warbastard

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by warbastard 11y ago
I think he's wrong in his assumption that navigation transitions are being used just to emulate native apps. They are being used because they provide a usability benefit. A navigation transition can demonstrate a lot to a user about hi
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by warbastard 11y ago
While I agree with your point that computers should do the most they can to take the work out of things for the user, the flight search example used in the article is exactly the sort of thing that at some point you're likely to need t
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by warbastard 11y ago
Depending on the length of the list, if you need to encourage correct spelling and have a list where the user knows the answer without needing to look at all the options (eg a country) then typeahead (autocomplete) functionality can work we
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by warbastard 11y ago
Yes, PayPal and other similar services were invented.
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by warbastard 11y ago
"I actually learned a few tricks from my colleague who has a great Photoshop workflow, and Photoshop really can be whipped into shape…" I'd love to hear more about this. Do you have any links describing some of the tricks you
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by warbastard 12y ago
Yes, D3 uses SVG
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by warbastard 12y ago
"...so, curiously, not only is water necessary for life, but life may well help retain water on planets." An interesting thought. So perhaps old planets that still have water are more likely to contain life. We can detect water in
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How Boston is rethinking its relationship with the sea(bbc.co.uk)
65 points by warbastard 12y ago|27 comments
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by warbastard 12y ago
In the EU, incandescent bulbs were banned as part of a directive [1] to reduce energy use, as only 10% of the energy put in was converted to light. That sounds like a sensible move to me rather than lobbying. In the UK, CFL bulbs were also
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by warbastard 12y ago
Same here. I voted twice, once for Regular and once for Heavy as I guess I could be classified as both
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by warbastard 12y ago
My father also runs one of these to help people learn Photoshop (mainly for editing family photos). It's surprising the topics that can be learned though these groups
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by warbastard 12y ago
I did this and it worked for me. I taught myself design after finishing a code-heavy computer science degree. I learned how to use Photoshop quite quickly along with some design theory but it took time to get really good. I used to look at
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by warbastard 12y ago
In the UK I believe a good amount of people do keep eggs in the fridge when they get them home from the supermarket. Like yours, our fridges have the plastic containers for eggs.
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by warbastard 12y ago
Exactly the same problem for me. It's hard to save when your partner doesn't want to do it for various reasons
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by warbastard 12y ago
While in England, the delivery bots would work 2 weeks a year.
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by warbastard 12y ago
And in the UK on the busier stretches of motorway
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by warbastard 12y ago
Why is the domain name HelpMeHelpYou... but the site is headed Help You Help Me?
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by warbastard 13y ago
You can say "a third of a pizza" and not be confused though, so there's no difference in saying "a second of a pizza" if that were indeed an accepted use of the word.
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by warbastard 13y ago
Exactly the same case for me too. At first it seems like it would be great, but it was wearing away at the passion I once had for my career. I now spend my days looking at cat videos and playing games rather than focussing on personal proje
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by warbastard 13y ago
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
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by warbastard 13y ago
One of my favourite games of all time. I hadn't seen that they were working on an Android tablet version, so I will wait patiently for that!
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by warbastard 13y ago
Jupiter is there. Press on the (i) icon and it shows constellations. Jupiter's orbit is shown in green.
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by warbastard 13y ago
Seeing as he has a good idea of when it was thrown away surely that narrows down where it could be quite considerably. He just needs someone to invest some money in finding it with him for a share of the wealth. I wouldn't have given u
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by warbastard 13y ago
It just crashed my Win 8 PC with Chrome too
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by warbastard 13y ago
It's breathe not breath...