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Looks really cool, I'll probably order, although more cool samples on https://instapainting.com/gallery would make it more enticing to me.

The two on the top look great, the dogs look meh and the baby looks frightening. The dog on your Instagram looks awesome as well.

The page crashed Safari (and iOS7, restarting my iPad) on multiple tries to load it.

The main reason I like the comments on php docs is it's helpful for me to see a basic usage example. A lot of docs (your typical 'man' page for instance) just have a dictionary-like wall of text without a usage sample.

Feature detection has much greater overhead.

And the front end built by Development Seed has had no problems. It's been the marketplace built by another contractor.

Off course before you even get to all that, I'd be concerned about the steganographic problem where they go to your ISP's logs and see you've visited the site.

>> This bit is particularly disingenuous...

Yes and no.

His statement is correct in a historical perspective that Walter Cronkite and the local newspaper had little interest in covering these movements (or at least not in a sympathetic or fair light).

His statement is humorous, as you point out, when used as a leg of his argument that bookstores are still needed for these social reasons.

That takes me back. The "Web Pages That Suck" book was what got me into web design and programming.

Unfortunately, while I bet almost all designers would recognize that mystery meat is bad in the classic 90's context of using it on a homepage, its become acceptable with these sorts of interior toolbars.

So while github is not using it on the project homepage - probably because they recognize it would be MM and be awful - they are using it deeper down.

>> replaced with a slim, de-emphasized icon-based navigation.

This is the same problem I had with a Gmail redesign a while back. Using icons looks nice and allows for slimmer navigation but it decreases ease of use for me. I can find things much quicker with text labels.

Given the small size, the typical request is to be able to play/control an entire region offline.

http://pear2.php.net/ http://getcomposer.org/

That book is considered the 'Bible' of this area but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is looking to get started. It's like reading the dictionary.

Exactly, oftentimes regulation becomes a easy way for politicians and bureaucrats to extract money and power.

Net Neutrality! All bits are equal!

...Well except we want our VOIP calls to be clear so maybe they need priority.

...And there's this new distance medical imaging tech that should have priority because lives are at stake.

...Oh, your industry/business wants help getting an exception written into the law? I'm in Congress, I can help you, pay me.

"Maximizing everyone's liberty" is code for taking from some and giving to others to to achieve a "just" result. That's not how libertarians think, that's how modern progressives think. So you think a "real libertarian" should be in lock step with liberal progressives.

I don't want to protect corporate rights over peoples' rights. I want all rights protected in accordance with the non-aggression principle. I don't want you using the power of government to beat down your enemies.

What's the difference between composer and PEAR2/Pyrus? (http://pear2.php.net/)

We implemented a "mega box" drop down at the University of Nebraska (http://www.unl.edu/) in 2009. We didn't do a production a/b test but we did do in-person a/b testing using a custom web app that tested user's ability to find things in the navigation in the mega box compared to a traditional flag model. Mega box won.

Also note that this nav and template isn't unique to the homepage like most higher Ed institutions but is used site wide by all units. That was an epic battle story for another time.

In Japan they use them for useful stuff - scan one at a bus stop to get a real-time map of where the bus is.

In the US (so far) they have been used for crap - "scan this to see MORE advertising from us!!!!"

As an American who does this in pretty much every conversation I have, this is a difference I would never have thought of.

Semi-related: Do other countries have fragments of speech used as filler such as "like" and "you know"?

What if two people need to work together on a computer and they only have desktops. The commom-area closed room doesn't do them any good.

That's essentially how offices were in the 60s/70s - giant open floors with wall-like solid/glass partitions up to the ceiling. Also more configurable than drywall when the floorplan needs to change. Take a look at the current season of Mad Men for example.

I think what changed was cubical walls are much cheaper and easier to move and some managers like being able to walk around and keep an eye on everyone (Lumbergh).

Actually, what is that? What character is it? [Note I haven't read the article yet]

Most people don't change default settings. Therefore most people have a pretty crappy experience with all the gunk on facebook. Therefore people will get bored with it and you will have less reason to go yourself.

The problem with that is it takes away vertical space, the exact reason I hate hate hate the Chrome download bar.

I'm shocked by this one. I used to try to make sites like this - websites that mimic real-life interaction a la Microsoft Bob - around 10 years ago.

Although it's an instance of dated web concepts AND it features the dreaded 10 second Flash load wait time, it is an impressive achievement. If only in a "Winchester House" kind of way.

What is the "usable notepad" that comes on OS X? Are you referring to TextEdit? I guess I've never learned to use it properly because it just saves code as .rtf and blows it all up.

As far as I see it Windows requires getting Notepad++ and Mac requires getting something like Text Wrangler.

This is spot on. I'm a contributor noob and when I search bug trackers for an issue I'm experiencing I run across a lot of reports like, "the user profile page is broken". That's not helpful to anyone. I'll then submit a detailed bug with detailed steps to reproduce, php errors generated, etc.

Your quick iterations and releases are great. Just yesterday I ran into a bug that had been introduced into 1.5.1 (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8456) so I reverted to using 1.5.0 and then, bam! - today's new release has the bug fixed!

Best fix is to use the NoScript extension for Firefox and in Advanced->ABE add the following so FB crap only loads when you visit facebook proper:

  Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
  Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
  Deny INCLUSION(SCRIPT, OBJ, SUBDOC)

To be fair, isn't Facebook moving towards using iframes (similar to what this article talks about) and away from fbml - facebook markup lang?

That may be true but it's not a direct rebuttal to the previous comment.

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