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There's another link to undraw but are there any more places to find stuff like this? Paid or free? I was recently looking for an svg shape library purely for decoration but couldn't find anything.

Do you store all UI state in redux as well as all 'resource state'? Phrased as an example... If you store a JSON object that can be edited in your store do you also store a Boolean value for whether the dialog is open that can be used for editing that JSON object?

I dont do this repeating class business but CSS Tricks 'css guidelines' web page says that when you do : '.collection li', it first searches through the page for all 'li's then wittles it down to the ones within the correct parent. Essentially that css selectors work from right to left. So I guess the idea is that classing up the li elements within a parent may be marginally quicker? I have never bothered though. Does anyone know more about this?

Used to think this before I used VS for web dev using ASP.NET... it's a good idea to not judge people for the OS they use.

In my experience AJAX is used a lot to do the opposite of 'loading down' a site. Often used for staggering page load - preventing a huge download time at first page load and means one page sites can be possible, with many images even, and not take 2 minutes to download on mobile.

Why would your animosity be targeted at the language and the developers.

The market wants what the market wants. Surely most of the time, in most cases, it is the client that signs off a design and a developer follows the brief?

Why is that?

The post you had here before you edited was completely nonsensical.

A UX post, on how a site should prevent users from cancelling to benefit the website, at the expense of the user.

That is the opposite of a good UX.

Here is some 'User pseudo-psychology' for you... Having your blog titles take up more than half the vertical space of my browser (when it is full screen) stops me reading your writing.

I agree with this sentiment.

Here's some UX for you - the user owes you nothing.

Sure have an optional form or field for cancellations but 5 minutes? How is this beneficial for anyone?

So, it's a free product - they will just never cancel their account and you will have inactive users sitting there. Who is this good for?

So it's a paid product - they will cancel their account and tell everyone about the ridiculously long winded process they had to go through to cancel it.

Thanks for the reply. Great! I will check out hammer.js, I haven't used it before. Have you used snap.js / what do you think of it?

I don't think your demo works by the way! Doesn't seem to include the hammer.js file!

In the case of having such a large drag box how should I be ensuring the user can still interact with the content of the page. E.g make sure the hitbox isnt over the top of links and that users can still highlight text etc?

Recently implemented snap.js on a site with the ability to drag the menu from the left as well as press the 'hamburger' button. On iOS I found that dragging from the edge of the screen leads to a hit and miss situation where the user may sometimes open the nav drawer but may also sometimes go 'back' to the previous page. How are people 'doing' navigation right now? I always liked the sliding navs on mobile sites, but where should I have the drag box. The bottom of the screen?

Cheers bud! Think i'll do some RSS organisation later. I like the idea of subbing to stack overflow tags - hadnt heard of that.

How are you organising these feeds? Just interested because that is always my downfall. End up subscribing to loads of stuff and eventually stop reading

Will there be calendar functionality beyond google calendar? I would love to be able to use my caldav/fruux calendars with IFTTT. I saw a tweet from the folks over at fruux who mentioned willingness to help out wit that.

I think this is fantastic. Obviously stuff to be ironed out, tidied up and better organised but genuinely think this is a great idea, how does one go about developing something like the dependency graph? Would love to implement it in a site I am building while learning Rails.

Was it the two of you who added all the content? Did you do it all manually? How long did it take?

Hi. This looks great. I'm new to rails and this looks like it will be fun to mess around with tomorrow and learn what the commons gems etc are. Seriously - Thanks very much for making this. Anything I should know as a noob or shall I just dive in and have a play around?

What if a website with nursing resources was subtitled "...for the caring woman"?

You seem to have a bad attitude going into it. If you have thoughts and feeling and you can explain your position when 'under attack' then you need not be worried about such things. If you think people discredit your opinions because of your penis then you are wrong. I am not saying that discrediting your opinions is a good thing or valid way of discussing things but the reason for it is not your genitalia, it is because male, female, trans etc all have very different experiences of how society reacts/treats their gender or sexuality. Some people may get agitated when they hear someone who is not in their situation, talking about their situation. But that is because of their past experiences and if you provide a comprehensive explanation of your beliefs, then there is no reason for you to worry about how people react to you, because you will know you have been understood. Some people are quick to throw opinions around without reason and it means people like you become afraid to voice yours. If you focus on what you are trying to say then it will contribute to a discussion and if it descends into something you did not expect (a twitter witch hunt?) then you know that you have articulated yourself in such a precise and intricate manner and you know your remarks cannot be taken incorrectly.

Thanks for the reply. So, is there no way of speeding it up without moving away from HTML?

Is the html generated from JS? or is it static? would that make it faster? (newb questions)

Thanks!

What makes this so slow? Is it because it is written in JS?

If they what?

I googled your 70% stat and found this [1].

