nkwiatek

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by nkwiatek 13y ago
I bet if you `s/box-shadow/text-shadow/` a lot more people will find ways to use it.
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by nkwiatek 13y ago
I took on 6 figure debt to go to school. I'm happily employed and grateful for the life I have. The way I see it: every option available to me coming out of high school had risk. Taking on debt to go to college is a risk. Not going to colle
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by nkwiatek 13y ago
And yet you never considered that — with names like "Wet Asphalt", "Nephritis", and "Asbestos" — this might be the intent? When you click on a color it tells you that "It'll rock!". It's satire for Christ's sake.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
This is a bit pedantic, but I believe what you mean is that she understands that the problem is a few bad apples. The full phrase is "A few bad apples spoil the bunch" — it only takes some minority threshold of underperformers to threaten
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Well, that's the thing: I don't find that interesting, I find it lazy. It's already lazy to write about Facebook, especially in a negative or fearful tone. (How much of that mongering do you see in a day? One article on the frontpage a da
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Poetic and engaging writing, but ultimately dishonest. It relies on the symbol of the hoodie to carry the speech through pathos, and that does take it quite far, but no argument is given. Are we expected to fear Zuckerberg, or the consumer
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
"People who live in Palo Alto who like Sushi who aren't my Grandma " It's the future
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Or, that whether or not you happen to like skeuomorphism is a necessary condition for being "the next Steve Jobs". If the most important part of being Steve Jobs is making sure your app has leather in it, then you can witness the work of a
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the current Markdown mark. I'd encourage the creator (dcurtis) to push it, because currently it feels like a first-stage idea — or perhaps, an execution without an idea at all. There are many questions — "What is Markd
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
You sound like you could use a gift.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
"Flat design" is, yes. It's just a horrible label for a much broader concept, which is "form follows function", "clarity", "honesty". Skeuomorphism is an easy target because it is dishonest by definition. Things that appear "cutting edge" o
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
You heard it here folks, an engineering bug that didn't actually happen is tantamount to rape. Perhaps we should stop referring to them alleged bugs and start calling them rapes. I'm sure the rape victims in the audience would love this ide
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
"Fantasy"? That's absurd. Copperplate is a letterpress type. Papyrus, meanwhile, is a joke, but it's meant to look like bush strokes; it's hardly fantastic. I would like to see the information about the support visible, rather than hidden u
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Nobody said guns were toys. Also, you can't swallow guns.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
It reminded me of this comic: http://xkcd.com/927/ Add one more private feed company to the pile.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
First of all, whether or not something offends people is rarely the best reason to do something. Secondly, "choice" is a generous way to describe it. It's more that sizes are happening of basically their own will, whether the user likes it
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Not to make light of your situation with this tangent, but I must say that that is a cool 404 page.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
> this all goes into a FB database somewhere, which who knows has access to it, or backups to it. Enjoy being harvested voluntarily. Are you being ironic with a statement like this, or are you serious? The second there's even so much as
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
> On another hand, it makes your backend to have exactly one function – to be a simple REST provider. That leads to easier development support and improves the scalability greatly. It does? Hm, I guess Twitter is wrong then.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Man, could these guys be riding Facebook any harder? Haters are most assuredly going to hate.
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
Do you really think it's appropriate to compare a 2-days-to-make chat feature with self-driving vehicles and clothes with computers in them?
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by nkwiatek 14y ago
/** * Auto-generated, do not edit! */ function add(x, y) { /* test 1 */ if (x == 2 && y == 2) { return 4; } /* test 2 */ if (x == 1 && y == -1) { return
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
Awesome! I love how you kept the SICP quote intact; that is essential.
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
Changelog: added "hacker mode"
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
First of all, I am a big fan of your work Mr. Doob. Secondly, no! That's a good idea, I'll have to try it out.
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
That's right. Oliver Hunt wrote a full simulator and released it under MIT, which was so perfect as I was just starting to look into fluid dynamics myself, for what ended up being this website. I used his physics calculator component almost
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
Yes, absolutely, much deserved credit goes to Oliver Hunt at nerget.com for implementing the equations discussed in that amazing Alias|Wavefront paper (by Jos Stam) in javascript. His work was very helpful for me and he is very much worthy
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by nkwiatek 15y ago
Canvas actually gave me disappointing results, believe it or not. The text rendering wasn't as fast or as pleasantly rendered compared to just using the DOM. It didn't seem worth it to me to try and optimize a canvas rendering routine, alth