thetrendycyborg | 13 years ago | on: Mashable's Responsive Redesign
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thetrendycyborg | 13 years ago | on: Mashable's Responsive Redesign
Why was this changed from "Show HN"? gisikw worked pretty hard on this.
thetrendycyborg | 13 years ago | on: Mashable's Responsive Redesign
The reason that the big content is on the right is that it is the most popular content, likely already read. The new stuff is on the left, and we want the eye to move across the page in the natural way to help promote newer and rising content.
thetrendycyborg | 13 years ago | on: Mashable's Responsive Redesign
There's a write up of it here: http://mashable.com/2012/11/14/introducing-the-new-mashable/
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: HTC phones blocked at customs to be inspected due to Apple patent
The patent in question, as mentioned in the linked story, is patent 5,946,647: http://www.google.com/patents?id=aFEWAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...
It patents a way to process addresses and phone numbers on webpages and produce actions or links from them.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 10-year absence
What led to the demise of games like this? More time-intensive, slow, thinking games; simulations like these have always held interest for a lot of people. I certainly didn't become less willing to buy them.
Combat flight simulators are another thing that seems to have disappeared.
I'm far more excited by this then by another mindless space-marine-kills-aliens game.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: iPad 3 event liveblog
Anyone else seeing a 500?
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 10-year absence
SimCity Societies doesn't count. That's like saying "The Sims: Urbz" was a part of the Sims series. Different developers just using the brand, it played more like a really dumbed down version of Civ crossed with Spore.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Electronic Arts bringing back ‘SimCity’ franchise after 10-year absence
I'm really looking forward to this. Simcity was my one of my first introductions to a computer, actually. (Yes, I'm young.)
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails
Node isn't an application framework, it's an event-driven javascript-based server. This is totally an acceptable way to handle it, so long as it takes advantages of Node's event-based system.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails
The best part about this in my opinion is that the controller system works on both the client and server. I've been waiting for this, was planning on building it myself if no one figured that out.
I hope this grows. I'd love to contribute too.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Amazon to Launch 10 Inch Kindle Fire in Coming Months
You can. Many people do. At least with the 7" Kindle.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
They have actually managed to make adult stem cells pluripotent (research at the UW Madison did this), and furthermore have managed to make them from a person's own skin (again, UW Madison ftw). And adult stem cells are less likely to be rejected. Embryonic stem cells grow at a different rate than adult stem cells (they grow much faster) which causes higher rejection rate and can in fact act much like a tumor.
The difficulty isn't being able to research them. There's a lot of money flowing both ways that is very politically motivated, but it's pretty simple to say that the adult stem cells have actually resulted in recoveries and cures (embryonic have not) and do not have the ethical problems. Being able to research embryonic stem cells doesn't make them more viable. At this point, they don't have advantages.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
There's not really an advantage to embryonic stem cells anyways.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Built in Boston: Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Choosing MA to Build Their Startups
Probably for the low taxes, I'd guess.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
I'm not taking personal offense, I'm just saying
1. It's not perfectly reasonable.
2. It's not rational
3. It is valid, but it is not sound.
It's not an advantageous approach. It is annoying to other coders.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
The question is, why should I care to not end a statement in a semicolon? I gain no advantage. Any speed in coding advantage comes from my editor, not omitting semicolons. Most people commenting here understand ASI. Simply understanding something doesn't make it better. I could write code like I'm a bizarre minifier-human hybrid if I really wanted to. What would that gain me?
Indenting isn't necessary either. Less necessary even than semicolons. We do it for a reason. Maintainability, understandability.
The less ambiguity the better.
The only advantage you get is you can see a thread like this and say I DON'T USE SEMICOLONS CUZ I BE SO SMART I GET JS SO GOOD. But you're not coding to work with other people. It helps no one else, it's esoteric and unnecessary.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
I understand JS just fine, and I know where semicolons are needed and where they aren't. But minimalism is not a reason to avoid using them. Feeling you're more clever because you leave them off doesn't make you so. JS interpreters use semicolon insertion: it's not that they're not needed, it's that they're being added for you if you don't use them.
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
Yes, it's specified, but you can avoid any confusion and make easier to read code by just using semicolons. It's what's called a "best practice".
thetrendycyborg | 14 years ago | on: Bootstrap's maintainer hates the semicolon
This is utterly stupid. And the example he cites for why he prefers an odd function syntax doesn't cause errors..... if you use semicolons.
JavaScript interpreters insert semicolons. If you abuse this, you'll end up with unpredictable results like his function example.
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By throwing the big stuff on the right, we're also making people who jump into the site for the big stuff move their eyes across the content, which might prompt a click.
We've thought very hard about who our site is designed for and the path their eyes will take. The column hierarchy is designed for different groups of people looking for different content.