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by unconed 15y ago
What if I'm not an American company, I just happen to use a .com domain?
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by unconed 15y ago
In the same way you can't become a good coder by reading, you can't become a designer by looking. My best trick was to look at a design and then try to recreate it without looking again. Comparing my version with theirs would often show me
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by unconed 15y ago
Web servers used to serve just static pages. So when dynamic web applications were invented (e.g. CGI), they tried to slot in as transparently as possible. The web server would invoke a process, pass in the HTTP request, and get back the ap
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by unconed 15y ago
I don't have a link, it was a Mozilla evangelist at a live event who was showing off the 'new' 3D abilities. And I did file a bug. The first reply was: "this should be split up into multiple bugs" with no further information. Apparently, su
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by unconed 15y ago
Finally found the link, here's Mozilla whining about Apple's CSS 3D showcase locking out other browsers (which wouldn't be able to display it anyhow): http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/06/intellectual-honest... Two years later, Firefo
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by unconed 15y ago
According to Wikipedia, SVG fonts were 3 out of a 100 tests. If you ignore those, Firefox 4 passed ACID3 about 2 years after Opera and WebKit, and that's only counting the actual released versions rather than nighties. But it's not even abo
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by unconed 15y ago
There's always the one engineer who considers annoying workarounds a normal part of using software. You're not addressing the problem, only delaying it by one page. Most links posted here get torn to shreds over far more trivial things.
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"Unknown or Expired Link" - A failure in gauging user intent
15 points by unconed 15y ago|6 comments
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by unconed 15y ago
Remember when Opera and WebKit were racing for 100% compliance on the ACID3 test, while Mozilla was whining that the test wasn't valid? Remember when Apple published a gallery of beautiful 3D CSS effects, and Mozilla was whining that "it wa
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by unconed 15y ago
Bipartisan just means whatever is in the middle of the window of acceptable discourse, which then shrinks further into nothing, until they're no longer debating what policy should be, but merely who should implement it.
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by unconed 15y ago
Oh lol, how north American of you. On the last two i mean.
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by unconed 15y ago
Generally, chasms between people's ideas of how things should be, and reality, are to be celebrated. It's where radical innovation comes from. Why does it frighten you? Average people are boring. They are generally fodder for mediocre busin
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by unconed 15y ago
I don't disagree, but I think this is a void easily fixed with the right libraries and frameworks. Remember the web before jQuery? You couldn't get most developers to touch JS with a ten foot pole...
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by unconed 15y ago
If only there was some kind of blog or journal that described the choices made, so we wouldn't all have to wildly speculate. Oh, wait.
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by unconed 15y ago
So... did it load fast? Was the content readable, selectable and natively scrollable? Did I break any of your regular habits, like 'back' or 'open in new tab' or copy/pasting links? Did you get a good sense of the site's contents and purpos
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Some more tidbits from ex-Codemasters employees(jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com)
2 points by unconed 15y ago|1 comments
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by unconed 15y ago
As someone who knows more than 'a bit', I can tell you, it smells like snake oil from miles away. All the obvious signs are there: needlessly bashing existing tech, handwaving around very hard problems and demo videos that are staged to hid
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by unconed 15y ago
As an OS X user, I would call OS X the opposite of "app centric". It's document-centric first. Apps are binding glue, but windows that represent documents come first. A window representing one document will never switch to representing anot
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by unconed 15y ago
At the same time, the US is one of the biggest markets around, so it provides a reasonable case study and it tends to be the first to get any upgrade. It would be a nightmare to try to do the same for Europe for example because of the fragm
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by unconed 15y ago
I was surprised at the iOS 4 omission, but for the love of god, please don't argue based on the version numbers alone. They never tell the whole story, and it depends on both software maturity and industry whether an upgrade is major or min
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by unconed 15y ago
Two things keep me on Android: - Great Gtalk IM - Swype keyboard If I cared about using lots of apps, it would be iOS all the way.
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by unconed 15y ago
Thank you for putting it so succinctly. The fact that you got mostly emotional responses from supposedly levelheaded hackers shows how much you hit the nail on the head.
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by unconed 15y ago
My Documents is the worst possible solution to "I can't find my files." First of all, they designate only one part of the visible filesystem as "safe", when it should be the opposite. Everything that's obviously accessible should be safe, a
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by unconed 15y ago
Tons of things in our society came from a religious background and were liberated from it. Galileo studied the stars and argued against the Pope to become closer to God, that doesn't mean astronomy is mysticism. For people who sit at a desk
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by unconed 15y ago
The guy seems to be thinking too much like a mathematician. The whole purpose of PageRank is not to calculate a perfect mathematical score based on graph topology, it's to model the likely behavior of people surfing the web. Links in the gr
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by unconed 15y ago
Aside from the curly quotes, his "unicode canary" still only uses Latin-1 characters. Dumb. At least throw some latin-2 and/or Cyrillic/Greek in there.
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by unconed 15y ago
The tech basically has to be a variant of sparse voxel octrees. Carmack has mentioned it in an interview years ago, It's reasonable to assume he's built his own prototype, as he does with pretty much anything else.
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by unconed 15y ago
I wish you'd start one now. There is a huge population of developers out there who are not only oblivious to usability issues, but even get offended at the notion that unique insights are required to make something usable rather than just u
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by unconed 15y ago
I think the main differentiator for inverted Y is whether you map the motion of the mouse into the vertical plane (i.e. directing your gaze, non-inverted) or treat it as a flightstick for your neck (i.e. directing forward/backward tilt, inv
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by unconed 15y ago
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory it works, in practice it doesn't. Even the early adopters stopped using OpenID.

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