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decultured

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    Comment #3969397

    This may be great on a touch device, but usability suffers massively with a mouse or track pad. The effect looks nice enough, but I am rarely in favor of sacrificing usability for …

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    Comment #2655180

    Fun challenge, but not too difficult. The largest challenge was making the intuitive leaps to discover the missing information in the questions, especially for problem two. A bit o…

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    Comment #2647556

    Your site seems to work well, and is a service I could have made use of a few months ago. Finding reviews and scheduling local services like this often leads to a million dead ends…

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    Comment #2515552

    I am in basically the same situation: Over 30, single, own a home, bootstrapping a business. I have steady and flexible part time consulting work I can use to pay the bills if I ne…

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    Comment #1074756

    The article is not discussing sub-pixel anti-aliasing, rather it makes a case for why understanding the sub-pixel properties of AMOLED screens can decrease power consumption while …

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    Comment #878388

    We are using Google Docs' forms tied to a spreadsheet for our startup. We have it load in a jquery window and looks decent, it is fully integrated, is customizable to be as complex…

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    Comment #866968

    I agree with the basic premise of this article, but saying "99% of the time that quote will be a reasonable price" is disingenuous. While some customers that do not know the value …

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    Comment #866879

    Thank you. This is a major problem with how media portrays data in news stories. Most people would see 50k over 9 years as a huge number, but if it were instead presented as an ind…

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    Comment #864849

    The offer for one of my first programming jobs I landed was due to my having listed game development on my resume. The job had nothing to do with game development (though I later w…

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    Comment #863384

    This is good to know -- the icon for the app I am working on is blue as well, now I am considering changing it! As a coder who understands UXP but is not great with design, I often…

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    Comment #863127

    I have worked with many companies running these sorts of campaigns (I do work with a startup that tracks online engagement marketing) and have found that companies that are upfront…

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    Comment #863098

    Not only that, but an annual subscription is basically equivalent to 12 months of guaranteed monthly renewals. I would be interested to see comparative attrition rates of how 12 mo…

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    Comment #863021

    The problem with many of these ideas is that they can alienate users. For a content site, there are few options available for monetization beyond ads, which most of those points ar…

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    Comment #828257

    So do you know of a script that detects the skill set of the user then displays them an appropriate design? The biggest problem with this design however is that it does not add any…