brimanning | 6 years ago | on: CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth
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brimanning | 10 years ago | on: Top Cities Americans Are Ditching
From the article:
> "A lot of young, reasonably educated people are having a hard time finding work there," Stoll said. "They're not staying in town after they graduate," leaving for the faster-growing economies of neighboring metro areas like Dallas and Austin, he said.
brimanning | 10 years ago | on: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
I saw that too. That's what made me check if I was shadowbanned. I'm not nearly as active as he was, but it made me realize I wasn't always just late to the discussion or something.
brimanning | 10 years ago | on: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
To add to this, you can also be automatically shadowbanned by spam filters which, at times, can be quite aggressive. I was once shadowbanned for "getting caught up with a spammy IP address" according to a mod.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Facebook knows you didn’t publish that status update you started writing
They've been doing it since you could tag people in status messages and comments just by typing their name, which has probably been around 2-4 years, maybe longer.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Yahoos Bristle at Mayer’s New QPR Ranking System and “Silent Layoffs”
Not that it's quite the same, but I can't help thinking of decimation in the Roman sense.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Snapchat Is Mulling Another Huge Round at a $3.5 Billion Valuation
Not sure if you meant Instagram was not about to IPO, but rexreed meant Facebook was about to IPO (acquisition: April 14th, 2012, IPO: May 18th, 2012).
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Here’s how Apple assaulted Microsoft today — in three crushing quotes
Not sure about the browser, but the app is decent, while limited (no charts in spreadsheets comes to mind).
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Responsive images without JavaScript
Not that big of a deal, but it means when you right-click to open the image in a new tab or save, it gives you the lo-res image (the src of the opacity 0 img tag since background images don't have this browser ability). Not sure it matters too much.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Apple unveils 64-bit iPhone 5S
Retina screens on the 4S weren't impressive? Certainly since then we've seen far better screens, but at the time it was quite impressive.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: What technology should your startup use?
You shouldn't be using the Express version for professional development anyway, you really need to use the paid version - that's a whole different Java vs .NET debate running into OS vs proprietary that will never end.
As for NuGet, as soon as you build, all code, docs, etc are right there and it's up to the creator of the library to have created the info. It manages versioning and updating for you as well.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty's Multiplayer
Kotaku makes it sound like the devs are saying female characters are just somehow more complex technically than male characters, and they literally didn't have the technology before to create them.
What you noted about creating an engine to support custom characters means that those developers took the time to go back, refactor existing code and optimize around different multiple different models running simultaneously while keeping a smooth experience.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: The (un)usual suspects – global fraud by country
Also, it's unclear if that's per capita or just the total number of fraudulent acts by IP origin.
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: Linkedin Recommendations Are Junk
What? I'm always happy when people see that my mom endorsed me for knowing HTML5. /s
brimanning | 12 years ago | on: How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano is a very interesting read on just this, albeit fictional and taken to the extreme, but it has some interesting insights.
brimanning | 13 years ago | on: Increase the performance of your responsive website
Your example may be true, but many sites are actually 100x100kb, spread over 3-5 domains (tracking, ads, etc) and browsers limit the number of concurrent requests to any one domain.
The recommendations here are actually pretty simple (though the image responsiveness can become complex) and are in line with Google's recommendations (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/), which are also pretty much the same as Yahoo's (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html).
Ideally, you'd be doing JavaScript and CSS minification as part of your build or release process and push to a CDN, though some packages do it on the fly and cache the output. It's a surprisingly interesting practice.
brimanning | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo Acquires Astrid
Wunderlist is a good alternative. I'm a fan - syncs easily and well, you can create grouped lists if you want, star important items. Or just go super simple. Either way, it's pretty sweet.
brimanning | 13 years ago | on: What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
For more on the history of oil, The Prize by Daniel Yergin is an excellent read. While long, it's quite captivating and interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/143911...
brimanning | 13 years ago | on: Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson
The biggest reason I like using pure CSS for this is because it separates the display code and functionality code more clearly. Granted, you can and should be doing that with your JS anyway, but the boundaries are clearer if you keep it to CSS and you're less inclined to take shortcuts and start writing complex or hard-to-understand JS.
brimanning | 13 years ago | on: Twitter Removes 'Via' Stamp From Web Client
It certainly encouraged innovative and creative developers.
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