steveax

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   by steveax 11y ago

   We really have gotten better (and expectations are higher). Remember the abominable multi-row tab control dialogs common in Windows apps [1] shudder. Does anyone remember Debabelizer? [2] Really amazing piece of software with an interface t
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   by steveax 11y ago

   I really hate the "humanized" dates in the github website interface. "3 days ago" is not useful to me when I'm comparing dates.
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   by steveax 11y ago

   "Magnify browser's viewport (typically "pinch-zoom")" That is exactly what is disabled when authors disable zoom via the meta property.
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   by steveax 11y ago

   Yes. Screen readers load the page contents into a buffer and allow users to scan headings, links, etc. having a broken outline structure is potentially confusing [1]. This is also why descriptive linked text is important (ie: no "click
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   by steveax 11y ago

   I like pass a lot and it's pretty darn convenient and fast. It's my password manager of choice. GPG encrypted text files, simple, secure.
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   by steveax 11y ago

   Enforcers make those kind of decisions all the time. Ever been "let go with a warning" for some other kind of violation?
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   by steveax 11y ago

   Pretty much my sentiments. I've been cycling for over 40 years and have gone from never wearing one, to always wearing one, to seldom wearing one.
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   by steveax 11y ago

   Remorse is often considered in criminal matters. I don't see how this is any different.
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   by steveax 11y ago

   Yep, it's the cause of many accidents. I noticed that Tesla's new cruise control uses radar and adjusts the speed to maintain adequate distance [1] [1]: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/review-tes
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    by steveax 11y ago

    There are many laws like that, following too close comes to mind. If in doubt, wait to pass until you're sure you have room.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Re: pipelines, you can feed external data into a Photoshop doc [1] [1]: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-data-driven...
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Yep, great examples. Also, pretty much any experienced Photoshop user will create their own actions to automate common operations. And then you have things like workflows in Alfred.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Also JLG's Be Inc (BeOS)
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    by steveax 11y ago

    I guess you've never tried to navigate and understand a web page made only with div and a elements in a screenreader.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Not to mention lying to the FBI about it. It's not the crime that'll get you, it's the coverup.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Apple suppoted Rosetta from 10.4.4 (January 2006) through 10.6.8 (July 2011). Seems like a pretty generous transition period to me.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    QuickTimeVR Toolkit. It was painfully slow on my Quadra and the stitching usually had to manually corrected by nudging the images around (didn't help that this was pre-digital cameras and errors in slide registration and scanning compo
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Obligatory link to Everthing is a Remix: http://everythingisaremix.info
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    by steveax 11y ago

    And in fact if there are great differences in the length of the names it makes it harder to read as scanning across and maintaining the correct line becomes more difficult.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Tons of respect for Yvon. He has been thinking about how to do things better for a very long time. Here's a seminal bit of climbing history from the 1974 Chouinard catalog by Yvon and Tom Frost: A Word [1] [1]: http://www.pa
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Yep, kudos to the backwards compatibility. Our original stack was Ember and ember-model and we have made the transition to ember-cli and have been tracking ember-cli and are slowly moving the legacy features to ember-data while implementing
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Really? That's a pity. Amy has serious cred in my book. The front half of the show is probably the most information dense international news out there.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    My usual line: not all conspiracies are merely theories.
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    by steveax 11y ago

    Yeah, Benetech is a great outfit. I had the privilege of doing the front end work for the Bookshare.org website when they revamped it in 2007. Was a fun project and we got tons of good feedback during development from a terrific community o
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    by steveax 11y ago

    As a long time PDX resident (not "native" but Portland has been my home for 25 years) the current housing market alarms me. It's like 2006 all over again. The usual NAR "go go go!" cheerleaders, bidding up way above
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    by steveax 12y ago

    I think Rebecca Murphey's latest "Baseline" post [1] covers this pretty well. Not sure I'd include Node, but ES2015, modules, testing and build tools/automation for sure. You should know your way around the browser
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    by steveax 12y ago

    So your saying that tests should always rely only on the id attribute? Tell me how you target elements that have id attributes auto-generated by a framework either on the front end, Ember for instance, or the back end? It's a nice idea
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Until you have a ton of automated tests. Then a markup (class) change breaks all the selectors used in the tests - not fun. I prefer to abstract the styling so I don't have to fix the tests if the styling needs to change.
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Thanks for the link. Terrific essay. I often look at the industry I'm in and the dominant political & economic perceptions the participants adhere to and wonder if there is an ignorance of history, or just a misguided belief that &
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    by steveax 12y ago

    If you're whiteboarding with a simple pass/fail mentality, I'd say you're doing it wrong. A good whiteboarding exercise lets you see how a candidate explores a problem. Do they ask insightful questions? How do they break