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Re:Fieldwork Icon Design Benchmark on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:39PM (#49925434)
FW-Icon, an expert-graded benchmark of creativity and execution for svg icons
Less than 24hr notice on a Friday: either Anthropic is dropping S tier next week or they massively fumbled over the past 2 months in self owns and outages.
Re:Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:39AM (#46435044)
Looking forward to the National Design Studio getting it's arms around this
Re:IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:26PM (#45506050)
The progression of the catalogue and furniture design from 1950 through to 1960 is remarkable. What a transformative time.
Re:Get HTTPS for free on Saturday January 30, 2016 @04:05PM (#11003741)
This is not a tend. For instance, finding pure black in fine art or elsewhere is next to impossible and if you do it's a modern trend (not the opposite).
Re:A dose of perspective on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:54PM (#7549826)
Probably a lot of room for discussion here, but I think it's problematic to conflate this documentary trip with Watsi's general practices for dealing with patient information – doesn't appear that they gave out any of their patients' personal information in this piece, and they generally do a great job limiting the amount of information listed on any given patient's page.

Of course, there are a lot of health care needs that are by nature private or could endanger the patient well-being if it became public that some procedures were done. I believe they have an anonymous fund that receives a percentage of all donations to attend to just those types of issues.

If any information on any patient should be given out is a bit of a different question.

Re:We Built a Hacker News for Biotech on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:16PM (#7481813)
Designer News (news.layervault.com) has been doing quite well. It's been my go-to for design info for a while now.
Re:Zurb Foundation 5 Released on Thursday November 21, 2013 @11:09PM (#6779219)
How is their inclusion of a medium break point not at the top of this thread? This is the most significant and noticeable addition to the Framework IMO.
Re:The Russia Left Behind on Monday October 14, 2013 @10:06PM (#6551040)
How long as the NYT been in beta anyway? It seems like quite a while now, and really look forward to the official release.
Re:The Russia Left Behind on Monday October 14, 2013 @10:05PM (#6551034)
I'm particularly curious what they're using these interactive stories for. Refining design or technique? Gauging user interest? Putting processes into place to speed up their development?

Really impressed either way.

Why not vector/SVG?
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months on Friday August 23, 2013 @12:52PM (#6264735)
We've hit the Ballmer peak!
Re:Fertile Ground on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:56PM (#5866243)
I've been a rails developer for a while now, and contemplating whether or not to focus my energies on a js frontend framework or learning iOS. I think this post was all I needed to make a decision. Thanks Marco.
Re:NY official: Airbnb stay illegal; host fined $2,400 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:22AM (#5743787)
Curious, and I haven't heard many comments on this: does this set a precedent that other states are likely to follow, and if so, is this a serious threat to the Airbnb business?
I tend to think a lot of the social programs that do exist in this city (and there are many – healthy san francisco, housing subsidies, dozens of shelters, and even more food programs) don't really address the root problem that causes such a disparity. For instance, I've a number of friends who work in the tenderloin with some of those same social programs, and they're perspective is that the housing subsidies that bring people to the tenderloin only exacerbate the issues that plague it.

It's not just warm weather that draws people to SF, but a plethora of social programs that are often poorly executed, underfunded, and addressed at superficial issues and not their core causes (education, for example).

Re:Stabilizing Ember Data on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:48AM (#5427500)
Agreed. I think it says a lot about Tom Dale and co., and have been really impressed with their responses in aggregate – it's probably been a long week for the Ember team.
Re:Stabilizing Ember Data on Saturday March 23, 2013 @02:44AM (#5427496)
I've really loved using Backbone myself, and have very limited (simple, sample apps) with Ember. Ember comes with stronger conventions than backbone, giving one a fuller out-of-the-box application, which for some people and projects is more preferable.

I think, like many people have said, they're each intended for different use cases.

Re:The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 (beta) on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:34PM (#5411860)
I don't think there has been a single more valuable resource in my learning to build web applications. Thanks for your work, Michael.
Re:Zurb Launches Foundation 4 on Thursday February 28, 2013 @10:58PM (#5302760)
To me, the most interesting part of this is the switch to Zepto. Can people weigh in on its performance over jQuery, and the overall tradeoffs?
Re:Zurb Launches Foundation 4 on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:16PM (#5301071)
You're not the only one.
Re:Zurb Launches Foundation 4 on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:13PM (#5301053)
Zurb was built with the responsiveness from the beginning. That doesn't seem to have been the case with Bootstrap. I've found having a responsive site out of the box, without some of the headaches I've had trying to do the same with Bootstrap, is worth the costs of a smaller community. Plus, it doesn't look like every other Bootstrap site and is more easily customized.

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