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5h··on Ditching responsive design
it's annoying size for me as my (and many many others) screen is 1920 pixels wide, and i often have two windows taking up half the screen, 980px means i get horizontal scrollbars popup
5h··on Basecamp Personal
my first thought was "Oh god, the comments will be full of half funny spam" ... looks like he's actually has some good discussion on them though https://github.com/frabcus/house/issues/66
5h··on Fizz Buzz codegolf challenge in 15 languages
Cool, much faster now :)
5h··on Fizz Buzz codegolf challenge in 15 languages
seems to be dead ... wonder if they are running the code submitted on the webserver & people have submitted busy loops or somesuch
5h··on Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution
can i have a link to your 10 year old 1920x1200 15" laptop? i'd buy one just for the screen to use in one of the many hacky projects!
5h··on Web agencies should do more than just hand over a set of templates
All good points, CMS ux can get fiddly, front end editing can help, but that's a rabbit hole i'm not keen on,

I think I've managed to keep things reasonably straightforward (e.g. for these oddball pages all the fields are on a single page in the admin, with a nicely segmented form), but as ever there is a lot of room for improvement, and I do concede a time for doing things by hand occasionally :)

5h··on Is language unique to humans?
A workaround, from the author no less!

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114046998698228319586/posts/GpH9...

5h··on Web agencies should do more than just hand over a set of templates
Hah, try working at an agency, Building that landing page and having all the parts editable by non-techy users is absolutely required & no real challenge, It just takes a "homepage content item" type system with specific fields for things like "hero image copy" or "content area 1 image/copy/icon"
5h··on Apple loses UK tablet design appeal versus Samsung
Streisand effect in full motion
5h··on The Courage To Say ‘I Don’t Know’
First thing i drill into every new-starters head, it's the most important words that can be said. There is nothing more infuriating than knowing someone has wasted hours, and nothing more awkward than them winging an explanation!
5h··on UK Government G-Cloud project - Sales Information
If the suppliers suppliers were detailed however....
5h··on The cookie law is dead, you’re welcome
not quite yet, fingers crossed though, the legislation is unabashed bullshit, i've been recommending my clients hold fire in spite of the fact this would be billable work for me, because it is so arse-about-face.
5h··on Dear ICO, Sue Us
Utter props to silktide to pushing this, I feel like half my posts on HN have been about this retarded legislation. Those who misuse cookies will soon use even more insidious means, those who don't are being forced into implementing stupid confusing boilerplate, utterly ridiculous!
5h··on Plugins you should put in your vimrc
I had to weed out all the crap that I had accumulated in ~/.vim/ over the years :)
5h··on Logins without logins.
I've not dug into how its implemented, but logging into airdroid via the qr code is a pleasure, and on the surface similar to what's being described here.
5h··on Plugins you should put in your vimrc
This, a hundred times over, after using vim for 4 years full time (e.g. pretty much 8 hours a day, and who knows how long before that intermittently) I finally took setup vundle, it was so worth all of the 600 or so seconds it took to get working.
5h··on Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined
i had a sony p910 some years ago, that had an optional keyboard but i never used it, character recognition (as in one character at a time ocr) actually worked, I was quicker on that than i am with swype etc now, it was awesome.
5h··on Show HN: A date range picker for Twitter Bootstrap
Very nice! is the datejs project still as dead as the website makes it appear?
5h··on The best approach for software development
methodologies attract cringeworthy acronyms, lets dub this gtfowidd, get the fuck on with it driven development, and lets all just go back to however we were doing it already ;)
5h··on Debian to use Xfce as its standard desktop
I was the same, made the jump to awesome wm instead (because I heard it had better multihead support (3 screens here) although I'm sure there is little in it) and couldn't be happier
5h··on .mail app
With the gmail web interface I already have all of these features,

actionsteps are stars in gmail, i use yellow & red bang, and red star .. just press s to rotate,

attachments have never been an issue but maybe thats just me, searching for "from:a@b has:att<down><tab>" is quite quick enough

and using filters & labels gives me the notification functionality, e.g. messages from facebook get a label, i can see facebook (3) or whatever on the left, but it will work for any type of email i wish.

"meh" is my main reaction to this, unless it has something new and is as transparent to synchronisation across devices as gmail i won't be interested

5h··on Starting a Django Project the Right Way
Heh, at some point soon[1]... once i've migrated the rest of my websites into rackspace cloud & their "next generation" offering stabilises i'll be writing a "This is how we do it now, it might work for you" type article.

[1] for a yet to be determined value of soon

5h··on Starting a Django Project the Right Way
True, the bit about developing on the server is straight up odd though (if i skimmed it correctly that is) as I find the debug mode exception screens rather helpful, and I wouldnt want debug mode running on a publicly reachable machine
5h··on Starting a Django Project the Right Way
I did only scan the article, but using having a remote repo hosting service (is it really developing on the server while using git?!) configured, branches for feature-dev/bugs/staging/qa/production, vm configuration via chef/puppet, separated settings files, fault reporting etc etc are most (for me) all a part of doing it the "right way" before writing a single line of my own code.
5h··on Example of HTML5 scroll
That one is nice too ... has a better claim of being html5 too, no <div id="header"> in site at least!

http://www.fishy.com.br/ and http://www.designmadeingermany.de/magazin/5/ are another couple of sites i have bookmarked for their design

5h··on Example of HTML5 scroll
Maybe i'm getting too cynical in my old age, I did edit my comment to say "or a friends" to reflect that.

Either way, if that is the case then there is a difference between "Here is something I made" and "Here is something done right" .. especially if that something has been done quite a few times & more impressively before.

5h··on Example of HTML5 scroll
yes, many many times before, Ben the Body Guard, and that fracking website are the ones i normally recall.

It's nice and all, but i suspect OP might be publishing their own, or maybe a friends, work

5h··on Open Letter to Web Designers and Developers: Max CSS
I have comments in my css too, mostly things like "product grid", "product detail" etc, which only really function as things to navigate with by searching.

Expecting comments in css to act as some sort of tutorial is a dead end, any website will involve html/css/js working in tandem, why put them in css, rather than html, or js?

A better format for this would be a number of good old fashioned tutorials, screencasts etc geared toward providing the mental tools to inspect any website.

So, sure it wouldn't be much work to add in a comment pointing to an unminified css file, but i fear it would be of little utility to someone learning. That is ignoring the fact i often have 20+ css files across a large site (minified compiled and combined before serving), similar number of js resources and who knows how many combinations of html templates...

5h··on Open Letter to Web Designers and Developers: Max CSS
A good command of chromes inspector etc makes this largely a non issue for me ...
5h··on Sublime Text 2.0 Released
I haven't used ST beyond a trivial play, I'd like to use it more but I'm also a "die-hard" vim user, everytime I try to switch I discover some feature of Vim isnt there, like half decent macros (at least stored in a buffer and editable in the editor itself), or text objects, or pathname completion, or sensible shortcuts for switching panes etc ...

Rather than spend a few hours before abandoning, do you think and advanced vim user could successfully make the jump?

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