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frankiejr

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    Comment #12216411

    > Don't bring gender into this. Gender was already in this. The article starts with "In a groundbreaking effort to close the wage gap between men and women..." I do see what you we…

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    Comment #10515168

    Lytro switched away from Flash to a JPEG/JavaScript player in 2013, then to a WebGL player in late 2014. There were some open source player controls floating around last year but I…

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    Comment #9227435

    Oops... forgot to mention this was Chrome on a Windows 7 machine.

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    Comment #9227416

    http://i.imgur.com/ONHTVZU.png

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    Comment #9227358

    Please add a proper font stack. The design doesn't break down nicely on systems without Helvetica Neue installed. Other than that, good start!

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    Comment #5658861

    60 Minutes did a two-part segment on this last year, if anyone is interested: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7417242n http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7417240n

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    Comment #5150000

    Preface: I've been an avid cyclist since 1986 and worked as a mechanic at shops for over ten years. The article seems to have been written by an outsider that has absolutely no ide…

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    Comment #4519293

    Shane Carruth (Primer). His bacon number is 4.

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    Comment #3953713

    It's sad to see otherwise talented developers focusing on the process more than the product, and putting their craft above the user experience. After all, it's all about the users …

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    Comment #3953664

    >> So now why would I support IE? Because you're not developing for yourself. You're developing for users. Also, just because you're developing on browsers that exist on both platf…

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    Comment #3298073

    In 2005, my friend Rich went to the hospital because of headaches that had been lasting for months. He was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, went through treatment, and we…

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    Comment #3085986

    I absolutely agree. I also agree with the theory that you should teach, coach and influence your clients with what your team has learned over the course of your career. The clients…

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    Comment #3083621

    Working closely with designers and observing client requests over the past decade or so, I've seen another pattern that also leads to the "small type" problem: Client requests to g…

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    Comment #2639719

    Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-Wonderland-End-World-Inter...

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    Comment #2442297

    I used to think exactly the way the author did. I'd actually get agitated when I had to explain to the IA/Design departments again why this was such a bad idea. I won about half th…