robmclarty

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by robmclarty 10y ago
re: downvotes: i'm sorry, but is the legibility of the OP's article not relevant to the discussion of said article?
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by robmclarty 10y ago
Designers need to understand that screen != print. When your design emits light (rather than reflects it) it can make brains feel bad.
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by robmclarty 10y ago
For people studying the brain, I would have hoped not to read the article in the highest contrast my screen can produce with pure white text on a pure black background. After the first two paragraphs I could see nothing but lines :(
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by robmclarty 11y ago
For those that are interested, I posted an article[1] a little while ago on how to automate the renewal process for Letsencrypt using Daniel's acme-tiny[2] script. It's a lot nicer to let cron handle it than doing it manually ;) [
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How to Setup Free, Automated, SSL Cert Renewal with Letsencrypt(robmclarty.com)
4 points by robmclarty 11y ago|0 comments
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by robmclarty 11y ago
You're right that I would present the same way. I just get frustrated being told what I want, being upsold, and being made to feel as if I don't know what I'm talking about when in fact I probably know a lot more than the sal
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Class-Free React Component in ES6 Using Gulp, Babel, and Browserify(github.com)
1 points by robmclarty 11y ago|0 comments
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by robmclarty 11y ago
Or at the Apple store! omg, the number of times I've walked in, gone directly to a sales person to request that they kindly go to the back room and retrieve a specific item for me so that I can give them money and been stalled, interro
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by robmclarty 11y ago
I agree with others that the author seems to be missing the point of React. Whether or not it is "reactive" or doing things the way you're supposed to do them is irrelevant. It's a tool, and it either helps you fix you
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by robmclarty 12y ago
These new rules seem reasonable and no different from what businesses are/should already be doing. Does "consent" apply to websites which add an "opt in" checkbox but check it off by default and hope that nobody see
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by robmclarty 12y ago
Exactly. If you don't want to burden your little head with OPAs and APIs and application architectures, just stick the jQuery and happily manipulate the DOM here and there as you see fit. If you want to make something bigger, something
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Close down those porn tabs you have open? idk. lol
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Don't be a used-car web dev then. Be the luxury sedan - sport car web dev. I explain to my clients (not necessarily through this analogy) that I'm definitely not the cheapest dev/designer they'll be able to find, but tha
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Great quote. I think we all understand that spaghetti code simply adds time to the next feature we want to introduce, probably creates unseen bugs, and might explode. But it's always a balance and nothing is black and white. I hear a l
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I agree this is a bit of overkill for a "my first hand-coded website" project. I've been hand-writing websites for over 15 years (back when all I had was Notepad on a Windoze box). I think I'd approach this sort of learn
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by robmclarty 13y ago
The thing about computers is that yeah, they're awesome at communication, but they do a lot of other stuff too that has nothing to do with person to person transmission of information. IMHO task -oriented UI makes the most sense becau
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Then I guess my question is this: why is a mostly visual interface/representation mainly controlled by non-visual means? To me, a mind-map is not a "power user" tool and is used for organizing loosely understood ideas in ho
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by robmclarty 13y ago
The article was about how great Apple names things and how bad everyone else does. My point is that Apple's names aren't some brilliant miracle of nomenclature like the article makes them out to be. Obviously if I'm going to
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Lol. I agree the argument is a bit misleading. Apple products can be considered to be just as confusing. Apple Product Names: - iPad - iPad 2 - iPad - iPad /w Retina - iPad Air Which iPad do I buy!? I'm thinking, maybe, the iPad 2
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by robmclarty 13y ago
For sure. Bootstrap is good for... bootstrapping. After you've got your MVP working and you're ready to make a real, custom, unique, differentiated, improved user experience, you're going to need to hire a designer and someon
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by robmclarty 13y ago
The interface was a complete mystery to me. I clicked and dragged and hit enter and gave up. I read the manual and discovered the insert key (although I don't have one on my mac laptop) and then used tab. But I need to use my mouse to
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Funny. I had a similar experience myself in art class in high school. The assignment was to take a photo from a magazine and reproduce its likeness with pencil and paper. I must have just had good shape and spacial recognition because the d
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Very well put. I believe this sort of expression (of remixing and building upon and expanding or contracting) is good and healthy and artistic and should be considered an acceptable aspect of creative expression. How original is original? T
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I think the "leaving the windows open" argument is wrong. As far as what's right and wrong is concerned, I should be able to leave the door wide open if I so choose. It's my car. If someone comes along and steals my car,
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Haha, yeah I've dipped my toe into continental-heidegger-psilocybin-phenomenology and it's wonderful Being. I'm still trying to answer WTF (in general). I haven't read Deleuze. Maybe I'll check him out next! I'
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Cool. First of all, just let me say, that arguing about consciousness today has been very exciting and fun. Thanks for participating :D My position is not the norm, for sure. I used to think along the lines you're describing (some sort
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I guess I didn't see it as a straw man. "Are you made of matter? Are you concious? If so then the matter you are made of is concious"... implying that if you are both made of matter and conscious then it is the matter that yo
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by robmclarty 13y ago
First, argumentum ad hominem (if you don't know what that means, you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem ). Second, my background is actually in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intell
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by robmclarty 13y ago
Oh yeah, I'm very interested in historical circumstances and matter combinations that have seemingly given rise to consciousness. But saying "[when] you pile up a certain number of neurons at a certain complexity you get conscious
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by robmclarty 13y ago
I agree with you. And I don't think "being conscious" is like "being liquid". Liquidity is a description of physical attributes. Consciousness is an existential state of being (whatever that means). I think it would

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