radio4fan

Yes, we sure are lucky that natural born Americans have never implemented anything poorly

> Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent.

Yeah? I find raising ducks in dark sheds so you can kill them because you like the taste abhorrent, with or without force feeding.

I have an AA1 somewhere, mine has an Intel Atom.

Worked great until I updated Linux to discover that I could no longer install the stupid proprietary driver for the graphics, so lost hardware accelerated graphics. Was never able to downgrade successfully.

I've been idly looking for something modern to replace it but seems like there's nothing like that on the market now.

All good advice IMO.

The _reason_ for the /posts/98765/my-dumplings-recipe pattern is SEO (ugh).

It is thought that search engines give extra weight to urls which contain relevant keywords.

You can invariably put anything after the id and still get the page. This has the bonus of freaking out the marketing team when they spot '/posts/98765/my-giant-butthole' in the analytics.

I'm expecting a strong correlation with my upcoming study "Women Like Their Partners to Spend Time Hanging Out With Their Buddies, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and its follow-ups "Women Like Their Partners to Tinker With Their Motorcycles, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and "Women Will Put Up With a Load of Stuff From a Committed Partner Which They Otherwise Wouldn't".

Eventually I hope to get funding for "Newly Married Women Who Feel Their Partner is Uncommitted Dislike Pretty Much Everything That Person Does".

I absolutely agree.

And I don't buy their justification for going down the app route in the first place: "But by the middle of 2011, six months after we launched in our app, more than half of installed web browsers were still not HTML5 compliant."

Who cares? The app only targets iOS, so as long as mobile Safari rendered it, they were fine. And most of us here know that the app would be a pretty thin wrapper round a webview.

I suspect the real reason for going down the app route is because back in 2011 all the marketing types were screaming "WE MUST HAVE AN APP!!!1!!"

News International made the same mistake with "The Daily", which (probably) cost them over $60M.

> I don't like the trend of narrower and narrower line widths (It looks bad enough on my laptop, on a 2k screen 700px width would just look ridiculous);

The line length (measure) on that page is about 60 ems. This is much longer than the optimal value for readability, which is 30 - 40 ems.

> Ditto, I don't like the trend of higher and higher line heights - 1.2 is plenty, 1.5 is overkill, this site is 1.7;

As the measure increases, leading (line height) must also increase for legibility, because it's harder to track longer lines with the eye when 'returning' to the start of the next line.

A leading of 1.7 ems doesn't seem unreasonable to me for such a long measure.

For me, type on the web is a lot better than it used to be: tiny type on ridiculously long lines. There are some holdouts though; Hacker News for example.

Or looking at it another way, OP has trained the client to continue to act this way by rewarding his undesirable behaviour.

Its like giving a dog a biscuit every time it pisses on the rug.

Still, I feel that the fair solution to both parties is to explain to the client why the important and urgent items are going to take much longer than he thinks.

OP could look on this gig as an opportunity to train himself in managing clients, and therefore walk away with some benefit.

> My experience of working for agencies is they want to pay a fixed price and will laugh you out of the agency at the idea of paying hourly

Mine too, and I've been at this game for 16 years.

In fact, my usual experience is agencies coming to me with no design or functional specs (even back-of-an-envelope stuff) and wanting a price.

The only time I ever charge by the hour is for maintenance programming.

Wait; you're supposed to log in with your Facebook login details, not click a 'log in with Facebook' button?

Is this a crude phishing attempt, or just a massive WTF?

I bought one of these about 15 years ago. The packaging was great, with lots of funny cards and stickers. Apparently now you get photos of Cliff with your actual bottle, and a personalised drawing on the box.

I'm permanently on the move, so I've got it stored in my parents' attic. I told them to be careful with it, as it contains the entire universe.

But if you care about programmer productivity, you use jQuery, then you profile, then you optimise where required.

The last step isn't usually necessary.