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by akdetrick 7y ago
The average worker is 5x more productive than they were 30 years ago, but wages have been basically flat. In the last 10 years, the federal minimum wage has not risen, effectively reducing the minimum wage by about $1 due to inflation. The
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by akdetrick 9y ago
and the word "Brutalism" originally referred to the material, béton brut (poured concrete), not a philosophy of being brutal.
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by akdetrick 9y ago
To help clarify why this is a big deal, I'd like to share why I've been so excited about this project... [tl;dr] - This is the first tool I'm aware of that actually allows you to generate both API docs and design tools from t
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by akdetrick 12y ago
I've also had the experience of getting "suspicious looks" while walking in suburbia. I was once stopped and questioned by a police cruiser because I was walking on a well lit street at night in my Ohio hometown. The officer
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by akdetrick 12y ago
Comic Sans does serve one good purpose; it's a dyslexia-friendly typeface. It's nice that Comic Neue preserves some of the letter "hints" (ie. the "b" and "d" glyphs have slightly different bottom ter
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by akdetrick 13y ago
Amazing. Under "other states", I noticed a few minor engagements in "CA". I wondered if I had read that right - California? This ended up bringing me to an article[1] about California's involvement in the Civil War,
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by akdetrick 13y ago
melt equal parts syntactic sugar and water...
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by akdetrick 13y ago
While very well executed, the basic idea of delivering a document that doesn't make sense without javascript just seems wrong to me. I've always thought the real promise of responsive design is "mobile first", delivering
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by akdetrick 13y ago
I've seen these blimps in NYC, Boston, and Chicago to name a few places that are notably far from Akron and Miami. I've always wondered - I'd love to know if the blimps are flown from their base locations to other cities, or
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by akdetrick 13y ago
I agree that it's a bad tool in many ways, but even if the language (and environments) were beautiful, the problem at hand is often the way that people use it. In this case, a poor craftsman uses his tools to do the things that the bro
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by akdetrick 13y ago
I usually agree with this, usually because we often see things like "icons/logos drawn in pure css", which implies someone maybe thought it was a good idea to actually use in a project. This demo, however, seems to me to be j
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by akdetrick 13y ago
This is what I believe is the single biggest advantage TX holds over NYC. It's hard to underestimate the power the Historic Districts Council and Municipal Art Society have over the future of the city. Despite the fact that no one elected o
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by akdetrick 14y ago
I agree, but the caveat for any city/town where you can get by without a car is "affordable". full disclosure: I've lived in NYC without a car for 10 years, but grew up in Ohio completely car-dependent. Edit: There are in fact many places t
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by akdetrick 14y ago
I wouldn't call it pragmatic, but alienating is definitely the right word. There are few (affordable) places in America right now that you can live without complete car dependence. The poor, elderly, young, and disabled are in fact alienate
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by akdetrick 14y ago
This article is missing an image of an old map with red lines connecting Italy, Guam, Hawaii, and Chicago.
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by akdetrick 14y ago
Every regex seems like a clever trick.
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by akdetrick 14y ago
The looks like a joy to write, and a nightmare to maintain. I may be old fashioned, but I still see content, style, and behavior as best expressed as separate concerns in source.
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by akdetrick 14y ago
"Praise Publicly, Criticize Privately" This point got me thinking. Public criticism of specific individuals is not something I ever to publicly, but I have been all too quick to compose tweets about things like "wishing that Internet Explor
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by akdetrick 14y ago
You can either repeat yourself by using "@extend %mypattern" in Sass using this methodology, or repeat yourself in the DOM with ".mypattern" in the OOCSS approach. Both are elegant ways of handling the same task, but I don't think one is mu
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by akdetrick 14y ago
People keep having few (if any) alternatives for fast, reliable service providers.
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by akdetrick 14y ago
"Choosing a typeface is not typography" I really appreciated this point. Too often people confuse knowledge of fonts with typographic knowledge or skill. Understanding how to set type is far more important; correctly choosing a good measure
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by akdetrick 14y ago
This looks like absolutely positioned bits of text with unicode glyphs inside divs with a box shadow and border radius. Am I missing something? Not that the execution or idea are bad, but I don't understand why this is on the front of HN to
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by akdetrick 14y ago
It's not just an argument of preference when programmers suggest not using tables for layout - it's about using a best practice and a standard instead of an old hack that is a habit many are lazy to break in an age when most browsers have e
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by akdetrick 14y ago
I'm not sure why refactoring a table layout (an old html layout hack) into something more semantically correct and accessible is considered an "attack".
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by akdetrick 14y ago
This is a great idea; an idea good enough to invest the time to create your own design and CSS instead of using bootstrap out of the box. One step at a time, I guess. With that said, I hope this takes off and evolves into something big!
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by akdetrick 14y ago
While I don't agree at all with the idea of abandoning classes for clever ancestry-driven selectors, the author is absolutely right about the advantages of the HTML5 content model and the portability of semantic markup. I wish more people w
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by akdetrick 14y ago
I once saw someone try to describe a hypothetical selector that did this using this syntax: p < span.fast { color: red; } Although that made perfect sense to me at the time, using some sort of subject signifier ("-hitch-has" or "$") mak
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by akdetrick 15y ago
It's off-putting to me too, and I fall into a category of overrepresented people in the industry (straight, white, male). The pointlessness of this "perk" is what bugs me the most. It's an API hackathon - how is it relevant to include a sta
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by akdetrick 15y ago
I'm afraid of the same thing, but not because it will drive away designers, but because CSS is meant to be, and is most powerful as a declarative language. What CSS really needs is an actual layout module in the specification (instead of th
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by akdetrick 15y ago
I'm no less disturbed by this than anyone else, but you do not truly own your Facebook account in the way that you would own a PO box. Your data belongs to Facebook, not to you. Sad, but true. Edit: (submitted too soon) I'm sure there's som

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