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Improving the Coding Horror Logo(codingthewheel.com)
2 points by codingthebeach 14y ago|0 comments
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The Gleaming Latch(codingthewheel.com)
2 points by codingthebeach 14y ago|0 comments
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Interesting point. Wavatars are Shamus Young's original work.[1] Identicons[2] and monsterids[3] are Scott Sherill-Mix's work. I don't think those guys were shooting for "ugly", but I agree an ugly or nondescript avatar could incentivize us
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
The industry's not quite to the point where you can get rid of text-as-images. @font-face is supported in maybe 50% of browser versions, requires several different font formats, and even if you get it to work uniformly, you still have to de
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Truer words were never spoken. "What's that, you expect me to produce 40 pages of technical-but-intelligible copy for procedures on your plastic surgery website? But that's why I gave you [insert CMS of choice here], so your people could lo
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
I agree. From what I can tell, the site appears to be a platform for launching sidebar ads. The content seems to be an afterthought. Just look at their definition of Chrome OS. "Chrome OS is basically a crippled netbook that currently requi
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Nice tale of emergent behaviors in Minecraft. Still, I couldn't read this part without wincing: "The more intelligent of you reading this article have also probably noticed something similar to my various observations." Say "more observant"
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
For the non-sci-fi-geeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_S...
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Obvious decision or not, Google Labs has been one of my favorite parts of Google for years. For me at least, this deprecation pushes Google one notch closer to "boring megacorp" and one notch further away from the sort of cool "research gar
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Love the humor and simplicity of this product, but I can't get it to show me the CSS unless I add yet-another <script> and <link> tag to my source. http://i.imgur.com/eKKxY.png Seems like a Web Putty browser plugin would h
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
That's not just the uncanny valley, that's the uncanny canyon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
You're probably already aware of the Betcoin (1st Bitcoin online poker site) hacking incident, but just in case, see http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=840.msg93927#msg93927 .
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
https://betco.in/
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Completely agree. This is exactly what the patent covers: the automated hyperlink-ization, using regex, of discrete pieces of data ranging from URLs to phone numbers, on mobile devices. Which is an obvious improvement any competent progra
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Your comments on this issue strike me as disingenuous. By my understanding, the patent claims the (obvious, with mountains of prior art) behavior of auto-generating hyperlinks from text using regular expressions, so that (for example) when
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
From the article: "The site is visually bland: there’s barely any color or images, and you won’t find any effect fancier than rounded corners." Somebody please save us from the attack of web design. If I see another gradient rounded flashin
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
ASP.NET MVC is comparable to both Rails and Django in terms of speed, but you have to know what you're doing. Competency is required. But that shouldn't be a problem for a "real" developer such as yourself. ;)
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
I think Mr. Olea lays it on a little thick, but I like the gesture. A lot of domainers feel like our domains are a bit like our ‘children’. I saw that name as one of his ‘kids’ that was about to wander onto the digital highway. Sort of lik
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Latest in a long list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Or a widely-available portable shunting device that broadcasts the "no video recording" code within a certain range. Attach a unique ID to each device. Create a bureaucracy to handle the registration and geolocation of such devices. Schools
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
I wondered the same thing when I saw the wooden table, which surely has deviations > 10 microns. Possibly there are approximate Gömböc shapes that are "good enough" without being mathematically perfect.
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Per the spec, both approaches are correct. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1 I think using an explicit "for" attribute is cleaner than bundling the control inside the label tag, as you can transparently position the
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that's why it was put on Pastebin, which lately is turning into a sort of PostSecret of random geekery. Thanks probably in part to Lulzsec.
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A Platitude on Software Failure(pastebin.com)
34 points by codingthebeach 15y ago|10 comments
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
CNN provides those videos at essentially no cost to the viewer. While every website should strive to be 100% accessible, this litigation strikes me as frivolous, unfair, and more than a little scary. There are places accessibility should be
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The Hero Awards(theheroawards.com)
1 points by codingthebeach 15y ago|0 comments
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
;)
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Related article that appeared a while back (focusing on growing hair follicles from stem cells). http://news.bioscholar.com/2010/12/a-cure-for-baldness-could...
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
Completely agree, this author apparently, potentially, lives in a sort of cloud society where every designer is paid handsomely for his work and you don't have to scrape and beg and plead and bleed and tactically position yourself in order
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by codingthebeach 15y ago
"...after all, licenses shouldn’t be necessary for users to play their own music, right? The labels seem to disagree they expressed shock following Amazon’s announcement, with a Sony Music representative implying that the company was looki

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