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BSeward

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    Comment #8632916

    This is cool! I've definitely looked for a site that did this before. What's it built on?

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    Comment #7771892

    Hilarious! It's an absurd combination but a surprisingly fun way to munge around with beats. The 808 instruments sound intrinsically familiar and make the mishmash you get from ran…

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    Comment #7139563

    Android has android.util.Log.wtf[1], "What a Terrible Failure". That makes me laugh and this makes me laugh and I'm all for a little humor in specifications [1] http://developer.an…

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    Comment #6850172

    Layering on your end, yeah. Per pages like http://www.microlens.com/pages/choosing_right_lens.htm different applications prefer different viewing angles. If you can track down idea…

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    Comment #6849594

    This is super cool. I've looked a little at lenticular printing for 3D prints but sourcing the lenses was a little more effort than I needed. I'd pay well over material cost to hav…

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    Comment #5085152

    These breakpoints seem chosen somewhat arbitrarily. I'd enjoy a longer post elaborating on why you chose them! The seminal Boston Globe design chose 5 breakpoints based on rough ha…

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    Comment #5044274

    This is cool! An interesting experiment. I think a quick shadow does a lot to give the divider some heft and alleviate concerns about visual ambiguity between foreground and backgr…

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    Comment #4204574

    Sass' Compass framework has a helper to automatically generate inline data URIs. http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/inline-da... This is handy for media that will c…

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    Comment #3972250

    These launched with Twitter's redesign last year. http://socialmediab2b.com/2011/12/b2b-twitter-brand-pages/ The "Promoted Tweet" pinned on top of brand pages is auto-expanded, so …

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    Comment #3330509

    "Twitter for iPhone pro-tip: swipe up on Me for DMs and swipe left on Me to switch accounts." /via https://mobile.twitter.com/bhaggs/status/144846707925061632 Not the most discover…

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    Comment #3166715

    I doubt phone antennas are the bottleneck, they're a pretty minor part of a huge, lumbering voice-transmission infrastructure. Much of that infrastructure is presumably expensively…

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    Comment #3159384

    Yeah, that's the "pancake". It works in street-level view because there's 3D spatial data to help bound navigable regions, and because when you're at street-scale you don't mind be…

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    Comment #3159101

    Love the idea, but the Street View UI has never felt all that fun to use and it feels worse indoors. Walking around a shop or mall at Street View pace—12-ish steps for every press …

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    Comment #3008631

    Well, sure, because they're full of books. But if libraries plan to survive in a future without books then they'll be full of computers.