FredFredrickson

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by FredFredrickson 11y ago
If this were attempted, I think we'd have a LOT of talk about what truly is an ad and what isn't. I mean, the web banners and billboards we see every day don't do a lot to actually sell products. But your friend telling you t
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by FredFredrickson 11y ago
This is both ingenious and hilarious. The best kind of solution, in my opinion.
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by FredFredrickson 11y ago
How many companies has that been true for, though? Apple is the only PC company who made it big as a phone manufacturer. It's a single point on the graph.
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by FredFredrickson 11y ago
As an artist, this is exactly the point that I make when I argue with people who say patents should be abolished. Without any kind of protection, anyone who has a greater means of production/marketing than you will always steal your id
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by FredFredrickson 13y ago
You stated this as if it would be a controversial opinion, but I'm not sure I understand why that it would be.
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by FredFredrickson 13y ago
It would be interesting to see what would happen to YouTube if the comments were removed from video / channel pages for a week or a month. I don't see how that would keep people from visiting the site or watching videos (and of co
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by FredFredrickson 13y ago
Whenever I'm writing CSS and I start getting to the point where I question whether or not I might as well be using inline styles, I know I'm doing something wrong and take a step back to evaluate where I went wrong.
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by FredFredrickson 13y ago
I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I fully agree - I hate having all kinds of junky game clients running on my computer when I ought to just be able to have one, Steam, which is obviously doing a decent job. On the other h
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I keep arguing with people about this. I just don't understand the hang-up. I was one of those people who, many years ago and despite my own machine always having an online connection, would complain about these sorts of things. I would ima
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
It implies that they can't have courage without being drunk, and certainly that's not a very nice thing to say about someone, let alone a huge group of people who obviously don't all fit that stereotype.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Interesting little story. Did your grandfather say anything about how the people out in the wilderness reacted?
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Absolutely. It can go a long way to not be petty about it. In these situations, I usually offer a normal bit of criticism, both positive and negative, and then let that be the end of it. Sometimes the client will come back, sometimes not. E
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
In my experience, as a graphic designer, who has seen my type of work be outsourced (right in front of me) to some cheapo place overseas, I think it's best to just shut up and let the client do it. Most of the time, they will get something
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Or just hold the gun an inch or two away from the screen.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
That's a pretty loose definition of the term 'success'. Everyone knowing about it is a big hurdle to get over towards real success, but it's not really success in itself.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Interesting, thanks! I use Windows mostly, but I dabble in Ubuntu every now and then as well, and I might have a spare computer soon, so I though I'd give it a try. Didn't want to bother with it if it wasn't ready for prime time though.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
The only reason why anyone would defend these practices is that presumably, if the company did not monetize their software in this way, the software couldn't continue to be developed. In Oracle's case, this seems absurd. The money they make
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
It's an accessibility feature. If you don't have the dexterity to hold keys down yourself, you can enable sticky keys and (if I remember correctly) it will make certain keys act as toggles so you don't have to do finger-yoga to hit certain
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Have you spent much time with Linux TF2? Any idea if it's more or less stable than the Windows / OS X builds?
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
You know, there's something comforting about going just about anywhere and having, at least, a vague idea of how the layout might be, what things look like, and where to find things. On the other hand though, I agree with you. That same com
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Your opening sentence makes me wonder: why does it have to be an all-out switch? When you need a car for getting places and a truck for moving things, and you can afford both, you don't need to choose between one or the other. You can have
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
There's never going to be an end to the "normal" PC market until people find a way to get work done on all the devices that will purportedly take the PC's place.
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
I've always assumed the benefit is that you don't have to maintain a separate set of files for each window size... but it seems like, for all intents and purposes, you might as well be if you have to set up special cases for all sorts of wi
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Might I ask what browser you're using? Older browsers used to just resize the font inline, and leave other elements alone, but most modern browsers resize everything these days when you use those commands, so sites shouldn't look any diff
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
A little late with the reply here, but I think that his thesis is bogus. So-called "retina" displays are not the reason for flat / modern UI designs moving away from skeuomorphism. I would argue it's just a new trend that naturally develope
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
Am I the only one who just yawned when Megaupload was taken down? I have no ill-will towards the people who run or use that (or those types of) site, and I don't really like how the government handled the Megaupload thing, but with the prol
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
This is quite awesome. It's the next logical step from all the custom phone case services out there (mostly for iDevices, it seems).
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
This is starting to look like some horrible regex nightmare!
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
>I WISH there was a Windows 8 live CD. MS does not want you to "try windows" they want you committed. I kind of have to take issue with this one... They handed out the pre-release version of Win 8 for a half a year. It had no upgrade-to
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by FredFredrickson 14y ago
The top animation doesn't seem to be working in Firefox 18 on OS X 10.8.2. The glowing box works, however.

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