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yoshokatana | 11 years ago | on: Devicons, an iconic font made for developers

The problem is that, until <svg use> is standardized and supported, the only way to style svg elements is if you include them in your markup (or use something like Iconic's SVG Injector).

There's a tradeoff between inlining (or rather, including them server-side) and calling them as <img>, background-image, or fonts. The size, http requests, caching , and styling all play a role.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax

I nearly turned down my current job because they were using a default contract that had clauses like that in it. It also said that they have control over everything on my computer, despite the fact that the laptop I bring in for work is my own personal laptop.

I ended up spending about an hour with their lawyer reviewing and amending the contract until those kinds of clauses were completely taken out. Lucky the lawyer was very amenable to the changes.

Always read the fine print, and don't sign anything if you're at all uncomfortable with it.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Angular 2.0

Yep. The $http service in angular core basically does your standard Http stuff (with some nifty additions like caching and promises), but people have built services to do sockets, sails, handle server-side events, etc.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: I made my website/resume voice controlled

This is brilliant! One feature request though: It'd be cool if the microphone icon toggled the voice recognition, rather than simply enabling it. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to disable it (besides closing the tab and reopening it).

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Newegg Launches $50 Amazon Prime Competitor

Same for me in New York (they have a warehouse in New Jersey, apparently). Maybe this program will be one of those "less than 30 minutes or it's free" deals? Or possibly delivering them slightly before we finish checkout?

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you wish bitcoin facilitated, but doesn't currently?

I wish there was a service similar to Square Cash where I could send arbitrary amounts of money around the world without dealing with bank transfers / Western Union / etc. It would basically have to transparently convert from whatever currency you give it to bitcoin, send the bitcoin to an address, then convert it to the receiver's currency and deposit it in their bank.

The legal and regulatory hurdles involved in this make it a non-trivial business to set up, but I think it plays on a great strength of bitcoin.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Math is not necessary for software development

As others have said, logic and basic algebra are integral to programming, but I understand the sentiment that "hard math" isn't necessary. And I sort of agree. As a front-end developer, I don't really need to be an expert in algorithm design to do my job competently, and I don't need to know statistical analysis or any other branch of higher math. That being said, learning some higher math on my own has made me a much better programmer, and allows me to write code that is far more efficient than I could otherwise.

As for the article, I don't think literacy and math knowledge are mutually exclusive. It's not a zero sum game. A great programmer should be able to break down problems logically, improvise and expand on algorithms, and explain what he (or she) is doing to non-technical people. All of those are important.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him

I'm not a libertarian, so I can't speak on OP's argument, but in NYC the ability for renters to sublet their apartments is enshrined by law, and technically any contract that doesn't allow subletting is breaking said law (which, if I remember correctly (and IANAL), makes that clause of the contract void, but not the rest of the contract).

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: The 'Unfilmable' Ender's Game’s 28 Years in Development Hell

I would throw money at anyone who made a Culture movie (as ironic as that action would be).

Also, what about a Vorkosigan movie? Though I think it'd actually work pretty well as a TV show, with either hour-long episodes (one per book) or even with 2-4 shorter episodes per book.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: The Future of AngularJS

Attributes also work for directives, though I like using ng-cloak as a class. I think in the future (next year, when my company will probably drop ie8 support) I'll start using custom tags.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Please, don't buy my book on Amazon

CSS transitions need to be a lot more subtle than they usually are. I've seen a few good examples (Medium comes to mind), but most sites that use them implement them very garishly.

For links, I've found that a 150ms intro animation and a 250ms outro (with the proper easing) is the maximum duration that looks good.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: The slippery slope

I can confirm this. The language is "limit ad tracking" instead of "disable," which worries me a bit.

yoshokatana | 12 years ago | on: Block I Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC): How to build one in your basement

I'm also into UI stuff, and I found this article really interesting: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/controldeck.php

It was linked to in the Star Citizen forums, in a thread that talked about adapting a HOTAS (throttle and joystick system) to be used in space simulators, but it goes into a bit of the UI design of various real-world spacecraft (and the language is heavily influenced by Heinlein, which I kinda love).

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