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Few crits & suggestions: - The layout does render correctly at 1024x768 (iPad). - Some of the drop downs do not work when tapped. - Make the movie detail page URL more SEO friendly…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_Rub... Edit: Fixed URL

Nice! I posted a similar sentiment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5108181 Perl or PHP, because why not?

She's also got a repo called "Kittydar" (Face detection for cats in JavaScript). This is someone who loves her language of choice and is just spinning out some fun projects with it…

> PHP will slowly phase out over the next decade. Wordpress. It's become a full blown CMS and its own platform. Half the media sites out there are running it, or hosting with Wordp…

> We have server side JS (Node), Ruby, Python and Java -- Hey now. Let's not forget everyone's first love: Perl. :D It's still quietly running quite a few big sites out there, and …

The most striking thing is the across the board drop from one age group to the next. That to me is the more interesting story here. Curious about Survata' methodology. Neither the …

Figures in similar communities were older (Larry released Perl in his early thirties, Guido was pushing forty before Python gained traction). They also didn't come up in the era of…

Very cool. Thanks for the clarification. Also: I'm not an expert, or a lawyer, but it's my understanding that you can't copyright titles, but you can trademark them, or portions of…

Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name. Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with…

I downloaded a trial of PhpStorm last week, and loaded an old CodeIgniter project into it. The app flagged objects, methods, and variables that were created in other files as "unde…

https://cooperpress.com/ It's not a blog, but a collection of weekly email newsletters. At the risk of sounding like a shill (because I'm pretty sure Mr Cooper posts to HN), I have…

I think he buried the lede: Social login buttons can hurt brands. This'll date me, but I'm still amazed that so many companies eagerly slap other company's logos on everything they…

This might be pedantic for this thread, I have to point out that Clerks wasn't really a "self financed" movie. At least in the sense that the final product you saw on theaters and …

My favorite example of this is Penny Arcade. First year: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18 Five years later: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/18

The problem is that this space gets oversaturated easily and the fallout is quick and brutal. Remember the Jaguar? 3DO? Dreamcast? The Phantom? All of them had fan support and all …

It's more likely that some of these are defensive applications, to lock competitors from getting them (eg: blog, tunes). Winer is right, and I'm surprised nobody is writing about t…

That's the part I don't get: Foxconn is the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic components. They count Amazon, Dell, Motorola, HP, Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple among their cl…

Congrats to Mr Veen et al, but ... Ugh. Typekit was a great service. I have little faith that Adobe won't completely screw it up.

twitter allows custom links/ buttons. These don't require on-loading JavaScript or any calls to their services.

Forget typewriters. I want a Bluetooth IBM model M keyboard for my iPad.

Clue me in about Facebook comments (I'm considering using them on a current project). Why do you consider them a failure? I thought Like + comments was pretty damned brilliant, bec…

People don't read. They scan. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Your scrolling js metric is clever, but that doesn't mean they've read a thing. All it means is the…

I generally like Siegler's stuff but he's so far down the rabbit hole now he can't see the reasoning behind concepts like 'bias' and 'disclosure.' Worse, he seems to be fully belie…