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Those icons are absolutely horrible. They are images, distracting the viewer by the amount of details. Icons should convey only the bare minimum of shape. The metaphor of the meani…

A typographer, talking about screen density, and clarity on his blog using a serif font. Oh, the irony.

I placed the 2010 Dutch Pirate Party (Piratenpartij) election program on Github. I try to elad by example: Set the example by the "internet party", then hopefully others copy & pas…

Your consuming code is tied to Foo. In dart, the consuming code only needs tying up to the interface. > You always need a class Nope. That's the whole point which I am trying to co…

> A factory method is a classmethod, not an instancemethod. This completely depends on your implementation. It's possible to implement it as instance method, or static method. > Uh…

There does not need to be any knowledge of _any_ class. A factory method _still_ needs a class instance, you don't need them with factory constructors. A classical, say Java or C# …

I am very curious to the business model Diaspora will pursue. any details about that already?

After it became apparent by parlement representitives they probably had to pay "chatheffing" - chattax, this law was reality quite fast. It's pretty hopefull the law passed senate …

If the producer would share the design of the iron with the world, the risk would be reduced significantly. The leftover parts could be identified by crowdsourced databases as noni…

Can you define "support"?

Well said. Also, we engineers let lawyers eat our lunch. Law is there for a reason, but we should dominate law, and not let law dominate us.

This is potentially very destructive to Silicon Valley.

That's where inifinite scroll is a good idea. Infinite scroll is usually correctly applied to datasets where it is unknown how many items the dataset consists of. E.g. google image…

And software engineering is quite dissimilar, if not completely different to computer science. Creating API's, building user interfaces, testing, has little to do with computer sci…

What's the deal about the infinte scroll? Everytime I have to use it, it feels very unpleasant. The problem is the scrollbar which suddenly does not accurately hint the position of…

Google, Please add a warning that when a serif font Sincerely, The internet.

I had that experience a few years ago, when javascript execution engines where not optimized yet for speed. Today, I have the same experience with apps built using flash, where the…

Another difference is UI startup time. The Java VM took minutes on most computers to go from URI entry to first UI display. Compare that to optimistic rendering all browsers do tod…

I have been using webapps for said tasks more and more. Many tasks performed using a webapp do not yet have compelling advantages. But soon they will get them, I think. To name a b…

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The browser is an exempli primus of an app allowed to break the OS UI guidelines. This is becase the browser is becoming the OS, and the OS becoming the browser. Said differently, …

The article is showing the wrong screenshots. Here is the accurate one: http://imgur.com/NdNif

[Responses from the article] > But then governments will replace VPNs >> Then governments will be replaced This is already becoming the true in Germany. ~10% vote Pirate Party in B…

I like the cloud, but I really hate giving out control of my data. It makes a lot of sense for public data (tweets, blogposts), which you want to share anyways. I see a lot of pote…