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bill-nordwall

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    Comment #20142928

    Komo News is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a right-wing media organization that regularly forces local affiliates to air propaganda. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/…

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    Comment #7127788

    Yep! Neil Diamond wrote I'm A Believer. Also, Carole King wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday. Here's her original demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtyqPzeso5A

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    Comment #5044938

    I was able to get my java-applet-based VPN working again by temporarily re-enabling Apple's Java SE 6 applet plugin: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559

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    Comment #4212041

    Was it this one? http://www.geekwire.com/2012/lean-technical-chose-furnished-...

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    Comment #4145555

    Support for aria-hidden is still pretty spotty: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201205/hiding_visible_...

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    Comment #4113357

    Thanks for the info! Although, forgoing "data-" prepending by default in the interest of saving a few bytes doesn't seem like a good tradeoff. If you have any HTML5 validation as p…

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    Comment #4113298

    Why aren't the "ng*" attributes prepended with "data-" to make them valid HTML5 attributes? It's a minor nit, but kind of annoying nonetheless.

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    Comment #4108353

    Small bug: the fixed-position "See Plans & Pricing" link that shows up at the bottom of the page when you scroll is partially hidden by the fixed-position "Talk to Us" link when th…

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    Comment #3945134

    Hopefully a Wordpress plugin is in the pipeline. This would be a no-brainer any Wordpress site if setup is as simple as installing and configuring a plugin.

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    Comment #3809890

    How about testimonials? The designs are fantastic, but I want to hear the story of someone catching a recruiter's eye from one of these. Figure out away to demonstrate social proof…

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    Comment #3637864

    Surprisingly effective. A colleague of mine published some techniques to add consistency to Javascript events across screen readers: https://github.com/ryanfitzer/Accessibility

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    Comment #3631723

    Nope. Screen readers have been able to handle javascript-generated content for years. According to WebAIM's most recent screen-reader survey, 98.4% of screen reader users have java…

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    Comment #3156120

    Love this! A few notes: - When I click on an item thumbnail on your sample list page, it takes me directly to the image hosted on S3. Having the image appear in a lightbox would en…

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    Comment #3125801

    Houston the NYC street is pronounced "How-ston" whereas Houston the Texas city is pronounced "Hew-ston".

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    Comment #2218881

    A few more: http://www.google.com/search?q=hubpages http://www.google.com/search?q=ezine+articles http://www.google.com/search?q=all+experts

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    Comment #2146702

    There are better ways to manage CSS bloat. See Nicole Sullivan's Object-Oriented CSS approach: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki

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    Comment #2126343

    I agree with Chris here - I wince a little bit every time I see a candidate start off on the whiteboard with a dollar sign. However, this article emphasis on Javascript at the expe…

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    Comment #1883118

    Be careful with these robots.txt suggestions. Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea - Matt Cutts said as much himself: http://www.youtube.com…

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    Comment #1878330

    He was most likely waiting on the final results of on Washington State's income tax initiative, which would have cost him millions had it passed: http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/in…

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    Comment #1865841

    What in particular about the rewritten filename would be detrimental to image search traffic? The filter retains the original filename as well as the alt text.

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    Comment #1797297

    If they enabled gzip compression on their CSS/Javascript files could cut down their page weight by several hundred kb. Even just running their pngs through a lossless compression t…