pseudonimble

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by pseudonimble 14y ago
The font is not at fault, the renderer is at fault.
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by pseudonimble 14y ago
"Create a profitable website in 5 minutes" Unless it makes money within 5 minutes it's not profitable in 5 minutes.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
After using Namecheap, Godaddy and a number of others I have settled on Gandi because I find their whole attitude great. I really appreciate the way they dont try and upsell... ever. And a while ago they did a promotion where they gave out
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
I've got a feeling most people writing Wordpress themes wont meet the requirement of having Ruby installed.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
My experience with IT education in the UK is genuinely atrocious. During secondary school we made a spreadsheet in Excel and a couple of Word documents. The closest thing to programming was a picture of traffic lights we had to "programmati
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
I find it very anti-intellectual when people call others snobs for appreciating art. There's nothing snobbish about learning about or appreciating conceptual art. People who don't care enough to learn about something find that they do not u
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Although I no longer use it, I learned to program with ActionScript. I studied art and had no background in programming, but I found it fun to play with Flash and AS. For example, getting a webcam involved is a couple of lines of code. Now
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
People can make very ugly websites now without CSS3, I don't think it's anything to worry about.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Wouldn't that just be a straight up design/branding firm? It is far easier to pick a random name and match it with some random generic branding, than to be given MySpecificProduct.com and build a brand around that. Branding companies charge
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Why would you think that?
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Ask HN: Is there a charity payment API or platform?
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Your past work is the only tangible evidence of your current ability. A good design with bad copy looks like a template, which may be OK if you design templates, but if you design websites, copy is extremely important.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
$100 million is nothing. People regularly win that much on the lottery. It's enough to do amazing things, but not enough to competitively do amazing things.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
An alternative approach would be an add-on that blocks companies that advertise in/on Murdoch owned media.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Pretty sure you can't have a width of 222.75px, it would be rounded up to the nearest pixel and wouldn't fit in the container.
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by pseudonimble 15y ago
Unfortunately design is best when it is totalitarian. Good design comes from a core visionary entity, not a committee. This way of working seems incompatible with open source, because developers volunteering their time don't want to be told