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Re: Helios

#31

Post by nekopa » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:09 PM UTC

MrUnderhill wrote: post #29

Off topic: The ultra light custom fonts a lot of websites use nowadays (looks like "Bariol" on this site), do they look bad to anyone other than me? Both in Firefox and Opera (Linux) many of the lines are invisible or barely visible (example: http://i.imgur.com/Yk0Q83G.png ). In Chrome they look a little bit better.

On my iPad all the letter 'D's have disappeared. It's quite disconcerting.

Re: Helios

#32

Post by publicfig » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:16 PM UTC

degenerate wrote: post #30

Helios is also the moniker of a very "cloud-like" (ambient) composer named Keith Kenniff. His music is excellent for coding when you need that superior downtempo thinking background noise. My favorite album: https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/helios-eingya His soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff

While we're discussing him, it's worth checking out another project of his, Goldmund. It's piano centric music that really embraces the minimalist aspects of some of the newer neo-classical artists (think Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Nils Frahm or Dustin O'Halloran).

A lot of the music is on Spotify, and here's a link to a set of it on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff/sets/goldmund

Re: Helios

#33

Post by mtp0101 » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:21 PM UTC

Why would they name their application Helios? It collides with Eclipse.

Re: Helios

#34

Post by usmanity » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

publicfig wrote: post #32

degenerate wrote: post #30

Helios is also the moniker of a very "cloud-like" (ambient) composer named Keith Kenniff. His music is excellent for coding when you need that superior downtempo thinking background noise. My favorite album: https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/helios-eingya His soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff

While we're discussing him, it's worth checking out another project of his, Goldmund. It's piano centric music that really embraces the minimalist aspects of some of the newer neo-classical artists (think Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Nils Frahm or Dustin O'Halloran). A lot of the music is on Spotify, and here's a link to a set of it on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/keithkenniff/sets/goldmund

I had no idea Helios is also Goldmund. The sound is so different. I found them both on Spotify.

Re: Helios

#35

Post by BillySquid » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #28

Wow, iOS only when Android is 75% shipping smartphones?

is really hard to release a new product running for both environments in the first try. Give it some time for android.

Re: Helios

#36

Post by evolve2k » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:37 PM UTC

nekopa wrote: post #31

MrUnderhill wrote: post #29

Off topic: The ultra light custom fonts a lot of websites use nowadays (looks like "Bariol" on this site), do they look bad to anyone other than me? Both in Firefox and Opera (Linux) many of the lines are invisible or barely visible (example: http://i.imgur.com/Yk0Q83G.png ). In Chrome they look a little bit better.

On my iPad all the letter 'D's have disappeared. It's quite disconcerting.

Same on my iPhone, all the 'd' characters don't show up properly at all. Had to read the article zoomed right up so that the spider thin d characters were visible at all. Please change the font.

Re: Helios

#37

Post by phil » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #28

Wow, iOS only when Android is 75% shipping smartphones?

You should totally submit a pull request adding Android support!

Re: Helios

#38

Post by no_gravity » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

MrUnderhill wrote: post #29

Off topic: The ultra light custom fonts a lot of websites use nowadays (looks like "Bariol" on this site), do they look bad to anyone other than me? Both in Firefox and Opera (Linux) many of the lines are invisible or barely visible (example: http://i.imgur.com/Yk0Q83G.png ). In Chrome they look a little bit better.

I was wondering the same. Waiting for Browsershots to render the page in different browsers:

http://browsershots.org/http://helios.io/

Re: Helios

#39

Post by m2mapps » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:51 PM UTC

This is really great.

A massive limitation of Parse.com is with their Javascript SDK - you have to expose your app keys to the client and the SDK doesn't work at all on any version of IE unless you have SSL enabled.

Re: Helios

#40

Post by lgleason » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

It is a great start. The passbook implementation looks to be basic right now. I would love to be able to combine this with https://github.com/frozon/passbook for passbook support and git@github.com:grocer/grocer.git for push notifications.

The code would have better test coverage and more people to support the project.