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by vitovito 16y ago
The offscreen Mozilla branch I linked to above can. We use it for our private bookmarking/archiving site. Our headless Gecko drives the thumbnails and previews on qumbler.com. (I originally wrote "delicious/pinboard clone" instead of "boo
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Note: not genuinely headless. It still requires you run an X server, such as Xvfb. As far as I know, there's no genuine headless Webkit. For a genuinely headless system, consider Chris Lord's "offscreen" branch of Gecko, discussed here: h
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I think there's a difference between a community site for code reviews, and a commercially viable hosted code review service. For the former, I think that's a great idea. Last year I tossed around the idea of hosting Drupal code review mee
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Seeing the comment counts makes me wonder what the comments were. Is there any way to see those?
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This lets a client patch a server-side resource. For the other way, a server sending a patch to a client, I wrote up a few notes here: http://vi.to/nathan/oEmbed.html#line-39 Which it turned out were mostly in sync with Digital and AT&#38
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The tools "do have a learning curve," but then you say they "look intimidating?" Have you not evaluated both? Perhaps they might have a learning curve as a dabbler, but if you wanted to use your skills on projects for industry employers, o
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I used it for an architectural visualization startup. I built the entire prototype myself, including a virtual tour guide that used the gameplay AI to find its way around a building, and contracted out the content production to a few artis
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I'm interested! Also consider the (physical) hacker community at http://www.atxhackerspace.org/ or one of the many co-working spaces. Sunday daytime will be easier for bars, less so for restaurants. Only a couple of coffee shops have sp
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Philosophy teaches critical thinking and, to varying degrees, rhetoric and sales. I know plenty of CS folk who cannot think critically, nor articulate their thoughts or convince me of their ideas. Drop accounting.
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Source, from an insert in the January 2011 issue in HOW magazine: http://blog.howdesign.com/how-magazine/rules-to-live-work-by...
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Liberal arts like geography, anthropology and philosophy give you an excellent foundation for information architecture, business ethnography, user research and business analysis. A startup that's doing customer development instead of build
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Your friend is describing "poor man's copyright" or an "inventor's notebook," except done incorrectly. First, "poor man's copyright" is the wrongly-held belief that you can mail yourself something, and the official postal service postmark w
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It's been maintained: The latest version of that document: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/NetworkingOverview.html How Unreal's content packaging relates to its networking architecture: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/PackagesAndNetworking
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This and http://koders.com/ (which apparently acquired ohloh.net, which has project search of its own) are the first two hits when you do a Google search for "code search."
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I'd guess you're off by 10x to 50x. Your rough design specification is only the very beginning. Would you say it's around the Obama campaign app's complexity? $50,000-$150,000. Would you say it's around Twitterrific's complexity? $200,00
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I still use Balsamiq exclusively. None of the other tools offer the sort of additional features that would make me switch. Omnigraffle isn't specifically a wireframing tool, but is very popular with Mac and iPad users. Axure RP is also pop
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Austinite here, would also be interested!
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I think you need an understanding of the basics before you can start to evaluate why users are doing what they do and how to fix problems they have. The rest of the emails I've sent out recently do recommend that next, though. I just think
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Is it just me, or there a new one of these threads once or twice a day now? From a couple of emails I recently sent out: "I'd suggest starting out with 'The Non-Designer's Design Book,' which explains the basics of putting elements on a pag
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Related: Google Caja, Google's own project that compiles JS source into safe, capability-restricted JS source: http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/
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From an email I recently sent out: I'd suggest starting out with "The Non-Designer's Design Book," which explains the basics of putting elements on a page or screen together in a tasteful way; "The Humane Interface," which explains testing
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The author has a legitimate beef. "Game mechanics" is the new "Web 2.0" as far as misapplied buzzwords go, but "gamification" still comes out of "video games" and "psychology," both of which have been around longer than the web, and the we
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I'm not sure I'd put a ton of stock in the references the author cited. The primary reference is a book called "Game-based Marketing," which is by two authors who have never made or worked on a game. Zichermann is exclusively a marketer,
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I've seen a need for both ad hoc (submitting text to you one complete posting at a time) and real-time (chat streams, high-volume forums) handling of text for many of these, plus censorship: both detection (does this text contain banned wor
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The Coanda effect. Here's Jef Raskin's essay explaining it: http://web.archive.org/web/20070928072421/http://jef.raskinc...
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So, this was voted down because it was a reddit-style joke answer, but there's a kernel of truth in there. A user interface is different from the user experience because of the interaction (abbreviated Ix; interaction design is IxD). User e
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It depends on if you want recurring (subscription) billing, and what countries you need to support. Checkout by Amazon and Google Checkout both support you not having a merchant account. I've also used 2CheckOut in the past.
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You're half right: you may not actually be able to think of them like features. But "game mechanics" were "video games" and "psychology" a long time before they were distilled out, which means to take advantage of them properly, you really
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HN user imdane used to. Maybe he can chime in. Toastmasters was also the model for my design workshops, although I've never been.
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Another "cost" of living in the Valley, of which I am curious, is the fact that you're in an echo chamber. There are things which would only work in the Bay Area (just as there are things that only work in NYC or LA), which can't scale dow

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