mcastner

Joined 17 years ago

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Apr 6
I'm a student at Penn State interested in startups, design, and development.
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Comment · 15 years ago
I realize this is an opinion piece but it was posted on HN so I wanted people to see both sides of the story.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Oh I should've read the whole article first...apparently reduced memory usage leads to longer battery life which is a worthy goal.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm starting to believe that memory usage may be a red herring in modern operating systems. Memory prices have been crashing, every day on Slickdeals I see 8GB of notebook (and netbook) memory for less than $30. Is this a problem worth solving anymore?
Comment · 15 years ago
The copy path button is only necessary because Explorer hides the real path with the fake address bar they use now. I'd bet that mostly power users need to copy the path anyways, and they'll be able to figure out how to click on the address bar and Ctrl+C.
Comment · 15 years ago
The background information and analysis seemed so reasonable, then they threw that ribbon on there and it looks like a confusing mess.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm starting to appreciate the black bar more and more. At first I was skeptical, but it fits their new designs pretty well.
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
If you look at the removal process in the support document from Apple it doesn't really look all that bad: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650

Just kill the process and delete the .app file. Compared to Windows malware this is a breeze to remove.

Comment · 15 years ago
I definitely noticed this weird lack of information on Express. I've found the best thing is to check out the examples from Express' own github: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples

That's useful to see how something is done, but not why or the different options available. For that, there's still a definite lack of a clear guide. The guide on the Express website reads more like an API reference and doesn't go into detail on how to use the different features, which I think would be very helpful.

Right now I'm working on my first application using Express. Over the Summer, when I have free time, I'd like to write a tutorial series for Express and put it up on github so it can be updated as Express evolves. That's really one of the main issues right now, all this stuff is changing so rapidly that a tutorial can become outdated in a few months.

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
This reads like a political attack ad. So many half-truths in here.

Just an example: they claim that Chrome "dropped support on Windows XP for functionality that [IE Team] think is fundamental to performance." Linking to this blog post: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/02/dev-channel...

The reality is that Chrome disabled it temporarily on the dev channel due to crashing, and in fact brought it back for v11: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72975

Microsoft doesn't even acknowledge the fact that they don't even have a version of IE10, or even 9, for Windows XP!

Is this really what the browser wars are going to come to? Lies and marketing? I thought we were over that.

Comment · 15 years ago
Yup, that's why I picked Tumblr over Posterous. The toolbar is just ugly, I'd be fine if I could make it that 2D tag they used to have, but I couldn't get it to work.

Tumblr is definitely less stable, but my blog isn't that important anyways.

Comment · 15 years ago
I think this article is not a great introduction to Stylus, it's a better idea to check out their Github page: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

While you can write functions to create abbreviated versions of CSS properties, it's entirely optional.

Also I actually prefer Stylus' mixins and functions to SASS'.

Comment · 15 years ago
I was just thinking about something like this a few weeks ago, mostly the Git integration being a killer feature. Good luck!

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