cgarvey

I've been using GSAP on and off since the Flash days. I really appreciate the dedication to their product and the effort they pour into not only keeping it competitive and relevant, but also the helpful community forums they've maintained all these years. Congrats on v3 GSAP team!

I've been using DDG as my primary search for about 2 years now, it rarely ever falls short for me. When it does, it's usually related to some type of image search I'm doing, I think google still has nicer tools for that.

Overall, super happy with DDG.

How many of the websites you love to use are built on wordpress themes?

I think one failure point of this thought process is that popup practices don't relate to the content or why the User clicked on the article to begin with. Popups that cover/interrupt the content aren't necessary and shouldn't be a "match" indicator for your company. Unless you're in the business of selling "annoying" products and you need people who are tolerant of that or enjoy being annoyed.

Thanks for the work! At the very least this allows me to consolidate a multitude of bookmarks I struggle to keep organized.

As someone who will probably be visiting this resource a lot, I think it would be helpful if a User could navigate to each section from the initial scene. I feel like scenes one and two can be merged in to a more valuable experience from the start.

I love how critical everyone is being of this site, despite the fact this organization has saved us all so much effort and time during our careers.

I'm easily willing to forgive a few browser compatibility bugs considering what they've done for the Web. I'm also happy they've updated their site, it was a long time coming and I think it looks great, certainly an improvement in my eyes.

Nice update! Much appreciated improvements.

The only thing I noticed that was weird is the search box seems to have different behavior between the instant results and the results you receive when you hit <enter>. Not sure if this is intended, but the instant results seem to be limited to whatever categorical scope you're in.

I agree. A small period of time with a great employee can completely change a company. I don't think past employment length is in any way an accurate indicator of the value an employee can bring. Unless your company objective is "hire someone who will sit in this chair for 4 years, guaranteed".

I found your list to be spot on. I certainly have my weaknesses from that list, but I'm familiar with everything you mentioned. I've been making Websites for around eight years, but really only the past four have I considered myself a front-end dev.

It seems like every month there's a new fron-end trend that needs to be experimented with and learned. It gets a little daunting at times (hard to find the time, really) so I'm glad effort is being put in to lists like yours. I think it would be invaluable to a beginner.

I like this a lot, hopefully they'll overhaul their mobile app using this style. Seems like this design is really mobile friendly.

Was he really using 100% heart here or capitalizing on the gravity of the situation to slingshot himself in to the limelight and boost his app sales and reputation? That's the feeling I got from this post at least.

Surely there were other developers who had "side projects" they really loved who happily went with Zynga. I really have to question why this guy was the _only_ one who didn't jump ship. Sure you can write a post claiming to be the white knight and not another corporate zombie like the rest, but that's very rarely the case.

I see this as a power play. Instead of being a "Zynga acquisition", I think he saw it as much more beneficial to be the David vs. Goliath. Good for him, I guess.

'I don't see a reason, with your next game, why you should not use the term: "Programmed by 'Draw Something'(r) Developer"'

You mean beside him saying he never worked on that project, right? Seems like a step backward off of the moral high-ground he's taking to lie about something like that.

Too heavy for what? Playing music? Sure, yeah it's way too heavy for just that. You have to consider all of its functionality and why it was made though.

Movies, music, podcasts, radio, TV, device syncing, iTunes store...etc.

Terrific I guess is a subjective thing, but considering what the software does for so many people that want/need to use it, I'd say that it HAS to be terrific.

There are talented people everywhere. I know it may be shocking, but some of us/them don't want to live in SF. I do agree though that SF has been successful in breeding a mentality where up and coming professionals should sacrifice themselves beyond what would typically be acceptable. Something to be proud of though? Not so sure...

That's not to say that those currently not on the list won't be in the future, they're probably just waiting to see how things pan out.

I was one of the (seemingly) few people using Oink in Orlando, FL, and I thought it was great. I'll certainly be more hesitant to create any more content for a Milk product because it kinda feels like I just fired off information in to a black hole.

I figured it would be killed after how little people in my area were using it and I knew what I was getting in to, but I think I'll still let other people be the test dummies next time.

