jzimdars

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by jzimdars 12y ago
You're right. It's kind of irritating sometimes—there are rules for how this works! But they do mean well :)
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by jzimdars 12y ago
There is more to it than than just oil. OKC didn't go nuts like much of the country did during the real estate boom and likewise we didn't get our asses handed to us when the market dropped. We saw moderate gains followed by moder
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by jzimdars 13y ago
> Specific to 37signals: How did they make the video? Did the video guy traveled to each and every employee in the video to tape them? He did! It was kind of cool to spend a day with a coworker in my town.
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by jzimdars 13y ago
I can't get past the video depicting a 12 year old boy listening to Spoon and watching The King's Speech. Have you ever met a 12 year old boy?
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by jzimdars 13y ago
It's totally a thing, the latest in an incredibly long line of the latest thing. Zeldman wrote this in 1999 and it's still true today: "The web used to look like a phone book. Now much of it looks like a design portfolio. In fact, it looks
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by jzimdars 13y ago
"Flat Design". "Responsive Design". These don't need proper names. Everything does not have to be a movement, you don't have to pick a side. If you start a project and wonder, "Hmm... should I use Flat Design for this?", you're doing it wro
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by jzimdars 14y ago
All of the content screens in the app are still HTML5. Because of that direction, we now have a native experience on iOS AND a solid mobile experience in the browser. HTML5 still offers the greatest reach, a superior layout model and the fa
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by jzimdars 14y ago
I just made the same upgrade from a 2011 i7 MacBook Air to the 13" Retina MacBook Pro and I disagree with nearly every part of this review. Battery life seems on par with my Air. Performance is improved on the MacBook Pro. A good example is
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by jzimdars 14y ago
Responsive Advertising. Finally! :(
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by jzimdars 15y ago
It's difficult to explain without lengthy examples but we aren't seeing a lot of collisions (really none) because we're very careful to only nest when necessary and only as deeply as necessary. We aren't taking a stand here and completely o
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by jzimdars 15y ago
> How do you handle adding the same styles to page elements that aren't siblings/exist in vastly different areas of the dom structure? That's usually a case for refactoring. Either by pulling styles common to both elements out and up
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by jzimdars 15y ago
> I'm not sure how much I agree with this approach. When you do what this article is describing, you are creating a very tight coupling of your css structure to your dom hierarchy. This can create a lot of issues when you are trying to
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by jzimdars 15y ago
The examples in the article are simplifications for the purpose of illustrating the points. We'd almost never use nesting to any element all the way back to the HTML or BODY laments. But when you have elements like SECTION, ARTICLE, LI, DIV
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by jzimdars 15y ago
" I, for one, don't want to code my whole life. Something 37signals can't offer me." I'd say it's just the opposite. The lack of organizational hierarchy and title means that people can work outside their normal expertise more easily. Nobod
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by jzimdars 15y ago
What's the risk? That I don't take a job sometime in the future from a short-sighted HR drone who can only judge me based on my resumé? If the lack of an archetypal career path on my resumé is a barrier, it's probably not a job worth having
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by jzimdars 16y ago
He may be right. But he's not adding any value for anyone the way he points it out. I think the biggest problem I have with it is that he's insulting and attacking the people who made these apps. There is no reason for that.
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by jzimdars 16y ago
This wouldn't be such an issue if the postal service operated like a business instead of an institution. Why not commercialize it more? Where are the Coke stamps and IBM Express Mail envelopes? Why isn't the mail truck wrapped with an Ameri
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by jzimdars 17y ago
I've heard this argument before that it requires a certain type or caliber of employee to offer a flexible, results-based work environment. When trying to implement these policies in another company I was always told that "we don't have tho