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Anyone know if they are they using an open source tool to run the intro animation? Can't tell from the minified source.

Note that the included webfont variants have fairly enormous filesizes (WOFFs: 120K+, SVG: 1.2M+).

Quickly running the .ttf through FontSquirrel at default settings produced versions several times smaller (caveat lector, not sure what glyphs are being stripped out, etc.)

I look forward to competing with you one day!

Seriously though, you contest the idea that an interface with interactions which hide complexity and have been shown to be pretty intuitive could be decisive in how users value a product?

Pragmata non-Pro.

I've also been thinking about this irony the past year or so. The startups that most evidently have their shit together in terms of product, design, branding, etc. are in a way the least "believable in", since they seem likely to quickly become catnip for acquirers. Sparrow, for one.

Something in the JS on the individual gallery pages is mauling my CPU. Bad carousel implementation?

Trying to get a handle on what one gives up with the ST plan. Here's what I've got: no domestic or int'l roaming, no visual voicemail, hard data cap at 2GB/30days, and no streaming services (Spotify, Pandora) over 3G. That cover it? Thanks.

Epic humblebrag.

New York, NY - Full-time

We're hiring a Ruby/Javascript developer at Curbed Network.

Curbed Network publishes the sites Eater, Curbed and Racked nationally and in local markets all over the US. Our tech team is small, no-bullshit, and productive. Our projects are built with Sinatra, MongoDB, jQuery and Redis.

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You may find a better market for this one in Australia.

5. redis-stat from https://github.com/antirez/redis-tools

One can see that the companies share some design language in Loewe's current product line:

http://www.loewe.tv/int/produkte.html

S/he means font-feature-settings.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-pr...

http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-feature

Yeah, "lore" is nearly synonymous with "myth" to me. Funny choice.

The takeaway here is not "Startups bad", it's "Life-hostile startups without meaningful equity and reasonable liquidation preferences bad".

"Streaks" for iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streaks-motivational-calendar...

#constraints #value #cognition #paradoxofchoice

May I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.

We were significantly harder hit than either you or Marco, looks like. Our entire stack of 3 servers - app server and db master/slave - disappeared and remains offline to this point.

I'm curious about what happened, but ultimately I put this down to an unfortunate side effect of using blades.

Did it occur to your girlfriend's Dad that the name "Hamburger" might indicate something about the origin of the dish? I wonder if that would impact his interest in trying it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#First_beginnings

You answered a question with a question, possibly a wise question, but nevertheless an obtuse reaction to the questioner's want of tactical knowledge. You were downvoted once and decided that one person's lack of appreciation of nuance meant the service as a whole has none, and that it wasn't for you.

I quickly conclude from this that you are quick to conclusions. I've found many topics on Quora which have accreted answers which encompass a range of nuance and even questions in kind. I may have even downvoted some of those answers, but I didn't do so in hopes that anyone would stop using the service.

In re: whether you just don't want to be on Quora or you are predicting its demise, the title of your post does allude to a certain implacable finality...

False dichotomy. They're both aggregators per se, but one top-down curates breaking news (and reactions to it, which is why a story may take up so much space), the other uses voting to optimize news of any age to the interest level of a community.

I don't disagree with Fred's conclusion - that Techmeme is hard to take sometimes - but that seems more a reflection of the quasi-autistic and frequently hysterical focus of the tech media these days.

My company sends nearly 3MM messages a month through SG. We're largely happy, but I concur on each one of these pain points.

Try reading it as opinionated writing, rather than a mathematical proof of something that is offensive to you personally.

IMHO one should be able write without the pretense of neutrality and be judged holistically rather than dismissed out of hand.