"Two centuries later, women -- who control more than $20 trillion or about 70 percent of global consumer spending -- account for only about a tenth of the voting power on the world’s key interest rates"

You seem to be ignoring a pretty big 'but' there. Plus its 70% of consumer spending, not 'global spending'.

Then you described someone in a wheelchair as 'significantly crippled'.

Also, this poster's reference to ramps and stairs was a metaphor - a tool for understanding. Not literal.

What I got from their comment was nothing you seem to have. I think they were saying that we need to understand the ways people are excluded, and support them.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/women-controlling-7...

People are ignorant to the material effects of oppression. I'm not sure how sometimes, especially on hacker news, since everyone in this thread wouldn't start discussing some small aspect of a programming language they have never used. But if they wanted to, they would look it up and the contribute. When it comes to anything social and therefore political people are throwing words around and they do not even understand what they are saying.

Your ramp example is spot on. And to take it a little bit further. Some of the posters in this thread are at the top of the stairs, staring down at everyone who can't get up them AND refusing to help them. The fact that these people are validating these attitudes in a way that actually serves to destroy their own point just shows that people in this thread with these views have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.

If you are uninformed/ can't follow your train of though to its logical conclusions PLEASE do some reading.

It is absolutely fine! Seriously. Thank you for responding. I do not feel negatively toward you. It is not an individual problem. It is structural, which is why it should be combated as social groups (women, disabled, ethnic minorities).

Hi there. I thought I would reply to your post in it's entirety, as a 'handicapped' person and as a person aware of why events like this are good, and not bad.

1) Check the origins of the term handicap - it is derogatory. I'm sure some people will call this OTT or political correctness but whatever. The term 'impairment' is a good choice, mobility impairment, physical impairment. To those reading this who think it is political correctness I will put it in hacker news terms: There are ways of referring to potential customers in a way that ensures nothing you say will stop someone using your service. Anyway, check this out if you are interested in that [1] - it is a history of meaning of commonly used terms used to refer to impaired individuals. I know this was not the main part of your post but I thought I might as well mention it. Disability studies is a growing field and might as well be promoted here.

2) In order for minorities, for instance disabled people, to gain equal rights - in this case equal opportunity of entry into CS fields, it serves the effort well to be a group of people. It brings confidence that you are right, that you must be taken seriously and that attention should be placed on the issue.

For instance. If I am in a wheelchair and I am being forbidden entry to a building because of no ramp, or if I am being mocked and belittled. These are experiences that non-impaired individuals can empathise with, but they have not experienced it. So if I have experienced oppression I want to talk to other people who have, figure out what is necessary to change it and build up a group of people that can symbolise to other impaired individuals that while they may have to put up with the shit they get from other people, it is those people that are wrong.

So, if you take out the oppression part and look at a different social experience it might become more obvious.

Lets say someone in your close family has died. Whenever it comes up with friends or acquaintances who you know haven't experienced it you might be met with pity, sympathy, apologies or whatever. It makes you cringe a bit because people skirt over the topic because they don't know how to deal with it. Then one time you are talking to someone and it comes up that you have lost a close family member and it turns out they have too, and in a very similar way to you. Not only do you instantly feel comfortable talking to this person about this topic because they have experienced it, you also get to discuss how everyone else is ill-equiped to deal with such news mid way through a catchup, or whatever.

What I am saying is that, in a field such as tech, I would not be surprised if women would feel most comfortable relating to women as it is something that defines their experience and they can relate to each other directly. So, having these female founders as proof, as encouragement and as a tool for not just solidarity amongst women in tech but ALL in tech (because think about it: how many non-gender specific founders conferences have been all men, without specified as such).

I think this is a good thing and I think that being indifferent to the problem is really not worth posting about on a forum. Good for you, you want everyone to be treated the same but you don't want to do anything about it. And you feel so strongly about it you decided to post it here (that is aimed at the guy you replied to, not you).

Change does not occur by ignoring difference. It requires being pro-active and the organisers of this conference and the females speaking at it are doing just that.

[1] - http://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/Clark-La...

What if, say, ISP1 and ISP2 both have shitty performance of netflix and then netflix pay for ISP1 to make it better. They do not pay ISP2. So, essentially netflix is available only for ISP1 and not ISP2. That sounds like that the parent comment is saying and what could happen here.

I do not use any of the mathematical elements of LaTeX and the work I do render using it is exclusively words. Just words. So really LaTeX isn't necessary for what I do. But, I write using MultiMarkdown in Scrivener, using Bibtex citekeys for referencing then export the document as LaTeX from scrivener and then compile using Texshop.

I guess I don't really have a point. Just that if you are writing essays in the humanities or sociology then markdown can have a place in your workflow

I am not a programmer but when I was messing around with and making stuff with Processing last year I went to the IRC for assistance and I could not have been treated any nicer. It was like having 3 teachers there whenever I needed them (most of the time). I think it is #processingjs on freenode maybe.

But yeah, I would definitely go to IRC for help based on that experience