shame for me that you called it "Da Button Factory". It just feels childish and cheesy. Was there a reason for "Da" instead of "The"? Programming isn't "gangsta" rap, after all.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Step 1. Send Gmail user an email for some free Porn, Get Rich quick, etc Step 2a. Ask them to create a username/password for their free Porn Step 2b. Use the password to change their Gmail account login, download all their other account inf
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This comparison misses something key, the Wii's innovation wasn't aimed in this direction. The Wii completely broke the mold in a number of other, apparently (by its sales), more significant ways. I can fully appreciate not building an arch
587.
by sh1mmer 18y ago
Grumpy home-brewers care.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I did the same as this guy. My conclusions Flot (mentioned in his previous article) still kicks ass but needs a bit more work. Emprise is really nice if you are happy to pay. Personally I think Flot does an equivelent job for free. Although
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Hm. Ok seems you are right but plzrt.me or whatever something that's as concise as possible.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I love the design it's great.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
pleaseRT.com is too long. What about rt.me ? It's available and then your URLs would be a lot shorter.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is just good advice. Period. You aren't doing your job unless you understand (to some extent) the goal and thought processes of the people and organizations you work and partner with.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
This is actually the problem with a lot of the W3C standards (I should know I've worked on 3). Often times the working groups identify a problem that needs to be solved, but there isn't a solution. The web moves so fast there is this great
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
If you look at all examples in this thread all the software they refer to is GUI based non-technical applications. I think this highlights where Open Source competes the most, applications which the engineers build for themselves. Apache, f
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I hope you read any article on Hacker News before upvoting it. More than that I hope you read the comments too, because if you aren't an expert that might be one here who can help debunk snake oil before you upvote. I've been caught a few t
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
They might even get offers from a wider range of people than attend if it was broadcast. That's the point of TC50 right? To give people a chance to pitch in public.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
But not on his site.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I think the key point is that he was only potentially alienating < 4% of his audience. While I agree it was awesome it's only appropriate if you don't lobby Microsoft by shafting your users.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
I figured it out. It's a bug with youtube player. If you try and skip to the middle using the timeline bar without pressing play first it says the video is no longer available.
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by sh1mmer 18y ago
Sorry didn't work for me off the page. hm.

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