kapowaz

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by kapowaz 8y ago
That’s a pretty big claim. Got a source for it?
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by kapowaz 11y ago
Judging from a lot of the serious analysis responses in the comments here, quite a few people.
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by kapowaz 11y ago
Interestingly they've built two different versions of the typeface: Compact (for watchOS) and UI (for OS X/iOS). Compact is far closer to DIN or Roboto (with flattened vertical strokes on glyphs like the uppercase C, D and G), whe
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by kapowaz 12y ago
Went to check this — seems that you can watch some HBO shows on instant video, but you have to pay extra for those. Kind of sucks.
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by kapowaz 12y ago
The mechanic itself isn't actually that interesting. When they released the demo there was a discussion about how the mechanic works over on the destiny.bungie.org forum: http://destiny.bungie.org/forum/index.php
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by kapowaz 12y ago
I think I can see the intent behind requiring comments be endorsed by ‘users with over 1000’ karma: this is a somewhat arbitrary way of saying ‘users who themselves are good contributors to the community’, but I think that specific way of m
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Stopped reading Hacker News.
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> what I determined is that there's a new definition of what "semantic" means in front-end architecture. Semantic doesn't just describe the content anymore, it describes the function as well. So using classes like &qu
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> I would have preferred you used the 90% of your words to give better examples of how to do things better than overstating how OOCSS and BEM are wrong This is definitely something I'd like to do as well, but I wanted to focus on th
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by kapowaz 13y ago
If your CSS ‘impossibly simple’ then it sounds like you don't need it. Every tool has its place: writing HTML by hand is still worthwhile in certain situations. My article assumes you are writing CSS in a project of sufficiently large
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> If I modify one of my building blocks, I know that every instance of it will now look like this. But that's based on your own system , which may be non-obvious to other developers. The rules of valid HTML dictate the situation in
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> No, the primary reason is that IDs prevent reuse. Reuse of what, exactly? Selectors? Properties? My assertion is that if you need to re-use properties a lot then you should make use of a preprocessor framework and then use a combinatio
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> This is non-obvious behaviour that should be avoided. Generating selectors automatically obviously carries the risk of creating something excessively large that you don't want. But I want to challenge the widely-held view that a l
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Cargo Cult CSS(kapowaz.net)
59 points by kapowaz 13y ago|43 comments
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Transposition vs substitution; I'd say F*CK is more likely to suffer the ASA’s wrath than FCUK. But who knows, need more details to be sure of anything.
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> TfL tried to ban it Why would TfL specifically get involved? It's more likely this is an issue for the ASA, on account of it appearing to use the word ‘FUCK’, which is hardly controversial.
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Being open to abuse and being something that is commercially viable and desirable are totally different things. Yes, you can do all manner of nefarious things with native web technologies — as I understand it, this was one of the reasons it
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by kapowaz 13y ago
This is true, but because of completely different toolchains it's very rarely the case that this happens. Flash, at its height, was being used with tools like Flex to build full applications. Adobe provided interface libraries for you
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> First of all, good old backwards compatibility. There's large codebases still written in Flash, or perhaps things that are in Flash that will never get updated ever again (browser games being a big one), and people would like them
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by kapowaz 13y ago
There may not be any conceptual difference, but there is a very significant difference in how these things you describe are used. Flash, when used badly, becomes a self-contained sandbox for the entire experience of a website. Besides secur
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Why do we need this? The way that Flash has diminished in significance since high-quality browsers on smartphones and tablets emerged is a good thing. The web is better with Flash gone completely, not dragged along through compatibility lay
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Nobody ‘decides’; it isn't subjective. If you're discriminating by giving an advantage to a minority when hiring in the interests of boosting the numbers of said minority, then that is positive discrimination. My comment wasn&#x27
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> "bro culture" is bad, but female-friendly (like Minted.com[1]) is assumed to be good. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. You're confusing a non-discrimination policy with a positive-discr
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by kapowaz 13y ago
Why do people keep trying to abstract away the parts of web applications that have been carefully designed to solve that particular part of the problem as best they can with a ‘one size fits all’ solution? To me the answer is obvious: we ha
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by kapowaz 13y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree with several of the points you make here, and I think you're more or less ‘passing the buck’ on something which is most definitely your responsibility to take good care with. On OS X, once you save a password
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by kapowaz 13y ago
> You don't get to tell Linus what is or isn't professional. Yeah, he's earned a free pass to be a dick. That's how it works, right?
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by kapowaz 13y ago
This seems like a great idea. Build some sort of universal bridge for media keys that any compatible app can hook into? Or would the OS X sandbox prevent that, too?
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by kapowaz 13y ago
It could have been worse; his guests could have all had their throats slit in an act of callous revenge (‘The RIAA sends their regards!’).
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by kapowaz 13y ago
No. “The border between the server and the client has faded” So why continue to use distinct job titles? I think ‘web developer’ suffices; the specific skills you can bring will vary from person to person, but you should be fighting agains
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by kapowaz 13y ago
All very interesting concepts, very nicely implemented. But, I guarantee you Apple has built dozens of designs like this internally, tested them and rejected them because they didn't work as well as what they actually went with.

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