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by ux-app 13y ago
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/
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by ux-app 13y ago
Awesome work! Thanks for creating such a great site, I've added it to my iphone home screen. The performance is great even on an older iphone4 which is quite the achievement. This will definitely be the way I consume HN on the go from
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The Apple obstacle for serious games(polygon.com)
3 points by ux-app 13y ago|0 comments
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by ux-app 13y ago
That is a really nice setup! What's in the cabinets on the left hand side of the first image?
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by ux-app 13y ago
isn't tearing preferable to input lag? As I mentioned, with v-sync on there is a very noticeable rubber-banding effect, with it off the result is (perceptually) far smoother. >It [vsync] should always be enabled by default Not sure abou
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by ux-app 13y ago
That is very cool. I got quite bad rubber banding initially (with a reported 60fps), however after turning off v-sync in chrome://flags I got super smooth 120fps performance. Would be great if Chrome had this option off by default.
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by ux-app 13y ago
> The reason they're slow is that they're also extremely complex and slow operations. In that case it seems that we need something new to replace CSS for layout. Or maybe a 'strict mode' equivalent for CSS where styling is separated fro
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by ux-app 13y ago
Yeah that's a fair point. What kinds of new apps do you think this will enable (besides games)? It seems that the DOM will continue to be the major bottleneck since presumably the GUI for these new apps will still be DOM based.
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by ux-app 13y ago
Not sure I agree with this. Very few web applications are CPU bound to the point of locking the UI. Web Workers are extremely useful, however very few current web apps benefit from them. Given they cannot interact with the DOM they are limi
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by ux-app 13y ago
For most applications JS doesn't need to get any quicker. What makes web apps feel like swimming through molasses is the DOM. Even something as simple as getting a Div to follow the mouse on anything but the simplest of pages is impossible
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by ux-app 13y ago
I have a feeling Firefox OS is going to be big. from what I've seen of YouTube demos the OS is quite responsive on modest hardware (gs2 and nexus s). I've had no luck this week trying to build the OS for a gs2. I'm hopeful that I'll have mo
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by ux-app 13y ago
Amazing looking product. Well done for nailing the visuals. Aggressive pricing is a good move also, seems like the right way to get some good traction. I would caution against the 'free forever' approach you've taken. Maybe free updates for
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by ux-app 13y ago
one potential benefit to HTML/CSS prototyping is that it's quite easy to share ideas. Upload somewhere and share a link. The equivalent for native would be screen sharing or sending an XCode/Eclipse project (or binary) which is slow and lim
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by ux-app 13y ago
> It's 2013, why aren't you using properties in all of your classes? It's snarky comments like these that prevent people from confidently sharing their code. Got a helpful comment to make? Great! How about sharing it minus the veiled in
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by ux-app 13y ago
I genuinely don't get this line of thinking. I understand that the US prides itself on individualism, but I can't understand the utter lack of empathy. I know you're disputing the 'paid $0' part of the OP's comment, however your response co
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by ux-app 14y ago
Hi Neil. 1. I teach Computing/IT and a few AU specific subjects (Research Project and Personal Learning Plan). In the past I have taught Maths up to year 8 level also. Both IT and Maths are great subjects. Personally I'm very happy teaching
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by ux-app 14y ago
If you're feeling similarly, or have in the past, and are looking for an alternative then you might want to consider teaching. I used to do cubicle work at a couple of tech companies and fucking hated it. I simply cannot stomach office poli
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by ux-app 14y ago
The types of layouts I was referring to are ones like: http://layout.jquery-dev.net/demos/complex.html http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/layout/adv_layout_so... https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/# http://docs.sencha.com/ext
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by ux-app 14y ago
> If you use javascript for layout, you're gonna have a bad time. I don't think this is necessarily true across the board. If you're creating just another brochure site then CSS does a good job of document layout and it's true that usig
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by ux-app 14y ago
flexbox is great, but it only solves a narrow set of layout issues. There's so much more that a constraint based system brings to the table. A layout system should make it extremely simple to anchor edges between arbitrary containers rega
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by ux-app 14y ago
I agree with you 100% about the need to separate styling from layout. CSS for layout just plain sucks. Layouts that should be simple turn out to require hack upon hack to achieve. In regard to your layout in JS question. There is an excel
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by ux-app 14y ago
If I have cancer in the US, my average survival rate is 65-70%. In the UK NHS, to use that as an example, it is 45% Do you have any links to studies that show this? The 20% gap seems extreme. better diagnostics, treatments, and options i
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by ux-app 14y ago
If I'm understanding things correctly, the JS produced is a subset of ES3. The use of typed arrays simply give supporting platforms an additional speed boost. According to Brendan Eich: "all of JS (ES3) is 'universally supported' [by asmjs
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by ux-app 14y ago
"Now I wish that the same thing done here to javascript, were also done to html, CSS, the dom, etc." I agree 100%. If only we could see similar progress in the speed of DOM updates/manipulation life would be great. The fact is that most w
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by ux-app 14y ago
Performance is far worse because this is the equivalent of a procedural texture. With a tiling bitmap the computer simply fetches the file, then paints the pixels into a region. With a definition such as: - radial-gradient(closest-side,
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by ux-app 14y ago
As a technical demo they're great. In practice though, I wouldn't recommend using these techniques because: - Many are completely broken in FF - Crashed my FF (19.0.2) and strangely sent my GPU fan into overdrive - These techniques
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by ux-app 14y ago
Personally I don't like ORMs because they're black boxes. When some complex model relationship results in crappy generated SQL (which I've experienced a number of times) I had to sit down and write SQL. The problem being that after a couple
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by ux-app 14y ago
You've missed the point of the article. Of course the author is picking from a predefined palette and placing colors in a memorised pattern. This is a theatrical way to demonstrate the main point of the article, which is that: it takes l
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by ux-app 14y ago
Just goes to show how subjective design is. I feel the exact opposite way on all counts. I find this trend to be refreshing and utterly delightful :)
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by ux-app 14y ago
> I'm confused as to why people seem to think that only designs featuring large blocks of color and strong accents qualify as "flat UI". What is this 'style' a reaction to? Gradients? Drop shadows? What for? Does anyone really think th

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