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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

Packed Pixels – An extra monitor for your laptop

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

The Lean Startup Conference 2012 Videos

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thirtyconversationsondesign.com 16y ago

30 Conversations on Design

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www.fuelyourapps.com 16y ago

Bootstrapping: What it is and how to do it

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zenhabits.net 16y ago

Work as Play

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www.pcmag.com 16y ago

Top 100 Web Sites of 2009

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www.popsci.com 16y ago

A Water-Powered Jetpack

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backspace.com 17y ago

100 Years of Design Manifestos

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www.juiceanalytics.com 17y ago

Think Like a Designer

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www.wired.com 17y ago

TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder Faces Prison

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informationarchitects.jp 17y ago

Web Trend Map 4

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www.cxpartners.co.uk 17y ago

Eyetracking Study for Web Forms

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venturebeat.com 17y ago

Startup Idea: A butler for your idle computer

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venturebeat.com 17y ago

Solving the problems of early stage me-too product startups

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lincolnloop.com 17y ago

Django Best Practices

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www.smashingmagazine.com 17y ago

Checks Before Launching Your Website

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onstartups.com 17y ago

Startup Marketing: Tactical Tips From The Trenches

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thenetsetter.com 17y ago

TheFWA Startup Story

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opensource.washingtontimes.com 17y ago

Washington Times releases open source projects (Django apps)

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abduzeedo.com 17y ago

Branding: Slogan Wars Between Coke and Pepsi

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www.inc.com 17y ago

The Way I Work: Bob Parsons, Go Daddy

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www.boxesandarrows.com 17y ago

Pattern Languages for Interaction Design

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www.cnn.com 17y ago

They left the corporate cocoon to blossom

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www.time.com 17y ago

The Top 10 Everything of 2008

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lifehacker.com 17y ago

Why TraceMonkey is Going to Blow Your Web Browsing Mind

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informationarchitects.jp 17y ago

Calacanis on the Future of Start Ups (with video)

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informationarchitects.jp 17y ago

Webapp Death Match: Google vs. Apple

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www.boxesandarrows.com 17y ago

Prototyping with XHTML

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www.landor.com 17y ago

Obama is Google while McCain is AOL (Candidates as well know brands)

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www.wired.com 17y ago

How Google Got Its Colorful Logo

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I have been using Twitter/Flipboard+Instapaper for a while now as a replacement for traditional RSS readers. I do use Tweetbot but most twitter clients do have "Read Later" applications integrated.

How I Fired Myself 13 years ago

This is the right thing to encourage but I just would like to add always have a backup.

"Don't be afraid to break things as long as you have a backup".

It might be a simple version of the previous code, database copy or even the entire application. Do not forget to backup. If everything fails, we can quickly restore the previous working version.

Vim After 11 Years 13 years ago

I can live without Vim but cannot without Vim mode.

All apps I have used since learning Vim has some kind of Vim bindings - Visual Studio, Eclipse, PyCharm and ST2. I also rely on browser vim plugins (vimium, vimperator).

It seems Vim mode is becoming ubiquitous in my apps.

I am not sure if it is just me but I find that "simple" is not that easy. In a given problem (programming), I usually start with the obvious solution. I then try to accommodate my code to changes or features. The code will then be "complex" or not an elegant solution. In the process, I will discover a "simple" or a better way than the original one that I have.

Obvious -> Complex -> Simple

The author mentioned about a 20 and a 10 page solution to a math problem. It is possible that the person who has the 10 page solution learned from the 20 page solution and discovered a simpler way.

The 75% answer 17 years ago

"In order for legibility to be achieved, a certain degree of contrast must exist between the background and foreground colors. However, it’s important to remember that computer screens have much greater black/white contrast than the typical printed page. To that end, many web designers prefer off-black to pure black on white backgrounds. Likewise, it is sometimes more elegant to use very light gray instead of pure white on black backgrounds."

The above quote is take from "Elegant Web Typography" by Jeff Croft

http://www.slideshare.net/jeff_croft/elegant-web-typography-...

He compared more than just images. Although, the post should have been a comparison of MobileMe and GMail.

I do agree with the conclusion:

The media-appropriate approach of Google shows that the interface is not a matter of graphic design, it’s a matter of how it works. With all the glitz Apple brings to the Web in an attempt to win a beauty contest, they lose the true contest: the beauty of usability. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give your Web app a manicure.

On Google App Engine: "Finally," they said, "somebody has figured out how to make Python scale."

Made my day :)

I hope posts about "language X will not scale" would stop. Its really pointless.