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vehicle.software | pacific timezone | full-time | software engineer vehicle.software is creating a new infotainment platform to redefine the in-car experience. We are focused on br…

Totally agree; it's really fun to hear how things like autocorrect evolved over the development of the iPhone, and really how the designers and engineers thought about their work a…

When the basic essential interactions like "select" feel natural and unambiguous -- holding your hand in place for Kinect wasn't a good replacement for "click"/"tap".

The recall problem was caused by software -- where are the software gods who write machine code instead of using compilers? ;)

By some wonderful coincidence I need to implement antialiased line rendering this afternoon. Previously I'd done the 6-triangle method (but I also rasterized any kind of path with …

Shadow DOM is a DOM structure that's hidden under a tag (for example, the tag has a Shadow DOM which provides the controls and timecode UI). Virtual DOM is (typically) a pure JavaS…

The license is Apache 2, so go for it! Thanks for the pointers on uiscript and uilang; I'll check them out. GSS is also on my list :).

Thanks! Regarding your point on declarative vs imperative I think it depends on your pain threshold--you can't accomplish everything you want with CSS layout, but that doesn't mean…

Thanks!. For now the source of the examples is the best reference (and is commented with the intent of the constraints): https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/maste…

Thanks! It's a really fun problem space to work in. As I mentioned, this work was borne out of my frustration from writing a bunch of touch handlers (taking days/weeks for the tric…

Smalltalk as a live environment blurs the boundaries between runtime and editing code. There's a video on ThingLab[1], a constraint solver, from 1978 where Alan Borning draws const…

Not me; I want a thin retina laptop with long battery life...

I wonder what the incremental process and cost for building these will be? Intel used a silicon interposer to support a large amount of eDRAM in the recent IRIS graphics chips. It'…

What's the status of QtWebKit now? It was removed from WebKit trunk about a year ago...

Where is the original open source release from Silicon Graphics which Yahoo based this work on? Did they ever make one?

Is that a language feature or a runtime/library feature though?

What algorithms are there for inferring the calculation? I'm playing around with a tool for building touch gestures visually, and I have some problems that look a bit like that (wa…

Nice spring stuff, I hadn't seen it written up like that before. I did my own in JS recently (also based on solving the damped spring equation as a 2nd order ode; I copied my solut…

It's Intel's money; they've been rumored to be doing whole BOM subsidization (so the x86 is almost zero, and the non-Intel components are subsidized too). This is how INTC booked a…

Next stop Windows! Then they can use all the modern C++ constructs they like...

Sorry, I didn't try any polyfills; I had a few hours on a weekend and compatibility wasn't on my list. I did do that for a previous project[1] and it was more work than I had time …

My bad, I updated it with APSLv2. If that's no good then send me an email (my address is in the page) and we can figure something out. Happy hacking!

Circle masks are part of Material Design, but I haven't seen anything with draggable Floating Action Buttons (prior to making this). Obviously they've had a draggable circle for th…

Here's the source https://github.com/iamralpht/iamralpht.github.io/tree/master... although it's not terribly beautiful...