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Ugh, shut up, nobody cares. Hey, maybe start taking care of your God-awful rendering engine and CPU cycles instead of wasting time on stuff like this?

Cool, always glad to read an article on design from a company that barely understands it.

Holy shit, are you implying that everything in the post about direct complicity in wiretapping, war crimes, lying to the American public, killing of civilians, and torture is just being another Republican?

Because that's the only way your post would make any kind of sense without being a clear-cut textbook strawman.

I fail to see how it's a black-list if the means of ejection is extremely public and based on pure market motivation? Conservatives with awful views tend to get "freedom of speech" and "freedom from social and business consequences" mixed up a lot.

I could see how you'd think this is purely political, but it isn't necessarily. Everything the post brought up is pretty antithetical to the ethics of most of Silicon Valley and startup culture in general. Sure, many Republicans might agree with her but many Republicans also think that gay people should be put to death.

Bad ethics should be called out as so, in this case I think hiding behind "politics" is a bit of a cop-out. It's not inherently liberal at all to make a case against Rice, in fact many conservatives would do the same.

Er, isn't this the opposite of a metaphor? A metaphor would be the name of a famous prison escape, not a famous prison itself.

That's a PowerMac/Mac Pro you're thinking of, lampshade is iMac.

Well, count me outside that norm too. I work in a pretty corporate environment and nobody here uses Microsoft stuff. In fact, I've never worked anywhere where the vast majority of people weren't on a Mac.

Guys, it's just a HUGE COINCIDENCE that the Dilbert guy is a big fat conservative who already believes that the rich are literally persecuted.

Personally, I don't think you can simultaneously use tons of plugins and also complain about being forced to include jQuery. If you don't have the time to roll your own, then you probably don't have the time to prototype Array ten times again for missing features in various clients.

This is a really neat idea, more power to you for making this.

It's a little slow/choppy in Safari though. Maybe you can use transforms instead for supported browsers?

Jeez I hate sounding like such a fanboy but here goes. They switched because IBM's only option they provided Apple for the future of their laptop line was just straight up embedding G5s into PowerBooks. This wasn't really feasible at all, they were already running dangerously hot and had abysmal battery life. PPC chips were just nowhere near energy-efficient enough. It really had nothing to do with benchmarks or power or whatever (in fact the initial Core Duo chips were much slower than their PPC counterparts).

I mean think about it, Apple makes next to no money on desktops, why would they prioritize power over energy consumption? Every once in a while they'll trump up some weird graph/metric like "24X FASTER" when talking about new chips in their devices, yet just about every keynote they talk up (in concrete numbers) how much longer batteries last. Hell, the latest release of OS X's biggest feature is enhanced energy management.

This is one of the biggest things that makes comparing Macs to PCs kind of silly to me—if you want raw power, you should absolutely go with a Windows box. Apple loses on that every single time, and they are fine with that.

You really don't think that the iMac was a crazy influential product? Even by computer nerd standards that we have, a 1024x768 display and USB-only ports were a very bold move that changed a lot. Not to mention the design of the damned thing and it's focus as a PC dedicated to the Internet in terms of a consumer product.

This literally looks like a Medium.com theme for Wordpress, and if I'm not mistaken there's a lot here that a solid frontend developer could do in their sleep. Many have done more spec work and not asked for crowdfunded money to produce it.

And if I WERE asking for money, I'd definitely make sure my project homepage worked in Safari.

Re: hipster-- I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Similar in NYC. I remember an interview where I was asked to bit-shift in Javascript, for the sake of itself.

I've also had good experiences though--I liked one where I had to build certain UI components and get my code evaluated in real-time.

This is literally the laziest counterargument you could make.

The artwork is good--but wow, the animation and execution are pretty underwhelming for something featured on Adobe.

Edit: In the interest of not being a negative prick, this is something by the same developer that I love: http://codepen.io/rachelnabors/full/lqswg

lmao @ Salesforce's developer marketing dude's brilliant response to all of this: "Nuh-uh, it was fair and square, those guys are all totally lying."

I guess this is what passes for "design" for people balls-deep in PHP engineering. The old one was at least quaint/retro, this is just kinda "babby's first blog design".

Close the thread everybody, a token woman just invalidated the whole thing. No misogyny in tech. Also one time a black dude said "what racism? lol" so there's no racism.

Sure, there's general misogyny and all that, but just browse the rest of this thread if you don't think that the tech industry has a disproportionate amount. HN is one of the worst offenders, as a matter of fact.

I agree that it's not necessarily an example of misogyny in tech per se, but it's absolutely a contributing factor in why there are so few women in tech -- many first experiences tend to be as the sole female in classes with socially outcast males.

"silence specific demographics"

Haha, good lord. You're making fun of "hyperprivileged" white women while complaining that the white neckbeard bloc is being unjustly silenced? That must be really terrible for you, the jorts ceiling is truly an institution that must be smashed.

Also where'd you get that quote from?

Literally everything the author states is Very Wrong, or a symptom of only noticing bad implementations. The most frustrating part is that they are coming from the perspective of responsive design only being used for mobile, which is super, ultra Wrong.

Social justice is not a factor for most people when designing a frontend architecture. My heart goes out to those running IE6 on Windows Me, but I'm not going to let the minority oppress the majority for my app I'm building.

The important thing is to be arrogant and shame this person for literally doing their job.

Is this a script that does something, or just a demo for what most frontend developers already do on a daily basis?

I refuse to believe you earnestly do not understand why people have ditched Flash for most animation on the web today.

That's pretty big talk coming from someone whose site has ~250 !important declarations in their CSS on a single page, and had to use a jQuery plugin to handle cookies (lol). If working there is an "amazing job" then I'm on a pretty awesome level.

People who are actually concerned about exposing their amazing Javascript and CSS to the world probably don't have very amazing code to begin with.