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rudd | 15 years ago | on: The Tree Slider - GitHub

I'll be honest, I have only seen this once before, and I do web development as my job. As far as I can tell, it's not that common on the web yet.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

To be honest I had the same problem, but did eventually scroll. I think my initial hesitation to scroll was because the top of the page looked so much like it could be an entire landing page, with prominent twitter, facebook, and email links. Of course (now?) there's also a little popup that says scroll, which if clicked scrolls you to the beginning of Ben walking.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms

Well, they can't really say so clearly exactly what they did. In an effort to stop people from gaming it, they keep their exact algorithm hidden. When people get around it, they tweak it further, in an endless cycle.

My guess is that their solution isn't actually based on customer's true opinions of the vendor, and thus the solution is cheatable. Hiding the solution is probably their best option at this point.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip

I don't get why I'd want to use virtualenv if my production servers allow global package installation. Ideally my Python deployment should be the only thing running on the server, right? In that case, having a virtualenv seems like overkill. And for local development, it's just a hassle to have to enter the virtualenv every time I want to run the code, when I could just have the needed packages installed globally.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What advice messed up your life?

The truth isn't that you don't need a teacher. You may be able to learn everything from a book or solitary practice, like yourself. But others probably can do that sometimes, may sometimes need a teacher, may sometimes need to discuss with peers, etc. And I don't mean that some people are visual learners, or readers, etc. I mean that people learn different topics in different ways, on different days, with different contexts, etc.

I think the cultural norm should be that if one way of learning isn't working for you, try another way. Practice, read it yourself, ask a friend for help, get a tutor, whatever you need.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Kindle for the Web

I love this. The implementation would be so much nicer if they would extend it to full books, but it still works perfectly for previews. The scrub bar, the previous/next arrows, and all the other stuff make it very similar to other common web elements. Very nice.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Poll: Sequel or S-Q-L?

I came into my current job having always pronounced it Ess-Cue-Ell. However, not a single person at my job has pronounced it as such. Sequel all the way. I quickly picked up the local pronunciation.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Are We Taking CSS Too Far?

I'm surprised that so many people here are saying that pure-CSS buttons are actually a good thing, because they're programmatic. Sure, they're programmatic, but the code behind them is really confusing. I'd much prefer to use a sane drawing environment like an HTML5 canvas or the Raphaël library. Raphaël is perfectly suited to this sort of thing. Anything you make in Illustrator, you can make with Raphaël, and you get nice, clean code.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: How to find start-up ideas

Absolutely. If you hear the startup life glorified enough on sites like this, there's a chance you're going to want to start a startup, but you won't have an idea yet. Also, some people just naturally recognize ideas, whereas other people might have just dismissed annoyances as "the way the world is."

rudd | 15 years ago | on: No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010)

I actually disagree that that is nicer. e^(ipi) = -1, which means you can square both sides to come to the also factual statement, e^(itau) = 1. However, if you only knew the latter you'd be wondering whether e^(i*pi) would be 1 or -1.

rudd | 15 years ago | on: Mensch -- A coding font

I don't have Menlo on this computer (still on Leopard), but from what I can tell from comparing this font to my current coding font, Droid Sans Mono, they must be very similar. It's okay, but it looks like all the things that annoy me about Mensch are the things that were changed from Menlo!

rudd | 16 years ago | on: Problems with Firebug

Sure, Firebug may in fact have bugs. However, a sometimes buggy program is better than one with fundamental flaws. IE6's rendering errors have cost developers thousands of hours in finding and fixing problems, because everyone runs into them, whereas Firebug has only ever been an aid to developers, running into bugs only occasionally. In all the time I've been using Firebug, I've never encountered a bug. In fact, I've encountered more bugs with Chrome's dev tools, in that it seems to have stopped displaying XHRs in the console.

Firebug may suck compared to an ideal Firebug, but IE6 sucks compared to the standards-compliant browsers that everyone else has moved on to.

rudd | 16 years ago | on: WePad

I love the glossy screen on my iMac at work for one reason: I can see when someone is walking up to my desk behind me. The great expanses of darkness in the empty spaces of my text editor make the screen a gigantic mirror.
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