I feel like this site would be a lot better if it didn't purport to be an infographic creation tool at all.

The core concept of infographic templates is completely flawed. Infographics are supposed to be designed around the data which they wish to represent, so how could one design work for various sets of data? Sure you can categorize and make themes for say food or finance, but what about the scale of data? Wouldn't that be completely unique to every case?

"Create free custom infographics in seconds" should be a huge red flag for anyone wanting to actually represent data accurately.

This would be a lot more useful if it were just a showcase and maybe a place for businesses to go to find the best infographic artists and hire them for contract work.

Agreed. Quote of the fucking year.

The navigation font should be thinner, I can still see it a little.

Would be nice to have numerical values shown for each slider for reference later. Thanks for this tool!

I'm really not a fan of the "Design" of this. It looks pretty, but the "wall of text" approach feels overwhelming.

It feels like it's half guide and half reference, but not particularly excellent at either.

Also the organization of content seems way off to me. In the first lesson I learn about things like code validation and CSS resets, but I don't even learn about html list elements until lesson 9?

I think with a lot of reorganization and better 'chunking' this would be a lot better.

Nope. So far, automation has been about efficiency not liberating oppressed workers. I don't think that will change anytime soon. Millions of people endure 'mind-numbing boring work' because that's what they need to do to survive. Do you really think they're going to view their replacement as a reprieve from their oppression? They aren't paid afterwards, they're put out on their ass.

In a society that demands employment, 50% unemployment is a death-sentence. That's half your population draining the subsidies dry and raising taxes on the working half. Suddenly both sides are angry. Prisons become overburdened, people dead in the streets, Governments overthrown, CEO assassinations, etc.

Sure, in a fantasy land where things don't cost money and land isn't 'owned', 50% unemployment could be ok. Unfortunately that's not us yet.

In order for "robots" to completely "take over" the transition will have to be MUCH longer than just one lifetime. Otherwise we'll end up with 40% unemployment and mass rioting.

It'll probably take us 50 years to have emission-free vehicles dominating the auto market, let alone robot overlords.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic (or optimistic), but I think Humans are too dumb and/or too smart to create an AI that will overthrow us. More likely, we'll ruin our society by overpopulating and draining our natural resources before we can prepare a suitable "Earth 2".

Or Zombies...never discount Zombies.

Especially delicious bagels.

No need to beat around the bush, it's terrible.

I know his picture isn't in the logo on the homepage...thats why I said "article page". I also never said it was wrong to have Linux-centric blog.

If I were Linus and I saw a blog with my picture as the background of the website, all along the sidebar, and sitting above the blog logo, I'm sorry but I'd be creeped out.

No there's a definite creep factor going on with this site. The article page has his image as the background of the website and in the logo...::shudder::

While I'm super interested in hearing more about Heroku's inner workings, I was a bit let down by this article.

It pretty much just stated that they have various teams which have meetings. It also mentions that team members track their tasks with various tools.

I'm not really sure what I was supposed to take away from this.

My issue was mainly with this line: "But if you're not willing to sacrifice everything, then why are you even here?"

I feel like this mentality is being bred in the startup culture solely for the benefit of companies with very little thought given to the potential impact it can have on someone's life. Working 40 hours a week you probably have ~30-35% of your life free to do with as you please (after sleep, work, commute, etc.). I'll let you do the math from there when you work 60-80 hours. We don't get enough sleep. We don't get enough vacation time. We don't have enough time to recover.

I feel that humans need balance in their lives. Balance will provide fresh perspective and allow you to continue being good at what you do. You have to "stop and smell the roses" as they say. I also feel like today's society is out of balance.

I feel like 40 hours is the most anyone should ever have to work. I feel like even that is too much. Unfortunately it's necessary in today's society. Mostly because a lot of what we develop and create doesn't actually allow us to work less. Usually it just makes a couple dudes rich.

Does this mean I should drop the title "Social Media Expert Bootstrapping Startup Entrepreneur" from my brushed-aluminum oversized business card?