smickie

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by smickie 14y ago
Hi, I'm the founder of Mailrox. Wasn't expecting a HN post this soon, I accidentally got tweeted by Smashing Magazine. Happy to answer any questions you've got.
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by smickie 14y ago
From what I've heard, Carmageddon was a fantastic game, however... I had the N64 version, it was one of the buggiest game I have ever played. It was always fun watching the AI navigate tricky sections of straight road.
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by smickie 14y ago
I love spritifying and existing site and watching the load times drop in usage reports. Here's a great idea that I would like to see implemented concerning css sprites and the rails asset pipeline: In your .erb.css file you could include ea
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by smickie 15y ago
Funny this came up, I was just looking at how Twitter's bootstrap creates the "caret" drop-down arrow. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#buttonDr... If you inspect the down arrow it's created in the same way. Interesting
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by smickie 15y ago
Superb. Will it be regularly updated? One thing I'd add is to the app overview page, add a quick overview of the processes going on. You have to go pretty deep to look at the number of workers/dynos. It runs really smoothly, best heroku UI
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by smickie 15y ago
What tools do you use to profile js on a webpage?
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by smickie 15y ago
It looks like a media organizer with the complicated sidebar. Once you switch off that side bar (I assume you can because the second two screenshots don't have one) it looks like the good-old simple VLC player. I think they may have just pu
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by smickie 15y ago
One of my favorites was missing from the Animals section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent...
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by smickie 15y ago
I recommend watching "Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex" from this list. Makes one think of self-assured designers vs. AB testing, how trial and error is much better approach to the design of a site than God complex approach.
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by smickie 15y ago
How will if effect decisions like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15459005 ...where BT (big British isp) was told to block sites?
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by smickie 15y ago
I like almost everything about bootstrap, except for it's button states... They don't feel right. The 'hover' state should be the 'down'(active) state; the hover state looks like button is pushed in. The hover needs some kind of glow or sub
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by smickie 15y ago
Not working in IE6. Edit: It's a joke.
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by smickie 15y ago
I would pay good money for a postgresql client as superb as sequelpro, and I think a lot of other developers would. Someone is going to cash in on this gap if sequelpro don't beat them to it.
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by smickie 15y ago
Attachment view is one innovation that stands out, abstracting attachments from emails to allow independent file-system like browsing of them would be great. This client might be a little late to the party in terms of clean UI as something
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by smickie 15y ago
This is how overflow:scroll should have worked on iOS a long time ago. At the moment you have to mash two fingers in a webpage and scrape the content across that page. (Not sure if this is updated in iOS5?)
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by smickie 15y ago
Anyone find that grey on grey text a little hard to read?
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by smickie 15y ago
Yeah. That is really smooth and fast on the iPhone 3G. It's a great job. This is what overflow-scrollable areas on webpages should have been in iOS Safari. At the moment you have to mash two fingers into the screen and slowly drag it around
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by smickie 15y ago
Yeah, also why didn't he put screenshots of the pages in instead of link to Flickr pages which you need to be logged in to view?
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by smickie 15y ago
We only upgrade jQuery if the site is a massive web app, to get the performance gains from a new version. For most of your run-of-the-mill sites with a little sprinkling of jquery, to animate a few things and do some basic ajax, there isn't
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by smickie 15y ago
I emailed them a little while ago about the text in all their articles being justified, (which is a nightmare for certain types of dyslexics, who just end up seeing patterns and losing concentration). Apparently they've fixed it now, anywho