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mattsjohnston5

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    Comment #7681823

    Boatbound - San Francisco, CA - Full-Stack Developer We're looking for a lead engineer who wants to be a part of a small but growing product team of two developers and a designer. …

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    Comment #6360177

    Oh, and I love getting suggestions. Have your friends tweet me their favorite watches and I'll check them out!

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    Comment #6360168

    I think it does that when London is already a day ahead of the current timezone. That's obviously a bit counter intuitive so if like to get that working properly.

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    Comment #6360155

    Yeah, for each illustration I started with a front-facing photo and lined up the center of the face with the exact center of the document. From there I make sure every circle I dra…

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    Comment #6360141

    Thanks for the encouragement. I've thought about doing a tutorial, but I hadn't considered doing a tmelapse. That could be pretty cool.

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    Comment #6358459

    I already had Timex tweet out the site! https://twitter.com/timex/status/369505126752346112

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    Show HN: Animated Watch Illustrations with CSS3 and SVG

    I wanted a little project to practice illustration as well as animation on the web. Plus I'm a big fan of watches.

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    Comment #6150294

    More details have just been released on Uber's blog - http://blog.uber.com/2013/08/02/uber-boatbound-sail-to-work/

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    Comment #5108794

    I completely agree with your point here about what the functional purpose of a user interface is. I would also agree that almost all styles of design have the potential to accompli…

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    Comment #4833260

    Do you see this new stack of technologies as a gradual evolution of our current stack, or do you feel the technologies are inherently broken and need to be replaced completely?

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    Comment #4830760

    That's an interesting idea having the browser handle the nav persistence. I assumed it would be done with JS but I supposed when it becomes common enough having it baked into the b…

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    Comment #4830685

    Our web technology is such that we don't need to settle for a sub-par user experience that is a relic of the days where we had to serve static HTML documents one by one.

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    Comment #4701201

    Beautifully done! You should set the viewport width to 960px so that mobile phones see the whole page on page load rather than a zoomed in corner.

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    Comment #4411633

    Sure, regular users KNOW how to scroll to the top, but why make them? I think that fixed headers add some good convenience, especially on long pages.