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14 years ago
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on: Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic
Ah, I see in carbocation's link now. It just seems odd to say they moved from d3/svg to canvas, because d3 is just a layer on top of canvas (or the dom), and if you look at their source (not chart.js, the minimized source on the website) it's full of calls to d3 still. Maybe more useful to OP to say that it was originally written in d3, then optimized.
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14 years ago
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on: Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic
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14 years ago
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on: How Trello is different
Nope, but she's trying to be one. She's like me, organization is something we both don't do naturally, but are trying to improve at.
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14 years ago
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on: How Trello is different
I agree with being at the point where I'd happily pay for it (I'd actually pay for a mobile and faster desktop version that sync, as it's a bit sluggish on my netbook). What Joel said about it being a list of lists (a very simple idea), is what I like so much about it. Currently I'm using it for standard simple use cases (keeping track of stuff I need to do), non-standard use cases (tracking my weightlifting progress, between each set), and collaboration (my landlord and I keep a list of things to do). Oddly enough, I don't use it for software at all (what I investigated it for in the first place).
I introduced my (non-technical) girlfriend to it, and after a short explanation of how I used it, she took to it immediately, and uses it daily to keep track of her to-do list.
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14 years ago
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on: My apps look ugly as sin. How do I improve my design skill?
That is as silly as the myth that mathematics is either something you have or you don't.
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15 years ago
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on: PHP's Not A "Bad Language"
"I think the Zend Framework is terrible, personally. I think it was very obviously written by Java programmers."
Thank you, thank you, Marco Arment (who wrote Tumblr). Programs written in the ZF style are a nightmare to work with (I'm looking at you, Magento).
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17 years ago
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on: Writing Microcopy
I think some of the examples he gives at the end of the article are good in winning confidence, such as "we hate spam as much as you do" and "you can unsubscribe at any time". These things are hard to communicate through interface alone.
As for the Paypal thing, I hear what you're saying, but I think the microcopy should stay. It does no harm, fits just fine into the interface, and if it sways even one person who blanched when they saw the Paypal logo (next to the credit cards or otherwise), it was worth it.
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17 years ago
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on: Don't Click It
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
To be an application, you certainly don't need to meet the levels of interactivity, responsiveness, or robustness as Textmate or Photoshop. Maybe to you that's what an application is, but under a more standard definition all a piece of software needs to do to be considered an application is to interact with a user to do a specific task. It has nothing to do with value judgements. A crappy cgi guestbook is technically a web application. It doesn't matter that it's slow and only does one thing.
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
I fail how to see how using HTML and Javascript keep something from being an application. To be an application it has to run on the desktop, and not the browser?
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17 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Outdoor jobs for geeks?
The "Get Involed" link brings up a lightbox but doesn't load anything. Is this organization still active, and have you been involved in it?
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17 years ago
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on: New York Times abandons WPF and Silverlight in favor of AIR
What standards does AIR stick to that Silverlight doesn't?
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17 years ago
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on: PayPal, Visa rival Revolution Money gets $42 mln from Goldman, others
In the article it mentioned that they will do user to user transfers for free. That alone makes me want to sign up, and get my clients to sign up too.
