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Count me in too. I'm just not a fan of tennis. One 2560x1600 monitor feels much more fluid than tracking my head across two monitors that amount to a 16:5 screen with 3" of deadspace (bezels) running down the middle.

I don't know, I definitely prefer scrolling vertically (in both panels) on my MBA 11" to horizontally scrolling every time I need to read a line in its entirety. 680px wide just isn't enough for the inspector. That said, 1366x768 is certainly not on optimal resolution for development, period!

I've purchased more than my fair share from GameStop and have never encountered such pressure to buy used. What I have encountered is pressure to pre-order new titles and a subscription to 'Game Informer', a magazine that promotes new titles in the form of previews, teasers and reviews.

I simply wouldn't buy games at a $59 price point if it didn't include the ability to trade or even just let friends borrow.

I really, really love games, but my preference has shifted toward indie and 2D. There are exceptions (Fallout 3), but most AAA console titles impart too much of a 'Michael Bay' experience and aesthetic for my tastes.

Actually, decoupling the display from the keyboard (iPad with BT KB) could result in a much more ergonomic setup. But in all honesty, the only time I use an iPad for dev is when my air is charging. Even Textastic pales in comparison to a hard keyboard/mouse.

Have you viewed them on a new iPad? Much sharper than PNG/GIF. Even on "standard" res tablets, if an image-based UI element is scaled in any capacity, the smoothing renders it as blurry as an antialiased font or SVG.

The font looks great, but it would be nice if the headline and body copy were set in Subtle Sans to provide a live preview.

Same boat here. I've really only skimmed 'Think Complexity: http://greenteapress.com/complexity/index.html but it looks like a nice, digestible introduction to a broad range of topics. If you want to get more (way more) in-depth, have a look at 'Mathematics for Computer Science': http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcsfull.pdf

I'm reading/working through this book now and can't recommend it enough, especially for those with limited time (or limited ability to focus and study due to environmental factors). I've worked through most of the first two chapters of SICP, but honestly felt a little overwhelmed at times. TLS has been enlightening AND fun. The format is genuinely unique and well-suited for reading/thinking in the small slivers of free time I have between work, kids, freelance, Khan academy, etc.

Most exercises don't require an interpreter, which is nice if you need a break from screentime. But I do enjoy working through some of them in Racket or even Pixie Scheme. TLS isn't free or available in a digital format (AFAIK), but the book is inexpensive and very portable.

I could use the old 8300 keyboards (even though the keys felt small), but my wife's 9780 is almost impossible for me to use with any precision or speed. It's much faster for me to use my N1 stock Android keyboard with one thumb than fumble with those minuscule, oddly beveled (9780, not 8300) keys. But she loves it!

I think there are plenty of landscape Android sliders out there, and even though many are getting long in the tooth, the CPU/GPUs would still easily surpass all but the latest-gen BBs.

Yep. A big, hot pink "FPO" stamped on anything w/out usage.

Is your browser not open to full width and height? I'm on an 11" MBA, and didn't have to horizontally scroll at all (at 1366px wide), and I could see the end of the fold easily.

Regarding the disappearing scrollbars, I've actually added prompts for scrolling to a website, knowing that Lion, iOS and Android users wouldn't get a hint from visible scrollbars. (My biggest issue is the way horizontal scroll is so easily misinterpreted as a swipe [chrome in lion]. At least a few times a week I inadvertently go back a page...)

I often have problems with eye irritation/fatigue after a long day of work and thought an e-ink device would make night reading easier. Got a kindle touch, tried it for a week. It was worse, without a doubt. I tend to read in dim light (indirect lamp), and found that the kindle needed direct light for me to easily read without eyestrain. iPad with very low brightness, or even in reversed accessibility mode is nicer. For me, that is. And, any book or paper with code samples just doesn't work well on a small e-ink screen.

I've also had a lot of problems, primarily that email subjects don't properly link to the body. Very confusing. I gave up on the app after a couple of updates.

Wonderful list, the only thing I'd add is to convert a PSD to sRGB before handing off if using a different color space.

Regarding export: the Monitor Color vs. Document Profile popup: http://photoshopetiquette.com/#exporting unless I'm mistaken, this only pertains to the preview of the optimized image within Photoshop.

And if you must embed a color profile on export, save it for photos only.

MBA 11" is actually 1366x768, but I'd prefer the 16:10 screen of the Asus over the 16:9 MBA. Also, unless the panel has changed, the Transformer has a beautiful IPS screen. The colors and viewing angle on my MBA suck compared to an iPad or Transformer.

According to Carmack, it's on rails to reduce file size (texture LOD):http://toucharcade.com/2010/11/19/john-carmack-on-rage/

I love mine too, but only after I replaced the pleather pads with velour pads. I liked the soundstage and smoother high end of the 280s, but they just weren't comfortable. Wish I had a door on my office so that I could use Grados...

I got the same impression. I think only 4.0 has running apps and the ability to swipe away notifications (like CM), right? The webOS cards also act as stacks of windows within each app. It's nice to be able to click one in the background to bring it into the foreground, swipe one up to close, etc. WebOS is clean and pretty. Feels like the good parts of Android and iOS. Unfortunately, it can be slow and laggy, and only has around 5,000 apps.

