The 4 1/2 Day Workweek (19)
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When we were just 3 people trying to get Wufoo launched on a limited budget and timeframe, we felt that it was necessary for us to work 7 days a week and expect 80+ hours out of each member on the team. Obviously, a grueling schedule like that can’t last forever and now that we’re a 6 man operation that’s expanded outside of the passion of the founders, it’s been necessary for us to find ...
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Nick said:
AWESOME article, BIG wufoo fan!
The TSA Told You That Liquids Are Dangerous (9)
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So weird: A plane was forced to land when a passenger had an extreme allergic reaction to a leaking jar of mushroom soup, it was revealed today. The soup fell on the man from an overhead locker on a Ryanair flight to Dublin from Budapest. He reportedly suffered allergic swelling in his neck and struggled to breathe, forcing staff to seek emergency medical treatment.
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HacKnight said:
The soup was probably brought on the plane in several 3oz shampoo containers and then reassembled mid-flight. We must learn to defend ourselves!
Nice new Dojo aggregate effects (5)
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Dojo has some nice new compound effects in the works. Some of the new effects include block fades, disintergrate, explode, shear, and pinwheel. Each effect can be tweaked with config such as: The number of rows and columns in which to split the element The distance the pieces travel (as a multiple of the element's respective dimensions) Whether or not to fade the pieces in/out How much the effect should be randomized (a percentage) Whether ...
The ampersands of Linux (13)
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Taking an idea from Use the Best Available Ampersand and a list of pre-installed fonts from the Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows, I present “The Ampersands of Linux”: (HTML) Please try to contain your excitement.
SimpleBits ~ Use the Best Available Ampersand (45)
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I love ampersands. And interest in this quirky character seems to be on the rise as of late. Case in point: Just last week, I purchased not one, but two t-shirts adorned with nothing more than an ampersand. That's telling, no? For much of last year, I had a little portion of a presentation dedicated to using CSS to serve up alternate, compelling ampersands. It's also something I've done here on SimpleBits for quite awhile ...
The Blog of Ben Rockwood (2)
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About 6 years ago or so I got tired of fixing problem with Tamarah Windows/Linux box and decided to pay the money for a 15" PowerBook. It was an excellent investment, she could work on the couch, no more lockups and reboots in Windows or mysterious "Bennnnnnn!" problems in Linux. Since then she's upgraded to a black MacBook, and when I joined Joyent they provided me with a MacBook Pro (which I'm typing on now). ...
Hard Drive Recovery 101 (2)
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About 6 years ago or so I got tired of fixing problem with Tamarah Windows/Linux box and decided to pay the money for a 15" PowerBook. It was an excellent investment, she could work on the couch, no more lockups and reboots in Windows or mysterious "Bennnnnnn!" problems in Linux. Since then she's upgraded to a black MacBook, and when I joined Joyent they provided me with a MacBook Pro (which I'm typing on now). ...
Lock-In, the 2008 Flavor (6)
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So, if I want to watch the Olympics online, I need to install Microsoft Silverlight. And if I’m interested in good-looking new high-end compact cameras, I’m super-interested in the new Nikon P6000; which writes a RAW format that can only be read by Microsoft WIC, available only on Windows. Open, non-proprietary equivalents to all of these, which do not constrain your customers’ choice of platform, are widely available. Nikon is a competent camera company. The ...
Enjoying the Observer pattern with custom events (10)
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I created an introductory example discussing custom events as an implementation of the Observer pattern. I posted this on my personal blog first and quickly got a port from my Prototype version to Malte's jQuery port (and now we have a DOMAssistant and Appcelerator versions). I hope others keep them coming so we can aggregate a simple example of custom events and how it works across various toolkits: The example dynamically adds functionality based on ...
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dang said:
Check out video
Mobile Firefox and Designing Without Modal Overlays (5)
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In the concept video I recently did for laying out the interface paradigms for Firefox Mobile, I listed five guiding principals. Touch it with your finger Large targets are good Visual Momentum and Physics are compelling Typing is difficult Content is king It’s these principals that inform the design of new features long after the original design as been coded, released, and iterated on. In discussions with the perspicacious Mike Beltzner, another design principal emerged. ...
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Dave said:
sometimes you read something at the end of a project and you just kick yourself. This piece on modal overlays is one of those pieces. I hope you are luckier than me. The patterns presented I have experienced before, but reading it hear brought it into my context view from the right angle.
Git: You are in the middle of a conflicted merge. (1)
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So i’m not a git expert. But i’ve been using it for about a month and i’m mostly really happy. The only time it drives me crazy is when i get this damned message. ~/code/tt (master) $ git pull You are in the middle of a conflicted merge. It’s like this swamp in the gitverse. Normally merging is fine everything goes along with tons of merges branches for each feature which i merge back in. ...
Why You Should Never Talk to the Police (61)
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This is an engaging and fascinating video presentation by Professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law, explaining why -- in a criminal matter -- you should never, ever, ever talk to the police or any other government agent. It doesn't matter if you're guilty or innocent, if you have an alibi or not -- it isn't possible for anything you to say to help you, and it's very possible that innocuous things ...
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Ben said:
In case you need a few more reasons never to talk to cops.
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André said:
Para quem vai aos US.
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Michael said:
Yes officer, I confess. Errr, wait a minute... ahhh nevermind.
World War II Deception Story (25)
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Great security story from an obituary of former OSS agent Roger Hall: One of his favorite OSS stories involved a colleague sent to occupied France to destroy a seemingly impenetrable German tank at a key crossroads. The French resistance found that grenades were no use. The OSS man, fluent in German and dressed like a French peasant, walked up to the tank and yelled, "Mail!" The lid opened, and in went two grenades. Hall's book ...
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Ryan said:
Anyone read this book? Sounds interesting.
HOPE 2008: YouTomb, A free culture hack (10)
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Filed under: cons, newsYouTomb is a research project designed by the MIT Free Culture group to track video take downs on YouTube. To succeed, the team needed to track every single video on YouTube... which is close to impossible. Instead, they built several "explorer" scripts to track what videos were interesting. One explorer tracks all of YouTube's lists: recommended, featured, most active, and more. Another explorer picks up every video submitted to YouTube, and a ...
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Bu yazıda Google App Engine kullanarak Türkiye’den erişilebilen YouTube proxy uygulaması nasıl oluşturulur, onu öğreneceğiz. Bu, ucuz reklamlar ve ‘ninja hakaretlerinin’ yer almadığı, sıfır maliyetli ve Google engellenmediği sürece varlığını sürdürecek basit bir uygulama olacak. İki tane çalışan YouTube uygulamasını şuradan (evet Türkiye’den de) görebilirsiniz: http://sansursens... http://itube.apps... Yazıya “Meet the Sniper” videosu eşliğinde devam ediyoruz :). App Engine YouTube uygulamanın nasıl çalıştığını merak ediyorsanız, okumaya devam edin. Google App Engine Nedir? Bildiğiniz gibi Google bir ...Contribute comment
