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Ask HN: Accessibility Testing for JavaScript apps
2 points by antoko 10y ago|0 comments
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by antoko 11y ago
Hawthorne effect? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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by antoko 11y ago
Thanks, this looks pretty similar to codecademy, have you done the courses? Any reason in particular to choose this over codecademy? I guess he can try the free ones and see if he finds additional value.
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by antoko 11y ago
Thanks, some nice additional resources, the advanced shayhowe lessons look good for explaining the concepts around bootstrap which will be useful for a novice rather than just diving straight into it.
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by antoko 11y ago
Thanks for the smashing magazine link, should be worth exploring. While the MDN resources are great I was looking for more interactive tutorials. I'm hoping the gameification format used by codecademy will pull him in. Experince tel
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by antoko 11y ago
Thanks, this looks good, and it is close enough to free, I was just trying to avoid 12 week immersion code schools for $1000s. That may be an option later but just testing the waters first.
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Ask HN: Online resources for beginner web dev/design
8 points by antoko 11y ago|11 comments
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by antoko 11y ago
I disagree, if you're wanting something to "go viral" or whatever 100 upvotes at a busy time, when there are 30 other submissions with over 100 in a similar timeframe is not nearly as useful as 100 upvotes on say Saturday mor
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by antoko 11y ago
TLDR oversimplifying article is overly simple and gets things wrong and doesn't consider others. The rules are simple: a user submits a link and title, the community upvote and downvote this submission. Yes the rules are simple (they
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by antoko 11y ago
from the FAQ: Does Project Fi have family plans or other plans for multiple users? No, we only support individual accounts during Project Fi's Early Access Program. If multiple people on your current wireless plan are interested in joi
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by antoko 12y ago
Really? Or does it just look like one before you turn it on? http://xkcd.com/1397/ Apparently Randall has spent some time in this area before, Lisp is the lightsaber http://xkcd.com/297/
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by antoko 12y ago
I guess that would depend on your definitions of "product", "successful" and "heavy". Realistically if they are in a position to leverage any bundling - why wouldn't they? But here goes, in no particular o
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by antoko 12y ago
You're either very confused, or you have a much deeper understanding of physics than me. I love that it could be either. Does the conservation of momentum apply to things with no intrinsic mass?
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by antoko 12y ago
I'd argue that there has always been this divide, or similar divides through the course of US history. There's a rural/urban divide which has slowly but inevitably moved in the direction of the urban side throughout the last
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by antoko 12y ago
The description you suggest is "completely accurate" applies to scores between 11 and 80, on an entire scoring spectrum of 0-99. I'm not overly impressed. I scored 27 but I'm a Brit living in the states and a lot of the
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by antoko 13y ago
1) They argued that moving digital good around should be subject to import tax/duties just like physical goods (steel/ lumber). The case they were making was for finished digital products. 2) The same argument can be used for t
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by antoko 13y ago
I wonder why I've not seen this expressed before, I've thought it every time I see these complaints regarding the HN mobile experience. Maybe it isn't desirable to have people writing comments on their phone. The comment qua
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by antoko 13y ago
His point seems to be that it breeds HONESTY rather than meanness, I don't think he was saying it breeds the opposite of meanness, just that meanness is a side-effect of the honesty and the honesty is the real effect.
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by antoko 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you all have this back-asswards. Susan's garage is where google was headquartered in the early days (1998). She didn't get the job because she is Sergey's wife's sister. Sergey met his wife throu
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by antoko 13y ago
There is a caveat already in the origin text. Unreasonable Given that is already in there why add the additional caveat that then allows unreasonable searches? Surely reasonable searches are all we really need.
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by antoko 13y ago
NNPP - Net Negative Producing Programmer I had to look it up, so for other's benefit: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer
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by antoko 13y ago
I've also heard it used in sports and such Team A are X points down and given the injury to STAR_PLAYER for them to come back now is a big ask
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by antoko 13y ago
Apparently you didn't make it to the conclusion. So perhaps the role of the DBA isn’t necessarily dead, it’s just moved to its new home at the datastore-as-a-service provider. The successful DBA will understand that this new wo
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by antoko 13y ago
This comment is so far away from the parent I can no longer remember who the "he" is referencing. I like that I can turn this both ways and have it be snowden or the pope.
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by antoko 13y ago
Right, but the confusion is that both the identity service and their social network are called Google+. So it is hardly surprising that people get confused when they call two supposedly distinct services by the same name. Why not just cal
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by antoko 13y ago
Since you were apparently needlessly downvoted I'll add some context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
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by antoko 13y ago
Why? its not that he hates technology people - he didnt propose SOPA just to piss you off. He's bought and paid for by the content lobby, that's a copyright issue and not at all related to patents. Patent trolls and Hollywood ar
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by antoko 13y ago
Or you know, you can just not use facebook. I closed my account 4 years ago. Never looked back.
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by antoko 13y ago
Recession is never a relative term, it has a specific meaning, 2 or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by real GDP. Hmm apparently I'm not nearly on as solid ground as I thought with regard to this. I&#x
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by antoko 13y ago
I admit I didn't know that either, but does that really make it worthy of being the top story on HN?

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