You might need an external optical drive to install to the flash drive. But booting from USB may be difficult. You could try reFit http://refit.sourceforge.net/

Well, he had a conversation with YOU; DHH had a conversation with 52,000. I felt the ad hominem attacks were a little brusque, and while they certainly didn't offend me, I can understand that some would consider his reaction a bit unprofessional.

I'd personally reserve a moniker like "fucking scumbags" for people who would steal from their family/friends to fuel a coke habit. Or maybe Go Daddy.

EDIT: ok, I'll now admit that I misunderstood the term "ad hominem attack". A more appropriate definition would be "overly-generalized insult left open to interpretation", e.g. "douchebag". Something along the lines of "fucking lazy hack" would probably have been more accurate.

It's very common to use shortened URLs to decrease the complexity and size of the resulting code. I don't think most users scanning codes are any more concerned than they are clicking on a shortened twitter link.

Well, I certainly didn't appreciate the potential use cases for an iPad: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236558 until I used one for a while. I love gaming on the iPad. The abundance of well-designed, easy and quick to play 2D games is almost overwhelming.

The iPad is fantastic for video. Several hours of tutorials or iTunesU before needing a charge. My 11" air can burn a full charge in a couple of hours of video playback (flash or html5). And it's nice to watch on the iPad, and code along on the Air.

Reading and browsing goes to the Air or EeePC. The keyboard makes a very convenient stand. Lying in bed, propping the front edge of the laptop on my chest and using the trackpad to navigate is ridiculously effortless (and lazy). Page load is noticeably faster. Text is also much crisper on the otherwise inferior TFT screen. A touchscreen does bring a somewhat visceral (for lack of a better word) feel to browsing that I miss on a computer.

Of course, all of the above would hold true for an Android tablet as well. Ok, maybe not the games, yet, but the Market is getting there quickly.

Looks to me like they're all base64. Jsdo allows file uploads, so I'm assuming that (outside of novelty), the animations may not execute properly if the images aren't loaded. Using base64 ensures the images are loaded before the keyframe anims are rendered.

The intention of CSS grid frameworks certainly was at one time limited to rapid prototyping, but I'm seeing more and more sites deployed with default grid classes and CSS intact.

Using divs with classes of row, column, span_X, grid_x, et al. is, from a semantic standpoint, no better than using tables. And Bootstrap's CSS file is nearly 2500 lines, unminified with a 47K minified file size. That's a lot of overhead if you only need grid, typography and pretty forms.

It makes a lot of sense to keep the full CSS file linked while iterating the design/layout, but once it's in production, the grid classes can be replaced with semantic names and the extraneous styles removed. Here's an article I found on the 960gs homepage that covers not only combining/renaming classes, but also minimizing the amount of extraneous container divs: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/03/fight-div-itis-and-c...

Bootstrap's styles are more polished and comprehensive than Foundation's. Foundation's CSS file is very well commented and half the size of Bootstrap's. Bootstrap's modals work with IE8, with Foundation's modal I get an error. Foundation's Orbit JS slideshow is easy to implement, but seems a little buggy in FF.

phpnode got it right - I'd be more inclined to use Bootstrap in cases for which I have no design, or a simple design with latitude for many elements. Client extranet, back-end utilities, etc.

I wonder if photography was rolled into that cost? I'm sure some shots are reused and rights-managed stock, but for those that aren't, the costs of planning, lighting, rigging, stylists, talent, etc. would be significant. And it looks as though each location has 30+ photographs: http://www.preview.fourseasons.com/find_a_hotel_or_resort/

If you need a responsive grid with a similar aesthetic, check out Zurb's Foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com

Not a vegan or vegetarian here, but I have a hard time believing that even a strict vegan diet could be worse than a diet with an excess of saturated fat, growth hormone and estrogen from commercial beef, chicken and pork. And if we want to talk about abusive diets, let's not forget about fast food (including Applebee's, et al.).

Pubmed has a lot of abstracts pertaining to metabolic rate: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18198305 "Body weight is defended in non-obese participants during modest caloric restriction, evidenced by metabolic adaptation of RMR and reduced energy expenditure through physical activity." There are plenty of other studies that support CR as a factor in lowered RMR. I read one (can't remember where) that used non-obese women. IIRC, the women on 300kcal deficits had no change in metabolic rate, while those on 500 did.

One factor influencing photographers could have been that many of their high profile clients were (and are) creating and hosting Flash websites. A lot of ad agencies still espouse Flash websites. Check out thefwa.com or Comm Arts Interactive awards: http://www.commarts.com/interactive for examples.

A bit of a tangent, but many large advertising/"digital" agencies that really should know better are still serving up all-Flash sites with little or no fallback: http://www.firstborn.com http://ff0000.com http://www.goodbysilverstein.com http://www.toolofna.com http://www.soleilnoir.net http://www.toolofna.com/

Of the above, Red is the worst, offering this one-liner (in #333, no less): "You need to upgrade your flash." Yes, even on iOS. Other all-Flash agency sites, like http://www.ogilvy.com and http://www.razorfish.com prefer to serve Flash, but manage to offer nearly all information and content in the absence of a Flash plugin.