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by tjpick 16y ago
Creator of YikeBike, electric bike. ‘big, hairy goal’ is for the YikeBike to be the most popular mode of transport in the world.
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Entrepreneurial veteran Grant Ryan speaking at TEDx(tedxchch.com)
1 points by tjpick 16y ago|1 comments
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by tjpick 16y ago
ah right. Never seen "infinite scroll" used to mean normal scrolling [arguably "finite" not that I'd actually bother calling it that.] That threw me off.
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by tjpick 16y ago
infinite scroll is mystery meat anyway. It breaks the standard affordance of the scroll bar -- that the length of the scroll bar reflects the total length of the page. One of those cases where trying to get clever just results in frustrated
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by tjpick 16y ago
> I know what I mean: software that never crashes, and runs rapidly. stability and efficiency shouldn't be the only factors you focus on. An empty loop is pretty fast and stable, but wouldn't solve most of the problems you're expected t
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by tjpick 16y ago
Whatever. You only have to be near the top for one thing, if any. For the rest of the things you do, a) enjoy yourself and b) drag yourself up to somewhere near the centre of the bell curve. You'll still be better than half the people who a
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by tjpick 16y ago
> I've realized that the buzz associated with fixing bugs or implementing new features is addictive because of the immediate feedback and also, maintenance and enhancement is probably a full time job.
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by tjpick 16y ago
Stating it is a joke kind of ruined the joke.
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by tjpick 16y ago
I personally don't give much of a crap about native HTML. That's just a transport, and let's face it, for doing apps it's shit. What I would want it to have is deep linking, back button behaviour and the other nice bits of HTTP.
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by tjpick 16y ago
and replace "good design" with "anything good".
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by tjpick 16y ago
It's probably not malicious. The dude just probably forgot to update it. Or was getting too much spam and started blocking a bunch of stuff. Or made a typo. I was just saying that not everyone has to let themselves be contacted. I didn't sa
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by tjpick 16y ago
There's plenty of good reasons not to make it easy for random internet strangers to contact you. It's hacker news, not stalker news.
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by tjpick 16y ago
Teachers are often just-in-time learners too.
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by tjpick 16y ago
Wait. How long is a piece of string again? 10-16px sounds completely arbitrary to me.
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by tjpick 16y ago
get natural light, get fresh air, get quietness.
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by tjpick 16y ago
you'd gain significantly more by reading a single, whole essay than by browsing that page of sound bites.
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by tjpick 16y ago
I would first read Tim Bray's "Don’t Invent XML Languages" http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/01/08/No-New-XML... Then use html's list structures, possibly with a microformat. Or maybe atom.
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by tjpick 16y ago
the closest neighbours are several hundred metres away, and the garden is large and located in a very fertile area. It only gets attacked like that a couple of times a year. It's not something you'd do every night after work.
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by tjpick 16y ago
I like to "garden" using a chainsaw. That's a pretty good workout.
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by tjpick 16y ago
don't apply to places that require .doc.
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by tjpick 16y ago
> I'm proposing a third option or hoping if it already exists. I would find it incredibly helpful if there were a resource that detailed the thought process and implementation steps that an experienced developer took in approaching a se
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by tjpick 16y ago
"Treat Your Own Back" by Robin McKenzie was recommended to me by a physiotherapist and my grandfather. General advice to consult your own GP or physiotherapist applies. http://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/0958...
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by tjpick 16y ago
the top two answers are opposite.
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by tjpick 16y ago
from the article: "90% of their desktops running Ubuntu" It's on the workstations too.
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by tjpick 16y ago
Nice. No disrespect to the author because yeah it looks handy, but 2.7 megs for 1 page of text? Give me a break. We've got limited download quotas here.
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by tjpick 16y ago
on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Specific-Languages-Addison-Wesl...
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by tjpick 16y ago
Users do scroll. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html From the article: Scrolling beats paging because it's easier for users to simply keep going down the page than it is to decide whether or not to click through for the
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by tjpick 16y ago
if by readability you mean obscurity. URL shortening breaks one of the best features of URLs: that the url exposes the location and name of the resource.
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by tjpick 16y ago
worth watching. Would up vote more if I could.
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by tjpick 16y ago
coming back after the fact and saying "I know you got a sweet deal on those IP addresses when they were going cheap but we've run out and want them back so we're going to charge you extra" isn't really going to fly. You could argue the same

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