samgro

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by samgro 13y ago
I used to play video games a ton growing up (most of the ones mentioned in the article). I have tried picking up modern games as an adult, but don't get quite the same thrill/zone as I did as a kid. I haven't felt immersed. I
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by samgro 13y ago
This will be very useful if it makes it into GitHub Enterprise - our IT won't let us use Gravatar, so comment threads/issues are harder to follow.
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Yahoo acquires GoPollGo(thenextweb.com)
46 points by samgro 13y ago|20 comments
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Why I ditched GMail for emailFacebook.com(samgrossberg.com)
2 points by samgro 14y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 14y ago
I would whitelist the hosts, stackoverflow.com, google.com, and dev* - should cover 90% of productivity related websites :)
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by samgro 14y ago
I agree with this. Mobile first doesn't necessarily mean native first. From both design and engineering perspectives, it is much easier to build a website that looks good on both mobile and desktop and then add components to the desktop sit
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GoPollGo announces self-serve market research private beta(gopollgo.com)
1 points by samgro 14y ago|0 comments
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Help My Stylesheets are a Mess (CSS best practices)(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by samgro 14y ago|0 comments
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Action Links: Interact with your Facebook App Directly from the Stream(developers.facebook.com)
2 points by samgro 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Real-time Conversation Engine
2 points by samgro 14y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
Beautiful service - I've wanted this for a while. My bookmarks all show up, but when I search for anything I get no results. Looks like you guys still have a few kinks to work out...
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by samgro 15y ago
Any "CSS Best Practices" guide should start with "1. Use a preprocessor." Also, don't use IDs? Really? The article referenced as a source for this claim ends with "Don’t stop using IDs, just be aware of where they can cause you headaches an
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by samgro 15y ago
Also missing long swipe up to go up a level.
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Blog Design 101(samgrossberg.com)
2 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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Clear just raised the bar for all mobile design(samgrossberg.com)
2 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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Re-architecting GoPollGo with Backbone.js(gopollgo.com)
6 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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GoPollGo is now 100% MongoDB - what we learned(gopollgo.com)
12 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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Facebook changed my default privacy to "Public" without telling me(samgrossberg.com)
4 points by samgro 15y ago|0 comments
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by samgro 15y ago
I just spent my entire day tracking down a missing "var" that caused a bug only in Internet Explorer. I haven't written any assembly code since college, and I hope to reach a day when I never have to write or maintain native Javascript agai
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by samgro 15y ago
Can anyone explain why 'United States' could possibly be an autocomplete result for 'CA'? I am staring at United States and just can't see a 'C' anywhere... have I totally lost it?
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by samgro 15y ago
I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman , but then if someone is familiar with the service they could circumvent the tracking URLs. On the other ha
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by samgro 15y ago
Do yourself a favor and use CoffeeScript! You will never have to worry about this or any number of other trivial JS mistakes, plus your code will be more readable and more fun to write. Win/win.
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by samgro 15y ago
It is terrible that your friends' privacy was violated, and I apologize for this comment being off topic, but I feel compelled to address the specific personal circumstances that Alex has uncovered. Alex: as a gay man who came out as an adu
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by samgro 15y ago
SASS @extend solves most of the code bloat - if you have lots of elements styled with border-radius: 5px, using @extend, the vendor prefixed code will only appear once in the compiled CSS. http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFEREN
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by samgro 15y ago
Before commenting about Android, read the article twice, look around the page, and if you still want to talk about Android, read one of the related posts.
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by samgro 15y ago
Read the article again. If you still don't get it, take a look outside the article at the rest of the page :)
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by samgro 15y ago
I forgot XBox Kinect - that's straight out of science fiction.
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by samgro 15y ago
This isn't an apples to apples comparison, but according to the Prince, 41.5% of the graduating seniors my year (2008) "who had accepted full-time employment offers by graduation" were employed in the "financial sector" ( http://www.dailyp
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by samgro 15y ago
That's all? At Princeton I'm pretty sure it was closer to 50%.
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by samgro 15y ago
True, it's a different, less sexy form of innovation. My iPhone and iPad would have seemed like science fiction 10 years ago, though.

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